# The Halloween Night the Moon Fell into a Pumpkin! πŸŽƒπŸŒ™πŸ‘»πŸ§™β™€οΈ An episode of [Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1557898989), 22 Oct 2026, 13 min. Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s.gum.fm/s-624f621807754001d038e4b6/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75874393/pumpkins.mp3 Written by Alex Come and follow more adventures on our animated TV show on Youtube! πŸ“ΊπŸ€© SUBSCRIBE HERE: youtube.com/@shortstoriesforkidspodcast If you would like a special birthday shout out, order one here! πŸŽ‚ https://www.shortstoriesforkidspodcast.com/ Looking for Ad Free Episodes? Just join our 🌟PREMIUM CHANNEL 🌟 Join up to our Premium channel through your Apple player or here at Supercast: https://shortstoriesforkids.supercast.com/ And become a Super Fan of Short Stories for Kids! Here you will receive a Friday Bonus Episode every week! Plus our entire back catalogue of stories ad free! 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Because at exactly 7 o'clock, the moon fell [0:45] Speaker 1: out of the sky and landed inside a pumpkin. Splat! [0:49] Speaker 1: Holy guacamole! That was Oliver Pickle, age 10, professional troublemaker [0:56] Speaker 1: and owner of the world's most embarrassing Halloween costume. His [1:00] Speaker 1: mother had dressed him as a giant Brussels sprout. I'm [1:04] Speaker 1: supposed to be a zombie! But Oliver had bigger problems now. [1:09] Speaker 1: In the middle of Mrs. Crumble's pumpkin patch sat an enormous, [1:12] Speaker 1: glowing pumpkin. And from inside it came a very angry voice. [1:18] Speaker 1: Excuse me! Would somebody mind explaining why I'm inside a vegetable? [1:23] Speaker 1: Oliver blinked. Um, hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? I'm the moon! [1:29] Speaker 1: I control the tides! I light up the night! And [1:32] Speaker 1: now I smell like pumpkin soup! Oliver leaned closer. How [1:36] Speaker 1: did you fall out of the sky? I sneezed. Oliver stared. [1:42] Speaker 1: You sneezed? Yes! A witch flew past with a bag [1:45] Speaker 1: of pepper, and I sneezed so hard I fell off [1:48] Speaker 1: my orbit! Oliver scratched his head. Can moons even sneeze? Apparently! [1:54] Speaker 1: And that was when things got considerably worse. Because without [1:58] Speaker 1: the moon in the sky, every Halloween monster in Wobblewick [2:02] Speaker 1: began behaving very strangely. First, the werewolves turned into poodles. Then, [2:08] Speaker 1: the vampires started craving tomato juice. And finally, every skeleton [2:13] Speaker 1: in town began dancing. Not spooky dancing. Not scary dancing. [2:19] Speaker 1: Disco dancing. Outside the supermarket, 12 skeletons were doing the Macarena. [2:24] Speaker 1: A skeleton wearing sunglasses shouted, Somebody turn up the music! [2:29] Speaker 1: My bones are ready to boogie! Oliver groaned. This is [2:33] Speaker 1: going to be a long night. Oliver knew exactly who [2:37] Speaker 1: could fix this disaster. Madam Wigglybottom. She was Wobblewick's oldest witch, [2:43] Speaker 1: although nobody knew exactly how old she was. Some said 300. [2:47] Speaker 1: Some said 500. Madam Wigglybottom claimed she was 29. She [2:52] Speaker 1: also claimed that eating spiders made your hair shiny. Oliver [2:57] Speaker 1: wasn't convinced about either. Her cottage stood at the edge [3:00] Speaker 1: of the forest, surrounded by purple mushrooms, singing pumpkins, and [3:05] Speaker 1: a garden gnome who shouted insults at passing squirrels. Get [3:09] Speaker 1: a job, you fluffy little freeloaders! Oliver knocked. The door [3:15] Speaker 1: flew open. Bang! Who dares disturb Madam Wigglybottom during her bath? [3:21] Speaker 1: Oliver froze. The witch was wearing a shower cap, enormous slippers, [3:27] Speaker 1: and a dressing gown covered in dancing bats. Sorry, but [3:31] Speaker 1: the moon fell into a pumpkin. Madam Wigglybottom blinked. Then [3:36] Speaker 1: she screamed. Not again! Oliver frowned. Again? Oh yes, dear. [3:43] Speaker 1: Happened in 1842. Terrible business. We had to use a [3:47] Speaker 1: giant spoon. A spoon? And a very large ferret! Oliver [3:52] Speaker 1: decided not to ask. Madam Wigglybottom grabbed her broomstick. Come along! [3:58] Speaker 1: We must save Halloween! She leapt onto the broom. Oliver [4:02] Speaker 1: climbed on behind her. The broom rose three inches, made [4:06] Speaker 1: a horrible farting noise, and dropped them straight into a bush. Broomhilda! [4:13] Speaker 1: How dare you! The broomstick burped. Oliver picked leaves out [4:18] Speaker 1: of his hair. Does your broom always do that? Only [4:21] Speaker 1: when she's eaten beans. By the time Oliver and Madam [4:25] Speaker 1: Wigglybottom reached the pumpkin patch, the situation was completely out [4:29] Speaker 1: of control. The werewolf poodles were chasing their own tails, [4:34] Speaker 1: a vampire was arguing with a tomato, and the skeletons [4:37] Speaker 1: had formed a boy band called the Bony Boys. One, two, three, four, [4:43] Speaker 1: shake your bones across the floor! Oliver covered his ears. [4:47] Speaker 1: Please make them stop. Madam Wigglybottom examined the enormous glowing pumpkin. Inside, [4:54] Speaker 1: the moon was complaining. It's very sticky in here, and [4:58] Speaker 1: something keeps tickling my craters! The witch nodded seriously. Yes, yes, [5:04] Speaker 1: very complicated. She opened her enormous spellbook. Pages fluttered everywhere. Ah, [5:11] Speaker 1: here we are! To return a fallen moon to the sky, [5:14] Speaker 1: we require three things. Oliver leaned forward. Which are? One, [5:20] Speaker 1: a ghost's hiccup. Right. Two, a vampire's sock. Okay. And three, [5:27] Speaker 1: the biggest burp in the history of Halloween. Oliver stared. [5:32] Speaker 1: Are you making this up? Madam Wigglybottom slammed the book shut. [5:36] Speaker 1: Young man, I am a professional. Then she looked at [5:40] Speaker 1: the book again. Oh, wait, that's a recipe for exploding [5:45] Speaker 1: pumpkin pudding. Oliver sighed. Of course it is. They needed [5:50] Speaker 1: another plan. Madam Wigglybottom remembered an ancient spell involving a ghost, [5:56] Speaker 1: a cauldron, and a magical trampoline. Luckily, Wobblewick had all three. [6:02] Speaker 1: The ghost was called Sir Booington Flapwhistle. He lived in [6:05] Speaker 1: the haunted library and was supposed to be terrifying. Unfortunately, [6:10] Speaker 1: he had one problem. He couldn't stop giggling. Boo! Sorry, [6:16] Speaker 1: I just remembered a funny joke. Oliver crossed his arms. [6:21] Speaker 1: We need your help. Ooh, is it a party? Sort of. [6:25] Speaker 1: The moon stuck in a pumpkin. Sir Booington gasped. Then [6:29] Speaker 1: he laughed so hard he floated upside down. The moon [6:35] Speaker 1: in a pumpkin! Oh, that's brilliant! Madam Wigglybottom waved her wand. [6:42] Speaker 1: Enough giggling! We must prepare the trampoline. They dragged the [6:46] Speaker 1: enormous magical trampoline into the pumpkin patch. It belonged to [6:50] Speaker 1: a troll named Kevin. Kevin was eight feet tall, bright green, [6:55] Speaker 1: and wore tiny pink ballet shoes. Hey guys, you borrowing [6:59] Speaker 1: my bouncy thing? Oliver nodded. We need to bounce the [7:02] Speaker 1: moon back into the sky. Kevin grinned. Awesome! Can I help? Sure. [7:08] Speaker 1: Can I do a backflip? Maybe later. Can I eat [7:11] Speaker 1: the trampoline? No! Kevin looked disappointed. The entire town gathered [7:16] Speaker 1: around the pumpkin patch. The skeletons stopped dancing. The werewolf [7:20] Speaker 1: poodles stopped barking. Even the vampires put down their tomato juice. [7:25] Speaker 1: Madam Wigglybottom climbed onto a hay bale. Citizens of Wobblewick, [7:30] Speaker 1: tonight we shall return the moon to its rightful place. [7:34] Speaker 1: Everybody cheered. Oliver raised his hand. Um, how? The witch [7:39] Speaker 1: pointed at Kevin. The troll will lift the pumpkins. Kevin [7:43] Speaker 1: flexed his enormous muscles. Yes! The ghost will float beneath it, [7:49] Speaker 1: Sir Booington saluted. Boo! And Oliver will activate the magical trampoline. [7:55] Speaker 1: Oliver swallowed. How do I activate it? Madam Wigglybottom smiled [8:00] Speaker 1: by shouting the ancient magical words, which are... She leaned [8:05] Speaker 1: close and whispered. Oliver stared at her. Seriously? Seriously! He [8:11] Speaker 1: climbed onto the trampoline, took a deep breath, and shouted, [8:15] Speaker 1: Wibbly wobbly pumpkin bottom! The trampoline began to glow. Kevin [8:21] Speaker 1: lifted the enormous pumpkin. Sir Booington floated underneath it. The [8:26] Speaker 1: pumpkin shook. The moon shouted, I don't like the sound [8:30] Speaker 1: of this! Oliver bounced once. Boing! Twice. Boing! Boing! Three times. Boing! [8:40] Speaker 1: And suddenly... The pumpkin exploded! Not into pieces, into thousands [8:46] Speaker 1: and thousands of tiny orange butterflies. They fluttered across the [8:51] Speaker 1: sky like a magical Halloween snowstorm. And the moon? The [8:55] Speaker 1: moon shot upward like a giant silver cannonball. It flew [9:01] Speaker 1: past the church, past the clouds, past a very surprised owl. [9:06] Speaker 1: Good heavens! And finally, pop! it landed perfectly back in [9:11] Speaker 1: the sky. For one beautiful moment, everything was silent. Then [9:17] Speaker 1: the moon spoke. Well, that was deeply unpleasant. The entire [9:22] Speaker 1: town erupted into cheers. The werewolf poodles turned back into [9:26] Speaker 1: proper werewolves. The vampires remembered they preferred blood to tomato juice. [9:31] Speaker 1: And the skeletons, well, the skeletons were still dancing, but [9:36] Speaker 1: that was probably because they really liked disco. Oliver smiled. [9:40] Speaker 1: We did it! Madam Wigglybottom patted his shoulder. Indeed we did, [9:45] Speaker 1: young Brussels Sprout. Oliver groaned. Please don't call me that. [9:50] Speaker 1: Kevin the Troll started crying. That was beautiful! I love [9:55] Speaker 1: happy endings! Sir Buington blew his nose into a tissue, [9:59] Speaker 1: which was rather pointless because the tissue fell straight through him. [10:03] Speaker 1: Everybody laughed. Then the moon cleared its throat. Before everybody [10:08] Speaker 1: goes home, I have one small announcement. The town fell silent. [10:14] Speaker 1: As a thank you for rescuing me, I've decided to [10:17] Speaker 1: grant Wobblewick one very special Halloween wish. Oliver's eyes widened. [10:23] Speaker 1: Any wish? Any wish. Oliver thought carefully. He could wish [10:27] Speaker 1: for a mountain of sweets, a lifetime supply of chocolate, [10:31] Speaker 1: a pet dragon, or perhaps a new Halloween costume that [10:35] Speaker 1: didn't make him look like a vegetable. Then he grinned. [10:39] Speaker 1: I wish everyone leaned closer, that every pumpkin in Wobblewick [10:43] Speaker 1: could talk. Madam Wigglybottom gasped, Oliver, no! But it was [10:49] Speaker 1: too late. The moon flashed bright silver. Whoosh! Every pumpkin [10:54] Speaker 1: in town opened its eyes, and its mouth, and began talking. Hello! [10:59] Speaker 1: One particularly enormous pumpkin shouted, I like cheese! I demand [11:04] Speaker 1: a pizza! Oliver burst out laughing. The pumpkins began arguing, [11:10] Speaker 1: then singing, then telling terrible jokes. Why did the pumpkin [11:15] Speaker 1: cross the road? Another pumpkin shouted, Why? Because it was [11:19] Speaker 1: tired of being squashed. All the pumpkins laughed. Ha ha [11:23] Speaker 1: ha ha ha! Madam Wigglybottom buried her face in her hands. Oh, wonderful. [11:31] Speaker 1: Talking vegetables. That's exactly what this town needed. Oliver grinned. [11:37] Speaker 1: Best Halloween ever! And high above Wobblewick, the moon smiled. [11:42] Speaker 1: Silly humans. Then it sneezed. Ah! Choo! The entire town froze. [11:51] Speaker 1: Oliver looked up. Madam Wigglybottom looked up. Kevin the Troll [11:56] Speaker 1: looked up. And the moon whispered. Oh dear. The end. [12:26] Speaker 1: Thank you. Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.