For Halloween, Google Makes Bats Appear For Horror Movie Searches

Not happy with just running an interactive Halloween logo today, Google also has an “easter egg” surprise. Searches for some horror movies bring up sleeping bats that fly away with a click. For example, here’s what appears in a search for “Nightmare On Elm Street,” over the knowledge graph box about the movie: Click on the bats, […]

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Nightmare On Elm Street Google Search 4Not happy with just running an interactive Halloween logo today, Google also has an “easter egg” surprise. Searches for some horror movies bring up sleeping bats that fly away with a click.

For example, here’s what appears in a search for “Nightmare On Elm Street,” over the knowledge graph box about the movie:

Nightmare On Elm Street Google Search

Click on the bats, and they fly away:

Nightmare On Elm Street Google Search 3

These also appear for other films like “The Shining,” “Halloween 1978” and Aliens, as you can see below:

The Shining Google Search

Halloween 1978 Google Search

Aliens Google Search

 Here’s a video of the bats in flight:

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y04UtNav13I[/youtube]

Also be sure to play with today’s special Google Halloween doodle. Here’s a video of that:

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2qKATc3Bw[/youtube]

Found other movies that bring up the bats? Please share them below!

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