What is \u201cSpooky Lake Month?\u201d Viral TikTok series explained Unsplash: Brendan Church \/ TikTok: geodesaurusWhat is \u201cSpooky Lake Month\u201d and why have TikTok users dubbed it as the \u201cbest time of the year?\u201d Here\u2019s our explainer for the platform\u2019s latest viral series. For lovers of all things spooky, creepy, and grim, October is the month for you \u2014 bringing with it the beloved holiday of Halloween. Luckily, for eager celebrators waiting for the 31st, there\u2019s now another viral sensation drawing eyes (and views) that can help make the days pass by quicker. During one month of every year, TikTok users \u201crun\u201d to a particular page for an annual series that \u2014 despite its \u201cspooky\u201d name \u2014 has already garnered over 1.5 billion views and counting. Not to keep you waiting, here\u2019s what \u201cSpooky Lake Month\u201d is all about. What is the \u201cSpooky Lake Month\u201d series on TikTok? When October rolls around and excitement for Halloween comes to a head, Wisconsin-based artist and teacher Geo Rutherford takes to her TikTok account, \u2018geodesaurus,\u2019 to bring back her beloved series, \u201cSpooky Lake Month.\u201d The series features \u201c31 days of haunted hydrology\u201d and sees Geo break down the morbid history and legends surrounding bodies of water across the globe. However, Geo is not just a \u201chuge horror fan\u201d, she\u2019s also a \u201chobby limnologist\u201d and \u201cfreshwater scientist.\u201d This means all of her 2 to 3-minute videos are backed by science and Geo offers explanations as to how these locations earned their often deadly reputations. What are \u201cSpookies\u201d? At the end of each video, Geo rates the discussed body of water out of 10 \u201cSpookies,\u201d determined by how much it creeped her out or scared her. But Geo\u2019s rating system is not based on any of the alleged hauntings or death toll, as she\u2019s previously said, \u201cI try to rate the location itself, not the deaths that occurred there.\u201d Viewers have praised her respectful approach to sensitive topics while simultaneously falling in love with her entertaining delivery. In many of her videos, fans claim her introductory line of \u201cUm, yes, hello\u201d is \u201cclinically proven to boost serotonin levels.\u201d While the series started off discussing only lakes, Geo told Outside in an exclusive interview that she had to branch out in order to continue finding locations to rate. \u201cHonestly, I did some of the best lakes during my first year, so I\u2019ve incorporated \u201chaunted hydrology\u201d into Spooky Lake Month,\u201d she said. \u201cNow, I can basically do anything that\u2019s wet. I still haven\u2019t gotten fully into ocean topics yet!\u201d With still plenty of the month still to go, fans of the series have lots more of \u201cSpooky Lake Month\u201d to look forward to this year. Check out all the latest entertainment series on our page here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is \u201cSpooky Lake Month?\u201d Viral TikTok series explained Unsplash: Brendan Church \/ TikTok: geodesaurusWhat is \u201cSpooky Lake Month\u201d and why have TikTok users dubbed it as the \u201cbest time of the year?\u201d Here\u2019s our explainer for the platform\u2019s latest viral series. For lovers of all things spooky, creepy, and grim, October is the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}