According to Daily Mail News, cheeky monkeys got into the spirit of Halloween early as they gave each other a playful fright messing around with masks and disguises at a Bedfordshire safari park.

Ring-tailed lemurs had fun scaring their friends with ghoulish Frankenstein and vampire masks.Meanwhile a brave Patas monkey proves he’s not scared of monsters by eagerly tucking into this sorrowful jack-o-lantern pumpkin.

A girl dressed in a Halloween costume was accidentally shot by a relative who thought she was a SKUNK.The nine-year-old was stood outside her Pennsylvania home during a party on Saturday night when the incident happened.Police said the girl was wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel.A male relative apparently mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder, arm, back and neck.

Halloweembie: A zombie carved from giant pumpkins is displayed at the New York Botanical Gardens in New York. This carving and other halloween themed pumpkins will be on display through Oct. 31, 2012.