Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. It's Halloween — a time for Frankenstein monsters and vampires and werewolves.

3. “Frankenstein” — New York Dolls (1973) Monsters have always held a special appeal for the music world's misfits, as the New York Dolls showed on this catchy early-'70s track.

Like jellyfish, "spaghetti monsters" have tentacles that can sting. If that's not creepy enough, researchers say these creatures are actually a collection of animals living together that look like ...

By Gene Demby, Cecily Meza-Martinez Published October 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM EDT ...