The Krampus Pumpkin: A Completely Normal Harvest If you've ever wondered how Krampus gets the enormous pumpkins he uses for his Halloween operations, there's a simple answer: He grows them. Of course, because this is Krampus we're talking about, "growing pumpkins" is considerably more complicated than planting seeds and waiting for October. For starters, Krampus pumpkins don't have seeds. They're completely hollow inside. Instead, the pumpkin's life cycle begins with something considerably stranger: the shadow face. When a mature pumpkin is harvested, its shadow face separates from the pumpkin and falls into the soil. From there, a new sprout emerges and begins growing into the next pumpkin. It's less like ordinary agriculture and more like a very badly designed version of a Phoenix. The pumpkin itself doesn't immediately decay after harvesting. The vines are what eventually die back and decay, returning material to the soil. And when t...
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