Spooky Ringtones

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Many people like the odd impression that spooky ringtones make when their cellphone rings in public places.

Cellphone over sheet music

Spooky Ringtones: Make a Freaky Impression

One of the best ways to get noticed in a crowd when your cellphone starts to ring is to install a spooky ringtone. Watch the reaction you get when you're in your college class and your phone starts emitting a maniacal laugh. Get a few smiles out of people when your phone starts playing the Monster Mash in the middle of the supermarket. These spooky ringtones are very popular, and they're not only for Halloween anymore.

About Free Ringtones

There are websites throughout the Internet that provide ringtones within many categories, but they don't all provide scary sounds to download. You can find the top websites listed below that offer free downloads of these tones. Additionally, you'll discover those websites that offer paid tones as well.

MSN Emotions Ringtones

MSN Emotions is a social networking website created for users of MSN Messenger. MSN uses to website to provide MSN Messenger users with content they can use to customize their MSN profiles with emoticons, pictures, icons, and ringtones. MSN provides these tools free of charge. The ringtones section of the website features thousands of unique MP3 ringtones to download.

MSN Emotions offers the following spooky ringtones under the "Halloween" category:

  • Chainsaw
  • Evil Laugh
  • Ghoul
  • Monster Mash
  • Scary
  • Scream
  • Spooky
  • Spooky Scary Skeletons

Can't Find a Ringtone? Create It Yourself

Have you ever wanted a specific spooky sound or song, but there are no ringtones available anywhere? MobileReelz is a free online tool that will convert any MP3 to a ringtone. All you need is an MP3 that contains at least 30 seconds of the spooky sound or music that you want.

The MobileReelz website describes the three simple steps you use to create your own free ringtone from that MP3.

  1. Upload the music or sound MP3 to Mobilereelz website
  2. Place the "start" and "end" buttons to clip the section that you want to make into a ringtone
  3. Title it, select the format (QCP, MP3, M4A), and Mobilereelz sends the ringtone to your cellphone

Mobilereelz is the quickest and easiest way to obtain a free spooky ringtone for your phone.

Paid Spooky Ringtones

If you are willing to pay a little bit for your ringtones, there is a whole ringtone industry at your disposal. The options for you to select the ringtones you want are plentiful.

Halloween Ringtones

Even though you may want to use these spooky ringtones all year, most people only choose to use them on Halloween. This is why most websites are set up specifically to offer Halloween ringtones. One website in particular called HalloweenRingtone.net provides a great collection of some of the scariest ringtones available anywhere. These ringtones are based on some of the greatest classic scary movies.

HalloweenRingtone presents visitors with the following movie themes converted to spooky ringtones:

  • The Addams' Family
  • Halloween
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Amityville Horror
  • Funeral March
  • The Munsters
  • Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Poltergeist
  • Spooky Organ
  • The Exorcist
  • The Monster Mash

AT&T Wireless Ringtones

All of the major cellular providers offer customers a library of ringtones. Surprisingly, AT&T provides a great selection of spooky ringtones that are based on unique sound effects such as a foghorn or thunder.

AT&T scary downloads available to customers:

  • Evil Kitty Growl
  • The Monster Approaches
  • Chainsaw Massacre
  • Demonic Chant
  • Foghorn
  • Thunder

U.S. Cellular Ringtones

U.S. Cellular provides one of the largest collections of ringtones for their customers than any other cellular provider. The Halloween category alone features 88 ringtones. These ringtones are based on music or popular hit songs that match the theme. Many of them are fantastic selections and create some of the best scary tones available anywhere.

U.S. Cellular tones available to customers:

  • Wizard of Oz: Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead
  • The Hit Crew: Ghostbusters
  • Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London
  • The Hit Crew: Psycho Theme
  • Three Days Grace: Scared
  • Sound Effects: Woman Screaming, Creaking Door, and more

Using Scary Ringtones All Year

There are a lot of reasons to prefer scary sounds when your phone rings, including a general enjoyment of all things spooky and watching the reaction of people around you. Additionally, some people conduct research and have a career based around things that many people consider scary - such as an undertaker, a parapsychologist, or a coroner. Having such scary ringtones is a great way to poke fun at the general public's conception of these careers. Regardless of the reason, take some time to download the exact tone you want so that your phone will play frightening sounds every time it rings.



 


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