Angry Birds Seasons launched in 2010 from Rovio as the holiday themed follow up to Angry Birds, opening with Halloween levels filled with pumpkins, skeletons and glowing lanterns. Those lanterns were breakable scenery objects placed around the slingshot structures, rewarding extra points when a bird or falling debris smashed them. As players ripped and shared individual game audio files online, short object sounds like this lantern break began circulating on their own, separate from gameplay, and are now reused as a generic spooky glass smash in fan videos and edits.
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Short glass smash sound effect from Angry Birds Seasons Halloween level when a lantern is destroyed, used for quick spooky breaks and game edits.
This is the brief shattering noise an orange Halloween lantern makes when it breaks in Angry Birds Seasons. A thin glass crack snaps first, followed by small tinkling shards that scatter and fade in just over a second. It is light rather than heavy, more brittle pop than big explosion, which makes the destruction feel playful instead of serious. In a video the clip instantly reads as something fragile and spooky being knocked over, adding a seasonal Halloween touch without needing music or a jump scare to sell the moment.