Originally, this show made up its own rating known as "GB-7", because, as they said, it may be too spooky for children under seven. This lasted until the TV rating system began in 1996, and from then on, it was officially given a "TV-Y7" rating.
R.L. Stine owns a ventriloquist dummy that looks just like him. It makes an appearance in the episode Night of the Living Dummy III: Part 1 (1997).
The fictional town of Dark Falls in "Welcome to Dead House" was long believed by fans to be set on demolished houses in Toronto. In 2022, an Eastern Canadian author named Rebecca Maye Holiday announced that she knew the exact location of the Dark Falls town structure, identifying it as Hazel Avenue in Toronto's Beaches area (with the "dead house" being #10 on the avenue). Almost all of the houses were extensively renovated in 2007, including the house serving as the "dead house", but 2007 photos archived on Google Street View revealed that the film location was indeed Hazel Avenue. Holiday also identified other previously unknown filming locations from the series, including the mansion from "Night of the Living Dummy III" (7960 Reesor Rd. in Markham, Ontario) and the Brewer House from "Stay Out of the Basement" (47 Balsam Ave. in Toronto). Holiday revealed that this research was in part due to the 2022 release of her young adult horror novella The Beaches, which is set in Toronto's Beaches neighborhood and features a ghost girl obsessed with "Welcome to Dead House".
A stage play entitled the 'Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show', a horror magic show with characters from the Goosebumps show and books written and directed by Rupert Holmes, featured at Disney MGM Studios In 1998.