A man who grows Halloween pumpkins every year used the money from a $10 sale to buy a lottery ticket in North Carolina. He turned that money into a $150,000 top prize, the N.C. Education Lottery said in an Oct. 8 news release. “I raise a few pumpkins every year and sell them,” Roy Story of Hertford told lottery officials.

A North Carolina man won a $150,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket -- and he said it's all thanks to a pumpkin.

A Halloween tradition of selling pumpkins led to Roy Story, of Hertford, winning a $150,000 prize, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. “I raise a few pumpkins every year and sell them,” Story said.

A Hertford man sells pumpkins each year. This year, the man, Roy Story, sold one for $10 and used that money to buy a $5 Xtreme Cashword lottery ticket on Monday. That $10 pumpkin money earned him $150,