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You’ve heard this one before.  Maybe it’s a beautiful Siren, singing a gorgeous song only to lure unsuspecting sailors on to the rocks and eventually their death.  Or a snake, promising you a delicious apple, only to curse all of humanity with the knowledge of good and evil.  Or a wolf, disguising itself as an old woman, to trick an innocent child into letting it into their house, only to have the beast devour the youngster as prey.

Or maybe a demon posing as a child’s playmate – maybe using the name “Captain Howdy” or something like it – only to trick the child into letting the ancient, evil entity possess them bodily, unleashing a series of horrors and torments that you only really hear in horror stories.

This episode is a Theater History and Mystery version of the War of the Worlds – a story that is entirely made up, but made up as a good Halloween story to entertain an audience prone to good ghost stories.

The events here are mostly made up, but the twist is – all the dates, actors, and even the seances – are confirmed historical events.  This isn’t a ghost story that really happened, but one that sure could have.

Taking a new turn, I’ll try as hard as I can to blur fact and fiction in this episode of THM and, if you get a chance, replay it on Halloween…

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