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It's spooky Fest! 

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For many people, October 31 means Halloween— a time for costumes and trick-or-treating. But Halloween actually springs from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced SAH-win), where people carved turnips (later pumpkins), donned disguises, and attempted to commune with spirits.

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It's spooky Fest! 

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Halloween is observed annually on October 31; in 2026, that date falls on a Saturday.

History of Halloween

American Halloween as Cultural Exchange

Halloween’s Early Traditions Abroad
Halloween in North America
Regional Beginnings
The Rise of Trick-or-Treating
Dias de los Muertos and Other Celebrations
Halloween on Screen

Forgotten Halloween Rituals

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IT'S OUR 200th EPISODE!!!!!!!

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 On the night of June 11, 1962, three prisoners— Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin—vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the high-security island prison in San Francisco Bay. After roughly six months of covert preparations, they sculpted papier-mâché heads to fool the guards during morning counts, tunneled out of their cells through the ventilation ducts into an unguarded service corridor, climbed to the roof, and descended to the shore. There they inflated a homemade raft fashioned from raincoat rubber and launched into the cold bay waters. A fourth man, Allen West, meant to join them but became trapped when the concrete around his duct opening hardened; he was left behind.

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Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, who died by suicide after enduring prolonged cyberbullying and blackmail. A month before her death she uploaded a nine-minute YouTube video titled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm,” in which she held up a series of hand-written flashcards to recount how an anonymous stranger had coerced her into exposing her breasts on a BlogTV webcam, then threatened to distribute the images to her classmates. In the video she also described ongoing harassment, physical assaults and self-harm. After her suicide the clip went viral—amassing over 15.5 million views on the original upload and tens of millions more on mirrored copies by July 2025— as global media outlets and reaction videos drew attention to her case. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the British Columbia Coroners Service opened formal inquiries into her death.

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Stuart Lubbock (1 October 1969 – 31 March 2001) was an English meat-factory worker whose unexplained death at television host Michael Barrymore’s home in Roydon, Essex, ended Barrymore’s TV career. On the morning of 31 March 2001, Barrymore and guests James Futers and Simon Shaw found Lubbock unconscious in Barrymore’s swimming pool. A post-mortem revealed serious anal injuries and the presence of ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood.

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Waitomo Caves Hotel, originally opened as Waitomo House and later known as the Government Hostel at Waitomo, is a heritage hotel erected in 1908 above the Waitomo Caves in New Zealand’s King Country. At first it offered just six guest rooms, but in 1927–28 it was enlarged with 24 additional bedrooms plus a new kitchen and dining room. Celebrated for its distinctive New Zealand Victorian architecture, the building is also said by some to be haunted.

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The Texarkana Moonlight Murders— a name given by newspapers of the day—were a string of four weekend-night attacks on young couples in the Texarkana area between February 22 and May 3, 1946. Believed to be the work of a single unknown assailant nicknamed the Phantom of Texarkana (or Phantom Killer/Slayer), these crimes left eight people targeted and five dead over ten weeks. The first three assaults happened at lovers’ lanes or lonely stretches of road in Texas; the fourth struck a remote farmhouse in Arkansas. National and international press coverage triggered widespread panic: residents armed themselves, bolted doors at dusk, enforced curfews, and emptied stores of guns, ammunition, locks, and window‐guard hardware. Local, county, state and federal agencies—including the Bowie County sheriff’ s office, Texarkana police, Texas Rangers, Arkansas State Police, the Texas DPS and the FBI—collaborated on the hunt.

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In the autumn of 2015, 21-year-old Amsterdam medical student Sophia Koetsier flew to Kampala for an eight-week internship in tropical medicine. When her placement ended, she and two classmates set off on a two-week tour of Uganda’s wildest parks. Early on, her friends noticed she was behaving unusually: Sophia had a history of bipolar disorder, and over the first few days of the trip her mood swings grew increasingly manic. From what is said by others that were in the same vicinity

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In the cold pre-dawn hours of February 28, 2022, at about 4:40 AM, Madison County dispatchers received a 911 call from 25-year-old Timmy Dees. He told the operator that a friend who’d driven him to Fredericktown the night before was threatening him. Tragically, no recording of that call exists— Madison County’s equipment had failed the previous December and wouldn’t be replaced until mid-March. Whatever the reason for the outage, it doesn’t excuse the fact that no one stayed on the line to keep Timmy calm until officers arrived. If they had, he might still be alive today—or at least we’d have a clearer picture of what he faced that night.

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ST. Anne’s Nunnery Also known as Pine Glenn cove

Pine Glenn Cove is a private vacation retreat in Logan Canyon, Utah—also called Hatch’ s Camp, Forest Hills, the Nunnery and St. Anne’ s Retreat. Situated within Cache National Forest, it’s the area’s largest private getaway and the only one with a swimming pool. Founded by a wealthy businessman in the early 1910s and expanded by his descendants, it gained fame in the late 20th century when the Catholic Church operated it as a spiritual retreat for nuns.