HALLOWEEN SPECIALGHOST STORIESRichard speaks with Irish author, paranormal investigator Dr. Robert Curran. Nearly everybody loves a good ghost story--and the best of them are tales that have some basis in fact. In The Ghost Handbook; An Essential Guide to Ghosts, Spirits and Specters. Curran has compiled an impressive collection of just such stories--accounts of mysterious apparitions, haunted mansions, gloomy castles, and eerie cries in the night. For example, he tells the strange story of Matilda of England. In life she was the daughter of royalty, and was imprisoned in Mortemer Abbey, an edifice set in a gloomy French valley surrounded by dark, dense forests. Today, she is just one of several ghosts who haunt that abbey. Over the centuries, Matilda's ghost has been frequently seen walking in the abbey's corridors and gardens. Sometimes she is seen wearing black gloves, a sign that death will soon come to one of the local inhabitants. At other times she wears white gloves, which signify a wedding or a birth. From America's Deep South come yet more uncanny tales--for example, the haunted Hampton Plantation house in South Carolina, and the restless ghost of one of its owners, John Henry Routledge. He hanged himself after being rejected by his lover.Part II: HARRY HOUDINI'S AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTRichard welcomes essayist, researcher Thomas Razetto about escape artist Harry Houdini's after-death experiment with his wife Bess. Bess Houdini originally claimed her husband had communicated to her from the grave but later recanted. However, Razetto believe's her about-face was a result of peer pressure and that the evidence suggests the afterlife experiment was a success.Part III: ZOMBIES A to ZRichard speaks with David P. Murphy, author of AceYour Zombie Exam €” The Official Ph.Z. Study Guide