Surprise!  To celebrate Halloween, Petrafaction is giving you another episode, a bonus episode!  Is it a trick or is it a treat?  You decide.  First get a history of the origins of what's become known as Halloween and then enjoy an old Scottish legend, that of Sawny Bean.  And keep listening because that's not all!  Enjoy short stories of the possessed.  Yikes!  Happy Halloween friends!

References:

10 True Stories of Demonic Possession That'll Make You Believe in Pure Evil, By Jacob Geers, June 10, 2016

"Halloween," from History.com, dated October 14, 2021

"Sawney Bean's Cave, Scotland," from Atlas Obscura, www.atlasobscura.com, 2021

Terrifying Real Cases of Demonic Possession, The Power of Christ Compels You, Slappedham.com, June 19, 2019

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