Yeah, I do want kids to be out in the dark doing things that will inconvenience me. Welcome to your wrong about. I am your ghostly hostly Sarah Marshall and today we are having a very butacular Halloween conversation

with our friend American hysteria's Chelsea Weber Smith. This episode is on the history of Halloween, the spirit of

Halloween from its pre-Christian origins to our more contemporary fears and our worries about what might be in our children's candy and all the fears in between.

We're talking about haunted houses, we're talking about pranks and mischief, and how adults try to change the way that their children celebrate holidays

and how effective that is or isn't at times and just yeah what this holiday is to us what it

allows us to do and what we love about it so thank you so much for joining us

today if you also want more So thank you so much for joining us today.

If you also want more Halloween stuff,

if you want to hear me and Chelsea talk about another topic

over on American hysteria,

there is an episode out now called I was a teenage poltergeist where I got to come on and

tell Chelsea about the Enfield poltergeist which was in North London in the late 1970s

as well as a little bit of Victorian ghost hunting lore

as well.

And we had a lovely time.

And next week, Monday, October 28th, they will be putting out on the American hysteria feed an

episode called Buried Alive.

And if you're in the area and if you would like to see even more ghost conversation between me and

Chelsea we would love you to come see us at some of the live shows that we're doing in

December and January there is an announcement on this very show feed

with details about it. There's an announcement over on American hysteria, but just to tell you

again, we're doing shows in December in January,

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