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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: The Story of Spirit Halloween

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Every August, abandoned storefronts across America are filled with the spirit of Halloween, by way of the store, Spirit Halloween. Learn all about this wildly successful pop-up today.

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0:00.0

In the back of your mind, you've always suspected there's something strange about reality.

0:04.5

The Stuff to Blow Your Mind Podcast proves there is.

0:08.0

All October hosts Joe McCormick and Robert Lamb take a lighter look at the scary side of movies, history and the occult.

0:15.0

This movie has both Christopher Lee and retinal optography.

0:18.0

That was the idea where you could look in a dead person's eyes and see the last thing they saw.

0:22.0

That's right, in the last thing they saw.

0:22.8

That's right, in this case, a dinosaur.

0:24.7

Listen to Stuff to Blow Your Mind on the I-HeartRadio app,

0:27.6

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. asks. course and that makes the short stuff.

0:43.0

Woo!

0:46.0

Uh, big thanks to medium.

0:48.0

NPR, Strongtowns.org, the list in Bloomberg for this.

0:54.0

I'll bet I can guess the Strongtowns.org section.

0:58.0

I want to read part of it, okay?

1:00.0

Okay.

1:01.0

So Chuck, we're talking today about Spirit Halloween, not the Spirit of

1:05.9

Halloween as Cherry likes to say, just Spirit Halloween. That's right. And if you live

1:11.6

outside of the United States, you might not know what that is.

1:14.0

As far as I know, they're not out of North America yet,

1:17.5

but just give it some time.

1:19.0

As Halloween spreads, so too will Spirit Halloween.

1:22.0

Spirit Halloween in the U.S. is well known for being essentially a giant

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