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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: HALLOWEEN'S HEINOUS HISTORY: The Petrifying Path From Blood Rituals to Trick-or-Treating
Description: Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPEWhat started as a night when Celts genuinely believed the dead could drag the living into the spirit world, has transformed into children dressed as superheroes demanding fun-size Snickers. What happened?IN THIS EPISODE: The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won't change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging in a store window, every carved pumpkin glowing on a doorstep - they're echoes of somet...