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NARRATOR: Halloween.

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The holiday of mischief and mayhem.

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A night to stock up on candy,

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and become anyone
or anything you want to be.

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This was the best night of my life.

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But this holiday was born
out of darkness.

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At Halloween, the spirit world
is reaching closer to us.

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A time to celebrate the dead.

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Halloween is the night
where the dead can freely interact

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with the living.

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Halloween unleashes
our deepest fears.

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When are you more alive
than when you're afraid?

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(SCREAMS)

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But beware the dark side.

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Fires broke out across the city
on the night before Halloween.

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I had nothing to do
with my son's death.

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Because this is the true story
of Halloween.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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Halloween is a multi-billion dollar
industry of candy,

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costumes,

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and trick or treating.

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The second most popular holiday
in America, after Christmas.

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But to the countless who celebrate
around the world,

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it's much more than sweets
and dressing up.

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KIDS: Trick or treat.

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It is a holiday
steeped in nostalgia.

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When we were younger, you know,
you didn't go on the streets

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until it turned dark

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and it became a search for candy,
and it was just phenomenal.

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I think there's
something about fall.

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The leaves start changing.

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It gets dark earlier.

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The air starts to get kind of crisp.

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It takes us back to our childhood,

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and we feel
a little more vulnerable,

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and we have this interest
in, in ghosts and spooky things.

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Halloween is a time where,
the mystical and the strange

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can, can sort of enter
your life a little bit

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and you can start thinking about
the weirder things of the world.

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Who doesn't like Halloween?

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Everybody loves Halloween.

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You get to dress up,

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be whoever you want to,
and then get free candy.

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Sign me up every day of the year.

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But its playful appearance
belies another truth.

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This holiday started
as something much darker.

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What we now call Halloween

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was created in the shadows
of a mystical time 2,000 years ago,

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in ancient Ireland.

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Every year,
ethereal creatures of the night

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became frighteningly real...

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..during the Celtic festival
of the Samhain.

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Samhain meant summer's end.

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And that's exactly what it was.

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It was the time of year

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when Celtic tribes would bring
their herds back from pasture

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for wintering.

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It was on the edge of going
into the dark, dangerous season.

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Cold, scarcity of food.

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Anything could happen in the winter.

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And so, you gathered together
one last time.

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This time was the beginning
of the 'dark half' of the year,

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a time of danger,
when evil was present.

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The dark half is when the dead

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are particularly powerful.

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And so, either Samhain or Halloween

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is the night where the dead
can freely interact

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with the realm of the living.

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During the Samhain,

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the Celtic Druids
dressed in gruesome costumes

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and gathered around massive bonfires,

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where they offered sacrifices
to appease the haunting spirits.

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Samhain was also a time for them

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when the barriers between worlds
were at their thinnest,

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and they thought that things could
cross over from the other world.

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Of all the creatures that stalked
the Irish peasants on Samhain,

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one stood out as the most wicked
and feared of all,

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the 'She'.

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They believed in very malicious
fairies called the 'She',

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and the 'She' could cross over
on Samhain night

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and they would wreck all kinds
of terrible havoc.

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They might set a palace on fire.

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Or bring a corpse back to life.

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They were genuinely very frightened
on the 'She' on Samhain.

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The 'She' were once Angeles
cast out as punishment for pride.

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They could appear
as beautiful maidens,

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tempting men to sin
with their enchanting voices.

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They feared the evil 'She'.

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But they also tried to communicate
with the souls of their loved ones.

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And foretell the future.

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It was also believed
that you could access information

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from the spirit world.

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They would try to see visions
of what might happen.

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And that was critical to the safety
of the tribe.

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They needed to know what was ahead.

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These customs endured for generations
until the medieval Catholic Church

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wanted to Christianise
Samhain rituals.

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The idea that you can speak
to the dead

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and they can help you,

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and you can get insight
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doesn't really line up
with Christianity's teachings

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about how the souls of the dead
are supposed to work.

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Church leaders tried to blend
Samhain with All Hallows' Day,

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a Christian festival honouring
saints.

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By moving it to 1 November,
the day after Samhain,

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a new holiday was born.

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In time, All Hallow's Eve
becomes Hallowe'en.

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By the mid-19th century,

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Halloween migrated
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along with millions of
Irish and Scottish refugees

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of the Great Potato Famine.

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Americans openly welcome
the imported holiday.

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Its roots in obsession
with the spirit world

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appealed to a country overwhelmed
with the death and suffering

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of the Civil War.

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There were so many dead, lost,
unidentified people in that war.

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Americans were desperate to know,

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"Where's my son?

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"Where's my father?
Is my brother coming back?

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"Is he dead?
Is he missing?"

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There was a huge unease,

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and it was a time
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got extremely interested
in ghosts...

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..and in telling the future.

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Seances came up at this time.

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We wanted to know.

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And this holiday that involves
dead spirits

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were something that
they just fell in love with.

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(DRUMS)

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Today, Samhain traditions
have been revived.

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Festivals and bonfires
pay tribute to the Celtic rituals

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that gave birth to Halloween.

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Revellers in Edinburgh, Scotland,

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hold a spectacular
fire festival parade every year.

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Ghoulish, costumed dancers evoke
a battle between summer and winter,

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the light and the dark.

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(DRUMS)

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These modern celebrations

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channel the same fear of the unknown
as our ancestors.

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Halloween has a connection
to the spirit world

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because for the past 2,000 years,

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we've been thinking about the dead
at this time of year.

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There's a sense that
the other world is present

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and things are not all normal.

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And basically, it's a warning.

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Stay close, don't go into the dark.

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Gather around, build a fire,
tell a few stories

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and let's hunker down
for the winter.

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Be careful.

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Like the ancient Celts,

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many still believe the veil
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is thin on Halloween.

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I think the veil
is a bit thinner that night.

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And I've investigated on Halloween.

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I've held seances in haunted places

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to see if we could communicate
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And, I've had crazy things happen.

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A lot of people who may not
give it a lot of thought

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tend to think about
ghosts and spirits more at Halloween

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because that's kind of
what Halloween is all about.

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When people discuss how the veil
thins right around Halloween,

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there are so many more people

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keyed into life, death

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and the afterlife in October

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that we seem to be
opening that portal.

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We seem to be thinning that veil.

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These thoughts of the supernatural
fuel the imagination.

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I grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,

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and like six houses down,
there was this lady

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and she used to decorate
the inside of her house

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really creepy and very witchy.

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But I thought she was a witch,

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and she would let you
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and stand in this big entryway
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And then she would leave up
the stairs to get the candy

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and leave you alone to like
think about what's happening.

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So, as a kid, it is so exciting
because you're like,

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"Do I leave, do I run?"

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I have never forgotten her.

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People like that
make Halloween spectacular.

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Halloween is the one time of year
we confront the darkness

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and not just earthly danger.

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Many parents
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about the treats their children
might be getting this Halloween.

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The night before Halloween used
to be a time for harmless pranks.

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The people that are scared of it,

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well, it's like,
well, yeah, you should be scared.

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That's part of the point
of Halloween.

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This shared fear of a deeper,
supernatural evil

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is the heart of almost every
Halloween tradition.

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This is the day
when you get to be scared.

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You get to worry about ghosts
or witches or see the future.

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All of the marvellous,
spooky sort of stuff

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that we don't get to do
in our everyday, ordinary lives.

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This is the time that everybody
can all be a part of one thing.

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And that's being a part
of this fun of Halloween

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and enjoying the scares

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because really, when are you more
alive than when you're afraid?

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We've created an amazing array of
traditions to ward off the darkness.

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For almost all of them
we wear costumes.

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But why?

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(WITCH CACKLE)

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Evil is all around us at Halloween.

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What better way to face our fears
than to blend in

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and become something monstrous
ourselves?

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Halloween is the one day of the year
we can reach deep inside,

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and transform into something
totally different.

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Demons...

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..superheroes...

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..cartoons...

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..or monsters.

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I'm a big fan of
the 'Phantom of the Opera'.

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(ORGAN MUSIC)

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My dad got me
the old 1920 silent film,

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and I'm obsessed with that film.

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That's my favourite film.

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I just love that look,
the 'Phantom of the Opera',

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the mask, mysterious, you know,
the hat, the cape, everything.

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I was that for maybe
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and I was just walking around,
creeping people out.

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It was fun, it's Halloween.

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What's behind our desire
to become someone else,

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even something horrifying,
on Halloween?

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The truth may frighten you.

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It was commonly believed
that ghoulish spirits

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roamed the Earth
on All Hallow's Eve.

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Costuming may have started
when people went door-to-door,

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disguised as these evil beings,
to receive offerings on their behalf.

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People also wore disguises
as protection.

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It was believed that you dress up

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on these nights to create

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this affront to the dark side,

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so that they would

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stay away from you.

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As the centuries passed,

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the old folk beliefs
in the spirit world faded.

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but the costumes remained
and combined with other traditions.

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Masking was part of disguised
begging back in Europe.

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The idea was to disguise yourself,

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so nobody knew who you were

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when you came out

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and banged on someone's door.

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(BANGING ON DOOR)

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And so, these people
would come very often

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dressed in traditional costumes
that they would make,

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spooky costumes

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representing the other world

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or the somewhat monstrous

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or what have you.

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When modern Halloween traditions
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this desire to disguise ourselves

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as something strange, powerful,
and evil was familiar.

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Halloween was really just
the beginning of the social season

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where people put on fancy dress
and went out to balls

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and masquerades and clubs.

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Masks were a big part of that

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and the mystery of, "Who am I?"
Was a big part of that.

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The earliest masks
would have been handmade.

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They would have been made
out of cotton or muslin

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and shaped like a face
or a devil or a witch or something.

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Of course, the classic costume

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of just cutting
some holes in a sheet,

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putting it over your head
and you're a ghost.

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To our eyes
these early Halloween costumes

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are the stuff of nightmares.

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As Halloween
grew in popularity though,

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the handmade,
nightmarish costumes of the past

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gave way to off-the-shelf
merchandise.

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There was money to be made

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and yet people still wanted
to channel the dark side

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with their costume.

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But once people figured out
that there was a market in this,

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some of these paper companies
started establishing

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what American Halloween costumes
should look like.

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The first, store-bought costumes

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drew inspiration from the world
of spirits and monsters,

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evil witches and ghosts.

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Anything that was taboo
in normal society.

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Halloween is always
a little bit edgy

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and some of its core costumes
are people on the edge.

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At one point in our culture,

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it might've been
what we call hobos or tramps

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or gypsies...

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..pirates, outlaws.

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The whole idea of being
outside of our everyday life

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is great as far
as Halloween costumes go,

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and it's something that
you can see through time.

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One of the main companies that drove
the commercialisation of Halloween

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was the
Dennison Manufacturing Company.

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They churned out paper costumes
that depicted classic characters

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along with stars from the radio
and comic books.

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Dennison released 'Bogie Books',

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a kind of how-to guide
for celebrating Halloween.

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What's great about them
is they have extensive,

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beautiful graphics,

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and we can now look back
at those 'Bogie books'

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and see exactly how people
were celebrating Halloween

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in like the 1910s and '20s.

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They tell you
how to throw the parties

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how to hold
the fortune-telling games,

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how to make some really
basic costumes,

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how to decorate your house.

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When we started to get Halloween
decorations mass-produced,

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the colours started to settle
on orange and black.

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And people will say it symbolises
fire and night, or leaves and death.

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I've heard many things,
but definitely opposites.

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In the 1940s and 50s,

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fairy tale characters
and cowboys became popular.

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That's where you see the companies
like Ben Cooper and Collegeville

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coming out with these
great plastic masks

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and our rayon suit of some sort

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that were usually modelled
after licenced characters

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like Disney or cartoons
that the kids would have seen,

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or famous people in culture.

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When you're a kid in the '50s,

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people don't ask you,
"What are you going to wear?"

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They asked you,
"Who are you going to be?"

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Because you could be
any one of those people.

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Once television truly conquers
America in the 1960s,

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pop culture takes over.

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By the 1970s and '80s, and beyond,

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it's rare to see a costume
that doesn't reference a movie

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or a television show.

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What's hot in this year's
Halloween costumes?

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Those California raisins
of commercial fame,

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also Spuds McKenzie,
Reagans are still popular,

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so are Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.

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Hulk Hogan, George Bush, and the
usual assortment of scary monsters.

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I just remember growing up,

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always being fascinated
with comic books and superheroes,

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so dressing up like Spiderman
and these different things.

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Do kids still get dressed up
for Halloween?

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Yeah, it's fun.

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My brother who was obsessed
with Darth Vader,

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so he got the actual plastic helmet

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and my brother just has like

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a black bed sheet

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and a black t-shirt

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with scribbled buttons on it.

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I really loved those old costumes
that you would get in a box

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with the plastic helmet.

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And then it was just like a bib,
like a lobster bib at a restaurant.

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It was a flat plastic mask
with a small rubber band,

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and you'd pray that it would make it
through the night.

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Most likely, it didn't.

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And the costumes were pretty much
a one-shot one wear.

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You come home that night,
take them off,

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and they were never to be worn again
because they'd fallen apart.

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Most no longer fear evil spirits
in the dark around Halloween

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but the desire
to disguise ourselves remains.

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I was a very morbid child,

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so, I always did something
really spooky.

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Like I was a kindergartener

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dressed up as a zombie with like
blood coming out of my mouth.

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I think I really liked
painting my face

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and having blood,
like there had to be blood.

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Being a vampire
was the coolest thing

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because I could like
paint my face all white

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and like try to scare people.

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I was a vampire
for many, many years.

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I'm a devil.

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Wanna go to hell?

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80s zombie.

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I'm Robin Hood, man, I take from
the rich and I give to the poor!

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From witches to devils and demons,

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to psychotic killers
from horror movies,

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Halloween lets us explore
the dark side.

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Halloween gives us all that moment
to step away from who we are

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and be a little bit of
what we wish we were,

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or want to be.

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For that one brief moment in time

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and the next year you could be
somebody totally new

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and reinvent yourself.

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Every year, Halloween costumes
give us the opportunity

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to be anyone or anything.

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(DOOR BELL RINGS)

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And sweet treats wait for some
who venture out on All Hallow's Eve.

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But this delicious tradition
like most things Halloween

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did not start
with wholesome intentions.

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It was born of desperation

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to escape Halloween's own
special brand of Hell.

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Trick or treating
is a wholesome tradition

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but it came about to solve
a very troublesome problem.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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In the 1930s, when modern
trick-or-treating appeared,

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adults faced some serious threats
to public order.

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Roaming bands of rambunctious youths
raised hell on Halloween.

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There was a lot of mischief
associated with Halloween.

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This was not new.

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There was mischief associated
with this time of year

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in the old countries

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and certainly in this country,
well before the 20th century.

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Under the cover of darkness
of the fall, things happened.

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And when you have this holiday
where the spirits are out,

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many more things happened.

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Young kids would pull tricks
at this time.

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The mischief got to be known
more as vandalism,

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as the decades wore on.

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The pranks were crazy.

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I have a postcard from a small,
I think it's Iowa town, in 1910.

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It's the morning after Halloween
and the entire front main street

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00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,960
is covered with things
that these kids have moved.

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Carriages, bathtubs, outhouses,

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and the kids are all sitting on top
of this stuff.

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During the Great Depression,

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the cauldron of mischief takes
a dark and sometimes deadly turn.

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While many cities consider
outlawing Halloween,

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some residents try to save
the holiday with a clever ploy.

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Bribing the tricksters
with treats.

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They drew inspiration from earlier
religious traditions.

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Especially the practice of souling.

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Souling
was an interesting tradition

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that actually is connected
to All Souls Day.

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Part of the belief
with All Souls Day

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was that your loved ones
may be trapped in purgatory

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and were unable to move on.

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And so, you would offer prayers
to your loved ones

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to help them move on up to heaven.

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And souling became a thing
where beggars and kids

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would go from house to house,
and they would say,

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"If you give me a cake or a treat,

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"I will offer up a prayer
for your loved one."

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The small, round cakes given out
came to be known as 'soul cakes'.

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With souling as a model,

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treats are given out
at Halloween costume parties

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in hopes of curbing kids' urge
to cause mayhem.

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The idea of buying the kids off
was brilliant.

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It worked.

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Kids came to depend much more,
of course, on the parties,

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and the costuming, and the candies
than they did in the pranking.

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Every kind of organisation
threw a Halloween party for kids

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and tried to curtail what was
going on outside in the dark.

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While parties curb
some of the mischief,

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kids continue
sneaking door-to-door in the dark

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threatening to play tricks.

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This was actually what eventually
evolved into trick or treat,

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00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:59,000
because the parties and all of those
tactics didn't entirely work.

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There was still
a little bit of mischief,

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00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,360
and it was when the homeowner
took up the effort

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that it actually did start to work.

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Since kids are out,
since they're ringing your doorbell,

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since they're banging on your door
anyway, have something for them.

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As America eases out
of the Great Depression,

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the custom of handing out goodies
gains widespread acceptance.

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In the 1940s and '50s,

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trick or treating takes off and
becomes a coast-to-coast tradition.

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Neither rain nor snow will keep
kids from their candy.

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I grew up in Colorado in Denver,
and it could get quite cold,

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so Halloween could get spoiled
relatively easily

452
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with a snowfall or two.

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But it doesn't matter.

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We'd still trudge out there
in the middle of winter

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and go door to door and try to get
as much candy as we could.

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I think I remember one year,
I dressed up as Huck Finn

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00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,960
and I was like, "I'm going to go
barefoot like Huck Finn."

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00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,080
And my mum was like,
"What the hell are you doing?"

459
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,360
I went around like a few blocks.

460
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,760
I think I almost got frost bite.

461
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,520
They almost had to saw off
a few toes.

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00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,280
But, hey, I was committed
to my outfit.

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As the popularity
of trick-or-treating soared

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in the middle of the 20th century,
candy companies got on board.

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The candy companies also realised

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00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,240
that there was
a tremendous market here,

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00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,040
that they could have a candy

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00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,440
marketed specifically

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for trick or treat sweets.

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And so, candy companies
started making spooky candies,

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00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,480
and candy specifically
for this holiday.

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00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,920
This sort of Halloween candy
helped establish trick or treating

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as a child-friendly activity
for children.

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KIDS: Trick or treat!

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00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,080
It's kids! Hundreds of 'em!
What do we do?

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00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,960
Give them Tootsie Rolls.

477
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,520
But there are so many kids
out there.

478
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,080
And there's so many Tootsie Rolls
in this Halloween package.

479
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,200
All of a sudden, we've got kids,

480
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,480
we've got suburbs,
we've got candy manufacturers,

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00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,800
and we've got a good reason for them
to be going house to house.

482
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And that's where Halloween
is trick or treat,

483
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,000
really coast to coast.

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With a little help
from candy companies,

485
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,320
Halloween made
trick-or-treating a fall fixture.

486
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,880
Our parents were like,
"OK, peace out,

487
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,120
"you're going to go trick
or treating all by yourself."

488
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,720
And it was just this fun,
wild night

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where we got to be out
after dark and go trick or treating.

490
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,520
And you feel very free,
but it's also a little spooky.

491
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,080
Halloween was great because
it was a time that I had mapped out.

492
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,960
I grabbed my pillowcase,
grabbed my costume,

493
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,080
grabbed my buddies and we went
to the furthest edges of town.

494
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,200
So, we could work our way
from the far end of town

495
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all the way back home.

496
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,160
And of course,
the secret was always

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00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,000
carrying a second pillowcase
in the back holster

498
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,360
just in case you filled up
the first one.

499
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:58,560
Today, over 40 million kids take part
and parents often join the fun.

500
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,640
The idea was to get as much candy
as humanly possible.

501
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,320
So, we all had pillowcases.

502
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,760
I take my kids out now,
I don't see any pillowcases.

503
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,880
I just see the little
plastic pumpkins.

504
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
I'm like, "You can't get
too much candy in there."

505
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,720
When it comes to trick or treating,

506
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:21,240
every kid develops a sixth sense
for where to find the best candy.

507
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,760
Kinda gotta plan your route.

508
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,920
It's strategic.

509
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,040
And so, I did that.

510
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:30,000
I knew the good houses,
I'd skip the bad houses.

511
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,120
You know, I was raised
by a single mother,

512
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,920
so my mum was smart.

513
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,240
She would take us
to rich neighbourhoods, you know.

514
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,280
Our neighbourhood got me a little
couple snicker bars here and there,

515
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,360
the fun size.

516
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,920
They didn't give you the large ones

517
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,720
until you go
to the nice neighbourhoods,

518
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,120
then they give you the full candy.

519
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,400
And that's what we used to do.

520
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:53,920
At the end of the evening,

521
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,920
Halloween turns into
a high stakes game

522
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,360
as the candy trading begins.

523
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,000
You dump your bag on the ground
and you start sorting it all

524
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,160
because you've got to go,

525
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,800
"Alright, how many Kit-Kats
do I have?

526
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,040
"How many Snickers do I have?

527
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,440
"Alright, I got ten Snickers,
only five Kit-Kats.

528
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,000
"Let's trade a couple Snickers
and get some more Kit-Kats."

529
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,800
"Oh, do you want a Snickers?"

530
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,800
"No, I'll take your M and M's
and you can have this."

531
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,760
Clearly, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
were the hottest commodity.

532
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,680
And then you start eating it,

533
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,720
and you don't even care
about a stomach-ache at all.

534
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,200
'Cause you're just chowing down.

535
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,840
And then, all of a sudden,

536
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,000
you hit this super high,
and then you just crash.

537
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,080
And you want to stay up all night
but it's really hard to

538
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,200
when you just downed
a ton of candy bars.

539
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,440
Halloween has a reputation
as a carefree night

540
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,360
for children of all ages.

541
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,360
KIDS: Trick or treat!

542
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,480
But in the 1970s and '80s...

543
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,440
..the holiday faced crisis

544
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,600
when a series of sensational
media stories caused mass panic.

545
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,760
All during the Halloween weekend

546
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,880
police across the state
received reports

547
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,840
of candy containing
dangerous objects.

548
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,960
Candy given out by strangers
was no longer safe.

549
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,040
It could contain poison,
razor blades,

550
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,840
needles, even broken glass.

551
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,280
Many parents are growing
more concerned about the treats

552
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,360
their children might be getting
this Halloween.

553
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,600
Police in New York are warning
people buying Halloween treats

554
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,680
to check their purchases carefully.

555
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,600
Straight pins were found in candy
from four Long Island stores.

556
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,840
I remember getting home
from trick or treating on Halloween

557
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,560
and my mother,
based on the news reports

558
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,960
that someone's putting razor blades
in the candy,

559
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,360
started to take a Snickers bar
and start cutting it in slices.

560
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,280
There might be things in the candy.

561
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,120
So, break open candy bars
before you eat them.

562
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,480
I think it was my dad was like,
"What are you doing? They're fine."

563
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,400
But I think these reports
were coming out

564
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,080
that this really happened.

565
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,840
The panic started with a real case.

566
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,640
A shocking story the media dubbed
the 'Candy Man Murder'.

567
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,560
In 1974,
eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan,

568
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,520
of Pasadena, Texas,
died of poisoning on Halloween night.

569
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,040
Even more horrific,

570
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,720
the boy's father, Ronald O'Bryan,

571
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,920
was arrested and put on trial
for the crime.

572
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,640
Most of today's testimony
came from Jimmy Bates,

573
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,720
a close friend
of the O'Bryan family.

574
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,960
Bates said O'Bryan went to one house
where no one appeared to be home

575
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,680
and after the children had scampered
ahead to the next house,

576
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,280
O'Bryan came off the front porch
carrying the pixie sticks.

577
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,440
Later that night,

578
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,200
Timothy O'Bryan died
from eating a poisoned pixie stick.

579
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,400
Ronald O'Bryan was convicted
of killing his son

580
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,520
and sentenced to death.

581
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,760
The state of Texas executed him
by lethal injection

582
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,640
setting off another wave
of publicity surrounding the case.

583
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,520
It became a very famous case.

584
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,560
And after that, people were
in an absolute panic

585
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,120
thinking that there were
anonymous psychos out there

586
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,760
tampering with their
children's treats.

587
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,440
The paranoia only accelerates in 1982

588
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,040
when a series of murders in
Chicago, Illinois,

589
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,040
make national news.

590
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,760
Tylenol capsules were removed
from the market

591
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,880
after seven deaths
were reported in the Chicago area.

592
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,840
In 1982, a number of Tylenol bottles
were tampered with in Chicago

593
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,200
and people died.

594
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,720
They did not find who did it
by the time Halloween happened.

595
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,720
And as a result, there was a culture
of fear around Halloween.

596
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:52,120
Towns and cities stopped allowing
people to trick or treat that year.

597
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,600
Halloween is on Sunday,
and there's a spreading fear

598
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,560
that this year
the real Halloween scare

599
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,440
will be many more cases
of contaminated treats.

600
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,920
Halloween candy sales at this
Minneapolis supermarket

601
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
are down 10-15%.

602
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,800
A lot of people say they won't give
out candy treats on Halloween.

603
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,960
It's too dangerous,
and they're too scared.

604
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,600
I think it's a very sad situation.

605
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,960
With concerns about copycat crimes,

606
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,680
the tainted candy
and product tampering scare

607
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,400
threatens to end
trick-or-treating forever.

608
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,520
Officials all over the country

609
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,200
are emphasising when in doubt,
throw it out.

610
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,880
I remember seeing it on the news

611
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,680
where we all had to be careful

612
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,080
because there were people putting
razor blades in the candy.

613
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,840
So, I remember having to dump out
all of my candy.

614
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,040
My mum had to check all of my candy.

615
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,480
It was a really scary time for us.

616
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,240
In reality,
what we had were isolated cases

617
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,320
that were far from anonymous.

618
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,760
We knew exactly who had done
these things and why,

619
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,200
but it caught on
in people's minds.

620
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,280
The razorblade thing
didn't alter my view of Halloween,

621
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,880
but I just remember it
being something

622
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,040
that we all had to be careful of
because it was happening.

623
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,840
In time, the panic dissipates,
and Halloween survives the ordeal.

624
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,520
But the mass hysteria leaves
an indelible mark on our culture.

625
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,880
Urban legends of tainted treats
still sweep through communities

626
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,320
along with growing alarm
over stranger danger.

627
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,360
Some parents never shake the feeling

628
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,920
that a real monster could be lurking
in the shadows on Halloween.

629
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,040
There would also be stories where
crimes were happening in the area,

630
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,720
and it was tied
to closer to Halloween.

631
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,080
They told you to be more careful

632
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,680
and to keep your kids closer

633
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,280
because, you know,
something bad could happen.

634
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,800
We have that phrase,
"Never take candy from strangers."

635
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,080
OK, so around comes Halloween
and what do we tell kids?

636
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,600
Hell, go take candy from strangers.

637
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,800
Trick or treat!

638
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,280
Trick or treat.

639
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,160
The real-world fears
of psychotic killers

640
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,560
stalking kids on Halloween
had another effect.

641
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,200
(SCREAMS)

642
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,880
In the late '70s and into the '80s,
a bloody wave of terrifying films,

643
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,400
built on old Halloween obsessions,
took the country by storm.

644
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,280
I've been obsessed with
horror movies my entire life

645
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,880
and Halloween just fits into that.

646
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,280
You know, I remember
going trick or treating

647
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,480
and then going back to the house
and watching, you know, 'C.H.U.D.',

648
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,480
and all of these different movies
while I'm sifting through my candy,

649
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,800
and I still continue that tradition.

650
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,240
It's just the best thing ever
it really is.

651
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:01,760
In 1978, Halloween and Hollywood
cement a lifelong bond

652
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,120
after the release
of a low-budget thriller

653
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:07,920
cleverly named after the holiday.

654
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,720
'Halloween', by John Carpenter,

655
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,520
was originally called
'The Babysitter Murders'.

656
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,040
Fortunately, one of the producers
of the film was smart enough to go,

657
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,600
"You know, we could tie this
to that holiday,

658
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680
"and I'll bet
it would be more successful,"

659
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,560
and was completely right.

660
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,200
That, of course,

661
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,360
is the movie that not only kind of
associated Halloween

662
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,960
and horror movies forever,

663
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,360
but also turned Halloween
really scary.

664
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,160
I think any movie that's scary
around Halloween, it works for me.

665
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,600
The movie 'Halloween' is amazing,

666
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,800
but I like the '80s movies
around Halloween.

667
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,280
'Nightmare on Elm street',
'Pet Cemetery'.

668
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,640
They're more like campy and fun.

669
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,160
I'm a 'Friday the 13th' girl though.

670
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Part one's the best one.

671
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,560
Once I got old enough
to maybe watch real scary movies,

672
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,000
I started watching the classics
like all the slasher movies,

673
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,320
everything I got...

674
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,160
That's where I was exposed
to horror movies,

675
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,880
and that's where I found my love
for horror

676
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,040
and I still am obsessed with horror.

677
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,640
'Nightmare on Elm Street'.

678
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:21,000
That was the first movie
that actually terrified me.

679
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,400
And so, every Halloween,
I like to try to watch that movie

680
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,760
just to get back into the spirit
of being scared

681
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,760
and remember my childhood
a little bit.

682
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,560
(SCREAMS)

683
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,920
Fans of horror
became fans of Halloween.

684
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,280
Adults found their way
into celebrating Halloween,

685
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,200
and older teenagers found their way
back into Halloween.

686
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,640
So, it actually increased

687
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:45,480
the celebration of Halloween
in America,

688
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,640
but it also changed the look
of Halloween

689
00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,360
to become much more
visually dangerous.

690
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,800
A new generation
of Halloween costumes

691
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,720
are inspired by violent,
slasher films.

692
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,520
For me, it was always
the special makeup effects.

693
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,200
Ever since I can remember, you know,

694
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,280
having the eyes
dripping out of my head.

695
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,280
I couldn't wait to get everything

696
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,320
and, you know,
really make myself up every year.

697
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:17,640
Horror films revel in the mayhem
of Halloween but it's all for show.

698
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,720
What happens when the chaos
turns frighteningly real?

699
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,600
It was Devils Night last night in
Detroit the night before Halloween.

700
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,480
Could lawless Halloween revellers

701
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,080
plunge a major American city
into anarchy?

702
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,960
Halloween cooks up
delicious frights every year,

703
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,320
and while trick-or-treating
was meant to contain

704
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,440
kids' destructive impulses,

705
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,200
the mischievous spirit
never went away entirely.

706
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,320
What we'd do is we'd go T-ping,

707
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,720
which is when you grab
just like a toilet paper roll

708
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,360
and you unravel it a little bit,
that's the pro technique,

709
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,080
and then you just huck it as high
as you can up into the trees.

710
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,840
And the higher it is,
the better it is

711
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,600
because it's harder to get out.

712
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,640
And you don't TP like random
people's houses.

713
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,240
You go to your friend's house
and like TP them,

714
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,200
and then you tell them about it
'cause it's funny.

715
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,480
But like you never went to like,

716
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,840
try to make it like malicious
or try to be mean to someone.

717
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,800
We decided to egg our school.

718
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,000
And we ended up egging the windows
of our own classroom.

719
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,000
And we just thought
it was kinda funny.

720
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,200
And I remember going into school
that next morning

721
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,840
and the windows were just covered
so much that you couldn't see out.

722
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,920
I mean, the teacher knew it was us
because we were just laughing.

723
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,440
It didn't last long to find out
who were the culprits.

724
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,920
Rowdy kids have a reputation
for wild behaviour on Halloween.

725
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,240
But they're not the only ones
that pull pranks

726
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,000
and scare the living daylights
out of strangers.

727
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,160
It's funny, like most of my
Halloweens are spent scaring people,

728
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,080
I guess,
now that I'm thinking about it.

729
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,040
My dad is a prank guy
and he taught me young to do pranks.

730
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,320
The front of our house,

731
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,960
we had a scarecrow there
all year round

732
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,640
just sitting on the chair there.

733
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:35,320
And so we got a similar looking
outfit so it blended in.

734
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,080
And I was in the scarecrow
stuffed suit

735
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,040
and scared people
when they run up to the front door.

736
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:42,760
(SCREAMS)

737
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,800
I did that for the whole night
of Halloween for one Halloween.

738
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:52,960
What I like to do
is just turn my yard into a show.

739
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,080
I got the lights
and the fog machines.

740
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,880
I tend to hide with the little
fog machine clicker

741
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,280
in my pocket and wait and time it

742
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,120
just as the kids come up
to the door, and I'll blast them.

743
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,640
They go crazy.

744
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:12,560
(SCREAMS)

745
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,880
I did a really cool party one time,

746
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,360
and I built all these monsters

747
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,800
with actuation out of PVC and masks.

748
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:28,720
And I used timers
and I used motion sensors,

749
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,200
and the mechanism
from an oscillating fan

750
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,440
to move the heads

751
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,960
and created this big
(INAUDIBLE) out of it.

752
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,280
And I had a guy who was
in the bushes with a chainsaw

753
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,680
and he would scare everybody.

754
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,440
I used to deck up my house.

755
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,120
I would set up sheets
with rear-facing projector systems

756
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,560
and, and have scary things
moving on it.

757
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,960
At one point,
I created a false garage door,

758
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,120
and I had a rear projector system
shooting on a sheet,

759
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,440
which looked like the door,

760
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,240
and it would go off with a sensor as
kids were walking down the driveway.

761
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,480
My wife made me stop that
after the second year

762
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:21,400
because people would drive by
and purposefully avoid our house.

763
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,960
So, the wife made me stop doing that

764
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,200
so kids would feel safe and secure
enough to come up our driveway

765
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,760
and trick or treat.

766
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,560
In many parts of the country,

767
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:38,640
Halloween mischief is confined to a
specific night where youths run amok.

768
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,200
The night before Halloween

769
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,560
has often been called
Mischief Night, Cabbage Night,

770
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,760
Damage Night, Ticktack Night,
Devil's Night.

771
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,880
When I was growing up,
it was Doorbell Night,

772
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,760
and that's what we did.

773
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,920
We rang doorbells and ran away.

774
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,600
So, it depends on what area
of the country you're from,

775
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,160
what you call that night,

776
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:14,080
but it is the night
where you make mischief.

777
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,440
Over its long history,
Devil's Night represents rebellion,

778
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,960
when city youths pull petty pranks

779
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,920
like egging, or soaping houses
and cars.

780
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,600
But in the 1980s,

781
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:44,080
Devil's Night in Detroit, Michigan,
took on a much darker reputation.

782
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,800
Playful mischief
transformed into mayhem.

783
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,200
Halloween celebrations
were under siege by arsonists

784
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:53,520
and for a time,

785
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,360
many wondered if Halloween
should be cancelled entirely.

786
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,240
REPORTER: It was Devils Night
last night in Detroit,

787
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,480
the night before Halloween

788
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,480
used to be a time
for harmless pranks,

789
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,760
but no longer.

790
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,880
200 fires were set in the city.

791
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,800
When you think of Devil's Night,

792
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,560
you often think
of Detroit, Michigan,

793
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,520
which had a problem with arson
around Halloween,

794
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,160
and their Devil's Night
was especially powerful.

795
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:19,360
For several years,

796
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,000
residents felt like the city

797
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,520
was teetering on the edge
of total anarchy on Devil's Night.

798
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,640
Hundreds of fires were being set
all over the city,

799
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,720
and the authorities felt at times

800
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,080
powerless to stop it.

801
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,080
They basically called
for community support

802
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,920
to knock these practices out,
especially arson.

803
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,360
The authorities simply
couldn't keep up.

804
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,040
But the true spirit of Halloween
was resilient.

805
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,720
Brigades of volunteers
patrolled the streets of Detroit.

806
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,480
They were determined
to keep Halloween safe

807
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,880
and transform Devil's Night
into Angel's Night.

808
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:00,360
No arsonist will touch

809
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:01,760
this house.

810
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,160
My lamp will burn,

811
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:05,120
not my neighbourhood.

812
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,280
We'll keep an eye out for anyone
who doesn't belong.

813
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,520
ALL: Halloween will be safer
this year!

814
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:15,360
So, within a couple of years,

815
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,240
they had amassed volunteers

816
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,880
that would patrol the neighbourhoods
and keep a lookout.

817
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,160
Last year, the people of Detroit

818
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:25,960
made it clear through
their anti-arson efforts

819
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,040
that they would no longer tolerate

820
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,880
the senseless destruction
of our neighbourhoods.

821
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,240
Ten years later, they had
something like 50,000 volunteers,

822
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,960
which eventually did change
Devil's Night to Angel's Night.

823
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,880
Angel's Night brought the fires
under control in Detroit.

824
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,760
As we join together to keep
the Devil out of Devil's Night,

825
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,840
we are taking another step in making
Detroit a world class city.

826
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,320
Halloween survived the chaos
of Devil's Night.

827
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,680
But what kind of evil
truly lurks in the shadows?

828
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,880
Could Halloween open a portal

829
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,400
that allows ghosts, ghouls,

830
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,960
demons and devils to walk the Earth?

831
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,320
Halloween is terrifying
and mysterious,

832
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,320
a night when we hide
our true selves behind masks

833
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,760
and embrace the dark side.

834
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,480
It's a time of year
when the veil thins,

835
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,320
and a portal
to another world opens up.

836
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,080
The dead walk among us.

837
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,920
Could demons and devils
break into our world as well?

838
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,760
Does Halloween bring
the spirit world closer to us?

839
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,000
Does paranormal activity increase?

840
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:14,840
Common belief in the paranormal

841
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,040
that more activity happens

842
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,120
that night.

843
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,360
I have no proof of that,

844
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,760
but I wouldn't be surprised.

845
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,960
And I would actually love to go
to a haunted place on Halloween.

846
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,040
That might be maybe what I do
this next Halloween

847
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:27,320
and put it to the test.

848
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,720
But if any night
of the 365 days out of the year,

849
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,880
is going to be haunted,
it's going to be that night.

850
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,080
It's a scary time of year.

851
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,760
You've been told that's when

852
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:39,040
the veil is thinned,

853
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,280
and we're so much closer

854
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:41,840
to the other side,

855
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,360
so maybe it's just the intention

856
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,040
of millions of people and maybe even
billions of people

857
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:48,600
around the world focused

858
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,400
on the meaning of that day

859
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,360
and looking for it

860
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,760
so that these opportunist spirits

861
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,840
find a way to make
their presence known.

862
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,280
Chilling, paranormal encounters
on Halloween

863
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,200
are more common than you think.

864
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,840
And the sheer terror of them
can haunt a person for years.

865
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,280
It was probably 1977, 1978,

866
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,640
I grabbed my stuff.

867
00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:24,640
I was on my way
to my buddy's house

868
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,120
to go for trick or treating.

869
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,400
And there was a house
that I passed by,

870
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,240
I noticed that there was a man
standing in the window

871
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,560
and he was just looking out.

872
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:34,920
And I took a few more steps,

873
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,120
and I turned back to look,
only now he was outside.

874
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,320
When I turned back,
he was in the middle of the yard

875
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:42,960
just standing there staring at me.

876
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:46,040
And at that point
I Scooby Doo-ed it.

877
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,400
Boom, I was out of there

878
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,240
running all the way
to my buddy's house.

879
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,320
I did find out that the father
had passed away in that house

880
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,240
a few years earlier on Christmas.

881
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,160
So, I don't know

882
00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:00,160
if I was encountering
that as my first full on apparition,

883
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:01,520
but I have no idea

884
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,160
how this guy moved from inside
to outside,

885
00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:07,640
to the middle of the yard
without making a sound.

886
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:16,280
Can we make contact with the spirits
of the dead on Halloween?

887
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,200
That notion would be put to the test

888
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,920
by someone who made a career
out of cheating death.

889
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,160
The great magician
and escape artist, Harry Houdini.

890
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,520
MAN: Harry Houdini
was a dynamic personality.

891
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,400
He was a man of great ego.

892
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,720
The man of great force.

893
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,920
Houdini was world famous
for his thrilling escapes

894
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,960
from straightjackets
suspended from skyscrapers.

895
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,360
Or sealed in water tanks.

896
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,960
Even being buried alive.

897
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,480
But on Halloween 1926,

898
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,280
death finally claimed Houdini.

899
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,400
Many wondered,

900
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:07,680
could the great Houdini
pull off the ultimate escape?

901
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,960
The renowned magician
would use Halloween

902
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,400
to test the limits
of the afterlife.

903
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:17,560
Harry Houdini had left instructions

904
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,160
to his widow

905
00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:21,600
that she would hold a yearly seance

906
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,200
to try and contact him on Halloween.

907
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,760
He left a very specific passphrase

908
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,600
which supposedly only she knew.

909
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,480
Faithfully keeping her promise,

910
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,720
his wife Bess held a seance
on Halloween night, 1927.

911
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:42,560
DR. EDWARD: It is a spirit
of Houdini we wish to contact.

912
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,360
Houdini, are you here?

913
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,320
But the great Houdini was silent.

914
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,640
For ten years, Bess tried
to reach her beloved husband.

915
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,840
In 1936, she tried one last time

916
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,040
atop the Knickerbocker Hotel
in Hollywood, California.

917
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,600
Mrs. Houdini, the ten years are up.

918
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,080
Have you reached a decision?

919
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,600
Yes. Houdini did not come through.

920
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,040
I do not believe that Houdini

921
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,520
can come back to me or to anyone.

922
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,360
Good night, Harry.

923
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,960
Since then,
others have tried diligently

924
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,520
to contact the famous magician,
especially around Halloween.

925
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,480
Every year Houdini's descendants
and his family members

926
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,240
still hold the seances.

927
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:42,960
And then, of course,
there are other groups

928
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,160
that continue to try
to contact Houdini

929
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:46,640
every Halloween as well.

930
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,800
Perhaps the great Houdini
is still out there

931
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,480
waiting for the right time

932
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,240
to reach across the veil

933
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,440
and touch the world of the living.

934
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,720
No one can be sure
how active the spirit world is

935
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,520
on All Hallow's Eve.

936
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,040
But one thing is certain,

937
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,120
some of our most cherished
Halloween traditions

938
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,160
are rooted in the paranormal.

939
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,800
For our ancestors,
the spirit world was very real.

940
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,560
They were celebrating it with a lot
of fortune-telling games,

941
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,920
and some of those
were incredibly macabre.

942
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,880
They were calling on the devil

943
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,840
to reveal the name
of their future husband or wife

944
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,920
or calling on various
sort of spirits and so forth

945
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,800
to help them discern the future.

946
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,720
There's a whole panoply
of different games

947
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,240
that would have been played
back in the day.

948
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,280
Bobbing for apples seems to be
a very, very old game.

949
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,240
We have a certainly medieval
descriptions of this.

950
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,840
It could well be going back
much, much further than that.

951
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,360
Apples would've been
a harvestable fruit

952
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,000
around this time period.

953
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,600
Some people have suggested
that that bobbing, you know,

954
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,880
having to go under the water
is in a sense,

955
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,640
a dipping into the other world
and then back again.

956
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,280
For your insight.

957
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,840
Certainly apples are associated
with the other world

958
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:12,200
in some these stories.

959
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,120
So we still see some of these themes

960
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,800
about the other world of the dead,
of the fairy folk.

961
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,240
Of these lines between the living
and dead being permeable.

962
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:21,920
And the realm of the dead

963
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,080
is being able
to foretell the future

964
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,560
even in something as simple
as a Bobbing for apples.

965
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,960
The face of Halloween itself,
the jack-o-lantern,

966
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,360
once had a paranormal purpose.

967
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,000
The first jack-o-lanterns
were far scarier

968
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,240
and carved into turnips.

969
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,480
You would hollow these little
scary looking faces out

970
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,160
and put candles in them

971
00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:48,640
and put them in front of your door

972
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:49,960
to scare away

973
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,160
the spirits of the dead

974
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:52,440
so that they wouldn't be coming

975
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,760
in your house.

976
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,200
Jack-o-lanterns also have
this history

977
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:57,920
that goes along with the holiday.

978
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,240
The idea of Jack-o-lantern
or 'Jack of the lantern'

979
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,920
is where jack-o-lantern comes from.

980
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,800
A Jack was sort of a stock character

981
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,360
so there's many, many stories
involving Jack.

982
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,040
Very often he does things wrong.

983
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,600
One story that's been paid
to the idea of the jack-o-lantern

984
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,080
was Angry Jack, or Drunken Jack.

985
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:17,840
It's an interesting Irish story.

986
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:19,960
There's a guy who is
too fond of the bottle,

987
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,040
he's very frequently drunk,
causing trouble,

988
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,720
causing so much trouble
that the Devil gets jealous.

989
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,280
He's like, "Wow, this guy
is causing more trouble than I am."

990
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:31,000
So the Devil goes to try
and take him to Hell

991
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,600
but Drunken Jack
is able to outwit the Devil

992
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,400
through playing tricks on the Devil.

993
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,400
In the end the Devil agrees
to never take him to Hell.

994
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,040
Well of course, Drunken Jack

995
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,400
eventually gets old and dies

996
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,360
and he goes up to Heaven
and Heaven says,

997
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:45,960
"No, you've lived
this horrible life.

998
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:47,240
"We're not taking you."

999
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,040
And he goes down to Hell
and the Devil says,

1000
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,240
"No, I made an agreement.
I'm not taking you."

1001
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,080
And thus he is condemned
to roam our world,

1002
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,760
lighting his way
with his little lantern.

1003
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:01,400
We don't carve turnips anymore,
but pumpkins.

1004
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,480
Something Irish immigrants
brought to America.

1005
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,800
Pumpkin-carving has lost
its spiritual meaning

1006
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,480
but it's become so much more.

1007
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,040
During Halloween,

1008
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,520
my family would always,

1009
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,360
we always go to a pumpkin patch

1010
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:28,760
and we'd pick out our pumpkin's

1011
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:30,800
and go home and we carved them.

1012
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,400
Of course, I would try to make mine

1013
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,640
either really funny
or really scary.

1014
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:36,040
Never really worked out.

1015
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,080
It just, not very good at it.

1016
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,640
I had this friend
in elementary school.

1017
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:43,520
Her father was a farmer,

1018
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,080
and every Halloween,
he would have a massive display

1019
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,720
of pumpkin carvings,
but they were elaborate.

1020
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:49,920
Amazing.

1021
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,760
So we would drive out to the farm

1022
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,960
and there would be
hundreds of pumpkins

1023
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,560
lined up along the road.

1024
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:57,840
They were just amazing carving

1025
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,800
so that's one thing
I really found special

1026
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:01,160
about Halloween.

1027
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,720
Pumpkin carvings
attract onlookers and artists.

1028
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,920
But the pumpkin itself
can be an invitation for mischief.

1029
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,120
Smashing pumpkins was a big thing

1030
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:16,600
when I was a kid on Halloween,

1031
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:17,960
but looking back

1032
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,320
now that I have a house and kids,

1033
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,040
if anybody's smashed a pumpkin

1034
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,640
on my driveway, I'd be pissed.

1035
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:26,880
I mean, 'cause then
I gotta clean it up.

1036
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,840
So, I regret sort of the mayhem

1037
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,120
that I caused
when I was a teenager, I think.

1038
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,360
Does Halloween mark the return
of restless spirits?

1039
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,640
Or something far more sinister?

1040
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,520
Are Satanic forces at work
on Halloween?

1041
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,800
For me, Halloween
has always been tricky.

1042
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,160
My mother has been
a pastor of a church

1043
00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:10,040
since I was in the third grade.

1044
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,520
So I'm talking about
nondenominational Christian,

1045
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,400
speaking in tongue, shouting,

1046
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,960
Holy ghost-catching Southern church.

1047
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,160
So we didn't celebrate Halloween.

1048
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,320
My mother would never
let me trick or treat.

1049
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,960
She would never let me dress up,
never decorated anything.

1050
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,480
Halloween we would be in church
praising the Lord,

1051
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,920
and not glorify what they thought
was the devil in Halloween.

1052
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,080
I think for me in my upbringing,

1053
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,440
you didn't mess with
the demonic energies.

1054
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,680
You didn't mess with ghosts,
you didn't mess with spirits.

1055
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,920
We would shy away
from the name Halloween

1056
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,640
because of me growing up

1057
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,440
in a religious household.

1058
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,240
And we were always told

1059
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:51,520
it's demonic.

1060
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,360
Religious fears of devil worship
at Halloween are centuries old.

1061
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:00,800
In Scotland,

1062
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,440
around the 1500s and 1600s,

1063
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,760
they were extremely obsessed
with witchcraft and witches.

1064
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,360
For the Scots,
witches were frightening.

1065
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,280
They had made a pact with the devil,

1066
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,080
and this was all something
that needed to be eradicated.

1067
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,080
So when the Scots began
to write about Halloween,

1068
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,240
it always had witchcraft in it.

1069
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,520
Fear of witches and the diabolical

1070
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,600
were burned into American culture
from its earliest days.

1071
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,960
No town knows this better
than Salem, Massachusetts.

1072
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,400
In the winter of 1692,

1073
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,320
this superstitious settlement
of 2,000 souls

1074
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,200
nearly destroyed itself

1075
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:52,160
when three women were first accused
of witchcraft.

1076
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,560
Tell how you suckle the snake!

1077
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,480
ALL: Tell, tell, tell, tell!

1078
00:58:58,560 --> 00:58:59,920
You are liars!

1079
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,400
Accusations turned into mass hysteria

1080
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,840
and 200 people
were accused of witchcraft.

1081
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,560
MAN: Do the condemned wish to speak?

1082
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:12,600
I'm innocent!

1083
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,880
14 women and six men were executed.

1084
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:26,680
Even a dog was killed
for being in league with the Devil.

1085
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,480
The panic ended when
the Governor of Massachusetts' wife

1086
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,280
was accused of being a witch.

1087
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,000
But the fear of witchcraft
and the Devil

1088
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,000
is still a potent force,

1089
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,400
especially around Halloween.

1090
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,240
Many churches are so fearful
of demonic influence

1091
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,800
they've created
alternatives to Halloween.

1092
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:57,920
All over America, children attend
'Hallelujah Nights'.

1093
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:02,640
'Hallelujah Night' for me,
we would get together with friends.

1094
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,760
Go to different booths
in like a church parking lot

1095
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,600
and pick up some candy

1096
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:11,040
with a Bible verse attached
to the trick or treat bags.

1097
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:13,560
We still get candy.

1098
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:15,200
We'd still hang out with the kids,

1099
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,000
they felt like it was
a lot safer to be in church

1100
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:19,440
than it would be on the streets.

1101
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,720
Most church groups provide simple,

1102
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,400
family friendly alternatives
to the holiday.

1103
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:33,120
But a few churches
have taken it a step further

1104
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,040
and ignited controversy

1105
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,520
when they embrace the dark
and deeply offensive.

1106
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:40,880
REPORTER: It's a haunted house,

1107
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,800
the likes of which
you've never seen before.

1108
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,520
And it's playing
to standing room only.

1109
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:48,520
In recent decades,

1110
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,920
some churches have opened
'Hell Houses' on Halloween.

1111
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,840
A Pentecostal congregation
in suburban Denver

1112
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:59,240
is delivering its version
of a Halloween Hell House.

1113
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:02,560
(CRYING)
Somebody call the hospital, please.

1114
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,120
The Hell House plays on fear
of Satanic powers

1115
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:07,840
and eternal damnation.

1116
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:10,800
To this day,

1117
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:12,320
Hell Houses are a fixture

1118
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:14,840
in some parts of the country
around Halloween.

1119
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,680
But religious alternatives
to Halloween traditions

1120
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,800
have never been broadly accepted.

1121
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,360
And many kids forbidden
from celebrating,

1122
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,760
find creative ways
to bend the rules.

1123
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,760
The worst part was going to school

1124
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,400
and they would allow kids
in elementary

1125
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,280
to dress up in Halloween costumes.

1126
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:38,840
But, then I got smart,

1127
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,240
and I say maybe about
the 4th, 5th, 6th grade,

1128
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,000
the rap group Kris Kross came out,

1129
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:47,400
and their whole thing was

1130
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,400
they wore their clothes backwards.

1131
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:53,240
So I would leave to go to school
with my jeans on regular

1132
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:54,760
and a baseball Jersey.

1133
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,000
As soon as I got to school,

1134
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:57,200
I would go in the bathroom

1135
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,000
and I would turn
my clothes around backwards.

1136
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,480
And when the teacher asked me
who was I, I was Kris Kross.

1137
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,080
That was the only costume
I could get away with

1138
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:05,520
because my mum never knew.

1139
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,000
Many denied Halloween as children

1140
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,040
find new meaning in the holiday
when they become parents.

1141
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,320
Growing up, the way I did,

1142
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,720
our family, it wasn't
in their belief system

1143
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:18,680
to celebrate Halloween.

1144
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,840
So growing up without it,

1145
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,840
I think I missed it more while
it was happening, as a child.

1146
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:26,160
As a grown up,

1147
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:27,440
I am reliving it

1148
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,040
and I get to see it all
happen right in front of me

1149
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,080
and I get to live it
real time with my daughter.

1150
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,720
Halloween takes on
a whole new meaning for me now

1151
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,240
because I have kids.

1152
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:42,240
I allow them to have as much fun
as possible on Halloween.

1153
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,280
My parents on Halloween now,

1154
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,280
they ask if my kids
have a good time,

1155
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,320
but they always tell me,

1156
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:54,320
"Well, remember the underlying
connotations of Halloween

1157
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,680
"and what you were taught
growing up."

1158
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,360
Even to this day,
they still hold to the belief

1159
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:07,600
that Halloween could be dangerous
just celebrating it.

1160
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:14,320
Despite the controversies,

1161
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,600
the popularity of Halloween
continues to rise.

1162
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:22,840
For many, the lure of the dark side
is irresistible.

1163
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,400
Halloween means being able to

1164
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:26,960
be somebody that

1165
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:28,440
you're not normally.

1166
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:30,360
Breaking outside of the box.

1167
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,040
Is the rebellious reputation
of Halloween

1168
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:38,840
powerful enough
to change an entire culture?

1169
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,080
REPORTER: Have you ever seen
anything like this before?

1170
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,520
Never! Never in my life.

1171
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:51,800
What's so funny?

1172
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,080
MAN: Nothing.

1173
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,800
The Halloween parade is all about
the perfect photo-op for parents.

1174
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:58,920
Race time.

1175
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:03,000
OK, next time we check in,
we'll see Frankenstein.

1176
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:04,680
A way to show off kids

1177
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,360
and make that perfect
social media post.

1178
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,720
Do I look like Frankenstein?
(CHUCKLES) You look just like him.

1179
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,000
Like a monster?

1180
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,200
Every year, millions of people
take part

1181
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,360
in some kind of Halloween parade.

1182
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:18,680
Bye, dad.

1183
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:19,960
MAN: Frankenstein.

1184
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:21,320
(CHATTERING AND LAUGHTER)

1185
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:22,400
Yeah.

1186
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,440
But there's a deeper meaning
to the tradition.

1187
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,560
Religious processions
are a part of many holidays.

1188
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,240
But Halloween parades

1189
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,760
took a devilish spin
on the ancient practice,

1190
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,040
growing in popularity
through the 20th century

1191
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,720
as the holiday caught on.

1192
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:58,120
Halloween parades started
in the early 20th century

1193
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,480
as a way that the whole town
could enjoy Halloween

1194
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,920
and they've continued in
several cities across the country.

1195
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,120
It's a great way
of including everyone

1196
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,560
in a Halloween parade.

1197
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,800
When Halloween was seen as dangerous
during the 80s and 90s,

1198
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,200
neighbourhoods started throwing
their own Halloween parades

1199
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,800
to keep kids on their street
and for the enjoyment of everybody,

1200
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,200
even people who didn't
celebrate Halloween.

1201
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,760
So it's a wonderful way
to come together

1202
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,880
and be safe together

1203
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:34,800
and exhibit together

1204
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:39,240
because Halloween is really
an exhibitionist holiday.

1205
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,480
As Halloween evolves,
some see an opportunity.

1206
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,920
Could the freewheeling,
rebellious nature of Halloween

1207
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:54,520
be used to ignite changes

1208
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:58,680
in how society views itself
and what is accepted?

1209
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,520
Parades were a perfect tool.

1210
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:06,640
After the tumultuous 60s

1211
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:10,160
and the second wave feminism
that happened in the 70s

1212
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:15,000
and that general feeling of freedom
and expression in our culture,

1213
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,240
it started to spill out
onto Halloween.

1214
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,280
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

1215
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,240
REPORTER: Have you ever seen
anything like this before?

1216
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:26,440
Never! Never in my life.

1217
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,560
Gay men in outrageous costume,

1218
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:35,000
kind of pushing the envelope,
which became more and more popular.

1219
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:37,520
Halloween parades were a way

1220
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,560
for the gay community
to be visible in society

1221
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:44,160
at a time when mainstream culture
pushed them to the margins.

1222
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,480
In Halloween parades that
sprouted up all over the country,

1223
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,840
they took the spotlight
and demanded recognition.

1224
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:56,120
This is what happens
when Key West lets loose.

1225
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,160
What you get is the Mardi Gras
of the bizarre.

1226
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,160
The Fantasy Fest Halloween parade

1227
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,520
is about as glittery
and flamboyant as you can get.

1228
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,680
Thousands of costumed spectators
jam the streets

1229
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,440
and tourists came
from as far away as Virginia.

1230
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:14,760
Are you a little shocked at all
by some of this?

1231
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:16,440
Yes, I am!

1232
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:22,960
These parades may have shocked
the sensibilities of Middle America,

1233
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,360
but in time,

1234
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,440
they helped drive the country
toward greater acceptance

1235
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:30,480
of the LGBTQIA community.

1236
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,640
The widespread Pride parades
of today

1237
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:39,400
have their roots
in Halloween parades of the 1980s.

1238
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,400
The West Hollywood parade
in Los Angeles

1239
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,160
is a famous Halloween parade.

1240
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,960
People just fill the streets
and those costumes are crazy.

1241
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:49,560
They're wild. It's fun.

1242
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:50,960
I mean, you're really

1243
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,000
just transported
to another place in time.

1244
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,040
I'm completely naked!
I feel so underdressed.

1245
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,520
One of my favourite memories
of Halloween

1246
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:01,720
was when I marched in

1247
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,680
the Greenwich Village
Halloween parade.

1248
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,720
With 2 million people
on either side of me

1249
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,400
and 40,000 to 60,000 behind me
in this parade.

1250
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,480
I would say it was one of
the highlights of my life.

1251
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:17,000
It was delightful.

1252
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,080
Parades and street festivals

1253
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,160
are not the only destinations
for Halloween revelry.

1254
01:08:31,440 --> 01:08:33,840
Sometimes, you just need
a good scare.

1255
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,320
Why do so many people
look for new and creative ways

1256
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,720
to scare themselves senseless
around Halloween?

1257
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:45,440
Everyone loves to get scared.

1258
01:08:46,480 --> 01:08:48,160
I don't know why people
love it so much,

1259
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:49,400
but even I love it.

1260
01:08:49,480 --> 01:08:51,600
It's like this natural
adrenaline rush

1261
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:53,320
that you can't really
get anywhere else.

1262
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:54,600
Here we go.

1263
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:58,920
(SCREAMING)

1264
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,840
Why are we drawn
to things that scare us?

1265
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:04,680
(SCREAMING)

1266
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,560
This is something
that's been in our culture,

1267
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:09,040
this delight in being frightened

1268
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:12,160
and it has just become
more and more sophisticated

1269
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:14,080
as we do it in our own yards

1270
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:17,560
and we pay to have ourselves scared.

1271
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,560
Psychologists will say
that this is good for you.

1272
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,120
When you know it's fake,

1273
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:28,760
it helps you practice for being
frightened in real situations.

1274
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:30,600
It makes you a warrior.

1275
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:36,040
In my neighbourhood
when I was growing up,

1276
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:37,400
there were a few houses

1277
01:09:37,480 --> 01:09:39,680
that really went all out,

1278
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:41,240
and I remember this to this day,

1279
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:42,840
I could not have been older

1280
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:44,760
than like four or five

1281
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,880
walking down
this really dark pathway

1282
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,360
to the door to ring the doorbell.

1283
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:53,160
(DOORBELL RINGS)

1284
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,240
And this guy was hiding

1285
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,280
and he was reaching out

1286
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,800
and grabbing at us as we walked by.

1287
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:04,440
I had nightmares about that
for so long.

1288
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,640
We're so eager
to scare ourselves on Halloween...

1289
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:16,240
(LAUGHTER)

1290
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:18,200
..we've created entire attractions

1291
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:19,760
designed to throw us into the most

1292
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,000
terrifying encounters imaginable.

1293
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:34,880
Haunted houses feed our hunger
for blood-curdling scares.

1294
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,600
They can be found
all over the country

1295
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,440
and draw in millions
of visitors every year.

1296
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,200
(SCREAMING)

1297
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:49,600
If you go through a haunted house

1298
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:50,920
and you haven't had a few jumps,

1299
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,080
you kind of feel cheated

1300
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:53,320
by the whole situation.

1301
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,600
Commercial haunted houses have
been around for at least a century.

1302
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:04,000
And they've been refined
to the point

1303
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:05,360
where many would describe them

1304
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:08,640
as the closest thing
they will get to hell.

1305
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,040
(SCREAMING)

1306
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,040
I investigate haunted houses.

1307
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,120
And people are like,
"You like other haunted houses?"

1308
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,120
I'm like,
"Yes, I love haunted houses

1309
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:18,480
"and if you ever see me

1310
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:19,680
"in one of those,

1311
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:20,920
"I am like screaming,

1312
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:22,200
"holding onto people

1313
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:23,440
"'cause I know that

1314
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:24,680
"I'm about to get scared."

1315
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:26,560
They are amazing.

1316
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:27,880
They play on your fears,

1317
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:32,600
they make you scream,
you feel alive for a moment.

1318
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:36,480
I did not see it coming.
I was like, ahh.

1319
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:38,240
I started crying.

1320
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,200
When Poison was on tour one time,

1321
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:46,720
I went to this haunted house

1322
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:48,960
at a fair that we played at

1323
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,320
and the people recognise and said,

1324
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:52,920
"Hey, we'll do a private tour?"

1325
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:54,200
I said, "I don't want to do that.

1326
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:55,560
"I want to be in the haunted house."

1327
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,000
And they said,
"OK, you've got a job."

1328
01:11:58,080 --> 01:11:59,520
So they dress me up,

1329
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,440
gave me a chainsaw, all this stuff.

1330
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,760
And I spent a couple hours
scaring people.

1331
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:05,920
(SCREAMING)

1332
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,560
It's scary.
Honestly horrifying.

1333
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:08,800
Oh, my god.

1334
01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:13,080
Your worst nightmares
come to life.

1335
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:18,920
Haunted houses are now
multi-million-dollar ventures.

1336
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,520
There's somewhere around

1337
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:24,200
5,000 of them in the United States
at any given time.

1338
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,960
They've become
Hollywood sophisticated

1339
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:30,200
in terms of their props,

1340
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,240
and their animatronics,

1341
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,880
and their actors
are gorgeously costumed

1342
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,080
and hideously masked.

1343
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,600
Somebody's dying tonight! (LAUGHS)

1344
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:44,840
The bar has risen
for the haunted house industry.

1345
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,360
(SCREAMING)

1346
01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:50,840
This was the best night of my life.

1347
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:59,600
These heart-pounding attractions
are no longer limited to houses,

1348
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:01,960
and now crop up almost everywhere.

1349
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:05,360
I grew up in upstate New York

1350
01:13:05,440 --> 01:13:06,960
and so of course,

1351
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:08,280
we would hit a lot

1352
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:10,200
of the haunted corn mazes.

1353
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:16,360
A haunted corn maze is a cornfield
that has been cut out into a maze.

1354
01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:19,960
And, some of them can become
extremely incredible in size.

1355
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,040
You could spend hours
in some of these.

1356
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:23,280
But you just walk around

1357
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:25,440
and you try to figure out
how to get out.

1358
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,000
But during the time you're in there,

1359
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:29,480
there's people dressed in costumes

1360
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,560
hiding within the maze,
jumping out startling you.

1361
01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:39,080
Creepy corn mazes,

1362
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,040
hellish hayrides,

1363
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,280
spooky cruise ships...

1364
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:48,480
Meet my friend.

1365
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:52,480
..are just a few of the ways
we choose our frights.

1366
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:55,000
And with all of these attractions,

1367
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:59,240
there is plenty of opportunity
for those who do the scaring.

1368
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,040
My mom would set up

1369
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:05,360
a haunted trail every year

1370
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:06,600
for our neighbourhood.

1371
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:09,320
My buddy Tanner,
Chelsea, and Alex,

1372
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,280
who are with me doing the show,
'Destination Fear',

1373
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,200
would help set up
this Haunted Trail.

1374
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,200
It was actually in woods

1375
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,720
that the whole town
called the 'boogie woods'

1376
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:19,760
because apparently before
we moved in there,

1377
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:21,760
there was satanic rituals
in the woods.

1378
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,080
And so my mom's like,

1379
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,640
"Oh, let's do a haunted trail
in these woods for Halloween."

1380
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:28,320
Dakota and Chelsea's family,

1381
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,280
Alex's family, and my family

1382
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:33,840
actually chopped this path
in the woods in their backyard.

1383
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,520
We had like
eight different stations,

1384
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:38,400
and everyone had their like thing

1385
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:40,560
they're supposed to do
to freak everyone out.

1386
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:44,120
I had a white mask on

1387
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,640
standing next to a bunch of dolls
in white masks

1388
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:48,400
doing like this, like sleeping.

1389
01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:50,480
And then when people walk by,
I would scare them.

1390
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:53,920
Multiple times I remember like

1391
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,120
actually terrifying many people

1392
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:57,480
that would walk by.

1393
01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:00,280
'Cause they're not expecting it.

1394
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:03,520
They see a dead body
laying on the ground

1395
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:05,720
or fake dead body
laying on the ground.

1396
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,800
But then a hand
comes out from behind it.

1397
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:11,120
I was a hang-man at one year

1398
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:14,120
where I got in a full climbers gear,

1399
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,440
put a rope over a tree branch,

1400
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,040
and was just like this hang-man,
that scared everybody.

1401
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:24,200
There's all sorts of things,
you had like the standard gore mask,

1402
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:27,160
those scary pumpkin people.
We had it all.

1403
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:29,960
I don't know there's
something about it,

1404
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:31,480
when you see someone freak out

1405
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:34,600
and make a face that you've never
seen them make before,

1406
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:38,200
you feel accomplished.

1407
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:41,280
For decades,

1408
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,800
Halloween has been
a child-friendly holiday

1409
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:45,640
and fun for the whole family.

1410
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,240
Grown-ups today have hijacked

1411
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,280
what was supposed to be nice
and sometimes scary

1412
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,720
celebration of childhood fantasies.

1413
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,760
And turned this
ever-changing holiday

1414
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:03,320
into something very, very naughty.

1415
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:08,840
Happy Halloween.

1416
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:10,080
Trick or treat!

1417
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:11,400
Hey there.

1418
01:16:11,480 --> 01:16:12,800
WOMAN: Say thank you.

1419
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:14,040
Thanks.

1420
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:17,120
Halloween used to be
the one day of the year,

1421
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,600
where kids dress up
as their favourite character,

1422
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:20,880
stay up late,

1423
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,760
and eat as much candy
as they desire.

1424
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:31,080
But something truly scary happens
when those kids grow up.

1425
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:33,480
One of the saddest
moments of my life

1426
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,160
was realising that maybe

1427
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:38,120
I'm a little old
to go trick or treating.

1428
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,240
Maybe there is like an age

1429
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:42,840
where you shouldn't trick or treat.

1430
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,320
It's so sad because you're like,
"What?"

1431
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:48,600
I would say keep going

1432
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:50,120
until you get the weird looks.

1433
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,280
Happy Halloween.

1434
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:53,760
But at the same time,

1435
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:56,680
I don't really feel like you should
put an age restriction on it.

1436
01:16:59,440 --> 01:17:01,560
Denied the joy of trick-or-treating,

1437
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:05,280
these kids-turned-adults
can't let go of Halloween.

1438
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,040
Halloween to my generation

1439
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:08,560
was still huge,

1440
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:10,680
and now it's all those kids

1441
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:11,920
have grown up into adults

1442
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,120
and we're still partying

1443
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:14,280
for Halloween.

1444
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:15,880
Now we just have to do it
in different way

1445
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,320
because the neighbours frown on you
knocking on the door at age 50

1446
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:21,000
asking for candy,
and dressed up as a sexy mermaid.

1447
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:22,360
Just doesn't work as well.

1448
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:31,600
In recent decades,

1449
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,440
adults have turned
a once home-spun holiday

1450
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,400
into the biggest,
craziest party day of the year.

1451
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:41,400
These are the kids
that were brought up

1452
01:17:41,480 --> 01:17:43,360
in these very sort of intensively

1453
01:17:43,440 --> 01:17:45,240
child-friendly Halloween parties,

1454
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:46,800
and now they're young adults

1455
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:48,440
and they want to continue

1456
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:49,640
with these traditions.

1457
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:50,960
They grew up with Halloween.

1458
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:52,880
Many of them are having
kids of their own

1459
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,400
and so this idea that the adults
should be a part of it.

1460
01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:57,000
The adults should have costumes.

1461
01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:00,240
This really is reemerging
from these same kids.

1462
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:06,640
Grown-ups take Halloween far beyond
their childhood dreams,

1463
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,200
hosting outlandish parties,

1464
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:11,080
pushing the boundaries of Halloween

1465
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:14,640
to explore a scarier,
sexier side of the holiday.

1466
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,400
Sex and death, right?
The essential motifs of the world.

1467
01:18:18,480 --> 01:18:20,880
And they're both being really
pulled to fruition

1468
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:22,840
and focused on at Halloween.

1469
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,840
Adult parties
are a feast for the eyes,

1470
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:34,120
with costumes just as bloody
and violent as a slasher film.

1471
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:40,120
Halloween took from Hollywood,
a lot of its pizazz.

1472
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:41,520
So the sophisticated,

1473
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,200
wonderful special effects

1474
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:45,880
that we see translate on Halloween

1475
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,040
into contact lenses
that blot out your eyes,

1476
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,000
effects of scars and blood.

1477
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,720
We take from Hollywood
into Halloween

1478
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,120
and create it for ourselves
and our costumes.

1479
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,360
And Hollywood also inspires
the style of costume.

1480
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:06,120
For young adults,

1481
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,200
Halloween parties
are the perfect time

1482
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:11,800
to shed their inhibitions
and find that special someone.

1483
01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:15,520
There is a correlation between
the adrenaline rush you get

1484
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:16,920
from being scared

1485
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:18,880
and the adrenaline rush
you might get

1486
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:22,240
from being excited
at a potential sexual partner.

1487
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:25,240
So here we have this idea
of making Halloween

1488
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,640
not only scary
but a part of courtship.

1489
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:29,840
It's like the night where a person

1490
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:31,920
that has to wear
work clothes to work

1491
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,840
can put on the most provocative
costume of all time,

1492
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:37,400
and it's totally acceptable.

1493
01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:40,400
It's the night where you're like,
"Look at what I've got to offer."

1494
01:19:40,480 --> 01:19:43,280
That's the adult version
of Halloween, in my opinion.

1495
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,000
Grown women, they take Halloween
to a whole different...

1496
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,000
It's not like Disney movies.

1497
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,760
It becomes like wow,

1498
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:54,360
this is what Halloween is about.

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REPORTER: 34% of all adults
will dress up.

1500
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:01,520
Young adults, 62%.

1501
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:02,960
And they want sexy.

1502
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Women and men alike

1503
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,320
are ready to put themselves out there
on Halloween.

1504
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,200
I was in college.

1505
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:15,800
And we had a Halloween party
in the student centre,

1506
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,880
but I didn't know what to be
for Halloween.

1507
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:19,920
So I literally got a towel

1508
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:21,800
and I wrapped it around my waist

1509
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:23,280
and I was 'Towel Man'.

1510
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,800
Literally, I came out the shower
and I was Towel Man.

1511
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,200
It was kind of cool 'cause
all the girls liked it

1512
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,680
but it was the cheapest costume
that I could come up with. (LAUGHS)

1513
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,920
As more and more adults
join the fun,

1514
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:43,640
costumes become even more creative
and redefine 'sexy.'

1515
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:49,600
Currently costumes have become
a lot more satirical and ironic.

1516
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,200
These sexy costumes

1517
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:53,840
that in the beginning
of the 21st century

1518
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:55,400
were kind of glamorous,

1519
01:20:55,480 --> 01:20:59,960
after the crash of 2008,
they never quite bounced back.

1520
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,360
So now when you see sexy costumes,
it's satirical.

1521
01:21:03,440 --> 01:21:06,960
It's kind of meta,
it's like sexy Mr Rogers.

1522
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:10,760
There are comments we make
with our costumes

1523
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:13,600
that work on a number of levels
and one of them is irony.

1524
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Each new generation reimagines
Halloween for themselves.

1525
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It is ever-changing but there is
something that unites us all.

1526
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,720
What drives this constant
reinvention of the holiday?

1527
01:21:36,480 --> 01:21:39,240
What is the true meaning
of Halloween?

1528
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:46,920
Halloween was born in a different,
more magical world.

1529
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,480
Where ghosts, ghouls

1530
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:54,680
and other creatures of the night
stalked our ancestors.

1531
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:01,240
But it's become a night
for family and friendship,

1532
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where memories are made
as we scare ourselves silly.

1533
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:10,040
Why does a holiday inspired by death
and the spirit world

1534
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:14,000
stir so many warm,
nostalgic emotions?

1535
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:21,920
Halloween has come a long way

1536
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:23,920
from its pagan origins.

1537
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,520
But it maintains
a few essential elements

1538
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,400
that have been there all along.

1539
01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:32,080
Number one is, it's a time
to gather together.

1540
01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,160
Number two,
there's something spooky about it.

1541
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:39,760
The spiritual world is present,
the other world is present.

1542
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:42,880
And number three,
there's some sort of exchange

1543
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:44,600
that goes on at Halloween.

1544
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Whether it's candy for costume

1545
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:52,160
or visions of the future,
there's an exchange.

1546
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:54,480
So there are things
that are the same,

1547
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,360
but it's not the same holiday.

1548
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We didn't have it in America
until the late 1800s.

1549
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:04,040
So it's not an unbroken line,

1550
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,480
but there are things
about this time of year

1551
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that remain, no matter what culture
it's in.

1552
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:12,880
For thousands of years,

1553
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,200
Halloween has marked
the end of summer

1554
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and the beginning of the dark days
of fall and winter.

1555
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:26,840
This haunting, scary time of year
makes all of us stop and think.

1556
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The essence of Halloween
is remembering the dead.

1557
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Remembering where you came from,

1558
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remembering your great grandparents,
your ancestors,

1559
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the ones who created the world
that you live in.

1560
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:41,800
So maintaining those connections
with the past,

1561
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,920
with the dead are a way
of also maintaining connections

1562
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with our own cultural traditions.

1563
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,320
And the reason is to allow us
to move into the future

1564
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with some sort of self-confidence.

1565
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Through the decades,

1566
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we've taken comfort in the company
of those we love.

1567
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:05,720
Halloween is the scariest,
darkest holiday of the year.

1568
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,800
Who better to spend it with
than our family and friends?

1569
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:12,720
The real meaning of Halloween

1570
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,080
or what it was and is to me

1571
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is family, friends,

1572
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and togetherness.

1573
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It's a bonding, it's fun.

1574
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It's exciting,
it's something to look forward to.

1575
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,440
My father is the reason
I even like Halloween.

1576
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He would sing his own songs.

1577
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:30,640
He would make up songs as kids

1578
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about Halloween.

1579
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,840
He would get us
so excited for Halloween.

1580
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If it wasn't for him, honestly,

1581
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I would not be this excited
about Halloween to this day.

1582
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:44,640
I've got three daughters
and three sons.

1583
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And my daughters always

1584
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for 15, 16 years straight,

1585
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:49,920
I had to be the Beast every year

1586
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because one of them
wanted to be Beauty.

1587
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,200
It was a great time.
It really, it really was.

1588
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And it's one of those days
that we love immensely in my house.

1589
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WOMAN: Hi, bunny!

1590
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,160
Beyond family nostalgia though,

1591
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:07,160
the true meaning of Halloween
is something unique and personal.

1592
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,640
I love to see kids
trick or treating.

1593
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:12,960
Like I love to see parents

1594
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:14,360
taking their kids out

1595
01:25:14,440 --> 01:25:16,360
and just kind of like
allowing them the opportunity

1596
01:25:16,440 --> 01:25:19,760
to just explore their creativity
in putting a costume together.

1597
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:21,480
(GROANING)

1598
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:23,560
Oh, my god, you're so scary!

1599
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,680
Halloween has become almost too easy

1600
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,120
because you can just go to the store

1601
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:31,240
and you buy a catalogue costume.

1602
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:33,160
But I see it more and more

1603
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:34,520
with my kids now where

1604
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:35,840
they're making their costumes.

1605
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They're pulling stuff together
out of their closet.

1606
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,840
I feel like it's old-school
Halloween is coming back.

1607
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:43,920
I think that it's just going to keep

1608
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getting more and more fun,

1609
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more and more realistic.

1610
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:49,000
I think people are getting

1611
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more and more creative
with their costumes.

1612
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3-D printing.

1613
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:56,320
If you could 3-D print
your own mask,

1614
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:57,880
that would be amazing. Right?

1615
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,280
Or your prosthetic,

1616
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:00,480
and a lot of those secrets

1617
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with the YouTube

1618
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and stuff like that,

1619
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:05,680
you can figure out how to do
a lot of the make-up effects

1620
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that 20 years ago there was no way
you'd be able to do them.

1621
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And you can be
anybody you want to be

1622
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for a day these days.

1623
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:16,400
It definitely changes with age

1624
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:17,960
but all my friends,

1625
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we love to get dressed up

1626
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,360
and it kinda brings you back
to your youth.

1627
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You kinda get a little bit
of jump back in time.

1628
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:27,760
I feel like Halloween's
for everyone.

1629
01:26:28,480 --> 01:26:29,840
MAN: Do you have your teeth, in Dan?

1630
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No.

1631
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:32,200
Put your teeth in, let's see.

1632
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(INDISTINCTIVE)

1633
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:39,320
It's a time to release our untamed,
rebellious spirit

1634
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and embrace the darkness.

1635
01:26:42,440 --> 01:26:44,320
Halloween is a time where people

1636
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feel they can be creative
without judgement.

1637
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,320
And I think that's
really liberating.

1638
01:26:50,360 --> 01:26:52,520
Because everybody's
kind of being crazy

1639
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:54,360
and they're expressing themselves

1640
01:26:54,440 --> 01:26:56,280
and they're exploring things

1641
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:59,360
and they're doing it
without being judged so much.

1642
01:26:59,440 --> 01:27:01,000
So that's a beautiful thing.

1643
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,320
Because for some people,
that's the only day of the year

1644
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that they truly feel free enough
to do that.

1645
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,160
Reborn in America,

1646
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:14,240
Halloween carries the torch
of a tradition

1647
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:19,520
that began around a bonfire
in Ireland over 2,000 years ago.

1648
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:23,080
I don't see Halloween ending
anytime soon,

1649
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:27,280
so I think as our society
changes radically,

1650
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:29,080
it's nice to have these traditions,

1651
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,400
and they'd give us a little bit
of a something to hold onto,

1652
01:27:31,480 --> 01:27:34,360
something that we've been doing
for many thousands of years

1653
01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:36,160
and is still with us today.

1654
01:27:38,480 --> 01:27:40,280
Each year, the festive celebration

1655
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:41,760
of goblins and ghosts

1656
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:43,400
grows in popularity.

1657
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:48,120
Halloween is a shadowy reflection

1658
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,200
of who we are as people,

1659
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:52,640
and our enduring struggle

1660
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:54,720
between the seasons,

1661
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:56,920
life and death,

1662
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,640
the light and the dark.

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