1. www.halloween.com. This site gives you links to find out Halloween histories & stories, where to get your Halloween supplies, where to find haunted houses (very important), and give you a "until Halloween" counter (by the way, at the time of this posting there are 19 days and 1 hour, approximately, left until the big day).
2. speaking of counters, on Halloween day there will only be 45 shopping days left until Christmas and just slightly over 4 months until the Easter candy arrives in drugs stores everywhere (mark that on your calendar ipj).
3. as I am sure many of you know, the area surrounding New York City is home to some very spooky places. Sleepy Hallow, NY (the setting of Washington Irving's famous tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman) and Amityville, NY (anybody see the film bearing the town's name?).
4. theaters (the buildings not the art) are well known places for ghosts to roam. Amongst others in NYC: Radio City Music Hall is said to be haunted by the lover of the hall's builder S.L."Roxy" Rothafel. The New Amsterdamn is haunted by Olive Thomas, a former Ziegfeld girl and the most famous ghost on the Great White Way. Two former theater houses of David Belasco, the Belasco on W. 44th and the New Victory on W. 42nd, each house a ghost, both of whom happen to be his former mistresses. I've even read reports that both Judy Garland and Bob Fosse haunt Broadway theaters.
5. vampires are from Romania and werewolves are of German origin, but Halloween comes from the UK, originally a Pagan Celtic celebration of Samhain (the end of the harvest). Though it is not an officially observed, Halloween is the fasting growing holiday in all of France.
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How did you deal with ghosts growing up in the Everglades?
I prefer to be hysterically surprised when I see those eggies in Duane Reade.
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