Case File 114-The Story of Halloween

Alien Theorists Theorizing

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True Crime, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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0:00.0	Rico. Every year at the end of October, people around the world celebrate the holiday,
0:17.0	known as Halloween. Traditionally celebrated by dressing up as your favorite ghouls and ghosts the holiday actually has a long and stored past
0:29.8	The roots of this candy-filled celebration of terror go far back into the history of Celtic tradition,
0:36.0	where the holiday was known as sowin, and was a time where the world of the spirits and gods would cross over into the mortal plane.
0:47.2	From that time the holiday has gone through many transformations to become what we see today. But is there something more sinister that brought the
0:56.4	holiday into the American mainstream? What part did Big Candy play when it came to the
1:02.3	popularization of trick or treating.
1:05.0	Even more interesting is there evidence that there has been some sort of unholy
1:10.6	plot to reduce the size of Halloween candy over the years?
1:14.1	Join the theorists as they bring you full-size Kit Kat conspiracies on
1:19.2	the story of Halloween.
1:27.4	Disclaimer. In this case, file, I mispronounce the Celtic holiday Sowin as Sam Hain. Just go with it.
1:32.2	Also, while we're on the topic of mispronunciations,
1:35.0	a concerning number of our listeners
1:38.0	seem to believe Braden, spelled B-R-A-D-E-N,
1:42.0	is pronounced Brandon or Brendan.
1:45.0	I'd like to take this opportunity to let everyone know it's pronounced Craig.
1:51.0	Thank you. Craig. Welcome to Alien Theirve theorist theorizing Case File 114. All Hallows Eve.
2:20.0	I'm Braden. I'm Zell. I'm Dan. I'm Andrew. Oh yeah. Oh, Dan took over the whole screen.
2:29.5	Ah, Megadan. Yes, as it should be. We call that Negadan.
2:34.5	It's down here, fly on the fly.
2:36.5	Well, it's just all being like.
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