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To your Halloween special, it might be part one, it might be part two. We don't know yet.

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Surprise! So yes, this is it guys. Long time listen as I've read Handed, you will know that every single

October, Hannah and I take the opportunity to dig into scary cases that we can find. The

worst we can find, however, we are very desensitised now so we're never sure.

No, and it's hard, it's hard work to know exactly what is going to scare people, and you know,

we're just here for a good, true crime time so, you know, don't take it too seriously. So yeah,

we're going to do a story swap. So Hannah's going to tell me a story and then I'm going to tell her

a story and that's what we're going to do this week. Exactly. Just a two week exclusive and then

either next week or the week after depending on whether this is part one or part two, we'll be back

to normal. So you may know, Saru teed the sausage that Halloween, like Christmas, is a pagan festival

that we knicked. Yes. And it started as the ancient Galic festival of sound. Some people say

Sam Hayne, that is wrong. No. Because I say so. And sound dates at least as far back as the 10th

century, and it was celebrated on the 31st of October and the 1st of November. Wow. What it starts as,

like all pagan festivals, it's to do with the season, right? So it's the end of the harvest

and the beginning of the dark half of the year, obviously in the northern hemisphere as far

north as we are, it gets a very fucking dark in the winter. And you have to have festivals,

otherwise everyone will kill themselves. The modern name, Halloween, comes from all Hallows Eve,

which is the day the souls of the dead return to their homes in time for all Saints day, where all

of the evil is banished. In the 10th century, it was believed that the barriers between the physical

and the spirit worlds would be thinner and weaker on all Hallows Eve. So people began to dress up

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