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Trick or treater.

Ah, hello, welcome to It Could Happen Here, the spooky special.

I'm your host, Garrison Davis.

Once again, there has been far too many important world events taking precedence

that we here at the show are unable to provide listeners with an entire spooky week's worth of

themed episodes. But I know how important Halloween is for many millennials. So I've taken it

upon myself to produce two spooky episodes to bookend the holiday. This episode that you're

listening to right now,

as well as another that will release Monday morning or Sunday night.

As the world is becoming an increasingly spooky, scary place,

I needed to up the ante to exceed the weird and eerie fright that comes from living in America and the world in general

in 2025. So last week, I traveled from New York to Brussels, briefly caught up with my close

personal friend and colleague Tintin, and then took the train to Germany. Very scary indeed. Once in Germany,

I was confronted with seemingly occult words and symbols. People spoke in odd incantations.

I came across a map that appeared via my black scrying mirror, the iPhone, which upon deciphering

led me to an old power plant warehouse

in East Berlin. I entered this dark looming building, and inside the air was thick with

smoke and incense. Figures dressed in all black emerged from the fog, witches, wizards,

and magicians. I followed them into a candlelit room

where hooded occultists conducted a ritual welcoming us to the 2025 Acculture Conference.

A Culture is a bi-yearly conference, that's once every two years, focusing on the intersection of occultism and culture, pop or otherwise.

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