You may not know this, but Halloween originally began in Ireland about 2000 years ago. It’s derived from a Celtic festival known as Samhain. This festival marked the end of the harvest season, and it’s when the veil to the after world was believed to be the thinnest. Eventually, Irish immigrants brought these traditions [...]
Seattle is a city that was basically built for Halloween. Maybe it's all the rain and gloom we're used to or the incredibly dark history, from the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 that devastated an entire neighborhood, to its unfortunate reputation as home to some notorious criminals. Either way, if you visit during the [...]
I'd wanted to do Halloween in New Orleans for years, and it turned out to be even better than I anticipated. I spent an entire month in the city getting fully immersed in all the spookiness it has to offer. In New Orleans, people celebrate Halloween the entire month of October, with so many events [...]