You may not know this, but Halloween started in Ireland as a Celtic festival called Samhain (I share a brief history of it at the end). I personally think spending Halloween in the place where it started is really cool, especially in Dublin. The city has centuries of dark history, from executions and body [...]
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 [...]