Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Maria – Natalie – Erin Fast links to Bios: Natalie – Erin – Maria – Georgia – Scott – Jon   Support The Other Side of Midnight! Halloween. Ghosts … pumpkins … goblins … “things that go bump in the night” …. How did these long-familiar Halloween traditions — and, specifically, scary “other worldly associations” — become so Inexplicably attached to “October 31st?” Well, it all begins with “Samhain” — an ancient religious festival originating among the northern European tribes called “Celts.” These days, Samhain (a Gaelic word, prononounced “SAH-win”) is celebrated from October 31 to November 1, a time on the one hand to welcome in the annual Fall harvest, as the last major calendrical event before “the dark half of the year ….” But celebrants have also long associated this specific time with something much, much more … a literal breakdown “in […]