Show Page & Alternate Listening Halloween. Ghosts ... pumpkins ... goblins ... "things that go bump in the night" .... How did these long-familiar Halloween traditions -- and, specifically, scary "otherworldly 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, pronounced "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 the fabric of Reality" -- a moment in our annual orbit of the sun when the normal barriers between this world ... and the "Otherworld" ... grow inexorably "thin" ... leading to the manifestation of "ghosts" and other "spectral beings" on our 3-D plane, beings who have passed on but now can ONLY appear in our Reality at this unique time. Sounds incredibly "hyperdimensional" to me .... So, join us tonight -- a reincarnation expert, three bonafide witches, our resident metaphysician ... and me, a poor lonely scientist -- as we explore the multiple meanings and associations of a MOST-- Hyperdimensional Halloween! Richard C. Hoagland