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Halloween has a long history dating back some 2000 years to the Celtic days of old.  The Celts celebrated their New Year on November 1st and it was a day of celebrating the end of the summer harvest and the beginning of the long cold winter.  Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.  They build big bonfires and burned animals in a sacrificial ceremony as they dressed up in ghouly costumes.  When the Celtic people disappeared the Christian leaders replaced the holiday with All Saints day to honor saints and martyrs.  They still celebrated with bonfires and costumes.  As time passed it became the kids holiday we know today but most kids don’t know how it got started.  All they know is they get candy.    You can read more about Halloween at history.com and get some more details but that’s bout it.

http://www.history.com/content/halloween/real-story-of-halloween

Or if you go looking for the Atco Ghost (which seems to be a part of the holiday around here) maybe you can ask him what he knows about the story.