My local public radio station today had a piece about Dia de Los Muertos, and after all this time, I was surprised to learn that this day was actually moved to November by the Spanish from September.
So much for all that "Halloween/All Saints/Day of the Dead celebrates the Flood!" nonsense.
I also have had genuinely fun conversations with coworkers and customers about Halloween. My wife, it should be noted, recently said that if there's any holiday she would celebrate, it's Halloween. Because it's fun!
Then the radio program shifted to a couple of paranormal investigators and then an author who wrote a book about werewolves in Wisconsin. I readily place myself in the skeptic category. There's plenty we don't know, but I'm not about to allow the Bible or the Watchtower fill the gaps.
Certainly nothing in these paranormal stories coincides with an evil organization of demons that know the time is short. Not one bit of it. And the vast majority of it is merely psychological. People are primed and ready to believe this stuff. And then there's stuff about EMF from old electronics, sleep apnea, sleep paralysis, etc.
So meh. Have fun and be safe everybody.