Halloween, aka All Hallows' Eve, is a celebration full of tricks or treats. This collection of old ‘spooky’ Minnesota Public Radio audio contains both.
October 31, 1990 - MPR’s Mark Zdechlik reports on a Minnesota “Spook- Zone.” Every year, the Halbert family transforms their yard into an outdoor haunted house of sorts to provide a safe and fun space for kids during Halloween.
October 31, 1991 - Minnesota author Duke Addicks has been collecting ghost stories since he was a kid. He has a conversation with Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder about his experience and some of the eerie tales found.
November 27, 1991 - MPR’s Catherine Winter profiles Ruth Hein, a Minnesota writer who has been doing regional ghost hunting and compiling spirit stories.
October 30, 1992 - Master storyteller Duke Addicks tells the real ghost story of “Rex,” a long dead dog.
October 29, 1993 - MPR’s Marianne Combs tours the Gibbs Farm Museum, where guide Ann Bruggeman tells a group of children about the Samhain and Celtic traditions behind items many know as Halloween related.
October 29, 1993 - Minnesota mystery writer Brian Freeman shares a Halloween story that involves a ghost along the shore of Lake Superior and the sunken ships its waters contain.
October 30, 1993 - MPR’s Lawrence Sutin shares ghost stories, a remembrance for the late Algernon Blackwood and also reads excerpts from ‘The Wendigo’ by H. P. Lovecraft and M. R. James’ work, ‘The Old Man of Visions’.
October 30, 1993 - Famed horror writer Clive Barker reads his short story “The Departed,” which concerns the tale of a dead woman who can visit the living on Halloween.
October 28, 1994 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Susan Carol Hauser reads an essay on Halloween and the “ghosts” that appear.
October 31, 1995 - Janet Ryan shares information the on origins and folklore of Halloween with Midday’s Gary Eichten.