Spooky Season
October is now upon us. Here in the United States and increasingly around the world, we pole vault into Halloween, or as it is sometimes called "Spooky Season." People go all out decorating their houses with ghosts and spiders and, as is becoming more common, even exterior orange Christmas-like lights. This is also the beginning of what I call "Echo Chamber Season." It comes around every year, and, much like accusations against Christmas, there is a plethora of historically false information and articles aplenty about how Halloween is pagan. I always find it both hilarious and yet tiresome because so many people get sucked into believing accusations that have virtually no historical evidence to back them up. Even otherwise reputable websites studying historical topics like history.com or historyhit.com get sucked into this ahistorical nonsense that Halloween is the modern incarnation of a supposed Pagan festival called Samhain. I say this grows tiresome for two ma...