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Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started

Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started

Update: 2024-09-26
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Have you ever heard the origin of Halloween? Perhaps you've heard about the Irish holiday Samhain, but there's more. And all of it converges on one year, 1848. In this episode learn about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, the most powerful volcano ever recorded, Yellow Fever, premature burial, Galvanism, John William Polidori and vampires. You're about to hear the true origin of Halloween. 

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Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started

Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started

Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian