From ancient Celtic harvest festivals and rowdy 19th-century pranks that stopped trains, to the terrifying vandalism of 1933's "Black Halloween" and wartime sugar rationing, the holiday has undergone a wild transformation. Discover how communities channeled youthful chaos into neighborhood trick-or-treating, homegrown trails of terror, and eventually, a billion-dollar commercial haunted house industry.
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