The Depths of Halloween

The Depths of Halloween is a thirty-episode debate series that descends beneath the costumes and candy to examine the history, folklore, religious arguments, myths, moral panics, symbols and modern reinventions of Halloween. Elias approaches each subject with a skeptical historical eye, Mara argues from folklore and lived tradition, and the Archivist steps in with concise context when the evidence needs separating from legend. The aim is not to flatten Halloween into one origin story, but to explore how many different traditions accumulated into the holiday we know today.