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Beauties & Beasts recounts a terrifying Halloween night in rural Wales in 1991 and digs into the darker roots of the holiday, from Samhain to the legend of Stingy Jack.
Three girls are alone in an isolated house on Halloween night when something starts banging against the back door. A shadow appears behind the glass. The handle rattles violently. And whatever is outside seems determined to get their attention.
It’s Halloween 1991 in rural Wales. What began as an innocent sleepover with horror movies and snacks becomes a terrifying encounter that feels far too much like the movie playing on the television.
But Halloween’s darker stories go back centuries.
Long before trick-or-treating and carved pumpkins, the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain marked a time when the boundary between the living and the dead was believed to grow dangerously thin. People disguised themselves from wandering spirits, lit fires to ward off evil and carved frightening faces into vegetables.
And then there’s Stingy Jack, the infamous figure from Irish folklore who dared to outsmart the Devil himself.
From sinister Halloween traditions and the origins of jack-o’-lanterns to mysterious lights that lure travelers into deadly bogs, these stories reveal a much darker side of the holiday.
What if the most frightening thing about Halloween isn’t what we dress up as, but what might be waiting outside?
Podcast: Beauties & Beasts