Halloween Haunts: Do Ghosts Respect International Borders? by Geneve Flynn
To an Asian Australian, Halloween is a delightful, albeit slightly bewildering, phenomenon. It isn’t widely celebrated in Malaysia (where I spent my early childhood) and is really only just starting to take hold in Australia.
I love seeing my American friends share their excitement that fall has arrived and the spooky season is on its way. However, Halloween seems more celebration than haunting, and the ghosts in the States feel somewhat unreal or distant, like they belong to someone else. Someplace else.
Somewhere along the way, I’d come to believe that supernatural beings were endemic to specific locations, and …