Ghosts, Spooks and Other Halloweenies

I'll come right out and admit it - I am an absolute Halloween freak. I start listening to spooky Halloween music, I visit the Halloween stores that start popping up in vacant storefronts all around Rockford, I watch all the Travel Channel shows about haunted locations and scary attractions, I start reading more about ghosts and hauntings and things like that... Seriously, if I had my way there'd be Halloween decorations inside and outside the house starting the first of October rather than the week before.

I don't know what it is about the season that makes me this way. I've always had an interest in the paranormal (one of my dreams in life is to one day have a paranormal encounter at a haunted location), but October is usually the time that it kicks into high gear. And I've got some really good memories of Halloween from my childhood, notably the Halloween carnivals at the middle school or the Halloween parade from when I was in grade school. Maybe that's why I'm slightly excited about the chance to dress up at work on October 31.

Now, whether or not I actually will is another thing...