My favorite time of the year is almost upon us: Halloween! 
I love Halloween not just because of the candy, the costumes, and the decorations (when else can you be a complete freak and it be socially acceptable?) but also because of the wonderful potential for promoting skepticism and critical thinking about various paranormal claims. Let’s face it: at this time of the year, ghosts, witchcraft, psychics, and various other kinds of woo are on everyone’s minds, so why not take advantage of that fact and use it to inject the skeptical viewpoint on things? I have found this to be a very effective teaching technique over the years, so that’s why I pass it along to you.
So in the spirit of the season (pardon the pun), allow me to share with you some links to various Halloween-ish skeptical resources that you can use, including a few of my earlier blog posts on the subject…
A Skeptic’s Halloween
Snopes: Halloween Legends
South Park Spoofs “Ghost Hunters”
Halloween Lesson, Part 1: Randi’s “Secrets of the Psychics”
A Historical Halloween & Skepticism Lesson: The 1938 “War of the Worlds” Broadcast by Orson Welles
Halloween Lesson, Part 2: The Haunted Physics Lab
Happy Halloween!!!
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