It’s the last night of October. A cold wind moves through the valley, whispering through the bones of the trees. Outside an old stone church, candles flicker, tombstones lean, and somewhere in the darkness children laugh. They wear masks of saints and spirits, angels and monsters, walking a line that feels older than memory.

In this episode of Strange Church History, we explore the true story of Halloween, not as a pagan survival, but as one of the Church’s strangest triumphs. From the ancient harvests of Samhain to the birth of All Hallows’ Eve, we trace how the Church faced the darkness of death not with fear, but with faith.

Hear how Christians turned the season of the dead into a proclamation of resurrection, how the Allhallowtide Triduum—All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints, and All Souls—became a vision of time itself redeemed.

Because the night does not belong to the devil.It belongs to Christ, the Lord of Time.