It's the Hallowtide Season. The air is cold, the wind whispers through the trees, and the line between the living and the dead grows thin. Candles burn inside hollowed pumpkins. Children walk beneath the moon wearing masks of saints and spirits. But behind the costumes and candy lies one of the strangest stories in all of Christian history.

In this episode of Strange Church History, we uncover the true origins of Halloween — not as a pagan survival, but as a Christian holy night: the eve of All Saints. From the shadow of ancient harvest festivals to the dawn of the Hallowtide Triduum, we follow how the Church claimed the season of death as a proclamation of resurrection.

Hear how medieval Christians faced the darkness without fear, transforming superstition into sanctity, and how the strange beauty of this feast still echoes today — when heaven and hell both seem to hold their breath.

Is Halloween trick... or treat?