Happy Halloween
Halloween - you either love it or hate it. A few years ago I would have fallen into the latter camp, mainly because I was fed up with teenagers knocking on the door demanding money with menaces without even a joke or a costume to justify their criminal intent.
But last year, just after we moved to Inverness, I came to appreciate the real charm of this Scottish tradition. The kids in the north really do make an effort and the door-to-door 'guising harks back to a gentler age.
And it is a Scotttish tradition - no mater how much supermarkets try to persuade us to go down the American route of pumpkins and trick or treating.
That's also why we've been having some fun on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland today, as well as a more serious look at Edgar Allen Poe's childhood in Ayrshire.
Halloween is also famous for an infamous chapter in radio history. For it was on this day in 1938 that Orson Welles' produced his version of , sparking mass panic among the listening audience in America.
Well, that's also what's prompted our one-off look at Spooks and Sporrans in which two of our esteemed news journalists - James Cook and Reevel Alderson - investigate some ghostly goings-on in Glasgow.
All I can say is....don't suspend your disbelief....unless you really want a fright.
