On this episode of Our American Stories Halloween expert Lisa Morton is going to be unpacking the history of the Halloween Haunted House which is directly tied into today's practice of Trick-or-Treating Lisa is the author of Trick or Treat A History of Halloween By the turn of the th century Halloween in America was nothing more than a day of pranking kind of like April Fools' Day Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]