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So many “postcards” are backlogged on my desk that I am dusting off some old seasonal favorites for Halloween and Day of the Dead offerings.

First, a few ghost stories from Brackenridge Park to set the tone for Halloween. Her murderers never caught, surely you have glimpsed Helen Madarasz roaming the park at night seeking justice: “The Madarasz Murder Mystery.” The post even throws in a few bonus ghosts who joined her later, all four who died in the park within a one-year period. Or perhaps you have heard the midnight screams of the glamorous Martha Mansfield, whose billowing crinolines set her ablaze in the park during the filming of a Civil War romance in 1923: “The Curse of Mararasz Park: Another Ghost Wandering in Brackenridge Park?”

When our daughter Kate said I could us this circa 1997 photo of her being kidnapped by the Pumpkin Monster, I do not think she realized it would continue to float up to the surface years later: “The Best Halloween.”

And then move on to some Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico for All Souls Day and All Saints Day:

• Postcard from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico: Grooming Graves to Welcome Back the Dead
• Postcard from Romerillo, Chiapas, Mexico: Day of the Dead Mudfest
• Postcard from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico: Coke is for Everyone, Dead or Alive
• Postcard from San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico: Dia de los Muertos Part of Urban Fabric
• Postcard from Mexico City: Visiting the dead in Panteon de Dolores

Finally, a few stops by graveyards in Europe: https://postcardsfromsanantonio.com/category/haunting-graveyards/

Happy Halloween!