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Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a haunted house or haunted

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mansion in Disneyland? Do you believe in ghosts? Have you

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ever seen a goblin or a skeleton? Today, let's dive

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into the creepy and spooky.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven sixty eight.

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Halloween Vocabulary. Halloween is just around the corner, so what

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a perfect time to look at common vocabulary related to

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this strange and weird holiday. I have lots of treats

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and no tricks for you in this English lesson. So

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let's start with haunted. What is it about the word

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haunted that sends shivers down your spine? When we use haunted,

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we're talking about a place that's got an unidentifiable presence,

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maybe even something supernatural. Like you know that feeling when

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you walk into an old house and the air is

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just kind of heavy. You get the chills, right, Like

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there's a feeling like someone or something is watching you,

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or maybe something happened there in the past. And maybe

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there are even some weird noises or you hear voices

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when no one's around. That house is totally haunted. Perhaps

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the line between the living and the dead is kind

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of thin in that place. Oh, it's like the place

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is haunted by its history, whatever it is. Something is

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there in that haunted house. And that brings us to ghosts, because,

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I mean, if a place is haunted, I'm guessing there

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are some ghosts hanging around. A ghost the spirit of

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a dead person. When we think of ghosts, we often picture,

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you know, scary spirits crying or moaning, But actually the

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idea of a ghost it's much more complicated than that.

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In some cultures, ghosts are seen as these really scary

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or mean creatures, like they want to do you harm.

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But in other cultures they're seen as protectors, like they

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watch over us, or they're just these lost souls who

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need help finding peace. So ghosts can be scary or

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they can be friendly. They're basically just hanging around. Think

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of ghosts like souls who have some unfinished business. And

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speaking of creatures, let's look at goblins. Unlike ghosts, goblins

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are not human spirits. They're more like creatures you know

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from old stories like Tengu in Japan or Mos Sinai

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in China. And in the Hobbit, those evil creatures living

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in the misty mountains are goblins, and goblins are usually

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up to no good. They're like little trouble makers. They're mischievous.

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They like to hide in the shadows and cause chaos. Okay,

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so far we've got haunted places, ghosts, and goblins. All

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of these are creepy and spooky. You may have heard

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these two words, but did you know that there is

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a subtle difference between creepy and spooky. For me, Creepy

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is that unsettling feeling like something's just not right. Like

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you know, you get that feeling someone's watching you, or

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you're walking down a dark street and you just get

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those goosebumps like something bad is about to happen. That's creepy.

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Creepy is a feeling of unease, something uncomfortable for sure,

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like the music in a horror movie that creates a

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feeling of tension. That's really creepy. But spooky is more

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on the lighthearted side. Spooky is more playful and often

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connected with things like Halloween fun. Spooky is like the

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thrill of a good ghost story that you tell around

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a campfire or at a Halloween party. Something that's spooky

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is scary in a fun way, like you know you're safe,

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but you still get that little nervous rush. Spooky is

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embracing the unknown, but knowing it's all in good fun.

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So creepy is unsettling and spooky is more fun. Two

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other things we see a lot of around Halloween are

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skeletons and bats. These are two classics and found everywhere

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this time of year. Skeletons and bats are truly iconic

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Halloween symbols. A skeleton is the set of bones that

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make up our body, and even though a real skeleton

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is from a dead body, on Halloween, it's almost like

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we're making fun of death a little bit, like we're

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taking a little control of that kind of gross image.

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Like those plastic skeletons you see hanging in people's yards,

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or the glow in the dark ones, or the skeleton

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costumes kids wear. It's like we're confronting our fear of death,

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but in a playful way. So then what about bats?

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I feel like bats have always been linked to, you know,

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darkness and mystery, don't you think so. I mean, they

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come out at night, they're usually associated with all of

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those creepy places like caves and abandoned buildings, and they

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can fly too, so I think that kind of adds

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to their mystique. But on the other hand, that's actually

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play a super important role in the environment. They help

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us with pest control and flower pollination, So maybe they're

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not as scary as we make them out to be.

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I guess even the spookiest creatures can have a good side.

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Keep in mind, the best way to remember vocabulary like

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this and any other word or phrase in English is

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to take that word or phrase, write it in a

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sentence that's true for you or true in your world,

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