Esther McCarthy: Believe in the ghost realm if you want — but avoid the middlemen

"The medium told me I'd have daughters with the confidence of someone who didn't think the rube across from her would take meticulous notes and use them 15 years later in a revenge column. AHA! ALL WRONG. Got you, Melinda, you fraud!"

Esther McCarthy. Picture: Emily Quinn

Halloween is officially over. Farewell, ridiculous costumes, see ya pumpkin spices, and a cheery bye to the close shave of type-two diabetes for the kiddies from the sugary rubbish they menaced from the neighbours.

For today is All Hallows’ Day. That special time when the very air seems charged with memories and magic, when the idea the living and the dead may be sharing space feels possible.