'Horror is my safe space' — Ghoul tourist, Peter Dunne on why Halloween and scary movies are best
Peter Dunne and Liam Geraghty of the Petrified podcast.
Peter Dunne loves Halloween. He loves the scary movies and the special events such as Farmaphobia in Meath. He even loves the shade of orange we associate with the day — it’s a Pavlovian response. He’s set to fly to Los Angeles the day after we talk: his itinerary includes Universal Horror Nights and Knott's Scary Farm. “It's literally just to spook myself out for a couple of weeks,” he says of the trip.
Dunne calls himself a ghoul tourist. Whereas some of us might eye up the Eiffel Tower and Empire State Buildings for our holidays, Dunne heads to the Amityville house and Sleepy Hollow in New York; Salem in Massachusetts; and New Orleans. He explains matter-of-factly: “I'd go on holidays with my family when I was young, but then I'd look for 'did anything weird happen in this town?' And then I take a stroll down.”
