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Scouting Out Ghost Stories: "Spooks and Spirits" in Bangkok

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June 30th 2011
In my first year at Lyndon State College in the mountains of upstate Vermont there was an annual party on Halloween called "Spooks and Spirits." We would dress up and cloak ourselves in the symbols of a wild animistic world; some of us wore white sheets, others Dracula or werewolf masks and yet others painted zombie faces. Although mostly it was an opportunity to get drunk cheaply with your friend ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more