Go behind the scenes at a New Jersey Spirit Halloween store

By Student Podcast Challenge

Published October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM EDT

Each year, about 1,400 Spirit Halloween shops pop up across the U.S. Two student journalists, Isabel Jacobson and Adam Sanders, visited their local shop to meet the spirited employees who work there.

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