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Spirit Halloween is like an Eldritch being that consumes all failed business spaces at the end of their lives.
There seems to be a size heirarchy to it.
Supermarkets become either a gym or a Goodwill.
Mid-size businesses become Spirit Halloween.
Small businesses just get replaced with "hobby" businesses where it's obviously someone with money cosplaying as a storekeeper selling scrapbooking suppkies or country decor items.
The historic main street in my town, the one they've bouged up with brown street signs on black posts rather than the standard DOT green signs on galvanized poles, there's like 10 or 12 storefronts down there that play host to an endless list of short lived businesses practically all run by women in their mid-40s with nothing to do. Yoga studios, antique stores, clothing boutiques, crepe restaurants, tea shops, basically none last two years.
Like the reaper at the end of every vampire survivors level.
Ohh I remember those.
Shame you can't kill them all.