Halloween started with the Celts 2,000 years ago. Their new year started on November 1st and they thought that the day before, the living world and the dead world came together and ghosts of the dead came back to Earth. This holiday was combined with two others when the Romans took over most of Ireland. One was Feralia, to commemorate the passing of the dead, and the second was to honor the goddess of fruits and trees, Pomona. Later Christianity spread to the Celts and the Pope made a holiday, All-Saints day to honor saints and martyrs and to replace the original holiday with a more Christian one.
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