QUESTION: "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"

[Ediacara]

You know, the Christmas song. There's a line in there that just doesn't make any sense to me:

"There'll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories, of Christmases long, long ago"

WTF!

Are Christmas ghost stories some tradition I've never heard of, or is this a really obtuse reference to Dickens' Christmas Carol?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. To parents, the most wonderful time of the year is when they go back to school.

A la the Staples ad.

[Avalux]

2. That always kinda freaked me out.

I imagine it probably is a reference to A Christmas Carol, but as a kid, I didn't interpret it that way. Our family never sat around telling scary ghost stories on Christmas. :wtf: