Who said BOO First

I always wondered why Ghost supposedly said BOO! Who decided that it was the thing that ghost said? Well according to Forrest Wickham a staff writer for Slate .....

Ghosts were saying "boo!" by the middle of the 19^th century, though the exclamation had been used to frighten English-speaking children for at least 100 years before that. Perhaps the first appearance of boo in print comes from the book-length polemic Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display’d (1738), in which author Gilbert Crokatt defines it as , “a word that’s used in the north of Scotland to frighten crying children.” (It's not clear why people in Scotland would want to frighten a crying child.) The verbal tactic had been adopted by proper ghosts and people with sheets on their heads by the 1820s at the latest.

So there you have it HAPPY HALLOWEEN and of course BOO!