Just in time for Halloween, Professor Pringle learns the fine art of stacking bones, fighting off rats and drying out corpses, when he speaks with the operator of the only catacombs in the United States.

Professor Pringle speaks with a manufacturer of playground equipment and learns the ins and outs of importing children in shipping containers, the measures taken to protect the soft bones and weak lungs of today's kids, and the vigorous workout you get trying to escape the quicksand like grasp of a playground mat.

Professor Pringle discovers that linoleum, rotted barn wood, a center island and a staple gun can transform any home for immediate sale, as well as trigger homicidal impulses, when he interviews a contractor who "flips" houses.

Professor Pringle learns that bears do indeed defecate in the woods --and almost anywhere else they choose --when he interviews a man who wrestles bears.