At certain times of the year, children ask about spirits of dead people coming out of their graves and roaming the streets. The look of great fear may be in their eyes.
It is very important that children be taught the truth about the dead. Neither parents nor others should mislead or scare them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 states: “The dead know not anything... their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished... there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
According to these verses, dead people know nothing; they cannot love or hate us; they cannot do anything. Hence, a dead person does not have a spirit that can leave the grave in early November or at any time.
When Lazarus died, he could not do anything during the four days he was in the tomb and could only do so after Jesus brought him back to life. Therefore, the only time a dead person will live again is when there will be the resurrection mentioned in Acts 24:15.
God hates lying, as Ephesians 4:25 proves. So wise parents and others should not mislead children and scare them about the condition of the dead. They will tell them the truth, setting them free from fear (John 8:32).