I tried Popeyes' and Subway's new ghost-pepper sandwiches. They were inventive, but not spicy enough to give me a real scare.

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While October marks the start of spooky season in the US, about 7,000 miles across the world, in Imphal, a city in Northeast India, it's the harvest season of Bhut Jolokia, or the ghost pepper as it's known in the West.