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E172: Have You Checked the Candy?
Published 3 years, 9 months ago
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Today we discuss how the idea of tainted Halloween candy became such a popular urban legend, and how a few specific terrible incidents have fueled this myth over the decades. First, a woman who snapped after too many teenagers rang her bell, and second we discuss the truly terrible story of the death of 8 year old Timothy O’ Bryan on Halloween night in 1974.
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