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When Halloween became America’s most dangerous holiday

W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston, The Conversation
Posted 10/20/24

In the early 1970s, rumors about poisoned candy on Halloween led to mass paranoia. A historian explains why such fears emerge – and what, in reality, feeds them.

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