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Kaelyn Moore traces two Halloween urban legends back to real events: the 2016 creepy clown sightings that set off a nationwide panic, and the 1974 Pasadena, Texas poisoned candy case that has had parents checking trick-or-treat bags ever since.
In the summer of 2016, children at a South Carolina apartment complex ran out of the woods screaming. They said there were clowns in the trees. No one believed them. Within weeks, the sightings had spread across the country, school lockdowns, armed mobs, arrests, and a panic so intense that McDonald’s benched Ronald McDonald. But where did it actually start? The answer is stranger than the legend.
Then: Halloween night, 1974. An eight-year-old boy in Pasadena, Texas eats a piece of candy from his trick-or-treat bag. He’s dead within the hour. For fifty years, parents have checked their children’s candy because of what happened that night but the real story is darker than the urban legend it created.
TW: Child death
Podcast: Heart Starts Pounding w/ Kaelyn Moore