Another Hail Satan Day Halloween is nearly upon us and Dan Lewis reminds us that the famed Halloween poisoned candy scare is a total media mythology. What about poison, which, being invisible and generally hard to detect, is the more nefarious way to taint candy?...
urban legends
...was apparently bascially made up. Huh. It's almost enough to make be think that Caitlan Flanagan's "draw broad generalizations from apocryphal anecdotes" method lacks validity.