The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #13 – Strangers Will Poison Your Halloween Candy

Poisoned candy myths have been thoroughly debunked. No cases of strangers killing or permanently injuring children this way have been proven. Anxieties about poisoned candy may have originated from a 1974 murder involving a father giving his own son cyanide-laced candy for Halloween.

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