afloweroutofstone:

A fun fact is that there are exactly zero cases of any US child ever being killed by Halloween candy that has been tampered with by a stranger, but the myth is so widespread that news stations report on it every single year, simply assuming the fact that it is talked about means that it has happened before. A reference with no referent. But making people needlessly terrified of the other people they live near is how the local news makes most of its money anyway so what’s a little lie once a year

There was one case of poisoned candy but it was the childs father who put arsenic in the kids pixie sticks and blamed it on a house that wasnt even participating on halloween.