Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG • Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub • Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth? Every year around Halloween, we hear the same concern: you gotta check the candy for poison because strangers put laxatives in Tootsie Rolls, Razor Blades in Apples and heroine in Snickers. But is this trick or treat dilemma an actual reality or just a clever way for your parents to steal your candy? The truth is out there (and by out there we mean in the episode that you should definitely watch). • Do you enjoy the show? The check us out on: • Like our Facebook Page: / pbsoriginofe. . • Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything • Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge • Graphics By: Noelle Smith • Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber • Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) • • Works Cited: • Samira Kawash, former professor of English and Women’s Studies, Rutgers University • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar... • http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2... • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar... • https://candyprofessor.com/2010/01/11... • “Today I Found Out” on Youtube: • • Video • http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p... • NYTimes 1982 article: • http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/28/nyr... • Smithsonian article: • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithso... • Psychology Today: • https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/... • Articles from Joel Best, PhD professor of sociology and criminology at University of Delaware: • The Myth of the Halloween Sadist. Psychology Today 19 (November, 1985): 12, 14. • The Halloween Sadist: Bogyman for Our Time. USA Today (October 30, 1987): 10A. • Additional Readings listed on his website (http://www.joelbest.net/) • “Tainted Treats: Debunking the Urban Legend.” Happy Halloween Magazine 2 (Autumn, 1999): 13, 35. • The Razor Blade in the Apple: Halloween and the Mass Child Revisited. Pacific Sociological Association, San Jose, 1983. (with Gerald T. Horiuchi) • “(Sort of) Famous for Fifteen Years: Sociology and Media Coverage of Halloween Sadism.” Invited presentation at University of Tennessee Alpha Kappa Delta Luncheon, 2002. • “Scary Guys: The Halloween Sadist and Other Legendary Threats.” Invited lecture, Albright College, 2004. • “Studying Halloween Sadism and Where It Led Me.” Invited lecture at Department of Psychology Breakfast, Seattle University, 2010. • Sources on Ronald Clarke O’Bryan, who poisoned his son with pixie stix in 1974: • • Man Poisons Sons Candy on Halloween f... • http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/01/us/... • History of Trick or Treating • • Where did Trick or Treating Come From... • • 25 Curious Halloween Facts You May No... • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n... • http://www.history.com/topics/hallowe... • http://www.history.com/topics/gunpowd... • Brief overview of Korean War: • http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi...

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