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As a kid growing up in Chicago, there was one horror movie I was too scared to watch.

It was called Candyman. The scary cult classic was set in the Chicago Housing Project.

It was about this supernatural killer who would attack his victims if they said his name five times into a bathroom mirror.

Candyman?

Candyman?

Now we all know chanting a name won't make a killer magically appear.

But did you know that the movie Candyman was partly inspired by an actual murder.

I was struck by both how spooky it was,

but also how outrageous it was.

We're gonna talk to the people who were there,

and we're also going to uncover the larger story.

My architect was shocked when he saw how this was created, literally shocked.

And we'll look at what the story tells us about injustice in America.

If you really believed in tough on crime,

then you wouldn't make it easy to crawl into medicine cabinets and kill our women.

Listen to Candyman, the true story behind the bathroom mirror murder starting October 3rd, wherever you get your podcasts.

Did you know Radio Lab has a new podcast all about nature? Well now you do. It's called

terrestrial's. It's family-friendly, occasionally musical. And for our

brand new season we scoured the globe. Underwater.

In the desert, braving wild beasts.

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