E172: Have You Checked the Candy?

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss how the idea of tainted Halloween candy became such a popular urban legend, and how a few specific terrible incidents have fueled this myth over the decades. First, a woman who snapped after too many teenagers rang her bell, and second we discuss the truly terrible story of the death of 8 year old Timothy O’ Bryan on Halloween night in 1974.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast.
0:14.6	Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing and often graphic nature and is intended for
0:19.3	a mature audience.
0:20.6	Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.
0:29.7	Hi, I'm Annie in the USA.
0:32.2	And I'm Johanna in Austria and you're listening to your favorite international podcast.
0:37.8	The podcast with two friends who never met in real life and meet once a week to talk about
0:42.8	murder, mystery and the macabre throughout history.
0:47.5	Thank you for your support, your messages, your reviews and of course for joining us every
0:53.0	week for another episode of Fresh Hell.
0:56.3	And I say, let's jump right in, shall we?
0:58.7	Let's so one thing before we get started, there is going to be the discussion of the
1:06.3	death of a child today.
1:08.2	It's in the second half and I'll warn you again before we start that part of the story
1:12.4	in case you'd like to stop, but just a content warning.
1:15.9	So we figure that we can't really talk about spooky season without talking about the
1:20.5	reason for the season and that is actually so much harder than I knew before this episode.
1:27.2	Halloween has a really long and complicated history, but we found a great history.com
1:31.8	article about it.
1:32.8	So what we're going to do is reduce some excerpts from that because the history.com editors
1:37.4	did a really great job covering pretty much everything.
1:40.8	We're going to of course list to the entire article if you'd like to read it and we definitely
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