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20 October 2017 No, the Department of Homeland Security hasn't advised that a Halloween curfew be implemented over a purported creepy clown Halloween purge.
Updated Grisly photograph purportedly shows the Buckley family, whose children beheaded their mother with an axe on Halloween.
17 October 2017 The explanatory last line of a Halloween joke about a real-life Freddy Krueger was removed in subsequent shares.
Updated An old joke that is recycled yearly makes no calendrical sense, as Halloween never falls on the 13th of the month.
Updated Accounts conflict about how terrified Americans really were by Orson Welles' infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast.
22 October 2016 The retailing giant's Halloween offering of a 'Suicide Scar Wound' costume accessory didn't sit well with some people.
14 October 2016 The social media clown panic has inevitably merged with "purge" rumors, just in time for Halloween.
6 October 2016 The story of a "killer clown" leaving a threatening note at a school was published by a self-described "satire" news site.
5 October 2016 An alarmed hiker believed he had stumbled on evidence of nefarious activity in Long Island, but it was just decorations for a Halloween party.
5 October 2016 An old story recirculated in October 2016 claims that a club an Amsterdam is hosting a "Blood Rave" with real blood on Halloween.
Updated A dollar store princess wand called the 'Evilstick' shocked some parents with its gruesome hidden images.
2 November 2015 A fake news web site published a story claiming that 53 people had died in a Halloween "hatchet massacre" aboard the Queen Mary.
28 October 2015 The mass-murdering Michael Myers character in the 'Halloween' series of films sports what was originally a Captain Kirk mask.
25 September 2015 Teal pumpkins have been adopted by a food allergy group as a signal that a home is offering non-food items for trick-or-treaters with food allergies on Halloween.
10 September 2015
Updated Police have never documented actual cases of people randomly distributing poisoned goodies to children on Halloween.
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