11 October 2018 A viral image of one municipal ordinance regarding Halloween activities left viewers wondering whether police were going to be hauling off bigger youngsters for trick-or-treating.
4 October 2018 Readers beware: True horrors lurk among legends.
2 November 2000 Pins, needles and razor blades been occasionally been found in trick-or-treaters' loot over the years.
2 November 2000 Police have never documented actual cases of people randomly distributing poisoned goodies to children on Halloween.
29 October 2017 New Jersey is warning parents to look out for people slipping their kids marijuana-laced candy while trick-or-treating with no apparent evidence that's ever happened,
28 October 2016 Accounts conflict about how terrified Americans really were by Orson Welles' infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast.
19 October 2014 Image purportedly documents a masked partygoer who fatally stabbed seven people with a kitchen knife on Halloween 1962.
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.
25 June 2013 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.
8 October 2014 An old joke that is recycled yearly makes no calendrical sense, as Halloween never falls on the 13th of the month.
20 July 2017 A scarecrow seemingly made from a human corpse was actually just a Halloween prop.
