Parental Nightmares Archives

A Facebook post suggesting that teenagers are using a common hand sign to show they wish to buy drugs was intended to be humorous.

Pins, needles and razor blades been occasionally been found in trick-or-treaters' loot over the years.

Police have never documented actual cases of people randomly distributing poisoned goodies to children on Halloween.

The horrifying homecoming is a long-running legend that might be based on a true tragedy.

Rumor: Schoolkids are smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic substance they contain.

Cautionary drug tale posits that dealers use hollowed-out bodies of dead children to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.

Rumor: Image depicts a toddler who was electrocuted after playing with an electrical cord.

Rumor: Kids are rubbing Burt's Bees lip balm on their eyelids to get high.

Rumor: The death of an infant in an auto accident led to the invention of 'Baby on Board' signs.

Account of a child's death while playing the 'Chubby Bunny' marshmallow-stuffing game.

Razor blades were discovered glued to playground equipment in a public park.

Are schoolkids really 'snorting' and 'smoking' Smarties and putting themselves at risk of contracting nasal maggots?

Parental Nightmares