“Poison Candy” is Just Another Fake Halloween Horror Story
Delaware researcher says there's no evidence it's actually happened.
In the greatest service it has ever performed for the kids of Philadelphia, the Daily News has revealed all those “poison candy” stories your parents toldyou in order to limit your Halloween trick-or-treating have turned out to be damnable lies.
Joel Best, a University of Delaware sociology and criminal-justice professor, found that the candy-coated threat is about as likely as real vampires and witches going door-to-door each Oct. 31.
He has studied newspaper articles going back 25 years, looking for the sensational tale of a child collapsing after eating a handful of poison Skittles.
