Thursday 15 December 2016

Moral Panic - Halloween Poisoners



The Independent ran a great article back in late October in the run-up to Halloween, highlighting the strong belief in the urban myth that someone, somewhere, is hell-bent on poisoning children but only on one particular day of the year. The resulting annual moral panic was somewhat overshadowed this year by a related moral panic about 'killer clowns' but it still remains out there, and returns once a year to terrify whoever wishes to believe in such things.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-halloween-poisoner-has-us-in-his-grip-8229390.html