Who doesn't love Halloween??? All the spooks and goblins and pumpkin carving and hot cider.
Halloween was celebrated everywhere, in Medieval England it was called Souling and they handed out soul cakes like the ones below.
In America it was Trick Or Treat and the children would pick pranking over treats.
This use to be All Souls day and celebrated on November 2nd honoring the dead.
As times changed and the children finally saw the light of getting candy instead of doing tricks. Crime sprang up, people were putting razor blades in apples they were handing out and candy was poisoned. But who knew what was really lurking in the dark shadows.
In Indiana in 1912 there was a murder, Charles McGalliard Jr. killed his sweetheart Alta Hayworth, in a fit of jealousy.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61821515/halloween-murder/
In Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1928 another murder, Christopher Moore who killed a 19 year old Thomas Hart who had done his last Halloween Prank.
1925 in Oklahoma Joe Gwartney was returning from a Halloween party, when Frankie Fields shot him, killing him...He was only 15.(Read the story by clicking link below).
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61821399/halloween-murder/
1921 Ohio a Halloween Clown Murder took place
Chicago, IL 1927 9 youths held for a Halloween murder.💀 They giggle in court.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61820511/stanley-clesla-halloween-murder/
Los Angeles, CA 1930 Halloween Robbers stick up a Halloween Party.🤷♀️
1930 Newspaper clippings about various areas where Halloween Mayhem Occured 👀
1907 Arizona Halloween Prank
1924 Los Angeles, California Walter S Daniel Quarrel ends in death for Peter A. Zarille.
We may have witches and goblins and monsters out this Halloween getting candy for treats, but watch your back for the ghosts of the past and the murderers & robbers and other things that go bump in the night as you may become their next victim.
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