Ancient Celtic festival of the dead? Pumpkins? Poisoned candy from strangers? Almost everything you believe about Halloween is wrong.
Sam was there for all of it: Irish harvest feasts, Victorian love games with cabbage, turnip lanterns, a fake missing-person ad in 1809, the first “trick or treat” in a 1927 Canadian newspaper, and the candy panic that never was.
0:00 Almost everything is wrong
0:33 The “ancient festival of the dead”
1:33 Halloween used to be about love
2:12 Pumpkins were turnips
3:14 The man who invented America’s myths
4:55 “Trick or treat” was a threat
5:54 The candy industry steps in
6:21 The poisoned candy panic
7:29 Halloween today
8:03 Sam was there
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