THE HALLOWEEN HOAX PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Carolyn Keene,Macky Pamintuan | 96 pages | 13 Sep 2007 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9781416936640 | English | New York, NY, United States Don't Believe the Viral Hoax That Spirit Halloween Is Closing This Year Activity Sheets Fun Dessert Recipes pdf. Pin the Tail on the Pony pdf. Sleepover Party Crafts pdf. Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! More books from this author: Carolyn Keene. See more by Carolyn Keene. More books from this illustrator: Macky Pamintuan. See more by Macky Pamintuan. More books in this series: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew. You may also like: Fiction Staff Picks. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! See More Categories. Your First Name. The people of the town organized a costume parade and block party, so the story goes. The parade was a success, with bands, clubs, and city groups taking part. There was popcorn, candy, and peanuts. At the end, a sanctioned bonfire raged at Bridge Square. A modern Minnesota congressman, Bill Luther, helped make the title official. The first Halloween customs, as the Anoka history correctly notes, were all trick and no treat. The Staunton Spectator in Staunton, Virginia, put it in slightly starker terms in The public accepted their behavior using questionable logic. By the s, mentions of Halloween in newspaper records increased exponentially. Then, in , comes the first mention of a Halloween parade in the papers collected by the Library of Congress. Perhaps the city with the strongest claim to the first Halloween parades at least according to historical newspaper records is Anderson, Indiana. The event is a draw for the town of around 17, people, regardless of whether its claim as the first in the US is technically true. Impressive enough, perhaps, for Anderson, Indiana, to take a look at challenging the title. Trending Videos View All Videos. Sponsored The Beyondland road trip Oct 16, As the crew's investigation went on, the whole program got darker and darker. The viewers started to learn about the ghost — named Pipes by the local kids — supposedly haunting this terrifyingly normal London family. Eventually, the presenters realize he's channeling their energy through a sort of reverse seance, which causes the "death" of one person, and the possession of another as Pipes steps into the real world. The entire thing was designed to look as real as possible, even though it had a cast list and writing credits. It was advertised as a drama, but the feel of it was absolutely unscripted. Actors were given bullet points to hit instead of hard scripts, they used shaky, amateur-looking footage, and the show even aired the number of a hotline — manned by actors who were in on the joke — that distressed viewers could call. Ghostwatch was so widely believed, in fact, that real people died from it. In November , the British Medical Journal published case studies on two ten-year-old boys treated for post-traumatic stress in the wake of watching the film. One boy reported being subjected to relentless nightmares and flashbacks during the day, which escalated to the point where he refused to let his mother out of his sight, and would bang his head against the wall until she returned. The other boy refused to sleep alone, so terrified that he made himself sick over the idea of spending the night by himself. According to the journal, both of those patients were successfully treated and eventually showed improvement, but others weren't so lucky. Five days after the broadcast, Percy and April Denham found their son, Martin, hanging from a tree in a park near their Nottingham home. He had a note in his pocket that read, "Please don't worry — if there are ghosts I will be a ghost, and I will always be with you as a ghost. Martin who was 18 years old, but reportedly had the mental abilities of a year-old had made countless comments about the show in the days leading up to his death, even though no lawsuits were ever filed. The Denhams told newspapers they couldn't afford to go to court. And they weren't alone. Hundreds of complaints were received, including one from a man who claimed his wife had gone into labor in the middle of the show. Even though the show was never re-aired, it's gotten something of a cult following, and was recently the subject of a real documentary. Every kid knows the routine: once you get home, you'll surrender your loot to the nearest adult, who will scour the bag for needles or drugs and, probably, their favorite candy. It's annoying, but necessary, right? It sure beats swallowing a needle. It has basically never happened, as proven in , when a sociologist from the University of Delaware named Joel Best decided to study the issue. After studying everything from news stories to police reports, he found there were nearly no stories of candy actually being tampered with. It wasn't evil strangers or neighbors wanting to hurt anyone. In the very few cases where somebody did tamper with candy, it was almost always somebody the kids knew. In , a 5-year-old boy in Michigan died with an obscenely large amount of heroin in his system. Heroin was found on his candy, but police later found that the drugs had belonged to his uncle, who had laced the boy's candy after the fact, to try to throw authorities off his scent. Four years later, Ronald O'Bryan and his neighbor took their kids trick-or-treating, and at one house, O'Bryan gave the kids giant Pixie Stix that he claimed someone at the door had handed to him. Later, his 8-year-old son died from ingesting the poisoned candy. It wasn't a stranger that had deliberately laced the candy, though — it was his own father. O'Bryan wanted to cash in on his son's life insurance policy, and so he did the deed that got him executed in The fear of what's in our trick-or-treat bags peaked in , with the only confirmed case of a stranger tampering with Halloween candy before handing it out. James Joseph Smith stuck needles in Snickers bars and was arrested, but his tampering caused only one minor injury and no deaths. This Halloween hoax goes hand-in-hand with the idea of candy that's been tampered with, but it's so oddly specific. There were always at least a few apples in every loot bag after a night of trick-or-treating, and there was never a fear that there would be wormy or drugged or stuck full of thumbtacks. Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television Spoiler: she's right all along. Realizing that I am about ten years too old to read this, I have to review this as an 8 year old as well as an 18 Year old. The story is very cute. The mystery is pretty solid for a 86 page book. It's also not hard to understand what is going on. If I would have read this as a young child, I probably, would have been racing to see who was behind the mystery, changing my mind every other page. But since I'm not a young child, I can't say that I was overly surprised by the outcome. As the suspects are first being introduced, I can't help myself by thinking of each of their motives. I always overthink things, as I did in this story. Once I got to the fourth or fifth chapter, I had a pretty good idea of who the "culprit" if that's what you would call it is. Needless to say, I was right. It also bothered me that the girls were able to get in of the studio at least 5 times without getting caught. Did it ever occur to the security guards that the girls passed that something may be up? Like I said, the story was very cute. I think the author should have talked with the illustrator though, because the front cover doesn't correspond with the details in the book. Yet in the story, it mentions that Bess's costume was pink, and Nancy's dragon costume was green. I don't know if that, or the fact that the girls could enter the studio so easily is my biggest problem with this book. In any case, I keep having to tell myself who the audience of this story is Oct 07, Mehsi rated it really liked it Shelves: twinkling-stars , children-but- also-for-adults , halloween , warning-english-books , the-butler-did-it , lights-cameras-action. A much better book than the Camp Creepy book from this series which I read yesterday. It does make you wonder though. This book is 9 in the series, Camp Creepy is In this one no one can convince Nancy that ghosts had anything to do with it. Even with all the "evidence". Weird how in 17 books she suddenly is a believer. Again, it doesn't fit with the Nancy character. Even with all the diffe A much better book than the Camp Creepy book from this series which I read yesterday. Even with all the different series, Nancy is just not a believer, she will always look at stuff in a logical way, believing in science and real facts over something supernatural. Also I knew the whodunnit from the start. It was just sooooo obvious, and I was kind of hoping for a twist near the end that would tell us it was someone different, but no.