Hi my spooky friends…today, I’m changing things up a bit and bringing you all a preview from another podcast I love.

It’s called Cautionary Tales.

 

Bestselling author Tim Harford takes you on a wild ride through the extremes that human behaviour and nature can throw at us, looking at the greatest mistakes and tragic catastrophes from history to see the valuable lessons we can learn from them.

And like Horrifying History; Cautionary Tales looks at the sometimes strange happenings that have stained the pages of history.  Some stories will delight you, others may scare you, but they’ll all make you wiser.

 

In today’s sneak peek; Tim dives into the dark side of Halloween and explores “Halloween sadism” – where a stranger puts something dangerous in the treats collected by children. Razor blades in apples. Rat poison in chocolate bars. That sort of thing.

I’m sure you’ve heard accounts of this moral panic in the media – they seem to creep up every October.  But is trick or treating really something to worry about? Or is there a deadlier danger awaiting children on Halloween night?  A young sociologist named Joel Best became curious and what he found was that there is a deadlier danger awaiting children on Halloween night.

 

Okay, here’s the preview. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. You can hear the full episode, and more from Cautionary Tales, wherever you get your favourite podcasts.

 

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