Halloween Candy Horror: So here's the setup: Some homicidal stranger decides to put razor blades in apples or poison some candy bars on Halloween night and voila —- every parent's trick-or-treat nightmare. But is this stuff even real? You surely have heard about dangerous Halloween candy when you were a kid —- that's how long this story has been around. But there's little hard evidence that children have been harmed by any random acts of Halloween sabotage. Most cases that were widely reported in the news turned out to be hoaxes, usually perpetuated by the prankster kids themselves. How's that for a great trick?