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When Halloween became America's most dangerous holiday

  • Written by W. Scott Poole, Professor of History, College of Charleston
Halloween can also be a time of expression of cultural and social anxieties.AP Photo/Richard Vogel

The unquiet spirits, vampires and the omnipresent zombies that take over American streets every October 31 may think Halloween is all about spooky fun. But what Halloween masqueraders may not realize is that in the early 1970s and well into the next...

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