Police in Ontario, B.C. and Saskatchewan have been receiving reports of staples, needles and morphine in Halloween treats.
Global News
Sadly, and surprisingly, this is not a headline or a quote pulled from the heyday of 1980s or 90s hysteria. Nay, dear reader, the above was pulled from a Global News story on November 1, 2025.
A few days ago.
While I’d thought a lot of the old legends and surrounding bullshit around Halloween had been thoroughly debunked by now, a new podcast from Sarah Marshall reminded me, “…we are always in the middle of a moral panic.”
And hey, if you can also manage to attach an alleged terrorist plot to Halloween, that’s a twofer.
FBI director, Kash ‘Bug-Eyed-And-Surprised’ Patel was able to at least kind of half-assedly pull this off in Michigan. There’s no real punchline when you’re accused of terrorism by the US meat grinder at the best of governance times; let alone where things are at…*side eye*…currently.
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