Do you check your kids’ Halloween candy every year for knives and poison? Ever wonder why?

Where did the fear of poison in Halloween candy or knives in apples come from? The MEDIA! The SMITHSONIAN offers up an interesting report that you probably didn’t know: You really never had anything to fear with All Hallow’s Eve treats.. 

I myself also recall a childhood fear of this very thing–the notion that the candy would kill me or that a razor blade would be hidden in my fruit.

The fear was only inspired further by the scene from HALLOWEEN 2 (not the Rob Zombie version) of a boy in a pirate suit being taken to the hospital for his mouth bleeding..

Those fears that we have, ingrained in us from an early age thanks to modern media and pop culture.

And today,

I still check the candy every Halloween night..