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Armed police. Mass panic. No arrests. What really happened at Bayside Mall in Miami that night?
The Dark Origins of Halloween in America – What They Don’t Teach You
Divergent Files Podcast
33 minutes
1 month ago
The Dark Origins of Halloween in America – What They Don’t Teach You
🔥 What if Halloween wasn’t fun and candy—but fire, gangs and ritual control? Discover the hidden truth .
What you think you know about Halloween is just the packaging. In this explosive investigation from Divergent Files, we track how America’s most kid-friendly holiday was once the most dangerous night of the year—barns burning, goats’ heads on church doors, kids with dynamite. The chaos didn’t vanish by accident. It was surgically rewritten by secret societies, publishers, candy lobbies and education reformers who didn’t cancel the ritual—they re-branded it.
We’ll trace the paper trail: newspapers from the early 1900s, reform leagues like the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, elite clubs tied to printing presses, the rise of the National Confectioners Association in 1907 turning sugar into a behavioral tool. We’ll show how ancient ancestor-and-death rituals from the Kelts, Aztecs, Romans and Jewish mystics fused with corporate America’s Halloween makeover—and how you and you...
Divergent Files Podcast
Armed police. Mass panic. No arrests. What really happened at Bayside Mall in Miami that night?