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Episode: The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
Description: The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective FearIn November 1938, the town of Halifax, England, became paralyzed by fear. People stopped going to work. Businesses closed. Vigilante mobs formed in the streets. And a man took his own life because his coworkers thought he was a monster. The reason? A phantom attacker with a razor blade who probably never existed at all. This is the story of the Halifax Slasher, a case where the panic was more dangerous than the crime, where mass hysteria turned neighbors into hunters, and where the only real killer turned out...