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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Halloween Hoaxes About World War III Don’t Work So Well, As A California High School Found Out
Description: A lot of us enjoy a good pretend-scare around this time of year. But around this time in 1986, a school in California offered up a Halloween hoax that was a little too on the nose for the student body. Plus: a public library in Massachusetts has a ghost hunting kit that patrons can check out and use. School Prank--Pupils Told That War Has Started (Los Angeles Times)Ghost Hunting Kit Available at the Public Library (Neatorama)It’s no hoax to say that our Patreon backers make this show happen, join them tod...