Trick-or Treat-or-Die (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
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On Halloween night in 1957, a group of children ran towards a brand new house in a suburban neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles, California. This house had some of the best decorations on the street, and the kids all hoped the house would have the best candy, too.
One of the kids knocked on the front door, and soon a middle-aged woman in a witch hat, along with her husband, opened up the door and told the kids how great all their costumes looked. The wife gave out a huge handful of candy to each of them, and they all happily said thank you. Candy really was as good as the decorations. The kids, giddy with excitement, ran towards the next house. But none of the kids noticed the person in white makeup, red gloves, and a mask pulled down over half of their face, quietly watching the woman in the witch hat talking to her husband in their doorway. And as that husband and wife walked back inside their house to restock their candy bowl, they had no idea their Halloween was about to turn truly horrifying.
But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please hide a tiny speaker in the ceiling of the Follow Buttons home and then play It's a Small World After All on repeat every time they try to fall asleep. Okay, let's get into today's story.
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Just after 5 p.m. on Halloween 1957 in a Los Angeles suburb called Sun Valley, 35-year-old Peter Fabiano turned off the lights at his beauty salon, flipped the sign in a shop window from open to closed, and got into his car to begin the short drive home. Peter turned onto a long residential street and pulled into the driveway of a corner house at the end of the block. Peter put the car in park and just sat for a moment. As he stared at the Halloween decorations his wife had hung on the windows, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. He couldn't believe this was his house. And to him, his house was sort of a symbol of how dramatically his life had recently changed. Just a few short years earlier, Peter had felt completely lost.
He was living by himself and struggling to make ends meet. And that's when he got mixed up with some bad people who said he could make some money working for them. Even though Peter had agreed to do this, he had known it was not a smart decision, and he was quickly proven right when he ran into trouble with the law. Peter ultimately avoided doing jail time, but this had been a wake-up call for him. After that, he had worked hard to clean up his act and to really start planning for his future. And his hard work eventually paid off. Now he was married and ran a successful business, and he owned a brand new home that had literally just been built. In short, Peter Fabiano was living the American dream.
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