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The adult novelty item has a surprisingly rich history involving organized crime, food science, and the difficulties in patenting the name "Candypants."

Jake Rossen








Scream Factory

In the early 1980s, Stephen King and George Romero got together to make a movie inspired by the gross-out horror comics they’d loved as kids. The result was 1982's 'Creepshow,' which was recently turned into a new series for Shudder.

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On July 15, 1976, a school bus in Chowchilla, California, disappeared with dozens of students inside. Police considered everything from terrorism to the Zodiac Killer. No one could have suspected the passengers had been kidnapped and were running out of a

Jake Rossen