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The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
13 minutes
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The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
In 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 to be fear itself. We're diving into one of the most fascinating examples of collective delusion in modern history, exploring how a single cut spiraled into two weeks of chaos, and asking the question nobody wants to answer: what happens when an entire town loses its grip on reality?
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