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CatrinaBallerina t1_irczo2i wrote

Reply to comment by macromi87 in I thought my apartment was haunted, the truth is so much worse by PriestessOfSpiders

Nah. It was quite literally because he was unjustly murdered by police and he typically gave kids candy. There is a scene where he comes out from behind a wall in the projects, but he wasn’t living within the walls.

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Broiledturnip t1_isghqw5 wrote

No, in real life Cabrini green the apartment walls in the bathrooms were not sealed/secure and a woman was murdered when her assailant came in through the mirror hole in her bathroom. It was part of the inspiration for candy man coming out of the mirror.

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