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Around the turn of the 20th century, children started going missing in a small rural county in Texas. People blamed it on The Candy Lady, a woman who supposedly lured children to her home with candy, then they were never heard from again.
Children in the area told stories of how they would wake in the morning to find candy sitting on their window sills. Fearing that their parents might try to stop the person, or thing, leaving the candy, they didn't tell any adults.
After a child had received the candy for a while they would start to find notes on the wrappers, many times asking the children to come and play. The notes were signed "The Candy Lady."
Over the span of about a decade, a handful of kids went missing. As some children got a little older they started to confess that they had eaten candy left on their window sills from a "Candy Lady."
According to the story, other strange things happened around this area that spooked the residents. A farmer found the rotten teeth of a child in a candy wrapper at the edge of one of his fields. A police deputy started investigating the disappearance of the children and a few weeks later they found his dead body in a ditch. His eyes were stabbed with a fork and his pockets were filled with candy.
To this day, any time a kid goes missing, all the locals say The Candy Lady got them. Children believe that she takes them somewhere and pulls out their teeth or stabs them with a fork.
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Did you hear the urban legend where candy was left for children on their bedroom window sills at night. After a few nights, the candy wrappers would have messages written on them asking the children to come and play. The wrapper was signed The Candy Lady. The children would then vanish, never to be seen again, taken by the Candy Lady.
This legend dates back to 1903 in a small rural town in Texas and is based on something that did happen. It is believed that Clara Crane was the Candy Lady.
Clara Crane
Clara Crane was born in 1871 and grew up to marry an older man named Leonard Gilbert Crane. The couple would have a daughter who they named Marcella. In 1893, Marcella was killed in a farming accident with Leonard who had been drinking at the time. She was only five years old. Clara blamed her husband for her daughter's death.
Two years later Clara poisoned her husband with a caramel. She was convicted of the crime and sent to the North Texas Lunatic Asylum.
In 1896, one of her Doctors noted that the staff had found a doll that Clara had made from old bed sheets. The other inmates claimed that she would sing and talk to the doll.
There was also a letter found that was sent out to her sister, telling her that her and Marcy were fine and they couldn't wait to get back home.
After four years inside the Asylum, Clara Crane was released from the hospital due to overcrowding. It was believed that she returned to her hometown but nobody knows for sure. Around that time, children started to go missing from their homes.
The Missing Children
Over a decade, a handful of children went missing and a member of law enforcement, either a deputy or sheriff, was found in a ditch with a fork jabbed in his eyes. He also had his pockets stuffed with candy. A farmer also found rotten children's teeth in his field that were wrapped in candy wrappers.
Was Clara Crane really responsible for those missing children? Did she stab an officer of the law in the eyes with a fork and leave him in a ditch?
Nobody knows for sure but when a child goes missing in that small Texas town, they blame it on The Candy Lady.
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