A new meme reveals what's really inside the Halloween sweets your children brought home from school.

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It's an old tale that's resurfaced as a series of internet memes.

Whatever number of experts dispel the idea that all of our children's Halloween candy is poisoned or tainted with something, at least one report surfaces every year around Halloween. As Halloween approaches, many on the internet are speculating about what else may be hidden within a chocolate bar.

When WPVI reporter Jaclyn Lee shared pictures of bags of candy to her Twitter account, the "there's something in people's Halloween candy" rumor started early this year. Lee was warning parents, citing Bensalem, Pennsylvania police, that their children may get Halloween sweets tainted with THC (a component found in cannabis).

@BensalemPolice are urging parents to LOOK at their children's sweets before they consume it as Halloween approaches, Lee tweeted. There were these fake nibbles that looked quite authentic that they confiscated. THC is present in all of them.

The Bensalem Police Department's worries did not lead Lee's tweet to become viral. Some commenters pointed out that the edibles were clearly labeled as such (and couldn't be mistaken for real Halloween candy), that nobody would actually give away a costly amount of edibles to innocent children, and that the source of the inaccurate claim was in and of itself untrustworthy (because the picture showed edibles, not regular candy laced with THC).

In late September and early October, the tweet served as a springboard for speculation about what more may be hidden beneath it. Candy could be laced with anything, but the more ridiculous it was to fit in a candy wrapper, the better.

Someone rigged the album's packaging so that Montero by Lil Nas X could be seen when it was opened.

Communism-related books? Yes, of course.

Stock photos of snapped candy bars transformed into a Photoshop contest over the last four days, turning what you could find in your candy into a game of skill. As long as you could squeeze it within the bar's portion that showcased the bar or its many levels, it counted.

All we had to do was double-check the Halloween candy that our children had been given. It's possible that if we didn't, we'd be unaware of the incident that sparked World War I.

It turns out that a Hershey bar and a Nintendo Switch cartridge case are around the same size.

It's possible that the secret layer alludes to a video game.

If there's a video game allusion in there somewhere, it would be the secret layer.

So, in the current era, are Kit Kat bars like the little black box from the story of Pandora? Discuss.

To make matters more complicated, each bar contains even more bars filled with even more bars.

Since Halloween is just a week away, we have plenty of time to prepare for a surprise within our candy bars now that we know what to expect. There's a good chance this contains a meme.