“Based on a True Story”: it’s the oldest trick in Hollywood marketing, and horror fans have read variations on those words countless times. Whether a movie actually delivers scares on its “fact-based” premise is one of the great crapshoots of horror fandom, but the gimmick has been a pretty safe bet at the box office. The blurrier the line between fact and fiction, the bigger the potential scares—but sometimes, the stories behind the scenes are even more terrifying. From the pathological to the paranormal, here are few of the truly terrifying stories that inspired the genre’s most memorable scares.
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