When you watch a horror film, it can sometimes leave you with a sense of fear or dread. Our only consolation is that we can tell ourselves that what we just watched isn’t real, that it never actually happened. But what about a Dybbuk Box? But what if it was …
We have already looked at the haunting of the Perron family that inspired the original ‘Conjuring’ film and the story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson that served as the inspiration for ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.’ Now it’s time to dig back into the case files of self-proclaimed …
A series of hauntings took place in the small country town of Harrisville, Rhode Island between January, 1971 and June, 1980 in a roughly 3,100-square-foot home owned by the Perron family. The story of Roger and Carolyn and their five daughters – Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April – would …
Most fans in the horror community are familiar with the name Ed Gein – the man whose crimes went on to serve as the basis for Norman Bates in ‘Psycho,’ Buffalo Bill in ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ and, most famously, as the inspiration behind Tobe Hooper’s chainsaw-wielding character Leatherface in …
On July 24, 2021, it was announced that serial killer Rodney Alcala, known more commonly as ‘The Dating Game Killer,’ had died while incarcerated at the California State Prison in Corcoran, California. This is the same prison that also once held the infamous Charles Manson and is still home to …
One night in 1994, aspiring writer Kevin Williamson was housesitting for a friend when he happened across a news broadcast about American serial killer Danny Rolling, or ‘The Gainesville Ripper’ as he had been dubbed by the media. Over the course of four days in August 1990, Rolling had murdered …
With the next installment in the ‘Conjuring’ universe, ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,’ expected to be released on June 04, 2021, we at Horrorfacts thought we would investigate the real life Warren case file that inspired this film. ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ will …
On October 17, 1941, Seventy-three-year-old retired railroad auditor Phillip Peters was found beaten to death in his Denver home. His murder would lead to one of the most bizarre cases the Denver police had ever experienced. Five weeks before his murder, his wife, Helen Peters, had fractured her hip and …
On February 16th, 1923, Archeologists Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (Lord Carnarvon) opened the door to the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen, releasing a curse upon those present. In 1914, Lord Carnarvon along with Carter had secured the permission to dig in the region of Egypt …
