This week I look at the true stories behind 5 of the most famous movies about Hauntings. The hauntings are all real, I just strip away the Hollywood take on these terrifying cases. The first film I look at is 2002's Mothman prophecies https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/ an excellent film which is based around many paranormal occurances that happened in the late 1960s in the small town of Point Pleasent, Virginia. The film recants the story well but doesn't tell the whole truth. This is certainly one of the most unusual stories and to top it off, has over 200 reports in a 13 month period. The story culminates in the collapse of the Silver bridge into the Ohio river, but the story doesn't end there... https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/12/06/the-real-story-of-the-mothman-prophecies The next film that I look at is probably the most famous of the 5 - The 1973 film The Exorcist https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/ - having watched this film, it seems incredulous that it is based on a true story but it is. Certainly, the story is different from what actually happened but certainly not vastly different. https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/exorcist-based-true-story-real-11303612 Possibly the most famously haunted address in the United States is in Amityville - The 1979 film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078767/ is based around events that actually occurred - but did they occur as reported, may there have been something else sinister that happened in the house after the multiple murders occurred - could the events be based on occult practices? https://thistv.com/blog/the-shocking-true-story-behind-the-amityville-horror/ The 4th film takes us off to Germany for 2005's the Exorcism of Emily Rose. This is a truly tragic story in real life https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404032/ . Her name wasn't Emily Rose... and she was certainly exorcised and the photos exist to prove it, but the truth behind this is truly shocking. https://allthatsinteresting.com/anneliese-michel-exorcism The final film 1982's The Entity https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334/ This story states very clearly on the poster that it is based on a true story and it is very close to the actual events but in truth, what went on was far more harrowing than the film depicted. https://www.ranker.com/list/true-story-behind-the-entity/jacob-shelton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Bither_case - If you would like to contact me you can do so via the website https://tallboyradio.wordpress.com/a-history-of-hauntings/ or by emailing me [email protected] or on twitter at https://twitter.com/HHauntingPod/ The opening music for this podcast is "Weak Knight" by Devon Church and the closing music is "BDS" by Lewis Pickford