I Got Something Scary For You

Many of the scarier movies are made from fiction based on or inspired by true life events or people. Classic gothic horror does same thing too. So here are some fiction stories based on or inspired by actual events that have been turned into movies. (That is why this is an image list because some of these have been done more than once.) Which scary story, not movie, got scarier when you found out it is based on a real person or event?

If you got any scary “news stories” (since some of these were news in the past) that were fictionalized into stories and made into movies, series, and etc, submit them to the editor here. This list will not go the full 35!

P.S. A shout out to the true life story of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) which was also told in the 1st act of the film The FBI Story (1959).