#i wrote this 90% asleep and delirious

[ioniansunsets]

For your Valentine’s Kisses event—

How about Jhin + “come to bed” kisses? 👀

Like, Jhin just got home from one of his “performances” and finds his tired, sleepy muse waiting for him.

I know it’s Jhin we’re talking about here, but… I can’t help it—the thought of him being sweet with his darling once in a while just gets me 😭❤️‍🩹

✖ Word Count: 414. Unproofread.

✖ Tags: Established Relationships. OOC? In the sense that I write Jhin much more gentlemen sweet I think.

✖ A/N: I love him oh so much!!!! Thanks for requesting this. Also you're the one giving him kisses instead today. Happy Valentine's lovelies. 4.

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"Come to bed" kisses: A has their hands on B's neck, murmuring the phrase softly. A's hands slide down B's arms to their hands, lacing their fingers together and slowly starting to pull B towards their bedroom. A continues to pepper B with kisses all the while, trailing them down their jaw and neck.

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It was late. Way too late. The sun had long set and even the drunkards had gone to sleep. But the sound of the door opening woke you up. No matter how gentle your partner tried to be, the soft click as the door closes, the thud as you hear him out down whisper. Noises you knew meant his return. The second clink as you recognize his mask being placed down on the desk outside. You should help him install a hook next time. The third thump of his armor being shed and neatly placed against the wall. And the final thunk as he shed his cloak and bullets onto the chair outside. By then you had stretched a little and slowly got up. Going to meet your lover and welcome him home. But alas, the bedroom door slowly creeks open in return as you reached out to open it.

“ You're awake my love?”

“ Heard you return Jhin.”

His expression softens as he sees you walk over to him. As your hand gently rests on his hips, his own arms reach around your waist. Encircling you, pulling you closer into him. Wanting nothing more than to feel your warmth.

“ It's the dead of night now, you should change. Come to bed with me… Retire for the night.”

“ I am covered in blood my little rose. I would truly rather not stain the sheets. Or you for that matter. Let me have a bath first hmm?”

A low chuckle leaves his lips as you shake your head at him. Slowly inching yourself backwards, dragging your partner along as you get close to the edge of the bed.

“ Let me wipe myself down at least? I'll be quick, I promise. I already feel bad leaving dried blood flakes on you like this.”

Gently he leans back away from you. Dusting off little red specks from his victims tonight.

“ I will, I will! Just… Let me have this first.”

Jhin raises at eyebrow at your words. Curiously watching and waiting to see just what you intended to do. But as you begin giving him chaste kisses. He can't help but feel the confusion in his smile morph into satisfaction.

“ Is this a bribe?”

You

Your answer was just a laugh of your own as you lean in to give him a proper kiss on the lips.

[spine-buster]

hey i know you’ve mentioned a few times that you’re a teacher which obviously means you’ve spent a lot of time in school (both learning and teaching)...i was wondering if you had any advice for university (choosing the right one, the right program/degree and staying motivated and organized) i hope you’re having a good day & happy thanksgiving!! 🤍

Disclaimer:  I gave this advice to one of my students in an email and I’m giving it to you too.

Make time to have fun.  Seriously.  If all you do is study all the time, you are going to burn out, and it will happen quickly.  Make sure to make time for friends, family, and everything in between.  It will bring you balance.

Utilize your professor (or more likely, your TA's) office hours.  Go speak to them to ask about expectations for assignments, any readings or concepts you don't understand, or troubles you might have with the course.  I promise you that they will help you and they WILL NOT think you are stupid.  Most of them want things a certain way (especially for assignments), so if you're asking about it, they can see you are taking a serious interest in your work.  

Don't be afraid to use other on-campus resources, such as writing centres.  You pay a whole lot of money for tuition, so you may as well take full advantage of the things that are offered to you.

Utilize the library as much as possible.  I know that for me personally, my mentality of being in a library made me work so much more efficiently than if I was at home (this is in part because I worked part-time at Home Depot throughout university, but also because the library was quiet and filled with other people serious about getting work done).  I'm not sure if you're commuting or living on campus, but in a similar vein, have a designated working/studying space.  Don't bring your laptop onto your bed.  Leave it on your desk.  Mentally there needs to be that distinction.

Your mark will likely drop anywhere between 15-25% on your first assignment.  Trust me.  Don't be alarmed.  I was getting 80s and 90s in grade 12 English essays, and on my first essay I received a 62%.  It is all a learning opportunity.  When this happens, like mentioned above, go to your TA (they will be the ones marking your work, not your professor) and ask how to improve your mark.  Don't ask to re-do the assignment, because they will not let you.  It's a matter of taking their constructive criticism and applying it so that you do better next time.

Try to network as much as possible.  This starts with your professors and TAs.  Try expanding your horizons and attending networking events.  You never know who you will meet that will be willing to help with your future career.

This one is a bit brutally honest but it's true: one course will always suffer.  There is no way you can keep up with EVERY. SINGLE. READING. for every single course.  You will fall behind.  Hell, you're already behind the first week you start.  Some readings you will just have to skim through so you get the gist of it.  Don't let it bother you.  

We all fail courses.  I failed Soviet Cultural History in my third year.  Don't worry about it.  Take summer school courses to catch up on credits.  They're often easier, anyway.

If you get to take electives, make sure to take stuff you are actually interested in, because then the learning will be fun and you won't feel like the class is an obligation.  Trust me.  Once I was done with all the "core" courses in history I needed to take (aka 1 European history course, 1 Asian history course, 1 North American history course) I focused on histories that I actually wanted to learn.  Those were some of the best courses I took, and I still remember what I learned.  DO NOT TAKE A COURSE JUST BECAUSE YOUR FRIENDS ARE TAKING IT IF YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT.  I took second year philosophy for a boy and it was sooooooo bad.  I regret it everyday.  It was horrible.  Take what interests you.

University is competitive, there's no doubt about it.  But university is a time when you will realize there are so many people smarter than you, and there are so many people stupider than you (so stupid, sometimes, you wonder how they get out of bed in the morning).  Make sure to maintain that competitive edge but don't let it take over your life or ruin your friendships.  

To keep on top of homework:

Set a schedule for yourself.  Buy a planner and actually USE IT.  Colour code studying blocks, organize your time, prioritize tasks, etc.  This makes a huge difference.  I did this all throughout university, and I still use it in teaching.

Take notes as you are reading.  Highlight, underline, sticky notes, hand-written notes, computer typed notes...do it all.  Put the concepts in your own words -- don't just copy from the textbook page.  This will help you better understand what you are learning.  That's the key: understanding, not just memorizing.

Try as much as possible to go to class having already read the reading.  That way, all the stuff the professor is lecturing isn't all completely new information to you, and you actually understand what he's talking about.  This also makes you take less notes, because again, not everything is new!  In a similar vein, write down what the professor SAYS, not just what is on the PowerPoint

Just because a professor posts all the slides online, it does not give you a pass not to show up to lecture.  I can't tell you how many people I saw drop out/fail midterms/fail the final exam because they just relied on the slides posted after class and not actually attended.  

Don't beat yourself up if you don't stick to a homework or reading schedule every once in a while.  Some nights you will want to go out; some nights you'll be so tired you'll fall asleep; some nights you will try studying with your friends in a library or a café and just end up giggling so much and eating so much food because you're tired and delirious and not get anything done (happened to me -- true story! -- more times than I'd like to admit...)

I realize I just wrote you a novel, but I hope it helps.  The most important thing, I should say, is MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP AND NEVER PULL ALL-NIGHTERS, ESPECIALLY BEFORE EXAMS.

[myhauntedsalem]

Horror Movies Based on True Events

Open Water (2003)

When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.

Borderland (2007)

When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”

Black Water (2007)

Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.

Dead Ringers (1988)

In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”

Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself “in the presence of one of hell’s most dangerous devils” possessing a woman.

Poltergeist (1982)

In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.

Psycho (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.

Scream (1996)

The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.

The Conjuring (2013)

The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”

Annabelle (2014)

The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.

The Disappointments Room (2016)

Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.

The Exorcist (1973)

Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage,”

The Possession (2012)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.

The Rite (2011)

In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.

The Sacrament (2013)

In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.

The Shining (1980)

Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.

The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.

The Strangers (2008)

Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. “As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. “At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.”

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003)

Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014)

The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved

Veronica (2018)

The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”

[xxgoblin-dumplingxx]

Safe Harbor (4/?)

A/N: Smut, fluff and angst if you squint. Thor is soft as hell and I really really love it.

Thor follows you back to the boat. His belly is full and you love him. Everything feels right. He’s tired after his night of pleasant exertions but just knowing that you have feelings for him beyond physical want makes him want to take you back below decks and make love to you again until you’re too tired to remember that you’re leaving the city soon.

Once he gets you below decks, you undress each other to lay down for a good sleep. Shy, giggly, and giddy now that this is more than just sex, the two of you kiss the fading marks you left behind and Thor kisses your neck, making you sigh. When he lays you down on the bed and cradles you in his arms, you smile. You’re glad that you gave in to your weakness for big, soft, shy men. You know Thor is a hero, a fighter. But he’s also a marshmallow. A sucker for big sad eyes and kisses in the moonlight. You wonder if he’d want to be your mate but you don’t ask. For now, the revelation that he loves you is enough. Love can fade but a matebond can only be broken by death. 

You fall asleep covered in the scent of him, warm and safe. Comfortably cuddling his soft belly and letting the rocking of the boat put you to sleep. It’s bliss in its own way. You love sleeping with someone. Especially someone who’s this good at cuddling. Thor is snoring lightly, comfortable enough with you that when you cuddle his belly he doesn’t want you to stop. He wants to keep you near him for as long as he can. It even makes him less insecure about it, if you like him this way then who is he to argue. You’re his werewolf goddess. You can stoke a fire in him with just a cheeky smile and a wink. You satisfy his every appetite with glee and he’s not about to argue with the literal embodiment of what makes him lust after a person when it comes to attraction.

Neither of you sleeps long, just long enough that the sunrise is now mid-morning sun. You wake to Thor making your coffee and doing your dishes from the night before and you sit up slowly. He’s shirtless but wearing the shorts he packed, seemingly content though he has to stoop slightly in your small kitchen. You watch him for a moment, not bothering to cover yourself as you lounge on the bed. “Good morning,” he chuckles seeing you awake. He dries his hands and gives you a coffee mug, taking a moment to admire you “You are incredible,” he murmurs, “And when I’ve finished cleaning up, I will have you again.” You take a sip from your coffee mug and smirk, “Will you?” you tease. Thor kisses you, a tempting kiss with just the barest suggestion of his power behind it but he still leaves you flustered, “I think I will,” he said, his voice rough and a little possessive making you shiver. You know that if he starts to push buttons you’ll crumble for him easily. He knows exactly where to press. He read your body like his favorite book, drinking in every reaction and using it to urge you on. He cups your cheek for a moment and you smile. He might be possessive but he can’t just not be soft with you. As he turns back to the dishes you smile, setting in, happy to watch him. 

He’s careful and clumsy, unused to doing such things but he doesn’t seem to mind. It’s adorable. He’s doing for you as if that’s all he wants to do and by the time you’ve finished your coffee and he’s finished dishes, all you want to do is kiss him. Thor can’t feel what you want exactly but he can feel the general shape of your desires and he knows you’re longing for sweetness. That you want to enjoy the glow of new love for just a little while longer. So when he comes back to bed, he does just that. 

The God peppers you with kisses and spends longer than you would have thought possible lavishing attention on your body. He’s gentle and warm and so very soft as he explores your skin. Kissing every scar and chuckling at the buckshot scar on your backside, “So you do still have a scar,” he teased, “I’ll have to tell Bucky.” You snort, “Tell him I owe him one, not only did I have to have it fester out to get all the silver the guy I was doing the job for tried to not pay me.”

“What were you doing?” Thor asked, warming oil between his hands to apply it to your skin. “Security,” you say lazily, “Some oil tycoon got himself mixed up in some shady shit so I ran temporary security for his house.”  Thor frowned, “All by yourself?” he asked. You shake your head, “Nah, I got a team I can call if I need them. And Warren gets bored holed up in the city. It’s good to get him out for a while every now and then. Keeps him from turning into my parents.”

Thor pauses. It’s the first thing you’ve willingly said about them and he’s curious, “What do you mean?” he asked. You sigh, stretching, “Werewolves are biologically immortal. They will live until something kills them but... Humans who are made instead of born werewolves... Their brains don’t change that much. The longer they live the harder it can be as time passes to adjust to a new era.” Thor makes a soft sound and nods, “Father was made a werewolf while the earth was closer to what you remember. When Isabella and Ferdinand rule Spain he was just a boy. He’s been a pirate for the crown of Spain stealing from English ships, he’s been a tradesman. A goldsmith, a Ferrier, a merchant. He amassed a fortune in Spanish gold and art. Enough to keep him for several dozen lifetimes. Warren periodically reinvests the money for him to make sure they never run out. Mother... Mother was a debutante. She came from a wealthy family and never had any passion apparently beyond marrying well and marrying young. So when my father, the mysterious stranger with money to spare cropped up, well. That was all she wrote.” You turn onto your back to look at Thor and Thor kisses you before starting to rub oil into your belly and your breasts. He stays quiet, encouraging you to continue. “It’s lucky that I was born at all honestly. Though I think mother still considers me a curse of sorts... Warren is he favorite. But I’m his favorite so I guess it works. He raised me really... I think he decided it was for the best after Father went to register me for school when I was 5 and just plonked a bag of pirate doubloons on the principal's desk and demanded I be given room and board.” You snort and Thor smiles a little. 

“That sounds like it would have been very strange,” he said gently, “Your home being so at odds with the world you interacted with daily.” You nod, “It was always incredibly odd going from speaking Spanish in Don Quixote to the English of New York in the 90′s and 2000′s when I was in elementary and middle school.” Thor kisses your stomach and nuzzles the soft skin lovingly, “Were you always this adorably plump?” he asks teasingly. Hoping to distract you from whatever discomfort this conversation might cause. You laugh, “Much to my Mother’s dismay, yes,” you tell him, “I was born chubby and just stayed that way... It didn’t matter what diet Mother tried, all my puppy fat just clung on to me and then I was just fat instead of being a chubby little kid.” Thor pinches your hip, “Well I happen to like your puppy fat,” he says, “And I’m glad she never managed to get rid of it.” You smile a little, “She considers it a personal slight that I wasn’t born to be debutante slender and delicate.” Thor frowned and bent to kiss you softly, “I love you no matter what you look like... Though I prefer you this way, naked and lazy.” You laugh and tuck a lock of hair behind his ear, “Sweating and screaming your name doesn’t even get an honorable mention?” you tease. “It’s been too long since I experienced it to be able to tell,” he says thoughtfully, “Perhaps, if my love would grant me a demonstration?” You laugh and pull him into a slow kiss that makes him burn as you reach for the button on his shorts.

The outside world fades to nothing and all there is, is sweat and need. Wrapped up in each other. In the sensation of lust burning like the summer sun. When he situated you to straddle his face, greedy for you and eager to taste you until you begged for his cock, neither of you even knew where you were. Wrapped in a haze of desire and his powers pressing down on you unchecked, spurring you to greater heights. And that’s how you missed the footsteps above your head. The conversation and disapproval. And that’s how your brother had unknowingly escorted your mother to the dock only to walk in on you straddling your new boyfriend’s face. “What the fuck,” Warren muttered, sprinting back up the steps and carefully telling his mother who was waiting at the cafe that you would be along shortly. Warren’s racing feet make you scramble off of Thor swearing softly, “Shit. Shit. Shit. He’s supposed to call before he does that.” You scramble into clothes and Thor sits up, half delirious with lust, “What is it love?” he asks, trying to catch your hands. You’re shaking and irritable and he doesn’t like it. 

“Warren brought mommy dearest to come sailing today, apparently,” you grumble, putting on a button down and a pair of jeans before sliding your feet into flip flops. You smell like Sex. Like Thor and Salt air but there’s not much you can actually do about it now. Mother will just have to be disapproving. “Use the shower and throw on some clean clothes, handsome. I’ll go stall for time.” Before Thor can ask questions, you’re gone. Up the steps and over the deck on the way to the Cafe where Warren has your mother waiting. Thor groans. His prick aches and he silently thanks the gods for cold showers. This was going to be a long day. 

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Horror Movies Based on True Events  

Lots still not mentioned

Open Water (2003) When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.

Borderland (2007) When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”

Black Water (2007) Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.

Dead Ringers (1988) In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”

Deliver Us From Evil (2014) The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself "in the presence of one of hell's most dangerous devils" possessing a woman.

Poltergeist (1982) In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.

Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.

Scream (1996) The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.

The Conjuring (2013) The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”

Annabelle (2014) The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.

The Disappointments Room (2016) Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.

The Exorcist (1973) Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.

The Girl Next Door (2007) The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia's extensive skin damage,”

The Possession (2012) Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.

The Rite (2011) In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.

The Sacrament (2013) In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.

The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.

The Silence of the Lambs(1991) The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.

The Strangers (2008) Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. "As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. "At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn't live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses."

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003) Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014) The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved 

Veronica (2018) The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”

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Horror Movies Based on True Events

Open Water (2003)

When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.

Borderland (2007)

When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”

Black Water (2007)

Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.

Dead Ringers (1988)

In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”

Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself “in the presence of one of hell’s most dangerous devils” possessing a woman.

Poltergeist (1982)

In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.

Psycho (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.

Scream (1996)

The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.

The Conjuring (2013)

The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”

Annabelle (2014)

The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.

The Disappointments Room (2016)

Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.

The Exorcist (1973)

Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage,”

The Possession (2012)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.

The Rite (2011)

In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.

The Sacrament (2013)

In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.

The Shining (1980)

Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.

The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.

The Strangers (2008)

Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. “As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. “At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.”

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003)

Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014)

The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved

Veronica (2018)

The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”