7 More Horror Films That Eerily Came True

It might be debatable as to whether 1965’s The Collector is technically a horror film - even though the events it depicts are terrifying to imagine - but the horrific actions it inspired in its wake offer no such ambiguity.

The story of The Collector follows a man obsessed with Miranda, an art student in his town, driven to kidnap her and keep her in his basement by his own intense desire. An avid collector of butterflies, he treats her like one of his specimens - until she accidentally dies of an illness contracted by trying to escape in the rain.

Two men, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, took no stock of Freddie’s lack of sexual interest, nor his mostly non-violent ways, and instead conducted what they called ‘Operation Miranda’ on anywhere between 11 and 25 people they abducted at will. Torturing and eventually murdering the girls they stole, they kept them in a soundproof bunker, nicknamed a ‘dungeon’, where they couldn’t be heard from the outside.

Lake was caught shoplifting, leading police to find Ng and all the evidence revealing their horrific crimes.