16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies
Sometimes the horror comes from inside the house.
![16 Real Stories That Sound Like Horror Movies](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/9/752409_320x180.jpg?v=2)
Many people argue that watching horror movies is basically overkill since real life could just as well be called Hell’s Soup Kitchen. They’re (partly) right since reality does in fact shape and form our horror content. Just look at the following stories, because every one of them could easily be turned into a pants-wetting movie.
For instance:
![he two Dutch friends who went missing on a hike in Panama, and the creepy pictures on their phone. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went hiking in 2014](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/6/752426.jpg?v=2)
![The Airbnb rental with hidden cameras in it.
Sounding a lot like the plot of The Rental sans all the murder, an Airbnb in Longboat Key, Florida, was](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/4/752424.jpg?v=2)
![The scariest shark story ever.
In 1982, a group of five friends were sailing a yacht from Maryland to Florida when they capsized during a storm. For](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/3/752423.jpg?v=2)
![The school bus kidnapping where the kids were almost buried alive.
In 1976, a bus driver and school kids were overcome by three men, taken to a quarr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/7/752427.jpg?v=2)
![The skiers who mysteriously died on Dead Mountain.
A group of skiers were hiking in the Ural Mountains of Russia when a blizzard hit. They camped out](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/2/752422.jpg?v=2)
![The people who unknowingly slept on top of a corpse in a motel.
For almost two months, guests complained about a foul odor in a room of a motel befor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/0/752420.jpg?v=2)
![The family who was plagued by garden ceramics.
A family in Southern California thought it was a prank when a bunch of ceramics appeared in their gard](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/1/752421.jpg?v=2)
![The Japanese woman who lived in the closet.
A man in Japan probably thought his house was haunted when food started disappearing from his fridge. He](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/8/752418.jpg?v=2)
![Apparently there’s a haunted Frozen Elsa doll.A family in Houston who purchased a singing Elsa doll claims the thing to be haunted. it speaks on its](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/9/752419.jpg?v=2)
![The people who were being watched.A family fled their home after being tormented by someone who called themselves the “Watcher.” The stalker wrote a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/7/752417.jpg?v=2)
![The twins who were always trying to kill each other.
Also called the Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons never spoke actual words to anyone excep](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/6/752416.jpg?v=2)
![A ghost hunter stabbed himself in the Axe Murder House.The famous Villisca Axe Murder house in Iowa is thought to be haunted by the family murdered t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/5/752415.jpg?v=2)
![The babysitter who disappeared.
In 1954, a Wisconsin teenager named Evelyn Hartley was babysitting a little girl, but when she failed to call her par](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/4/752414.jpg?v=2)
![The North London exorcism gone wrong.
Kennedy Ife (26) lost his mind one day when he started biting his dad and threatened to cut off his penis. His](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/3/752413.jpg?v=2)
![The Pennsylvania house with dead animals in the walls.
The Bretzius family discovered animal carcasses and half-used spice hidden inside the drywalls](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/2/752412.jpg?v=2)
![The man who phoned his family, even though he was already dead.
In 2008, a Metrolink train crashed in the northern San Fernando Valley, killing 25 pe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/1/752411.jpg?v=2)