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The 1970s and 80s was a hotbed of excellent paranormal horror films – The Exorcist, the original Amityville Horror, Halloween, Carrie, Eraserhead, Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria, Invasion of the Body Snatchers…. I could go on. It was quite the era of film – and remarkably, some of these legendary tales are based on true stories.

One of the lesser known films of this era is The Entity. It’s sort of your run-of-the-mill poltergeist film: single mother, claims she’s being attacked and harassed physically and sexually by a ghost or demon or something…

But! It was based on the true story of Doris Bither…whose case was, in fact, rather unique for an alleged haunting.

Sources: 

1) https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/10/a-closer-look-at-the-entity-photographs/
2) https://laghosttour.com/the-entity-house/
3) https://www.themysticmedium.com/the-entity-haunting-the-doris-bither-story/
4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Bither_case
5) https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/paranormal-activity-ucla-haunting-story

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