Fright Night: 10 Horror Movies Based on True Stories

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No. 4 The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Movie Plot: the story of a reporter, John Klein, who gets lost while driving and ends up in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. There he meets Mothman, a winged creature whose appearance seems to foretell disastrous events.

True Story: several reports between 1966 and 1967 of the sightings of a large, unidentified winged creature occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. After these sightings, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge, crossing the Ohio River, collapsed and killed 46 people.

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