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I've just watched "The Strangers: Chapter 1". Did you know that "The Strangers" is based on a real story? Actually, three real-life cases.

According to the writer and director, Bryan Bertino, this movie is mainly inspired by the murders committed by the Manson family in 1969. The murder of the actress Sharon Tate stands out as a clear inspiration for this movie.

The second inspiration would be the Keddie cabin murders. In this case, four people were brutally killed in a California resort town in 1981. The motive and the killers are still unknown to this day.

The third inspiration comes from Bertino's own experience. One night, when he was young and his parents weren't home, a stranger knocked on the door, asking for someone who didn't live there. It is said that the person who knocked on the door was a robber who was knocking on the door to rob houses that had no one there during that night.

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You have probably heard of the Skinwalkers before, but do you know about their legend?

The Navajo tribe, currently the second most populous Native American people, believed that the Skinwalkers were shape-shifting, harmful witches that could assume the form of different animals as a way to hide themselves wherever they pleased and in plain sight. Some even believed that they could steal a person's face.

As the legend says, for a person to become a Skinwalker they would have to be initiated into the witchery way, which involved murdering someone, usually a close relative such as a parent or a sibling. Once this was done, the person would become pure evil. Most of those witches were men.

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Hi! I'm Irish and just wanted to offer some insight about your Samhain post that I thought might be interesting. Samhain is our modern word for November and we still refer to Halloween as Samhain Eve in our language. In modern Ireland we still count November 1st as the first day of Winter, so in Ireland the purpose of Halloween to this day is to mark the change in seasons. The Wiccan version of the holiday is somewhat appropriative and seen as weird by a lot of Irish because it adds in things that are not from our culture and presents them as traditional.

That's really interesting, I had no idea about that.

Thank you so much for sharing! ☺️

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Since it's October, I thought I would write about the real story behind Halloween.

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Did you know that this holiday has its roots in an ancient Celtic festival? It was called Samhain, which was a pagan celebration at the end of summer, made to help people welcome the harvest.

During Samhain, people would light bonfires and wear costumes, like we do today, but for a very different reason. They believed that during this festival, spirits would walk the earth, so they used the costumes as a way to "trick" those spirits into thinking they are one of them.

What about the trick or treating? Well, there are different theories, but the most common one is that people would leave food offerings to the spirits that were walking around earth during that time, as a way to appease them.

Samhain is still celebrated today, especially by Wiccans.

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