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The Truth Shall Set You Free

By Mike Krumboltz
Wed, June 04, 2008, 1:48 pm PDT

As soon as audiences see the words—"Based on a true story"—they sprint to the Search box for confirmation. It's the one disclaimer no moviegoer can resist.

"The Strangers" is the latest flick to spark a run on "true story" lookups. The horror film opens with an ominious voiceover stating that the carnage you are about to witness is based on actual events. Filmgoers, perhaps wise to Hollywood's tendency to stretch the truth like taffy, looked up "the strangers true story," "did the strangers really happen," as well as the film's main characters "kristen mckay and james hoyt."

And what did these searching sleuths discover? Surprisingly, the film is in fact loosely based on a 1981 homicide at the Keddie Cabins in Plumas County, California. That revelation sparked a boom of buzz on "keddie cabins," "where are the keddie cabins," and "unsolved keddie deaths." That's right, kids—the case was never solved.

But as much as "The Strangers" has infected the minds of searchers, it's not the only so-called "true story" to boom in Buzz. Here are a list of the biggest "true story" terms from curious filmbuffs and truth seekers.

  1. The Strangers True Story
  2. An American Crime True Story
  3. Alpha Dog True Story
  4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre True Story
  5. Into the Wild True Story
  6. Emily Rose True Story
  7. Sparta 300 True Story
  8. Blair Witch True Story
  9. Fire in the Sky True Story
  10. Amityville Horror True Story
    1. Open Water True Story
    2. Brokedown Palace True Story
    3. Astronaut Farmer True Story
    4. We Are Marshall True Story
    5. The Mothman Prophecies True Story
    6. The Ghost and the Darkness True Story
    7. 21 Movie True Story
    8. Black Hawk Down True Story
    9. Black Dahlia True Story
    10. Secondhand Lions True Story

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