Behind the Screams - Season 1

The peaceful small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin is shattered when a female bartender goes missing. But it's not until a few years later when another woman of the same age disappears that local sheriffs start putting together the pieces of a very strange puzzle. Two bloody crime scenes…dozens of empty graves…a sick obsession with mother…and a suit of human skin. You might think this is the plot from a horror film, but it's all terrifyingly true. These are the actual events that inspired the movies Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and many more stories of terror. This is the Behind the Screams account of serial killer Ed Gein.

When two young women disappear from a lakeside beach, investigators have nothing to go on. But as bodies begin to surface and more women go missing, shocking similarities in the cases come to light: a handsome stranger with a broken arm, a Volkswagon Bug, and the name Ted. As investigators close in on the monster responsible for this horrifying killing spree, it leads to a devastating sorority house massacre… You might think this is the plot from a horror film, but it's all terrifyingly true. These are the actual events that inspired the Buffalo Bill character in the movie Silence of the Lambs, and many more stories of terror. This is the Behind the Screams account of serial killer Ted Bundy.

In 1970s Chicago, teenage boys are going missing by the dozen. But investigators are overlooking an important clue – all the missing boys share a connection with an upstanding community member who's leading a double-life. He's a power hungry sadist...that can't get enough. You might think this is the plot from a horror film, but it's all terrifyingly true. This is the original clown-faced killer – the monster that inspired so many evil, clown-faced villains. This is the Behind the Screams account of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Strange, inhuman noises, night after night…hellish commandments gouged in human flesh…and a war of good vs. evil. When a teenage boy in Baltimore begins to act strange, his parents don't know what to think. But as his behavior gets stranger, they become certain of one thing – their son is consumed by evil and they must seek help from the church. You might think this is the plot from a horror film, but it's all terrifyingly true. These are the actual events that inspired the movie The Exorcist, and many more stories of terror. This is the Behind the Screams account of a young man possessed by the devil.

When a large family moves into an old rural farmhouse, they hope to give their kids a simpler life. But they've landed in a house full of terrible secrets. A family home full of angry apparitions…tragic suicides…and sinister witchcraft. The ghosts terrorize the mother and frighten the children every night. You might think this is the plot from a horror film, but it's all terrifyingly true. These are the actual events that inspired the movie The Conjuring, and many more stories of terror. This is the Behind the Screams account of the Perron family home's haunting.

A group of men leave a job site late one night and one of them is drawn in by a bright light and quickly disappears; based on the movie, "Fire in the Sky.''