#288 The Babysitter

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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You know the movie When a Stranger Calls? The one about the babysitter who receives a creepy phone call, and the call is coming from inside the house? Well, it was LOOSELY, based on a true story. There have been countless stories, and probably even more film depictions of a teenage girl hired to babysit, and after the children have been put to bed, the babysitter is alone, watching a movie, doing homework, on the phone with a boyfriend, whatever. Then the phone rings, the caller asks, something along the lines of “have you checked on the children lately”, the babysitter is scared. She locks the door, turns on the light to see if anyone is there, nothing. She eventually calls the police and once the call is traced, she's told the call is coming from inside the house. None of that happened in this story, but somehow this is the source of the urban legend of the babysitter. This is the story of Janett Christman. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2021/07/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house-horror-trope-is-based-on-a-sady-true-story/ https://medium.com/omgfacts/the-truth-behind-the-babysitter-the-man-upstairs-urban-legend-d41d1722c9e9 https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/politics/government/2010/03/07/who-killed-janett-christman/984978007/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52836495/janett-christman/photo https://cindyparmiter.substack.com/p/a-babysitters-worst-nightmare-the https://truecrimearticles.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/the-unsolved-murder-of-janett-christman/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and me and
0:08.9	Andy are back. God, it is not fall yet. What happened? It's not. I told you. It's fake fall.
0:13.9	I'm so tired of this fucking edging of fall. It cools down. It's right back.
0:18.0	God. Just wants some pumpkins. Come on.
0:22.6	Summer's back. Just like we are, guys.
0:23.7	Sorry about last week.
0:26.3	I got just a little overwhelmed.
0:28.8	We got a couple house projects going on.
0:30.9	I got family visiting from out of town.
0:32.3	And it's just... Yeah, he's being very modest by a house project.
0:35.9	This motherfucker built an extension room onto his house.
0:38.5	Looks goddamn like a magnificent cabin that you walk into a different wonderland.
0:43.1	And he's like, a little house project.
0:44.9	Yeah, a little house project.
0:46.1	Just walking here like, where do this fucking come from?
0:48.1	All right.
0:49.6	Why's your house bigger?
0:50.6	What happened?
0:52.2	Yeah, so we were, me me my wife were working real hard to
0:55.3	finish that up so that when family came in they would have you know another room to stay in
1:00.3	or whatnot so yeah we've been that's michael's mentality right there we got family coming in
1:05.6	but we don't have any we don't have any extra rooms well i guess I guess I'm building one.
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