It seems that every town has one. The house where something sinister happened. The abandoned or

condemned building with windows long since boarded up and with plenty of ghost stories to accompany

it. The house you're not supposed to look directly at, or else some evil will follow you.

The kind of house most of us wouldn't even go into on a dare.

In Kettie, California, right outside of Quincy, that house is Cabin 28 at the Ketty Resort,

at least before the house was demolished in 2004.

But that wasn't before ghost stories were passed from friend to friend,

tales of strange noises and dares waged to even step foot

into the place where such a grisly crime had taken place.

So gruesome, in fact, that the population of Keddy has dwindled down to nearly

nothing, and speculation of what happened has neared the level of legend. In fact, if you've seen

the movies The Strangers or Cabin 28, then you know what I'm talking about, since those

movies were based on the case Maggie and I are

bringing you today. While the story begins as one of a fresh start, a new independent life

for a young, newly single mother and her five children, it ends in one of the most gruesome,

quadruple homicides in American history.

Just Ask Brian Bertino, writer and director of The Strangers, who said that the inspiration for his film about the random attack on and brutal slaying of an entire family by masked strangers

came from real-life events. First, his own childhood of strangers

knocking on his door and asking for people who didn't live there, who were later linked to

robberies in the area. Second, the Manson family murders. Again, strangers, groups of them,

attacking and taking delight and torture.. Again, strangers, groups of them, attacking and taking delight in torture.

And third, as many journalists speculate, by the case today.

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