The black and white film that was playing on the television made flickering images dance on the walls of the dark

LA apartment. It was the only light in the room, and as the scene shifted on the screen,

the apartment grew dark and then brightened again, illuminating the man who was slumped on the

couch across from the television set.

A cigarette burned for gotten in an ashtray on the coffee table in front of him,

and he held a sweating bottle of beer in his hand.

He'd forgotten about that too.

He was gripped by the story that unfolded in the film.

Next to him was a battered notebook in which the man

had written some notes about the chilling story, which, as it turned out, wasn't just a movie. It was

based on real life. And when the man found that out, he became even more obsessed by the terrible events that occurred two decades before.

He'd keep coming back to the one line that he'd written in the notebook on the night he watched that film on television.

There's a killer on the road, he'd written.

It was meant to be the first line of one of his many poems, but it became a song instead.

That poet was Jim Morrison, and the words he'd written became the first line of one of the classic tunes for his band, The Doors, a song called

Riders on the Storm. It's a song that's a strange mixture of psychedelic rock, jazz, and

art rock. It's also an eerie song with added sound effects of rain and thunder and an unsettling doubling

of Jim Morrison's lead vocal with a spoken whisper track underneath. But that wasn't all that

was unsettling about it. Writers on the Storm turned out to be the last song Morrison ever recorded. When the album

was finished, he left L.A. for Paris and either died on July 3rd, 1971, or he went permanently

off the grid, whichever you'd like to believe. But it's the lyrics behind the song. That's the most unsettling of

all. It was inspired by one of the most sinister spree killers in history. His reign of terror began in the

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