The True Story Behind "The Entity"

Serial Killing : A Podcast

Elissa Kerrill

True Crime

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The story behind the 1982 film, "The Entity", is based on the true story of Doris Blither and the spectral rape and attacks she experienced that lead to the book and subsequent film.

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Thumbnail: The Entity (1982)

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0:39.0	Scary movie fans, such as myself, will hear that a movie is based on a true story.
0:46.7	Some of them we know, but most, well we never go on to find out just what that true story is.
0:54.7	So in this series, we explore and find out exactly
0:59.6	what the true story is behind the movies we love. The 1982 movie The Entity is the
1:08.8	rather unnerving story about Carla Moran, a typical single mother in Los Angeles having a very typical
1:17.6	evening with her children. As she begins getting ready to go to bed, she is hit in the face. It bloodies her mouth.
1:27.7	She's then thrown onto her bed where a pillow is held over her face and she tries desperately to remove the pillow but she is
1:36.5	unable to. Then it becomes glaringly obvious over she is able to remove the pillow from her face.
1:50.0	She then begins to scream in terror and her are not far behind.
2:04.0	Carla starts screaming that a man had been in her room
2:08.0	and her son frantically began searching.
2:11.0	The window in his mother's room is closed and locked. He runs to the
2:16.2	bathroom to check there as her daughters begin to cry and hug their mother. Her son
2:22.3	checks the closet. no one is there. He then runs through
2:26.0	the house looking for signs of an intruder, but as suspected everything is
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