In 2014, a Missouri woman named Catrina McGhaw was watching a true crime documentary about a murderer who made snuff films while torturing and murdering a series of women in his basement

 

In 2014, a Missouri woman named Catrina McGhaw was watching a true crime documentary about a murderer who made snuff films while torturing and murdering a series of women in his basement — when she suddenly realized that the basement on screen was her own and that she'd just moved into a house previously occupied by a serial killer. Even worse, some of his items were still in the home, including a dining room table that showed up in some of the crime scene photos. 

Horrified, McGhaw immediately tried to move out. But her landlord — who turned out to be the serial killer's mother — forbade her from leaving until her lease was up. Though McGhaw was eventually able to relocate thanks to help from the St. Louis Housing Authority, she said that things kept getting "weirder" in the house during her final days there. At one point, her 2-year-old relative was playing near a pole where the serial killer had tied his victims up and had a disturbing reaction: "She looked over and she was... scared... like she saw somebody scared and crying and nobody was there, nobody there."