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As someone who used to be a huge fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, I was surprised to have never heard of this before.
So in case it's not widely known, I thought this might be a good place to post this.
This is a quote from Wes Craven about the true story he read in the LA Times that inspired the creation of Freddy.
“I’d read an article in the L.A. Times about a family who had escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia and managed to get to the U.S. Things were fine, and then suddenly the young son was having very disturbing nightmares. He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”
My wife and I love ghost hunting and horror. Several years ago I looked at ghost stories around our area. One that stood out like a sore thumb was a boy named Freddy Krueger died in a fire and he was buried near his mother. The story goes that at night, his grave would glow orange. Well....We went check it out. During the day because we were in a hurry to go see this grave, and had to find it first. Well we found his grave and did a little investigation. Lo and behold, there was a streetlight not to far. We decided to debunk it and say the glow was coming from the streetlight.
Now it's been a while since I've read the story. You can probably find it online, that's where I got it, the town is DeRidder, La.
I do believe there is a courthouse in that town that's supposedly haunted too.
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