In Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies, Chiller investigates the terrifying factual stories that inspired some of the scariest horror movies of all time, including Silent Hill, The Amityville Horror, The Mothman Prophecies and Poltergeist, through exclusive eyewitness interviews and reenactments of actual events. Paranormal investigator Katrina Weidman (Paranormal State) travels with three of her friends into the dark recesses of the unknown to uncover the buried secrets behind these four iconic films. Journey down the haunted high-ways of the American East Coast on a road trip to discover the origins of our most beloved horror films. From a grisly series of murders in the small town Amityville to a devastating, subterranean fire in the rural town of Centralia...From the eye-witness reports of the inexplicable, red-eyed creature known as Mothman to the documented paranormal activity that inspired Poltergeist...The movies may be fiction, but the fear is very, very real...

Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

Paranormal investigators Katrina Weidman (Paranormal State), Richard Dolan (Syfy Investigates), John McGarry, Chris Holt and Becky Weingrad travel across the country in search of America's darkest mysteries -- a road trip into the unknown. The cases explored take the Real Fear team to extraordinary destinations to investigate an array of terrifying phenomena -- exposing a secret world of legends, ghosts, cryptids and UFOs hidden across America's landscape. Guest stars including Chip Coffey (Paranormal State and Psychic Kids), John Zaffis (Haunted Collector), Travis Walton (Fire in the Sky), and Carmen Reed (The Haunting in Connecticut) join the Real Fear team to help unearth shocking new evidence related to the real-life cases that inspired the most iconic horror films of all time.