The man who lived in the walls. The unsettling case of Daniel LaPlante - (This would make for a great horror movie)

[koquerelle]

@Bobby Boulders
Found it!

1974

 

[KnightTemplar]

Man I've stalked my fair share of girls but never took it anything like this far, what a weirdo

Guys like La Plante just ruin it for the rest of us, bro.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

@Bobby Boulders
Found it!

1974

I was wondering why I've never heard of this, but it is apparently a relic from a time when network TV made decent made-for-TV fare. My game is a bit lacking in that department, off the top I can think of the Trilogy of Terror movies, the Stephen King made-for-TV movies, and Dark Night of the Scarecrow as upper crust made-for-TV horrors

 

[koquerelle]

Guys like La Plante just ruin it for the rest of us, bro.

legit lol
Love your sick sense of humour, sherbro.

 

[Deleted member 609094]

Guys like La Plante just ruin it for the rest of us, bro.

The mayo and ketchup face?

 

[KnightTemplar]

legit lol
Love your sick sense of humour, sherbro.

 

[Contempt]

@Contempt I guess you used to do that when you were younger. Creep

Hey, everyone needs a hobby...

 

[Adamant]

The scariest thing about that movie is Helen Hunt's plastic surgery face.

And the director did a still shot just focusing on her face that slowly zoomed in. It was uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

 

[Cajun]

In 1986, a teenage girl living in Massachusetts started noticing strange things around her home. Items were being moved. Food was half eaten. At night she heard whispers. She began to wonder if she was going crazy.

But she was not. A boy named Daniel LaPlante, who had briefly dated her, was secretly living inside the crawlspaces of her house.

One day her father opened a cupboard and found a hole behind it. Inside was Daniel, dressed in the girl’s late mother’s clothes and smiling.

Police later found a network of tunnels hidden inside the walls. He had been moving through the house unseen, spying on them, and even leaving messages like I am still here written on the walls.

It sounds like an urban legend, but it is completely real. The most terrifying part is knowing they were sleeping just inches away from him the entire time without ever realizing it.

He also went on to serve multiple life sentences for murder after this whole situation.

Daniel LaPlante - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Reading about him... even the murder crime is horrific. Imagine how fortunate the people in the house feel

On December 1, 1987, LaPlante entered the Townsend home of Priscilla Gustafson, a nursery school teacher. Gustafson, who was pregnant, was found face-down on her bed, her pillows covered in her blood. LaPlante had raped her and shot her multiple times at point-blank range. LaPlante drowned both of her children (7-year-old Abigail and 5-year-old William) in separate bathrooms.

Looks like he should be around Parole eligible (45) years and hes only held in a medium security prison which is strange.

 

[Cajun]

When A Stranger Calls Back
People Under the Stairs
The Boy
Hider in the House

To these already mentioned, I'll add the more recent 2019 Helen Hunt flick I See You. The movie invokes the terminology surrounding this bizarre thrill-seeking subculture for some weirdos: "phrogging". It starred Owen Teague who I think is one of the more talented young actors out there. He made my skin crawl in the latest adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.

The urban dictionary shows an entry for this term dated to 2006. Google Trends lists 2004 as a start date for the term, but results come up blank for that date range due to a dearth of data, so I can't find any details about the earliest search usage.

Apparently Lifetime did a series on this in 2022:

Phrogging: Hider in My House​

I didnt even realize they remade the stand. Good?

 

[Madmick]

I didnt even realize they remade the stand. Good?

Same thing that seems to happen to all of them. Starts out awesome, and it's just a steep downward trajectory from there.

 

[Cajun]

Same thing that seems to happen to all of them. Starts out awesome, and it's just a steep downward trajectory from there.

Too bad. I was hoping now that they pour more money into TV that the writing, directing and production would be on point. The only made for TV stephen king I really liked was Storm of the Century.