I recently discovered the Netflix series Haunted. Described as "Real people sit down with friends and family to share terrifying true stories from their past, re-created through chilling re-enactments."
Certainly the episodes are interesting, and amazing if the word "true" is to be believed. But as with most stories of the paranormal you need to pick through the sensationalize color and focus on those small grains of truth.
I just started watching and already one episode, The Slaughterhouse; really raised my bullshit alarms. The episode summary says, " Two sisters grow up scared and alone in a real-life house of horrors, where their sadistic father does unspeakable thing." Initially this doesn't sound paranormal at all, is sounds like abuse. As the story begins indeed the daughters do say they father was in fact abusive to them and that he worshipped Satan. However it goes further than I'm willing to accept with the father and mother luring people to their place and murdering them. They even go on to imply that many people over the years were murdered and buried on the property, with the grandson saying his grandfather told him where he shouldn't dig.
I find this a bit too much for me to accept as truth. These are modern times, if there are bodies on the property contact the police, file a report. The man said to have committed all these murders is claimed to have died so if they were afraid of him, now step forward. But no, no police reports or missing person reports were shared to help prove this story. We're just supposed to accept this is all the truth and move on.
Was this man insane and abusive? I can believe that. Were these women traumatized by their father's treatment of them and their mother's lack of action to stop it? I can believe that too. But to say in these times their father killed people, buried the bodies, and kept parts of them as trophies I'd have to see a police report. You can't come public with a claim like that and not have anything to back it up.
Like I said with most paranormal claims you need to take them with a grain of salt but this episode made me question the validity of the entire series. Still interesting but now they're just stories to me, and the idea of there being any truth to any of it has been thrown out the window.
