The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs | USA
Episode 70, Oct 27, 2019, 08:30 PM
Two babysitters met with foul play in the 1950s and gave rise to the horrifying urban legend of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.
Urban legend ‘The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs’ inspired the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls. But what if there was some truth to the legend? In 1950, 13-year-old Janett Christman was brutally raped and strangled while babysitting in Missouri. Three years later 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley was babysitting when she disappeared, leaving nothing but a broken eyeglasses and a trail of blood…
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This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.
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