As the streaming giant has announced the Halloween party for this year, the platform is getting creepy content out early to surprise their streamers and Devil in Ohio happens to be one of the creepy thrillers, know its true story and book
The series is based on a novel of the same name written by Daria Polatin. The writer of the novel also serves as a writer and executive producer of the show.
Know Is Devil In Ohio Season 1 Based On A True Story, Book And Plot
YA tenéis disponible en Netflix DEVIL IN OHIO. Cultos, satanismo y un misterio aterrador en una serie que basa su historia, según su propia escritora, en algunos de los casos más aterradores de cultos satánicos que ha podido recopilar. pic.twitter.com/7TX8DzO3O7
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The story of the show revolves around a psychiatrist named Dr. Suzanne Mathis, who happens to save a young woman named Mae after she appeared injured outside her hospital.
Mae has come to a hospital after escaping from a satanic cult and in badly wounded condition.
She needs help desperately for keeping herself alive, Mathis tries to find a foster home for Mae but when she doesn’t succeed, she decides to take Mae into her own home.
Mae’s presence seems to cause strange things to happen to the Mathis family which put her family’s lives in danger.
As per various reports, Devil in Ohio is inspired by real events. The series is based on a novel of the same name which was launched in 2017.
The writer of the novel Daria, opens about her inspirations for the story. Back in 2017, she wrote a blog post titled “My Top 5 Scariest Moments Researching Devil in Ohio,” which clued everyone about what her research process was like for the book.
As we know the writer of the novel is also the writer and executive producer of the show, so we can guess many details have been transferred from the book.
During her interview, Daria opened up about how the story was based on true events faced by her source. However, she didn’t reveal the name of her source.
At the time she said, “I will never reveal details about my source, but suffice it to say, it was quite horrifying to hear the details of how a young woman escaped from the satanic cult she’d grown up in.
Since many of the perturbing aspects of the story in ‘Devil in Ohio’ were based on true events, my stomach churned whenever I heard about the scarring rituals, planting of mind-control triggers, and perhaps the most disturbing, how it tore a formerly tight-knit family apart.”
Daria Polatin also cited a few other documentaries, films and books as sources for her research including Elizabeth Olsen film Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene; the documentary Holy Hell about the Los Angeles-based cult Buddhafield; and books like Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory by Lawrence Wright and Gillian Flynn’s crime thriller novel Gone Girl.
Polatin recently had a brief talk to The Columbus Dispatch, where she said, “The bones of the story are true and happened, and I wanted to take that as a jumping-off point. It’s inspired by true events, but it’s not a documentary.”
The writer didn’t reveal if the real case did take place in Ohio or not. However, as per the research done by PopSugar, there were some similar cases in Ohio.
As per the outlet, the Kirklant Farm murders are one of the state’s most notable examples of a cult. The Kirklant Farm murders also happened at the time when several cult members murdered a family of five.
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