Something that really gets to you, actually provokes fear.
There was one case in Croatia that always gave me the creeps. It sounds like a plot of a horror movie, but it actually happened. A couple had two children, a son and a daughter. The girl became a Satanist as a teenager, holding seances, reading books about the black magic etc. As she reached adulthood, she apparently developed schizophrehia and started hallucinating about some man/demon dressed in all black following her around the apartment and telling her to kill herself. She eventually committed suicide.
The son also grew up having mental problems and he had been hospitalized several times for depression, but he wasn’t delusional. Around 30 years after her daughter’s suicide, the mother also started hallucinating about the man/demon in black, just like her daughter had. The mother was already in her 70s by that point, way too old to develop schizophrenia, though obviously a mental breakdown in general was still possible.
One night, the mother, delusional and in an apparent effort to put her family ouf of her misery, took her husband’s gun and shot her son to death while he slept in his bed (they were staying at the son’s apartment at the time). She also tried to kill her husband, but she only managec to graze his arm before he overpowered and disarmed her. She ended up in a mental institution. To make this even more tragic, her son had three children with his ex-wife, and his current wife was pregnant at the time of the murder.
That case always creeped me out, especially since I watched an episode of a true-crime show about it, that included reenactments, including the reenactments of hallucinations that the women suffered. Obviously, I was way too young to watch that. That case would actually make for an interesting horror film or a psychological thriller.
These are the only two articles about the murder available online; written in Croatia, but they can be translated into English using Google translate. However, they do not mention the most disturbing details, that only came out sometime after the murder.
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