Netflix’s ‘The Watcher’ has created a buzz among audiences as it has become the most-watched season on the online streaming platform within less than two days of its released.
As we know the series is based on real-life story, there was a family that bought a dream home in the wealthy suburb of Westfield, New Jersey mansion. Things seem pretty normal until one day they received a letter from a stalker. Let’s find out what parts were real and what were fictionalized by the makers in the seven-episode series:
Was there really a man named ‘The Watcher’?
Yes, the stalker who used to send the family letters referred himself a ‘The Walker’.
Though most of the names were changed for the series, which heavily embellishes other details of their lives and horror story, The Watcher writers incorporated real text from the letters sent to the Broadduses, including the bits about the Watcher desiring ‘young blood’.
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Was the real Watcher caught?
No, the real Watcher has not been caught.
Was there a baby-eating blood cult?
No, there is not. No evidence were present as one character accuses, that the neighbors were ever involved in a satanic cult that killed babies to drink their blood.
Were neighbours based on real people?
Apparently, yes. In the show, Jasper (Terry Kinney) and Pearl Winslow (Mia Farrow) are the first set of peculiar neighbours that Nora and Dean meet upon arriving in Westfield.
Pearl and Jasper seemed to be based on the Langford family, described as ‘a bit odd’ in an article.
Was the John Graff murder story true?
Shockingly, yes it was. After a mysterious man enters the Brannock home claiming to be a property inspector, Dean begins to suspect that the man is actually an on-the-run mass murderer who killed his entire family inside 657 Boulevard.
Was the Preservation Society real?
Not quite, but there was a Westfield Planning Board, which facilitated complications for the Broadduses after the family announced a proposal to sell the property to a developer who’d split it into two separate lots for new homes.
