Babysitter In Peril The urban legend, the real-life cases that inspired it, and its influence in literature and on film Most of us are familiar with the urban legend "The Babysitter And The Man Upstairs" or some variation (some include a creepy clown statue, which turns out to be a killer), which was made famous by films such as "When A Stranger Calls", "Halloween", etc. The urban legend apparently began circulating in the 1960s, which led the TV series, "Mostly True: Urban Legends" to state that it had no basis in fact, primarily because the whole "the calls are coming from inside the house" (now almost cliche) was very unlikely due to the fact that there tended to be only one phone line per house. However, as the documentary "Killer Legends" (2014) pointed out, there does appear to have been at least one true crime case (if not more) that probably inspired it. I won't go into too much deta