2000s

## Bio

**A Timeline of Horror** was a book and series of journals collected by parapsychologist Dr. Johnathan Rankin. The tomes documented a long history of both paranormal events and reported monster sightings, mostly from England, Germany, France and the United States.

(Note: This bio describes pre-selected events from several chosen horror movie franchises.)

## 2000s

* 2000, August 13 - An FBI Strike Team confront and take out Jason Voorhees near the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake. Creighton Duke, however, has been researching the black magic behind Jason, and after Jason's body disappears and murders start once more, he gets help from Steven Freeman and Jessica Kimble, the daughter of Diana Voorhees-Kimble, in calling up the spells to destroy him. (*Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday - 1993*)

* 2000, October 13 - At the Old Kaine House near Santa Rosita, California, Pamela Voorhees is hosting a party when her daughter, Megan Voorhees, begins showing signs of demonic possession. Two priests, Father Arthur McFeely and Father Andrew Harris investigate, but Megan soon dies during the ordeal. (*Scary Movie 2 - 2001*)

* 2000, October 31 - Eighteen-year-old Drew Decker is murdered in her home by an unidentified killer on Halloween. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 2000, November 1 - Cindy Campbell gets notes from an unidentified writer who knows about the man she killed. Along with glimpses of someone wearing a Ghostface mask, she learns her friends have all gotten notes. Greg is murdered behind the scenes of a beauty pageant, and after Cindy is attacked in her home, Bobby reappears with a mask and the murder weapon. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 2000, November 2 - Bobby is released from jail due to lack of evidence. Buffy is meanwhile murdered while alone in the girl's locker room at school. Brenda is attacked at the movie theater, and after Cindy's gathering at her home swells into a huge party, the killer attacks her guests. She learns later that the killers are Bobby and Ray trying to become famous by framing Drew's killer with their crimes. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 2000, November 3 - At the police station, Cindy realizes the real killer is Buffy's brother, "Doofy," who escapes town. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 2000, December 15 - Winifred "Wendy" Torrance passes away. (*The Shining - 1980/Doctor Sleep - 2019*)

* 2001, August 13 - Stu Sherwood and Tommy DeVine head to Miami, Florida with a group of friends on vacation and disappear during a fishing trip in the Bermuda Triangle. (*Triangle - 2001*)

* 2001, September 2 - Cindy Campbell starts attending classes at the University of Santa Rosita near Long Beach. Brenda attends classes with her as well. Cindy also becomes friends with Theo Keyoko and Buddy Wilkinson. She learns Ray is there too, having served a minor sentence for cooperating with the police. (*Scary Movie 2 - 2001*)

* 2001, September 10 - Professor Oldman and his wheel-chair bound assistant, Dwight Hartman, recruit Cindy and several other students to attend a sleep study at the Old Kaine House doubling as a paranormal investigation. That night, Cindy hears voices leading her to a secret room and is partially possessed. (*Scary Movie 2 - 2001*)

* 2001, September 11 - Cindy and the kids realize they are unwilling participants in a paranormal investigation and try to back out of it. Eugene Hanson confesses to having killed the previous owner and his mistress for the love of his wife, Carolyn, who he also killed for rejecting him. Professor Oldman meanwhile disappears somewhere in the house and Hartman has to use his equipment to stabilize the activity for them to depart. (*Scary Movie 2 - 2001*)

* 2001, November 10 - Cindy and Buddy are now in a relationship when Hanson approaches her, believing she is Carolyn's reincarnation. (*Scary Movie 2 - 2001*)

* 2002, April 1 - Dalton Lambert born in Los Angeles, California to Josh and Renai Lambert. (*Insidious - 2010*)

* 2002, October 25 - Jack Ferriman, a weather service pilot, approaches the salvage crew of the Arctic Warrior owned by Captain Sean Murphy about a derelict liner in the Bering Strait, offering to tell them where to find it for a share of the salvage rights. (*Ghost Ship - 2002*)

* 2002, October 31 - Traumatic over her encounters with Michael, Laurie has herself committed to a hospital where Michael tracks her down and attempts to kill her, leaving her near death. (*Halloween: Resurrection - 2002*)

* 2002, November 5 - Maureen Epps, the only survivor of the Arctic Warrior, is found drifting in the Bering Strait by a passenger ship. Near death, she tells them her crew found the long-lost Antonio Graza, but everyone on board died after the Arctic Warrior blew up while they were trying to repair the Graza. (*Ghost Ship - 2002*)

* 2003, March 15 - Realizing he has been completely forgotten, Freddie enlists Jason Voorhees to get the people of Springwood to remember him. When he finds he can't control Jason, he tries stopping him and battles the unstoppable killer raging from the dreamscape to Camp Crystal Lake in Connecticut, only to be dragged into Jason's part of the underworld with him. (*Freddy vs. Jason - 2003*)

* 2003, May - George Logan and Cindy Campbell get married. (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 10 - Two college students named Katie and Becca alone in Becca's mother's house talk about a cursed video tape supposedly circulating. Katie confesses she has watched it, but she doesn't take it seriously. Both girls are found dead the next morning.(*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 20 - Now working as a reporter for a tabloid newspaper near Washington, D.C., Cindy begins raising her orphaned nephew, Cody. At her job, she soon realizes she's being wasted on insignificant stories, such as an alleged crop circle at the farm of Tom Logan. (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 21 - Cindy discovers Brenda is now Cody's school teacher, and she introduces him to George Logan, Tom's brother and his friends, Mahalik Phifer and C. J. Heames at a rap battle contest. George's niece, Sue, is also in Brenda's class. Later that night, Brenda confesses to having watched the cursed videotape and dies while Cindy is in the apartment (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 25 - Cindy, George, Mahalik and C. J. attend Brenda's wake. Cindy goes in search of the tape in Brenda's room, getting a phone call from a sepulchral voice saying, "Seven Days." (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 26 - Cindy goes to Mahalik and C. J. for help, and they send her to C. J.'s aunt, Shaneequa Jackson, a psychic. Her husband, Darnell Jackson, analyzes the images on the tape, and send her in search of a lighthouse seen on it. She returns home to discover Cody has watched the tape. (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 28 - Tracking down the light house, Cindy meets Richard Moran, who ironically was the previous owner of the Tom Logan Farm. He reveals his psychotic daughter, Tabitha, had imprinted her personality to the tape, and she and George track down the well under the foundation where Tabitha’s body was hidden. By sealing the well, her presence becomes contained. (*Scary Movie 3 - 2003*)

* 2003, October 31 - Returning to Haddonfield, Michael discovers and kills a group of college students filming an internet reality show within his abandoned family home. Two members, contestant Sara Moyer and show producer Freddie Harris escape by electrocuting Michael whose remains are taken to the morgue with the bodies of his victims. As the medical examiner begins to inspect Michael's body, he awakens and kills him. (*Halloween: Resurrection - 2002*)

* 2005, March - George encourages Cindy to parlay her fighting skills into the women's fighting league. After George is killed in a riot, Tom sells his farm and moves to New York City. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2005, August 11 - Cindy ends up married to a wealthy man who abuses and beats her. She divorces him and gets a sizable divorce settlement. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2005, August 18 - Stu Sherwood and former First Mate Charlene "Charlie" DuVal are found floating in the Triangle by the Coast Guard, claiming they had been on the lost luxury line, the Queen of Scots. (*Triangle - 2001*)

* 2006, April 14 - Cindy follows another pursuit by becoming a healthcare worker. She visits Tom in New York City, but meeting her exasperates his depression and he commits suicide. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2006, April 17 - Cindy takes a job caring for Gladys Norris, a retiree living in a house on the shore haunted by a young Japanese boy. She meets and bonds with Tom Ryan, a divorcee living next door. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2006, April 18 - Cindy learns the ghost is that of a boy named Toshio, and tracks down his father, Henry Hale, with the help of Mahalik, C.J. and a stewardess named Brenda. They learn that Hale has retreated to live in an isolated Mennonite community in upstate New York. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2006, April 20 - Henry Hale is attacked by a deranged member of his community. When Cindy and Brenda reach him, he confesses that he was only Toshio's step-father. His real father is a wealthy eccentric named William ("Billy"). (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2006, January 20 - Brenda has decided to live in the community. She and a local man get married and have a son. Cindy soon marries Tom Ryan. (*Scary Movie 4 - 2006*)

* 2008, June - Alan Chambers attends Camp Manabe for the first time with his step-brother, Michael Lassiter, but is is frequently harassed and sadistically humiliated by the other campers. Ronnie starts getting suspicious when the cook vanishes and one camper is burned to death. Meanwhile, Alan's attempts to make friends make him obnoxious and his harassment escalates. After several more murders, a female camper accuses Alan of trying to kill her. Michael goes to confront him, and attacks him with a croquet mallet only to be attacked himself. When Ronnie and Ricky go to investigate, they discover Angela is the real murderer, having been disguised as local Sheriff Jerry Burns. (*Return to Sleepaway Camp - 2008*)

* 2009, September 10 - High school teenagers Jennifer Check and Anita "Needy" Lisnicki go to see the indy band Low Shoulder at the Melody Lane Tavern near Devil's Kettle, Minnesota. After the band equipment causes the tavern to burn down, Jennifer disappears with their band becoming the unwitting sacrifice of their demonic ritual in the woods. (*Jennifer's Body - 2009*)

* 2009, September 11 - High school student Jonas Kozelke of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota is found murdered in the woods beyond the high school football field. Radio reports falsely report that the band Low Shoulder led the patrons to safety. (*Jennifer's Body - 2009*)

* 2009, October 11 - Colin Grey, another high school student in Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, is found murdered. His remains are found in the upstairs bedroom of a housing development under construction. (*Jennifer's Body - 2009*)

* 2009, October 15 - Charles "Chip" Dove, another high school student, is found murdered at the abandoned Devil's Kettle Public Pool House. That same night, Needy Lesnicki attacks and murders Jennifer Check, claiming she committed all the murders. (*Jennifer's Body - 2009*)

* 2009, October 16 - Jessica Trenholme is killed is a car accident with her son, Tommy while trying to meet her friends for a boat trip near Miami. Her friends disappear on their trip in the Bermuda Triangle. (*Triangle - 2019*)

* 2010, September 10 - Needy Lisnicki escapes from the Cook County Mental Hospital. The following day at the nearby Grand Marais Hotel, the members of Low Shoulder are brutally murdered beyond recognition. (*Jennifer's Body - 2009*)

## 2010s

* 2010, June 10-15 - Josh and Renai Lambert and their three children move into the Victoria Park House, but a few days in, Renai experiences some light paranormal activity in it. (*Insidious - 2010*)

* 2010, June 15 - From inside the Further, psychic Elise Rainier witnesses Dalton Lambert tumble from a ladder in the attic of the house. The day after a fall in the attic, Dalton goes into a coma. (*Insidious - 2010/Insidious: The Last Key - 2018*)

* 2010, September 14-20 - Three months after his fall, Dalton is taken home from the hospital and cared for by a caregiver. Meanwhile, his brother, Foster, claims to have seen him walking around at night. Renai sees a face in the window of her daughter Callie's room. As paranormal activity increases, Renai tells Josh she wants to move again. (*Insidious - 2010*)

* 2010, September 30 to October 5 - The Lamberts move into the South Point Drive house, but Lorraine sees the figure of a strange young boy and realizes the activity has followed them. She contacts parapsychologists, Matt Tucker and Steven "Specs" Forsyte, to examine her house. After encountering two female ghosts, they call him psychic Elise Ranier, who discovers a demonic entity. She reminds Josh of his psychic skills and guides him into sending his spirit into "the Further" to save Dalton. Elise dies under strange circumstances. (*Insidious - 2010*)

* 2010, October 15 - Josh Lambert is released from police custody following the murder of Elyse Ranier and reunites with his family at his mother's home on El Mio Drive. Shortly thereafter, Renai starts hearing voices and seeing a lady in a white dress. Meanwhile, Tucker and Specs discover Elise's 1982 research on Josh. (*Insidious 2 - 2012*)

* 2010, October 16 - Carl Gregg, an associate of Elise Ranier, help Tucker and Specs wrap the Lambert case. With the help of Lorraine Lambert, Josh's mother, they link the case to Parker Crane, who in the 70s was the Bride in Black Killer. Deducing he is the spirit possessing Josh, they try to sedate Josh, but in an out-of-body experience, Carl, Josh and Elyse confront and defeat the ghost of Michelle Crane in the Further controlling the events. thus freeing Josh. (*Insidious 2 - 2012*)

* 2011, March 14 - The bodies of the Stevenson family of Chatford, Washington are found hanging from a tree in their back yard. One of their children are missing; the family once lived in the Miller House in St. Louis, Missouri. (*Sinister - 2012*)

* 2012, March 11 - Crime writer Ellison Oswalt moves into the Stevenson House in Chatford, Washington with his family to prepare for his new book, but the discover of an old projector and some disturbing home videos trigger paranormal events in the house. (*Sinister-2012*)

* 2012, March 25 - After a string of paranormal occurrences in the Stevenson House, Patton Oswalt moves the family back into the family home in Tacoma. That night, an unidentified intruder breaks in and slaughters the family in the living room. His daughter, Ashley Oswalt, is not among the bodies. (*Sinister-2012*)

* 2012, May 10 - Chatford Deputy Andrew Seanseau is held as a suspect in the murders of the Oswalt family. Although the charges are later dropped, he is fired from his position after it was revealed her was sharing classified information from the Stevenson murder case. (*Sinister 2 - 2015*)

* 2012, October 12 - Charlie Sanders takes his girlfriend, Lindsay, on a weekend outing with his kids to a remote cabin in Humboldt County which they aren't aware is haunted. After they fail to return, the authorities begin a search for them and the kids.(*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2012, May 15 - Charlie Sanders's remains are found in the woods. Lindsay and the kids remain missing. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2012, December 7 - The children of Dan Sanders are found by chance by two stoners at another cabin deep in the woods. Having become primitive in isolation, they are taken to a medical facility for medical care. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 7 - After the kids have spent three months in the facility, they doctors notify Charlie's brother, Dan Sanders, where they are. However, the doctors want to keep an eye on the development of the kids and lend them a house to keep them under supervision. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 8 - Dan and Jody Sanders spend their first day in the new house getting to know the kids, but Jody feels something odd in this house. She takes a break from her music to get back into ballet. That night, she hears strange noises in the house. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 9 - After waking to the house being vandalized but for the kid's rooms, Jody thinks something is wrong with the house. Maria, the housekeeper hired for the house, suggests they hire a psychic investigator. Dan puts up surveillance cameras, going to the Emergency Room twice in one day. That night, Jody hears the kids laying with someone, she goes to investigate, but there's no one there. The kids speak of a presence they know as "Mama." (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 11 - Jody gets the starring role in a ballet performance. She brings Dan home from the hospital and talks to Katy, one of the kids about Mama. That night, Maria sleepwalks, and the strange noises return. Jody calls Blaine Fulda, the psychic Maria recommended. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 12 - Blaine Fulda arrives, but he turns out to be a fraud and a con-artist with no experience except as a criminal. That night, Jody hears voices and strange noises again in the house. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 13 - Maria wakes to the house trashed again and tries burning incense to cleanse it, but Dan fires her thinking she's at fault. At the ballet repertoire, Jody opens up to Kendra Brooks, another dancer, about the activity in the house. Jody asks Katy more about Mama. She calls an analyst named Dom Kolb to learn more about Mama, leading to knowledge about a "Book of Evil" at a cabin back in the woods. Dan has bad dreams that night. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 14 - Jody catches evidence of Mama on Dan's cameras, and she and Kendra go to search the cabin where the kids were found. Although they find the book, it doesn't give them a way to remove "Mama." (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2013, March 15 - Mama appears to Jodie and Dan, trapping Jody in a closet and attacking Dan. When the kids disappear, Jody realizes she has taken the kids to the cliff where she died, saving the kids and destroying Mama. (*Scary Movie 5 - 2013*)

* 2015, August 21 - Now working as a detective, Seanseau has been burning down houses with similar cases to the Stevenson and Oswalt families. When he arrives at the Old Jacobs House in Westminster, Illinois, he gets caught up in a custody dispute between Courtney Weaver and Clint Collins. (*Sinister 2 - 2005*)

* 2016, August 26 - Seanseau rescues Courtney and her son Dylan from the home of her estranged husband amidst paranormal activity. Her son Zachery is claimed by paranormal forces as the house burns down. (*Sinister 2 - 2005*)

* 2018, October 31 - Forty years after the 1978 Haddonfield murders, true-crime podcasters Aaron Korey and Dana Haines travel to Smith's Grove Sanitarium to attempt to interview Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, who has been heavily drinking and dealing with post-traumatic stress since their last encounter. After Michael is freed by a deranged psychologist, he again attacks Laurie, who severely injures him and severs two of his fingers. He is ultimately trapped in her burning house by Laurie, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, but his body is never found. (*Halloween - 2018*)

## 2020s

* 2021, September 8 - Sophia Brimble, a descendant of the Woodstone family of New York, passes away in her home near Amelia Parish, New York. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)

* 2021, October 7 - Sophia's great-niece, Samantha Arondekar, with her husband, Jay Arondekar, inherit her estate and gradually discover the ghosts on the property. After a near-death experience, Samantha discovers she can see the spirits. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)

* 2021, September 25 - The Arondekars begin a full restoration of Woodstone Manor to turn it into a bed and breakfast, which stirs up the numerous ghosts on the estate. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)

* 2021, October 17-18 - Thorfinn's remains are found on the estate during renovations. The bones later disappear but the Arondekars stage a Viking Funeral to lay his spirit to rest. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)

* 2021, November 19 - Carol Martino, Pete Torrance's widow, visits Woodstone Manor with her new husband, Jerry Campbell. Her daughter Laura and grandson, Peter, are also in attendance. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)