1980s

## 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.)

### 1980s

* 1980, March 4-12 - Russell has moved to Seattle, Washington where he rents the Old Chessman House from the Seattle Historic Society. A few days after moving in, he feels himself being watched in the house and starts hearing pounding sounds from somewhere in the house. Returning late one night, he finds the water running by itself and sees the apparition of a boy in an unused bathroom. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, March 7 - The SS Aeolus mysteriously sinks during a cruise from Miami to Bermuda with a loss of 234 people, including Captain Ronald Ashland and his replacement, Captain Trevor Marshall and Marshall's family. (*Death Ship - 1980*)

* 1980, March 12 - Captain Trevor Marshall and his family are found floating in an old German life raft, reporting that they had survived on an old Nazi prison ship drifting in the area. (*Death Ship - 1980*)

* 1980, March 13 - Helped by Claire Norman, Russell goes searching into the history of the Chessman House and discovers all of the pre-1960s history is missing. Society member Minnie Huxley tells him the house wasn't meant to be lived in. Going to the library, he and Claire go through the old newspapers and finds news the news on Cora Barnard. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, March 14 - While on the grounds, Russell gets pelted by broken red glass from an attic window on the Chessman House. When he investigates, he finds a closed up attic bedroom filled with toys for a young boy. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, March 15 - Russell gets in contact with Dr. Alec Pemberton at the University of Seattle to investigate the hauntings and he recommends psychic medium Claire Norman who leads a séance in the house. During the ritual, Russell catches the voice of a young boy named Joseph Carmichael calling out to his father. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, March 16-18 - Minnie Huxley phones the office of Senator Joseph Carmichael and warns him that Russell and Norman are searching the historical files for the missing files on the Chessman House. Their research leads to the Old Carmichael Ranch where Russell believes a body was tossed in a well. Janice Grey, the owner of the house over the well, reveals her daughter saw the ghost of a boy the same night as the seance. When the girl's bedroom is excavated, a well is discovered with the body of a boy in it. Russell finds a lost St. Christopher Medal inscribed to Joseph Patrick Carmichael. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, March 19 - After trying to meet Senator Carmichael, Russell is confronted by Police Captain Arnold Dewitt falsely accusing him of stealing from the senator and being part of a far-fetching black mail scheme. Claire shows up and tells Russell the society is throwing him out of the house for unknown reasons. After Dewitt is killed in a fatal car accident, Carmichael agrees to meet Russell to cover up the death of the murdered boy whose identity was given him by Richard Carmichael. Russell willlingly gives up the medal to him, but the ghost of the murdered boy lashes out, attacking John, burning down the house and killing Senator Carmichael. (*The Changeling - 1980*)

* 1980, May 25 - Jimmy attempts to renew his relationship with Laurie at her graduation on May 25, 1979, but she discreetly snubs him, regretting it years afterward. (*Halloween20 - 2020*)

* 1980, June - Dr. Martha Johnson's son, Ricky, goes to summer camp at Camp Arawak for the first time and becomes friends with fellow camper Paul Mattingly. (*Sleepaway Camp - 1983*)

* 1980, October 23 - Jack Torrance drives from Denver to the remote town of Sidewinder, Colorado to be interviewed by Stuart Ullman, the manager of the Overlook Hotel for the job of caretaker from October 30 to May 15. Ullman lets him know the hotel has a reputation of being haunted and how Grady murdered his family. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, October 30 - Jack takes his wife, Winifred ("Wendy"), and his son, Danny, to the Overlook for the closing day instructions and tour. Danny meets the cook, Dick Halloran, who sees psychic abilities in Danny he himself has, an ability he calls "shining." (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, November 30 - Jack has been settling into his role at the Overlook, but his side endeavor to get some writing done isn't developing. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, December 2 - Jack has finally started writing, getting irritable when Wendy distracts him. While exploring the hotel, Danny discovers Room 237, reportedly one of the most haunted spaces in the hotel. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, December 4-9 - A heavy winter storm blankets the Overlook in a thick layer of snow. Wendy checks in with the Forestry Service. Danny encounters the ghosts of Alexa and Lexie Grady in the hotel as well as a change in his father's disposition. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, December 11 - Jack tells Wendy he has been having nightmares of killing her and Danny, who has entered Room 237 and encountered the ghost of Lorraine Massey. Unaware of the ghost, Wendy accuses Jack of hurting his son. Jack soon encounters the ghost of Lloyd Devereaux, the former Overlook bartender. After Wendy hears of the woman's ghost, she has Jack check Room 237, but he doesn't tell Wendy he saw Massey's ghost as well. Halloran realizes something is wrong and heads back to the Overlook. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1980, December 14-15 - Wendy discovers Jack has lost his mind and locks him in the kitchen storeroom after he attacks her, but the ghosts let him out and he goes after Wendy and Danny, distracted by Dick arriving in a snow cat. After attacking Dick, Jack goes after Danny, who escapes the hotel with his mother in Dick's snow cat. (*The Shining - 1980/1997*)

* 1981, January 9 - Cindy Campbell born near Woodsboro, California. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 1981, April 15 - Four college friends rent a remote cabin near Morristown, Tennessee for a vacation. Ash Campbell considers it a romantic hideaway with his girlfriend, Cheryl Smith. No one in the party returns back to their university. (*Evil Dead - 1981*/*Evil Dead 2 - 1987*)

* 1981, April 22 - Archaeologist Annie Knowby and her fiancé, Ed Gelly, head to her father's cabin near Morristown, Tennessee in search of her father and find Ash in a mental state and describing paranormal events. The activity is believed linked to the Necromonicon on the property. (*Evil Dead 2 - 1987*/*Army of Darkness - 1993*)

* 1981, September 2 - Sabrina Spellman born in Salem, Massachusetts. (*Sabrina the Teenage Witch - 1996*)

* 1981, October 19 - Her marriage having broken up, Laurie has a second child, Karen Strode, by a man she met in a bar. Declared an unfit mother by human services, both Jamie and Karen are taken from her. (*Halloween - 2018*)

* 1982, April 20 - Drew Decker born in Woodsboro, California. (*Scary Movie - 2000*)

* 1982, June 3-4 - Norman is released from the sanitarium, but Lila petitions the relatives of his victims against his release. She sends her daughter by Sam to work at Statler's Cafe alongside Emma to keep tabs on him in a plot to have him recommitted. At the hotel, Norman fires Warren Toomey for selling drugs to attract business. (*Psycho 2 - 1983*)

* 1982, June 10 - Ricky and Paul are reunited at camp once more with Angela coming with them for the first time. The camp cook and several kids are killed in strange accidents, but eventually, it's discovered someone is murdering the kids. After one girl is found stabbed to death in a shower, two counselors find Angela naked and cradling Paul's severed head. It's revealed she is really Peter Baker, raised as a girl by her deranged aunt. She is taken into custody by Barney Whitmore and goes through medical and mental recovery for two years. (*Sleepaway Camp - 1983*)

* 1982, June 12 - A week after coming home, Norman starts seeing a figure in his mother's room and getting strange notes from his dead mother. Mary feels concern for Norman after Toomey mysteriously disappears and a young boy is reportedly murdered in the house. (*Psycho 2 - 1983*)

* 1982, June 14-16 - Dr. Bill Raymond, Norman's psychologist, exhumes Norma Bates to prove that she is dead, but he just forms the theory she wasn't he real mother, and his real mother is someone else. Sheriff John Hunt warns Mary to leave Norman alone; she also threatens her mother against further harassing Norman. After Toomey is found dead in his car and Norman keeps getting phone calls, Mary tries to rationalize him back, even pretending to be his mother but accidentally killing Dr. Raymond. When she discovers her mother's dead body in the basement, she attacks Norman, getting shot by the police coming to to talk to Norman about Toomey. That night, Miss Spool arrives claiming to be Norman's real mother, confirming his suspicions. (*Psycho 2 - 1983*)

* 1982, August 14 - Maureen Cole is exiled from a nunnery somewhere near Joshua Tree after she is found complicit in the death of a nun. She picks up a ride from a drifter named Duane Duke but flees after he attempts to rape her. Norman Bates, meanwhile, has had Miss Spool preserved as his mother while he runs the hotel. (*Psycho 3 - 1988*)

* 1982, August 15 - Duke shows up at the Bates Motel for a room and gets the job as Norman's assistant manager to earn money to get to Los Angeles. Maureen shows up, reminding Norman of Marion Crane and is attracted to her. When "Mother" comes out to kill her, Norman is abated after discovering Maureen tried to take her life. She wakes up later at St Matthew's Hospital near Fairvale. Back at the hotel, Duke is fooling around with Red, a local girl, who disappears after he throws her out of his room. (*Psycho 3 - 1988*)

* 1982, August 16 - Tourists flood into the Bates Motel as Norman brings Maureen back to recuperate. Duke runs into reporter Tracy Venable researching Miss Spool's disappearance and hears about Norman's troubled history. As Norman's romance with Maureen advances, he reverts into "Mother" and murders Patsy Doyle, one of the tourists. (*Psycho 3 - 1988*)

* 1982, August 17 - Norman acts suspicious when Sheriff Hunt comes looking for Doyle. When he discovers "Mother" missing, he discovers Duane holding her hostage in a blackmail scheme. After killing Duke to keep his activities secret, he returns to the house and finds Maureen waiting for him. When he reaches out to her, "Mother" distracts him and Maureen tumbles to her death down the stairs. Tracy arrives and finds her laid out honorably in the parlor watched over by Norman as "Mother." She reveals that Miss Spool lied; she wasn't Norman's real mother, which breaks her hold on Norman as he lashes out at her corpse. (*Psycho 3 - 1988*)

* 1983, August 13 - Stay at his parent's summer home at Crystal Lake, Chris Parker is attacked by a prowler masked with a cloth sack who is never identified. (*Friday the 13th: Part Three - 1982*)

* 1984, April 30 - Paul Holt opens a training camp on Crystal Lake across from the ruins of the summer camp. He also starts the urban legend of Jason Voorhees being alive and wandering the woods. After several new murders, Ginny Fields, Paul's girlfriend discovers Jason's cabin in the woods, barely surviving another massacre. (*Friday the 13th: Part Two - 1981*)

* 1984, May 2 - Twelve more people are founded at a nearby lake house by a psychotic in a hockey mask. The reputed killer's body is recovered, but it vanished from the County Morgue. (*Friday the 13th: Part Three - 1982*)

* 1984, May 4 - Another string of murders are found at the home of 12-year-old Tommy Jarvis and his sister, Trish Jarvis. Tommy identifies the murderer as Jason Voorhees, whose remains the police once again take into custody. (*Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter - 1984*)

* 1984, May 10 - Jason Voorhees is buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery despite news to the contrary he was cremated. (*Friday the 13th: The New Beginning - 1985*)

* 1984, November - On the campgrounds near Woodstone Manor near Amelia, New York, scout master Peter Torrance is accidentally killed by an arrow misfire from one of his scouts. He is survived by his wife, Carol, and daughter, Laura. (*Ghosts - 2021-Recent*)

* 1984, November 9 - Memory of Freddy Kruger is reduced to an urban legend. Since 1981, several of the parents who killed Krueger have died strange mysterious deaths along with the surviving kids, now all teenagers. One of the teenagers, Nancy Thompson, living in the former Krueger house on Elm Street, claims that Krueger's ghost has killed her mother and friends in her dreams. (*A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984*)

* 1984, November 9 - The family of Jesse Walsh move into the Thompson's old house and experience paranormal activity. After Jesse experiences images of Krueger in his dreams, the local school coach is murdered. Jesse and several classmates are killed in a bus crash. (*A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - 1985*)

* 1986, March 13 - Josh accompanies Lorraine to the Our Lady of the Angels Convalescent Home where Parker Crane presides afrer trying to castrate himself. Two days later, Lorraine claims she sees Parker in an elevator after he had jumped to his death the day before. Afterward, she starts capturing photos of a woman in black around her son. (*Insidious - 2010/Insidious 2 - 2012*)

* 1986, September 14 - Lorraine Lambert calls upon psychic and demonologist Elise Rainier to help her son Josh. After encountering paranormal phenomena in their home, Elise tells Lorraine that they must suppress Josh's astral projection abilities to protect him. Lorraine and Elise remain friends for years afterward. (*Insidious - 2012*)

* 1986, June 14 - The DeLuzio family of Pasadena, California are found buried in their background and mauled with a lawn mower. One of their children are missing; the family once lived in the Mantegna House in Sacramento, California. (*Sinister - 2012*)

* 1986, June 29 - A man puts up an antique weather vane from Vendredi Antiques. He gets hit by lightning the next day. (*F13: The Series: The Inheritance*)

* 1986, September 10 - As part of her therapy following her ordeal with Michael, Laurie fakes her death and moves to Calornia, where she marries again and has a son, John Tate, under an alias. Jamie ends adopted by Richard and Darlene Carruthers, whose daughter, Rachel Carruthers, was once cared for by Laurie. Karen is adopted by another family. (*Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - 1989/Halloween - 2018/Halloween20 - 1998*)

* 1986, October 14 - Norman is now married to Dr. Connie Forbes, his psychologist, and living in San Joaquin, California. When Dr. Leo Richmond, his original psychologist from 1960, turns up on the Fran Ambrose radio talk show, he phones in concealing his identity and confessing he is going to murder Connie for getting pregnant. Calling her out to the hotel, he can't bring himself to do it, burning down the house to rid himself of his mother's last influence. (*Psycho: The New Beginning - 1990*)

* 1986, October 31 - Michael has been in a comatose state since the explosion. When he wakes, Dr. Wynn informs him that Laurie has died in a car accident, leaving behind Jamie Lloyd. Returning to Haddonfield, Michael causes a citywide blackout and massacres the town's police force, before being shot by the state police and falling down a mine shaft. (*Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - 1989*)

* 1986, November 1 - Michael Myers drags himself from the mine shaft and stumbles to the home of a local hermit who nurses him back to health. (*Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - 1989*)

* 1987, February 27 - Since her experience with Freddie, Nancy Thompson has been helping troubled kids. When she joins the staff at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital, she realizes Freddie has been attacking the surviving teens in their dreams. Guided by Amanda Krueger's spirit, she attempts to finally exorcise Freddie as Doctor Neil Gordon tries sanctifying Krueger's bones, but Nancy loses her life in the process. (*A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - 1987*)

* 1987, March 14 - A female customer purchases a period wedding dress from Vendredi antiques. Two days later, she dies in a fire at her wedding. (*F13: The Series: The Inheritance*)

* 1987, June 18 - Lewis Vendredi, a wealthy Chicago antique dealer, is found dead in his store on 666 Druid Avenue. Legends of Vendredi being connected to demonic worship in the structure are well-known in the neighborhood. (*F13:The Series - 1987-1990*)

* 1987, July 15 - Maureen Norma Bates is born to Norman and Dr. Connie Bates. (*Hypothetical*)

* 1987, October 3 - Vendredi's estate is passed on to the only heirs, Ryan Daillion and Michelle Foster, interested in it. Vendredi's former associate, Jack Marshak, reveals that Vendredi dabbled in dark arts that left the antiques cursed. (*F13: The Series: The Inheritance*)

* 1987, October 31 -
	+ At a Halloween Party in Curious Goods (formerly Vendredi Antiques), Vendredi's spirit is accidentally summoned, stealing a relic to bring himself back to life. (*F13: The Series: Hellowe'en*)
	+ Angela Franklin and Suzanne Delaney have a Halloween Party at the abandoned Hull Mortuary. After several paranormal events, everyone is killed except Judy Cassidy and Roger Voorhees, who end up walking back to town. (*Night of the Demons - 1986*)

* + Reviving, Michael kills the hermit and returns to Haddonfield to seek out Jamie once more, chasing her through his childhood home in a trap set up by Dr. Loomis. Michael is eventually subdued by Loomis and taken by the police to the local station. However, Dr. Wynn attacks the police station, killing the officers, and freeing Jason. (*Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - 1989*)

* 1988, September 19 - Alice Johnson and the remaining Westin Hills teens are released from the hospital, but her memories of the incidents revive Freddie who is looking for fresh teens to murder. (*A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master - 1988*)

* 1989, June 11 - Alice Johnson is seduced by her boyfriend, Dan Jordan, and finds herself pregnant. She soon believes Krueger is entering her unborn baby's dreams in order to be reborn. Amanda Krueger's spirit returns to weaken Freddie and hold him back. (*A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child - 1989*)

* 1989, May 12 - An old lamp from the Montelli House turns up in home of Alice Leacock in Dancroft, California from her sister. After several strange events and sudden deaths, the lamp is thrown out. (*Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes - 1989*)

* 1989, June - Angela Baker gets a job as a counselor at Camp Rolling Hills, sixty miles from Camp Arawak, with Molly Nagle and Sean Whitmore. She becomes an Angel Of Death murdering the kids not adhering to her rules and claiming she sent them home. When the camp owner gets frustrated with her, she leaves camp, later taking Molly and Sean hostage, and returning to camp to kill everyone else before fleeing. Molly's fate is never revealed, but it is believe she was later murdered. (*Sleepaway Camp 2 - 1988*)

* 1989, October 13 - John Sheppard is killed when the dock behind his house at Crystal Lake collapses, taking his life. His seven-year-old daughter, Tina Shepard, is traumatized while watching it. (*Friday the 13th: The New Blood - 1988*)