1970s

## Bio

**A Timeline of Horror** was a book and series of journals comprised 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.)

### 1970s

* 1970, January to 1980, June - Roger and Carolyn Perron purchase the Old Arnold Estate, a 200-acre property near Harrisville, Rhode Island, to raise their five daughters, Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cynthia and April Perron. During the years they lived there, they experienced doors opening and closing, footsteps, knocking sounds and apparitions along with horrendous smells akin to the stench of rotting flesh. (*The Conjuring - 2013*)

* 1970, January 10 - Fred and his friends accompany Shaggy to the will reading of Civil War historian J. Beauregard Sanders, who named Shaggy's dog, Scooby Doo, in his will for saving his life years before. After the other attendees are scared off by ghosts, it is discovered that Sanders's lawyers are scaring away his heirs for control over the estate. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - A Night Of Fright Is No Delight*)

* 1970, January 17 - During a skiing vacation at the Wolf's End Lodge in Vermont, Fred and his friends hear about a local cryptid called the Snow Ghost, a variant of the Yeti of Nepal. A Tibetan hermit claims he is responsible for summoning the monster, but the gang discovers the legend was being used by the owner of the lodge to smuggle stolen goods. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - That's Snow Ghost*)

* 1970, September 20 - Dr. Henry Jekyll, the great-grandson of Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts using his ancestor's notoriety to commit jewelry store robberies to fund his research, but he is exposed by a team of teenage detectives. (*Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Nowhere to Hyde*)

* 1970, September 26 - On their way to their high school dance, Fred and the gang come to the aid of a distressed bank guard and his ransacked car. By helping him, they hear about a cadaverous zombie seen near banks that were robbed. They trace the robberies to bank president James Carswell who had been using the Creeper to deflect blame. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - Jeepers, It's the Creeper*)

* 1970, October 2 - Danny Torrance born to Jack and Wendy Torrance. (*The Shining - 1980/1997/Doctor Sleep 2019*)

* 1970, October 10, 1970 - Driving home from a concert, Fred and the gang are stranded after their van, the Mystery Machine overheats in front of an abandoned mansion. After hearing it is haunted by a headless specter, they meet Penrod Stillwell, the house's owner searching for a lost family fortune. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - Haunted House Hang-Up*)

* 1970, October 17 - During a vacation in Hawaii with his friends, Shaggy encounters a ghostly witch doctor which haunts the sacred grounds near an abandoned village on the island. The activity is actually a cover for a local pearl poaching ring. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair*)

* 1970, October 24 - In a camping trip with his friends, Fred and the gang hear the sounds of a wolf coming from empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf, in an abandoned graveyard. Looking for the source of the sounds, they discover the abandoned lumber mill being used by sheep rustlers. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?*)

* 1970, November 8 - Samara Morgan is born in Astoria, Oregon. She is later adopted by Richard and Evelyn Morgan. (*The Ring - 2009*)

* 1970, September 30 - Fred, Shaggy and the girls are called upon by their friend, Arlene Wilcox, in Salem, Massachusetts, who believes she is being haunted by the ghost of her ancestor, Melissa Wilcox. However, the haunting turns out to be a hoax perpetuated by Arlene's twin sister, Amanda Wilcox, to get her inheritance. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - To Switch A Witch*)

* 1970, December 15 - Delbert Charles Grady attacks and murders his wife and daughters after catching one of the kids trying to burn it down. (*The Shining - 1980/1997/Doctor Sleep 2019*)

* 1971, November 27 - Kelly Bundy is born in Chicago, Illinois. (*Married With Children - 1986-1992*)

* 1972, April 2 - Molly Nagle is born. She is youngest of two brothers and two sisters. (*Sleepaway Camp 2 - 1988)*

* 1972, April 13 - Tommy Jarvis is born in Crystal Lake, Connecticut. (*Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter - 1984*)

* 1972, April 19 - Janos Skorzeny arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 13 - Tina Sheppard is born near Crystal Lake, Connecticut. (*Friday the 13th: The New Blood - 1986*)

* 1972, May 16 - Cheryl Hughes is attacked and murdered by Janos Skorzeny in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her remains are discovered in an alley by trash collectors. Five more murders occur over ten more days and one woman disappears. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 20 - Denise Reynolds is found dead in a dry canal. Reporter Carl Kolchak covering the case makes himself a nuisance to the police. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 21 - Mary Hanochett is found murdered in her apartment. Her roommate never hears the struggle. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 24 - Mary Brandon is found murdered in front of her mother's home. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 27 - The Las Vegas trap Janos Skorzeny in the back yard of a Las Vegas residence, but he escapes despite a barrage of gun shots. The following day, the police identify Skorzeny as as a prime suspect in the string of vampire-style murders. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 29 - On information from an informant, Kolchak tracks down Skorzeny's residence, and rescues Shelley Forbes, the missing woman. Deputy Sheriff Bernie Jacks saves Kolchak from getting beaten to death. Driving Skorzeny back with sunlight, Kolchak impales Skorzeny with a stake as Sheriff Warren A. Butcher arrives. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, May 30-April 1 - The Las Vegas Police Department heavily censors Kolchak's news article, ruining his career. Broke and destitute, he spends most of his life savings placing ads in newspapers trying to track down Gail Foster, who he had hoped to marry. (*The Night Stalker - 1972*)

* 1972, September 28 - Van Helsing descendant and occult expert Lorrimer Van Helsing, discovers that a black magic cult has restored Dracula to life at St. Bartolph Church, a desecrated English church. When Dracula attempts revenge on his family, Van Helsing battles him and impales him in a pit of stakes. (*Dracula A.D. 1972 - 1972*)

* 1972, November 13 - Sean Whitmore is born to police officer Barney Whitmore. (*Sleepaway Camp - 1988*)

* 1972, December 29 - Eastern Airlines Flight 401 from New York City to Miami, Florida crashes in the Florida Everglades with a loss of 101 lives. For several montha afterward, other Eastern Airlines flights with salvaged Lockheed parts from the crash site are haunted by the ghost of Captain Dom Cimoli until the parts are discontinued. (*The Ghost of Flight 401 - 1978*)

* 1973, April 1 - An exotic dancer named Ethel Parker is murdered on her way home through Seattle's Pioneer Square. She is believed to be a victim of Dr. Richard Malcolm. (*The Night Strangler - 1973*)

* 1973, April 3 - Tony Vinchenzo, former editor of the Las Vegas Tribune, is now editor of the Seattle Chroncicle. When he runs into Kolchak at the Seattle Chronicle, he hires him again to work at the newspaper, asking him to write the artcle on the murder of Ethel Parker. (*The Night Strangler - 1973*)

* 1973, April 6-9 - Three more exotic dancers are found dead near Pioneer Square from crushed throats. Autopsies discovered needle marks at the base of the neck and a residue of decayed skin. (*The Night Strangler - 1973*)

* 1973, April 10 - The Seattle Police react after the Seattle Chronicle publishes an artist's sketch of the Pioneer Square Killer. That night, another murder occurs, and both Kolchak and several officers are assaulted in the killer's escape. (*The Night Strangler - 1973*)

* 1973, April 13-19 - Two more women are murdered, an exotic dancer at Omar's Tent, and a female manager at a small bistro. Joined by dancer Louise Harper, Kolchak wanders the streets looking for Malcolm, tracking him to the ruins of his mansion in the Seattle Underground. Kolchak learns Malcolm has been taking a serum made from the women to perfect his immortality elixir, but after Kolchak destroys her work, Malcolm takes his life. The police block Kolchak from printing his article in the newspaper. (*The Night Strangler - 1973*)

* 1973, August 21 - An unnamed Norwegian family loses their lives due to paranormal forces connected to a pagan god named Baghuul, whose symbol pops up in the location of the Oswalt, Stevenson, Miller and other family murders. (*Sinister 2 - 2015*)

* 1973, December 17 - Rudolph F. Deutsch hires Dr. Lionel Barrett to determine if ghosts really exist at the Belasco House. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1973, December 20 - Dr. Lionel Barrett brings psychics B.F. Fischer and Florence Tanner along with Ann, his wife, to an examination of the Belasco House near Manitou Springs, Maine. In her first spirit session, Florence makes contact with the spirit of Daniel Belasco. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1973, December 21 - In her second spirit session, Florence makes contact with spirits that results in poltergeist activity. Daniel's spirit later visits her in her bedroom that night. Florence's argument with Dr. Barrett at dinner erupts into a poltergeist attack. He calls off further sittings, and as Ann experiences shadows, Florence goes in search of historical proof of Daniel's existence and later gets attacked by a cat. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1973, December 22 - Barrett's equipment arrives at the Belasco House. That night, Ann starts sleepwalking and Fischer discovers her. After an argument with Barrett, Fischer is attacked by a presence in the house. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1973, December 23 - Florence consults with Fischer about the ghosts at Belasco House. When she returns to her room, she finds the cat slaughtered in her shower. She and Fischer soon find Daniel's remains in a hidden room in the basement, and they bury him on the grounds. Later that night, she is attacked and raped by a spirit in her bed. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1973, December 24 - Florence wakes up possessed and smashes Dr. Barrett's machine, but he repairs it. In a moment of lucidity, she tries to warn Daniel but discovers he's really the ghost of Emeric Belasco. Both she and Barrett are killed in accidents at the Belasco House. The body of Emeric Belasco is found in a hidden room. (*The Legend of Hell House - 1973*)

* 1974 - Professor Lorrimar Van Helsing gives a lecture at a Chungking University on Chinese vampire legends including the Seven Golden Vampires. A student tells him the story is true, and he travels to the village to destroy them, encountering and destroying Dracula once more. (*Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - 1974*)

* 1974, May 5 to May 9 - Six vampire-style murders occur between Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department take into custody a pair of Satanic worshippers as suspects, but Kolchak links them to Katherine Rawlins, a possible victim of Janos Skorzeny three years prior. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Vampire*)

* 1974, May 28 to June 2 - Seven women are murdered Ripper-style in Chicago, Illinois. The police release a description of the suspect who manages to elude the police and assault several officers at once. In one account witnessed by Carl Kolchak, the suspect jumps four stories off of a building to escape. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Ripper*)

* 1974, June 2 - Kolchak tracks the Ripper to his Wilton Park address through letters to the INS "Miss Emily" column. Trespassing on the property, he encounters the Ripper in his home and leads him into a trap involving an electrified pond. All that's left of the killer are a pair if discontinued Peale's Footwear shoes. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Ripper*)

* 1974, July 22 - Political contributor Harry Benniger is killed in a car accident near Springfield, Illinois on his way home to have dinner with his wife. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, July 27 - Dennis Desilva, a speech writer for Senatorial Candidate James Talbot, is killed when an explosion occurs on his yacht on Lake Michigan. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, August 14 - On his way to interview Senatorial Candidate Robert W. Palmer, Kolchak witnesses the elevator of the Brandon Building collapse and crash into the basement killing five people, including Palmer's campaign manager, Stephen Wald. Only a large dog survives, and Palmer, who was supposedly in the elevator is no where to be found. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, August 16 - Stephen Wald's assistant, Susan Marie Driscoll, is attacked and mauled by a large dog after meeting Palmer. She passes away later that night. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, August 27 - Palmer's rival, James Talbot, is killed in a head-on car accident on his way home. A large dog is seen escaping the other car. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, August 28 - Robert Palmer disappears, having last been seen by his wife in their mansion. Adlai Stevenson III is later elected Senator from Illinois. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Devil's Platform*)

* 1974, November 3 - A Secret Service agent escapes from an English country house in which satanic rituals are being celebrated frequented by government officials. Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing is brought in to assist and learns Dracula plans to unleash a new virulent strain of the bubonic plague. In their confrontation, Van Helsing lures Dracula into a hawthorn bush wand impales him with a fence post, retrieving Dracula's ring from his ashes. (*The Satanic Rites of Dracula - 1973*)

* 1974, November 11 - Six NATO officers operating a radar installation in Greenland are found mutilated by an unknown animal. The only survivor is Officer Bernard Stieglitz who is sent to recover at the Ford Billings Naval Hospital near Billings, Montana. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Werewolf*)

* 1974, November 13 - The Montelli Family of Amityville, New York are found murdered in their beds by their eldest son, Sonny Montelli, but the police later identify him as the killer. A local priest, Father Frank Adamski, believes that Sonny was possessed at the time of the murders. (*Amityville Horror: The Possession - 1979*)

* 1974, December 11 - After not seeing the family in over three days, locals discover the Rockwell Family murdered and mutilated across their Yellowstone County, Montana farm by wolves despite the fact there have not been wolves in the area since 1948. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Werewolf*)

* 1974, December 15 - Dr. Fredrick Frankenstein, the last direct descendant of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, inherits the family's German estate and discovers his ancestor's private diary. He uses it to complete his research and stabilize its madness. (*Young Frankenstein - 1974*)

* 1974 - December 25 - During a Christmas party at INS, editor Tony Vincennzo is forced to give up his vacation for a company audit. He gives it to Kolchak, demanding an expose on Lonely Hearts cruise and the last voyage of the SS Hanover. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Werewolf*)

* 1974, December 27-28 - Discharged on medical leave, Bernard Stieglitz takes a cruise on the SS Hanover from Los Angeles. Kolchak is on board to write his article, but he gets distracted by attacks a murders on board. He deduces the murders are by a werewolf and melts down silver to make bullets. Stieglitz is shot in werewolf form and knocked overboard. Eleven crewmen and four passengers die in the attacks. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Werewolf*)

* 1975, January 14 - The United States Coast Guard gets an SOS from the private yacht, Venturious in the Bermuda Triangle. It never returns. (*Satan's Triangle - 1975*)

* 1975, March 3 - Ward Captain Leo J. Ramutka is murdered in his house by an unknown assailant. The weapon is unidentified. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Knightly Murders*)

* 1975, March 4 - Cab driver Rolf Danvers is impaled through his windshield. Once again, the murderer takes the weapon with him. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Knightly Murders*)

* 1975, March 5 - Kolchak visits pawn shop owner Pops Stenvold to try and get the weapon that killed Ramutka identified, but he can't identify it. That night, businessman Brewster Hocking is murdered by an unknown weapon. A telephone in the room is crushed by a great force. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Knightly Murders*)

* 1975, March 6 - Kolchak visits the Hydecker Museum to have curator Mendell Boggs identify the weapon. The museum is currently being threatened by the owners coverting it into a bistro. When Kolchak goes to visit the decorator Minerva Musso, he witnesses her being murdered by a man in a huge set of armor. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Knightly Murders*)

* 1975, March 7 - Kolchak learns that Ramutka, Danvers, Hocking and Musso all had a part in the museum's distress. When he discovers the armor belonged to Guy de Mettencourt, he heads to the museum and battles it; the animated armor getting defeated by falling onto the Holy Axe on display. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Knightly Murders*)

* 1975, April 5 - The Hills Of Leafy Cemetery is sold and the bodies buried there are removed and reinterred at another cemetery. That night, Rita Baker, the widow of Harold Baker, hears his rusted old bike being started and charging out of storage. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Chopper*)

* 1975, April 6 - Joseph Morton, a former member of the Jokers, drive for Great Lakes Cab Company. Returning to the garage after a long night, he is confronted and murdered by the ghost of Swordsman Baker. His dispatcher, Norman Cahill, witnesses the horrifying attack. That night, Spake, now a telephone lineman, just barely escapes Baker's ghost. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Chopper*)

* 1975, April 7 - At Morton's funeral, Kolchak meets Spake and interviews Lila Morton for background on the murders. Spake heads to the Cook County Warehouse to find Baker's head and once again lay him to rest, losing his life against Baker's specter. Lila's sister, Cora, is also killed that night. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Chopper*)

* 1975, April 8 - Kolchak re-interviews Lila and learns she and Cora were there when the Jokers accidentally killed Baker. He heads to the warehouse to finish what Spake had started, but when Baker's ghost shows up, he throws Baker's skull at him, ending his spree of terror. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Chopper*)

* 1975, May 2 - Kolchak goes to meet Nicky Patchett at the Trevi Salon for information on extortion in the garment industry, but he instead becomes a witness to Patchett's death from the fourth floor. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Trevi Collection*)

* 1975, May 3 - Kolchak becomes friends of Madeline DuVal, a model, who tells him that Madame Trevi is a witch. That night, he's almost run down by a driverless car. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Trevi Collection*)

* 1975, May 4 - Kolchak starts doing research into witchcraft and is directed to visit a coven who can help him. They tell him to strip Trevi of her powers he must remove her hidden talismans, but the instruction are a ruse. It is Madeline's coven tricking him to remove the talismans Trevi is using to protect herself from them. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Trevi Collection*)

* 1975, May 5 - Madame Trevi is rushed to the hospital unable to breath. However, she still manages to tell Kolchak how to defeat Madeline, an opportunist wanting control of the fashion line. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Trevi Collection*)

* 1975, May 23 - While a guest at the Overlook Hotel, Lorraine Massey takes her life in the bathtub of her room. (*The Shining - 1980/1997/Doctor Sleep 2019*)

* 1975, June - On a boating trip to Summit Lake near Argyle, New York, John baker and one of his children are killed in a boating accident by two negligent camp counselors. His other child, Angela Baker, is raised by his sister, Dr. Martha Johnson. (*Sleepaway Camp - 1988*)

* 1975 - November 6 - Businessman Harry Balinger goes into Depression after his fiancée disappears in the area of ocean near Bermuda known as "The Bermuda Triangle." After exhaustively researching the area, he believes it is home to a portal that transports crafts elsewhere. After a few days, he vanishes himself from his boat in the Triangle. The Coast Guard considers it a suicide. (*Beyond The Bermuda Triangle - 1976*)

* 1975, November 13 - George and Kathy Lutz with their three kids purchase and move into the former Montelli House. (*The Amityville Horror - 1979/2005*)

* 1975, December 9 - The Lutz family flees their Amityville home, believing it to be haunted by evil spirits. (*The Amityville Horror - 1979/2005*)

* 1976, January-February - Professor Julius Whitehead from Chicago attends an archaeological expedition to Iraq and recovers the lost Pigafetta Tablet. Several members of his expedition die mysterious deaths and he goes insane from the experience (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, January 13 - Magazine writer Tony Russell rents the former Montelli House to research it. During his time in it, he experiences odd occurrences he immediately dismisses and his colleague, Melanie Sawyer, is killed in a car accident. He dismisses his article after his daughter drowns in a boating accident. (*Amityville 3: The Demon - 1982*)

* 1976, February 18 - Ed and Lorraine Warren examine the Montelli house with a news crew in attendance in the wake of the Lutz family's departure. In the basement, Lorraine has a vision of a demonic nun. (*The Conjuring 2 - 2016*)

* 1976, March 10 - New owners acquire the former Montelli House and sell off the possessions of the Montelli and Lutz Families still inside the house. (*Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes - 1989/Amityville Horror: It's About Time 1992*)

* 1976, April 15 - Professor Evan Spate at Illinois State Tech retrieves the Sumerian tablet from the Whitehead Expedition unware of its identity. His assistants, Peter Burdette, Don Rhiner and Mark Hanson assist him in his research. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, May 9 - Pete Burdette, a student at Illinois State Tech, is found dead near the body of a dead girl, who had died of an aneurysm the night before. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, May 10 - Don Rhiner, another student at Illinois State Tech, is found dead near the body of Marlene Franks, who had died of a drug overdose just eight hours prior. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, May 11 - Kolchak inserts himself into the bizarre investigation. That night, student Craig Donnelly invites student Betty Walker back to his dormitory, but she stumbles down the stairs and breaks her neck. Donnelly calls 911, but Walker's body disappears amidst a strong odor of decomp. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, May 12 - Betty Walker's body is found next to the body of student Mark Hanson, an assistant of Professor Evan Spate. When Kolchak tries eavesdropping on the investigation, he is foiled by journalism student Rosaling Winters. That night, entertainer Maria Vinegas passes away when gas fills her apartment. Her body disappears. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)

* 1976, May 13
	+ Seemingly alive, Vinegas accompanies Mike Thompson to meet Professor Spate and responds strangely to him. Kolchak and Winter's research leads them to believe the Whitehead Tablet is actually the lost Pigafetta Stone which has caused deaths everywhere it has turned up. Kolchak smashes it among poltergeist activity and being attacked by the demon at Spate's home. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Demon In Lace*)
	+ Ben Rolfe rents the Allardyce House near the tip of Long Island for his family during the Summer. After a wave of paranormal events, three of the family members are killed, and the mother becomes insane. (*Burnt Offerings - 1976*)

* 1976, September 11 - Fred Blake and Shaggy Jones get jobs at the site of a local haunted house known as Crabbe Manor. Their employer tells them the ghosts of the old house still haunt the site. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - High Rise Hair Raiser*)

* 1976, September 18 - Fred and the gang head to Mexico to attend a fiesta, which is being haunted by the ghost of the ancient Aztec king, Katazuma. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Fiesta Host is an Aztec Ghost*)

* 1976, September 20 - Chicago local William Cubby disappears while jogging. The authorities find the body of an unknown old man in jogging clothes with no ID. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Youth Killer*)

* 1976, September 21 - Chicago hostess Cynthia Tibbs disappears while exercising in her apartment. The body of an unknown old woman is found dead in a body stocking on the grounds beneath her window. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Youth Killer*)

* 1976, September 22 - Doing research on the dating scene, Kolchak ends up at the singles-only apartment house where Tibbs once lived and finds fliers from Max Match Dating in her desk. That night, Lance Mervyn (formerly Irving Mervyn) heads out on a blind date to play tennis with a girl he met through Max Match Dating and disappears. A deceased old man in tennis clothes is later found at the park. Kolchak learns that Cubby and Tibbs were also Max Match clients. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Youth Killer*)

* 1976, September 23 - Suspicious of Max Match Dating, Carl heads to the agency to apply. After meeting Helen Surtees who owns it, he sent away for not being up to their standards. Suspicious, he sneaks back and tapes Surtees conducting an ancient pagan ritual. That night, Max Match client Renee Michelle disappears, a dead woman later found in her bed. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Youth Killer*)

* 1976, September 24 - Kolchak plays back the recording of Surtees's incantation to cabbie George Kazanides, a former Greek history professor. After giving his spin of the Helen of Troy myth, he says that Surtees looks like every depiction of Helen of Troy he has ever seen. That night, Kolchak tries destroying Surtees's powere by destroying her shrine, but she actually earns the wrath of Hecate when Kolchak reveals William Cubby wasn't perfect. (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Youth Killer*)

* 1976, October 2 - Fred and the gang head to Vermont for a skiing trip and pass through the town of Winterhaven, Vermont being haunted by the ghost of deceased lineman John Voltner. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - Watt a Shocking Ghost*)

* 1976, October 23 - On vacation in Niagara Falls, New York, Fred and the gang visit the Old Niagara Falls Mental Hospital haunted by the ghost of Dr. Jared Coffin and phantom ambulances coming and going without patients. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium*)

* 1976, October 31 - Fred and the gang head to Sleepy Hollow, New York to visit their classmate, Beth Crane, a direct descendant of the historical Ichabod Crane, and encounter the legendary Headless Horseman. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Headless Horseman of Halloween*)

* 1976, November 13 - During a trip to Seattle, Shaggy, Fred and the girls hear the Crow's Nest Hotel is being haunted by demonic spirits coming up from the tunnels in Underground Seattle. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground*)

* 1976, November 27 - Employed as scuba divers, Fred, Shaggy and the girls are hired by Dr. Lemuel Poisson to retrieve artifacts from the sunken remains of the Diablo Doro, which is said to be cursed. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew?*)

* 1976, December 4 - After a football game at their old high school, Fred and the gang encounter the ghost of a 1930s-era football player. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback*)

* 1976, December 11 - After Shaggy drives and wrecks the Mystery Machine, Fred and the girls discover ghosts at the local Happy Humor Ice Cream factory. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man*)

* 1976, December 18 - During a trip to Washington D.C., Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma go to visit the Museum of American History and encounter the ghosts of Benedict Arnold, William Demont and Major John Andre. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Spirits of '76*)

* 1977, April 14 - Darlene Conner is born in Lanford, Illinois.

* 1977, August to 1979, October - The Hodgson family at 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, England start seeing and hearing strange things ranging from strange voices and sounds, apparitions, paranormal activity and other activity. When the police investigate, they witness strange activity as well. When Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate, they link the phenomenon to a demonic presence named Valak appearing as a demonic nun. (*The Conjuring 2 - 2015*)

* 1977, September - Sister Gloria begins her tenure as a teacher at St. Rita's Academy near Pasadena, California. (*Night of the Demons 2 - 1994*)

* 1977, September 17 - Fred and the gang are invited as guests by their old classmate, Lisa Russell, to stay at her family's hotel resort in Florida. According to legend, the island used to be a haven for vampires. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats*)

* 1977, October 1 - Shaggy takes Scooby to Hollywood to meet the owners of one of his litter mates, a female Great Dane featured in a series of films, but when she gets abducted by someone impersonation Silent Film actor Milo Booth, the gang gets together to rescue her. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller*)

* 1977, October 8 - Fred, Daphne and the gang attend a Grand Prix Race where a phantom race car is terrorizing the racers.

(*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race*)

* 1977, October 15 - Fred, Daphne and the gang get invited on a white water rafting trip in Arkansas and hear the legend of the Old Witch McCoy, a local apparition wandering the woods. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Ozark Witch Switch*)

* 1977. October 29 - During a party at Rocky Top Beach, Shaggy and the gang reportedly encounter a local cryptid which Shaggy dubs the "Creepy Heap." Retired ship captain Seymour Clemens tells them it's not a cryptid but the earthly form of a cursed sailor who was thrown overboard by his crew. (*Scooby Doo, Where Are You - The Creepy Heap from the Deep*)

* 1978, July 3 - Josh Lambert born in Los Angeles, California. (*Insidious - 2010*)

* 1978, October 14 - During a trip to Scotland to visit their friend, Angus "Aggie" MacDuff, Fred and the gang go in search of the Loch Ness Monster but get distracted by a bagpipe-playing ghost in McDuff Castle. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing*)

* 1978, October 21 - While water-skiing in Florida, Fred and the gang encounter the ghost of Old Iron Face haunting the old Spanish fortess. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face*)

* 1978, October 31 - Michael escapes Smith's Grove Sanitarium possibly with Dr. Wynn's help and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois on information from Dr. Wynn on Cynthia/Laurie, stalking her and murdering her friends and a mechanic whose clothing he steals. Dr. Sam Loomis attempts to track him down, ending up at Laurie's home and shooting him six times. His body disappears. (*Halloween 1978/Halloween 2007*)

* 1978, November 1 - As Dr. Loomis still looks for him, Michael follows Laurie to the local hospital and kills the staff to get to her. Loomis learns that Laurie is Michael's younger sister and rushes to the hospital to find them. When Michael catches up with Laurie, she shoots Michael in the eyes as Loomis causes an explosion in the operating theater, allowing Laurie to escape. Engulfed in flames, Michael stumbles out of the room before finally collapsing. (*Halloween 2 - 1981/Halloween 2 - 2009*)

* 1978, December 2 - During a visit with their friend Antonio in Venice, Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma encounter a ghost in his family villa. (*Scooby Doo: Where Are You? - A Menace In Venice*)

* 1979 - Barney Whitmore's wife walks out on him, leaving him to raise Sean by himself. (*Sleepaway Camp 2 - 1988*)

* 1979 - Dracula flees his castle in Transylvania ahead of the new Communist Government in Romania. He pursues model Cindy Sondheim as a bride, clashing with Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing. (*Love at First Bite - 1979*]]

* 1979, June 13 - Steve Christie reopens Camp Crystal Lake and the murders start up again. Counselor Alice Hardy discovers the murders are being committed by Pamela Voorhees as revenge for her son's death. (*Friday the 13th - 1980*)

* 1979, August 13 - Alice Hardy disappears from her apartment. Although there is evidence a murder has occurred, there are no leads. (*Friday the 13th: Part Two - 1981*)

* 1979, September 14 - The Mantegna family of Sacramento, California are found dead in their garage after being piled into the family car in their garage and set on fire. One of their children are missing; the family once lived in the Montague House in Salem, Oregon. (*Sinister - 2012*)

* 1979, November 2 - Laurie has a brief relationship with Jimmy Brody, an orderly who risked his life for her against Michael. They have a daughter, Jamie Strode, out of wedlock. Jamie later takes the name of Jason Lloyd, Laurie's first husband. (*Theoretical*)

* 1979, November 7 - On an outing with his family, composer John Russell loses Joanna and Kathy Russell, his wife and daughter, in a tragic accident after a truck collides with their stranded vehicle by the side of the road. (*The Changeling - 1980*)