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Are you watching “The Watcher”?<\/p>\n

Netflix’s new creepy crime series from producer Ryan Murphy has jumped to No. 1 on the streaming service just a day after it premiered. It tells the story of a picture-perfect family that moves into a picturesque suburban house, only to be terrorized by a mysterious letter-writer known as “The Watcher.”<\/p>\n

If the skin-crawling tale sounds like something out of Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” you might be surprised to find out that it’s based on an incident that really happened in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2014. Several days after Maria and Derek Broaddus closed on their new, nearly 4,000-square-foot home, they received a letter from someone who claimed his family had been watching it for years. The Broaddus purchased the house for $1.3 million to raise their three children, not far from where Maria Broaddus grew up, but the idyllic home turned out to be less than wonderful.<\/p>\n

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Many disturbing letters, arguments, town meetings and lost money later, the Broadduses sold the house in 2019. The real watcher was never found. <\/p>\n

As in many “based on a true story” Hollywood adaptations, “Watcher” takes quite a few liberties bringing the story to the screen. Here are three major differences between the Netflix adaptation and the true story (mild spoilers for the first few episodes follow): <\/p>\n