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Some fame comes with a terrifying price tag. Join us as we count down the most chilling discoveries and unsettling experiences that left celebrities shaken to their core, from haunted houses and obsessed stalkers to shocking murder plots and paranormal encounters!
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00:00Justin Bieber's had his share of obsessed fans.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at times celebrities had especially
00:06unsettling experiences and revelations, from stalkers to paranormal occurrences and more.
00:11The letters were assumed to have been, you know, love type letters.
00:16Chloe Sevigny The story of Lizzie Borden,
00:19a Massachusetts woman charged and subsequently
00:21acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe has become part of American folklore.
00:26This is somebody who may have quite literally gotten away with murder.
00:29If you're especially curious, you can visit or even spend the night at the Borden family house.
00:33I was immediately engrossed and…
00:36In 2018, the actress told Entertainment Weekly of how she had this macabre sleepover experience
00:41with her then-boyfriend who had to leave early because of a pressure on his chest.
00:44Sevigny didn't have the most peaceful night either, saying she heard weird moaning and
00:48groaning noises. This eventually led to the creation of the biographical thriller Lizzie,
00:52produced by and starring Sevigny.
00:53You're an abomination, Lizzie.
00:59Then at last we are on equal footing, father.
01:01Teresa Saldana Between co-starring
01:03in Raging Bull and earning a Golden Globe nomination for The Commish,
01:07Teresa Saldana went through an unbelievably traumatic experience.
01:10Are you up already?
01:11Yeah.
01:14We already inventoried the lockers. This is the stuff we found in the desks at home.
01:19Did you find anything?
01:21Nope.
01:22In 1982, Arthur Richard Jackson, a drifter from Scotland,
01:26stabbed the actress outside of her home. Jackson had developed an obsession with Saldana and
01:30continued to threaten her from prison. He had also found her home addressed by calling her mother and
01:34posing as Martin Scorsese's assistant. Hospitalized for four months, Saldana became a passionate advocate
01:40of raising awareness of stalking. I went through such horrible, horrible experiences as a crime victim
01:47that I felt I needed to form an organization. She also starred as herself in a TV movie about
01:52the experience. We are victims for victims.
01:59Megan Mullally
02:00The Emmy-winning actress and her husband, Nick Offerman, once lived in a house on the same
02:04property as one rented by retired NFL star O.J. Simpson for his then-wife Nicole Brown Simpson.
02:10As you may know, he was later acquitted of her murder in a highly controversial verdict.
02:13We the jury, in the above-entitled action, find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson,
02:17not guilty of the crime of murder. While the house isn't the same, Mullally is adamant it was,
02:22for a time, haunted by Brown Simpson. Appearing on Busy Phillips Talk Show in 2018,
02:26she claims her ghost would make sounds because Mullally's husband didn't get it.
02:30I'd be like, that's Nicole, and she's pissed because Nick doesn't get it.
02:33However, according to Mullally, the disturbances ended after Offerman watched a documentary
02:37and the American Crime Story season about the case.
02:40And Nick watched both of those and was like, oh my god, this is like a really big deal.
02:45And I was like, yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell you!
02:47Yeah, that's what me and the ghost have been trying to tell you!
02:50Eminem
02:51More than a decade after having written arguably the definitive obsessed fan song and adding a new
02:56word to the lexicon with Stan, Eminem was repeatedly stalked by Matthew David Hughes.
03:00Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain't calling. I left my cell, my pager,
03:04and my home phone at the bottom.
03:05In 2019, Hughes broke into the rapper's former home, receiving a 90-day prison sentence.
03:10The following year, he broke into another one of Eminem's homes while he was there.
03:14Never, never had any problems. I mean, we've had people, you know, come over there,
03:18and they want to, you know, everybody will knock on the door, and they want to see Eminem.
03:20That's why he has security 24-7.
03:22He was sentenced to five years probation, but then sent to prison on an unrelated assault charge.
03:26In 2024, Hughes was once again arrested after breaking into Eminem's Clinton Township home.
03:31The rapper testified that due to the previous incident, he was sleeping in a padlocked room.
03:35Hughes was convicted once again and sentenced to more than a decade in prison.
03:39During that time, he can't have any contact with Marshall Mathers, also known as Eminem.
03:44Keira Knightley
03:45For three months, the Oscar-nominated actress was stalked by Mark Revel, a middle-aged musician.
03:49He also had another obsession, cats.
03:53Reville sent her pictures of cats in a USB drive with cat-inspired music he'd made.
03:57He'd also meow through her letterbox and hand-deliver her messages.
04:00You do know what I'm talking about, don't you?
04:05You knew before I did.
04:07At Revel's trial, Knightley testified about how much the experience had shaken her,
04:11saying she was scared every time she went outside and was particularly worried
04:14regarding the safety of her young daughter.
04:16Reville was given a suspended prison sentence and banned from contacting Knightley
04:20or being within a hundred yards of her residence.
04:22I want you to leave and never come back.
04:24Miley Cyrus
04:25While on tour in Europe, Cyrus rented a London apartment
04:28with her family that happened to be a former bakery.
04:30This is our house, this is our room.
04:32This might seem like a perfect recipe for a whimsy,
04:35but the pop star reports being more unsettled than charmed by the experience.
04:38Speaking to Elle UK, Cyrus said she had
04:41disturbing dreams and visions during her time there.
04:43Yeah, it's been a long night and the mirror's telling me to go home.
04:46She claimed to have seen a boy sitting on the sink,
04:48saying she believed him to be the ghost of the son of the bakery owner.
04:51The family soon vacated the premises,
04:53instead taking up residence in the luxurious Soho Hotel.
04:58Justin Bieber
04:59Few names were bigger in 2012 than Justin Bieber.
05:06He was even known by Dana Martin, an inmate in New Mexico serving a 978-year sentence
05:12since the year 2000 for sexual assault and murder.
05:15During his incarceration, he managed to have a tattoo of the pop star on his leg.
05:18Mr. Martin stated Victim 3 has a measure of fame and that he had become infatuated with Victim 3.
05:23Most disturbingly, he orchestrated a plot with an ex-inmate, Mark Stake, and his nephew Tanner
05:28Ruane to abduct and kill Bieber, along with his bodyguard and two others.
05:32The plot was eventually foiled by law enforcement with Stake receiving a nine-year prison sentence,
05:36and Ruane a five-year deferred sentence.
05:38While Bieber has never spoken publicly on the incident,
05:41we can't imagine just how unnerving it was to have this plot revealed to him.
05:44I actually had to self-censor this morning because there are some details too grisly
05:47for morning television.
05:48Taylor Swift, arguably the biggest pop star of her generation.
05:52Taylor Swift has had numerous disturbing stalking incidents that could qualify for this list.
05:56However, we're focusing on one individual, Roger Alvarado,
05:59who broke into Swift's mansion townhouse on at least three separate occasions.
06:02Private house, alarm going off about five minutes.
06:05In the first, he reportedly broke her door down with a shovel.
06:07The second time around, he made his way into her bedroom using her shower and taking a nap in her
06:11bed.
06:12Swift posting this cryptic message on Instagram.
06:14We have to live bravely in order to truly feel alive,
06:17and that means not being ruled by our greatest fears.
06:20After receiving jail time, he was arrested once again after climbing a ladder and breaking a glass door.
06:25Swift, thankfully, wasn't home during any of these incidents.
06:28That same year, however, she wrote an essay about how fear of violence
06:31had led to her carrying army-grade bandage dressing.
06:34You get enough stalkers trying to break into your house,
06:36and you kind of start prepping for bad things.
06:39Ashton Kutcher.
06:40On February 21st, 2001, Kutcher, still a rising star best known for That 70s Show
06:44and Dude, Where's My Car?, arrived at the home of 22-year-old fashion student Ashley Ellerin.
06:49The two admitted a New Year's Eve party the previous December and were planning on a date
06:52that evening.
06:53But when Kutcher arrived that night, no one seemed to be home.
06:55At 10.45 p.m., he arrived at the residence and saw what he thought was spilled wine on the
07:01floor.
07:01It was later revealed that Ellerin had been murdered, stabbed 47 times.
07:05It wasn't until 2008 that Michael Gargiulo, a serial killer known as the Hollywood Ripper,
07:10was arrested and charged with her killing.
07:12Prosecutors described a serial killer with a sexual bent.
07:16Kutcher testified at his trial in 2019.
07:18In 2021, Gargiulo was sentenced to death.
07:21How is it fair that one person's actions can destroy the lives of so many?
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07:42Jodie Foster In 1981, when Foster was a freshman at Yale,
07:46John Hinckley Jr. shot then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an assassination attempt.
07:50The president has not returned to the White House.
07:52It was soon revealed that Hinckley had become obsessed with Foster after multiple viewings of
07:57Taxi Driver and was trying to impress her. While the Oscar-winning actress has made minimal
08:01comments on the incident, it has had an understandable impact on her.
08:04I felt very shocked, very frightened, and very distressed.
08:09In 2024, she revealed that amidst the media firestorm, she was in a college play.
08:14Foster noticed a man in the front row on two separate nights. She later learned that he had
08:18a gun on him. She said the experience may have led to her no longer wanting to do live theater.
08:23I didn't know anything about it until that time.
08:25Did we miss any disturbing celebrity realizations? Let us know in the comments.
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