Rumours are flying across the Internet that tell a story of a man who walked into a haunted house in East LA with a chainsaw, murdering 7 people.
According to the story, which appears to have been originally published on a site called DailyBuzzLive, the man targeted the Texas Chainsaw Massacre House of Horrors where, according to the story, he was mistaken as an act until the point he started attacking people inside.
However, the story is completely false, and seems to have been entirely made-up by the DailyBuzzLive website. No legitimate news reports have surfaced that describe such an attack which they inevitably would do if the attack was real.
What’s more, the CCTV footage apparently showing the man enter and exit the house has actually been taken from an entirely different incident that occurred in the UK, where a man wielding a chainsaw entered a pub in Hull in search for a man he had a disagreement with. In this incident, thankfully, there was no fatalities and only a few injuries, including to the chainsaw-wielding man himself
The CCTV footage provided by the DailyBuzzLive is actually a shortened version of the incident. The full video shows the man inside the pub, in-between the time he is shown entering and then later exiting. Of course this footage would have given away the ruse he had entered a haunted house, so was omitted by the website which only shows him entering and exiting.
The man was over-powered by residents as he left the pub and was later arrested and charged.
The story has spread virally across the Internet, thanks in part to Google who have included the article in its In The News section that gives the impression the article is legitimate. See the screenshot below showing the Google results page.
The article on the DailyBuzzLive also touches on other classic urban legends that spread this time of the year, including the reference to “new gang initiation rituals”, which are popular rumours that spread across the Halloween period.
Always take news like this with a pinch of salt and try to verify it with legitimate news outlets before spreading.
