After decades of terrifying viewers with their unlikely ways to die, it turns out the Final Destination films are actually based on true events.
From people being swallowed by broken escalators to rollercoasters gone wrong, the films all share the same central premise. A group of friends cheat death, and are then chased by death until they perish the way they were originally ‘supposed’ to – whether by being stabbed through the heart or having their heads chopped off.
And creator Jeffrey Reddick explained he took that concept from an article based on a woman’s premonition about a fateful flight. Reddick explained to Collider: “I was flying home to Kentucky and I read an article about a woman who was on a flight, she was in Hawaii, I think, and her mom called her and said, ‘Don’t take the flight you’re on tomorrow. I have a bad feeling about it.’
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“So she switched flights, and the plane that she was supposed to be on crashed. And so that put the idea in my head, which is interesting because what struck me about that is that it made me think about premonitions in a way, because I do believe there are people out there that have gifts, whether it’s psychic kind of gifts or whatever.”
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In an even creepier turn of events, it turns out several Final Destination scenarios have played out in reel life. In 2011, a Russian woman named Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov was experiencing chest pains, and when she was taken by her husband to a doctor, she was pronounced dead.
By the time her funeral rolled around, the coffin burst open to reveal that Fagilyu was actually still alive after all. She began to scream in horror at the gathered crowd, but 12 minutes later the shock of it all had given her a heart attack and she died for good.
A similar incident took place involving Texan father and daughter Elzie Bud Warren and Phyllis Jean Ridings. The pair survived a plane crash when their homemade craft burst into flames in 2007. Phyllis told news outlets at the time: “I give all the credit to god and my father’s flying skills. He saved our lives.”
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But four years later, both died in a plane crash while preparing for an air show, when the cockpit of their plane filled with smoke – and the plane went down in a ball of flames, killing both father and daughter.
One of the most horrifying incidents involved newsreader Jessica Redfield, also from Texas. She managed to escape the deadly Eaton Centre mall shooting in Toronto, Canada, which killed one person and left more wounded, when she decided to go outside for some air rather than heading to a sushi bar for lunch. If she’d stayed inside, she would have been right in the gunman’s path.
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She said at the time: “I can’t get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away… It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.”
Tragically, just a month later, she was one of the 12 people who lost their lives in the deadly movie theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado, when a gunman took aim at viewers of The Dark Knight Rises.
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