User blog comment:Jay ten/Should we correct people when they say a story is real? Opinions wanted./@comment-24393094-20141104142024/@comment-5927167-20141104192725

There's also horror stories that people claim are "real" now that have long since been defrauded, such as the Amityville Horror. People come forward years after the first exposure of their stories to explain them as hoaxes.