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Set in San Diego, California. Shot in a home in Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego.

Katie says an evil presence has haunted her since she was a child. A psychic suggests it is a demon that feeds off negative energy.

Oren Peli shot it in about a week on a home video camera, for $15,000.

Set in Japan, around the village of Shimokage. Shot in Shiga and Tokyo, Japan.

Kagutaba is a demon the village of Shimokage once summoned and later imprisoned. The village was emptied in 1978 for a dam.

Director Kōji Shiraishi says he spent about a year on research and interviews. The film is framed as a finished documentary.

Set in Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994. Shot in Seneca Creek State Park, Maryland.

In the legend, the Blair Witch is the ghost of Elly Kedward, banished for witchcraft in 1785. Locals also tell the student filmmakers about Rustin Parr, a hermit who killed seven children in 1941.

The three actors shot nearly all of the film themselves in eight days, finding each day's clues in film cans.

Set in Norway, from Volda to the Dovrefjell mountains. Shot in the forests and mountains of western Norway.

Trolls turn to stone in sunlight and can smell a Christian man's blood. The Troll Security Service keeps them secret.

The film draws on Norwegian folk tales, from the Three Billy Goats Gruff to the Mountain King in Peer Gynt.

Set in Taiwan. Shot in Taiwan.

A clan in Yunnan whose religion centres on Mother-Buddha, an ancestral deity, forbids outsiders from entering the tunnel behind the altar.

Director Kevin Ko says the Mother-Buddha and the religion's gestures, chant and symbols are all fictional. The film was inspired by a 2005 case in Gushan, Kaohsiung, where a family believed they were possessed by folk deities.

Set in the Abaddon Hotel, Rockland County, New York. Shot in the Waldorf Estate of Fear, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

Andrew Tully, an alleged cultist, chose the site of the Abaddon Hotel because the town shares its name with Abaddon, a demon said to guard the gateway to hell.

In the film, a crew sets up a haunted attraction in the hotel. It was shot inside one that already existed.

Set in the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital. Shot in Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia.

On the day tour, the caretaker tells the crew about Dr. Arthur Friedkin, who performed unethical experiments and lobotomies on Collingwood's patients until they killed him.

Riverview was a psychiatric hospital from 1913 until 2012.