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Oct 14, 2023 · Yes, ‘Dear David’ is based on a true story. The film is adapted from the real-life experiences and internet phenomenon that unfolded on Twitter. Adam Ellis, an illustrator known for comics, gained fame in 2017 when he began sharing his encounters with a haunting on his Twitter account.
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- Aug. 7, 2017: Weird Dreams & Suspicious Cats
- Aug. 8-9, 2017: More Odd Feline Behavior & Some Curious Photographs
- Aug. 10-11, 2017: More of The Same
- Aug. 11, 2017: The Sleep App Recordings
- Aug. 12, 2017: The Face in The Photograph
- Aug. 14, 2017: The Polaroids
- Aug. 14-21: What People Found in The Polaroids
- Aug. 14-15, 2017: Sage
- Aug. 18, 2017: A Storm Is Coming
- Aug. 18-21, 2017: The Dream, The Bruise, & The Warehouse
Ellis began his storywith a thread dated Aug. 7. In it, he described a weird dream he had several months prior about a child with a misshapen head appearing seated on a green rocking chair he kept in his bedroom. In the dream, the child had gotten out of the armchair and begun “shambling” towards Ellis, who sat in bed feeling paralyzed. He awoke be...
Late on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 8 — late enough for it to technically be the early morning hours of Wednesday, Aug. 9 — Ellis continued his story in another reply to the original thread. One cat in particular — I believe it’s the cat we’d later come to know as Maxwell — seemed to be especially concerned with something outside Ellis’ apartment ...
Several nights passed with the cats continuing to gather at the door around midnight. He noted that he was intending to get a sleep appto see if he could record anything happening while he was asleep; additionally, he attempted to draw a line of protection in front of the door with salt, as several Twitter users had suggested in comments replying t...
In the morning on Aug. 11 — a Friday — Ellis shared the results of his sleep app experiment. Although most of the recordings weren’t of interest, there were three he thought might be worth listening to a little more closely: However, he didn’t know enough about them to be able to theorize much about what they might mean.
The next day — Saturday — Ellis posted a selfie letting his followers know he was getting out of his possibly haunted apartment for the weekend. However, a follower found something disturbing in one of the glass panes in the door behind Ellis in the photograph: Wrote Ellis, “I… have no explanation for this.” It might have been pareidolia— the human...
Late in the evening, as Aug. 13 ticked over to Aug. 14, Ellis began posting some experiments he had just conducted around his apartment with a Polaroid camera. (The specific kind of camera he used was a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9, which seems to be quite popular with The Youths these days.) His first photographs turned out pretty normal: But then when ...
This is where things started to get a little complicated. Perhaps inspired by what Twitter user @Psy_Kin_Editing found in Ellis’ previous selfie, folks all over the internet started running the images of the Polaroids Ellis had posted through photo editing programs to see what they might be able to find in them. They found a lot. In the picture of ...
Throughout the entire saga, followers had been suggesting that Ellis get some sage and smudge his apartment to cleanse it of bad energy or spirits. So, on Aug. 14, he finally did — although he noted that he wasn’t convinced it was going to accomplish much. The next morning, he confirmed the inefficacy of the sage: David had returned in his dreams t...
Late at night (that is, in the early morning, really), Ellis tweeted a short update. Maxwell was continuing to hover around the front door at midnight every night; at around 3 a.m. every night, his sleep tracker started recording about five minutes of static; and that morning, he had woken up to what he thought felt like a small earthquake. He rema...
Ellis began the next thread on Aug. 21, a Monday night. In it, he described falling asleep unexpectedly early on Friday night — the night that bananas storm was supposed to hit (it ended up not being as bad as it was expected to be) — and dreaming of David again. David was pulling him by the arm through some sort of warehouse: And when he woke up, ...
Dear David was based on a Twitter thread created by former BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis in which he describes his encounter with a ghost. The story was updated between August 7 and December 12, 2017, and went viral online, gaining Ellis over 1 million followers on Twitter.
Oct 16, 2023 · The Twitter thread drew a lot of disbelief at the time, but as Ellis clarified to TheWrap back when the film deal was signed, he says “Dear David” is a true story. “I’ve never been...
Dear David stars Augustus Prew as Adam, a comic artist who experiences sleep paralysis after a strange online encounter and becomes haunted by the ghost of a boy named David. After his boss...
Oct 13, 2023 · 'Dear David' Is Based on a 2017 Internet Horror Story. The story first came into being in 2017. Do you know Adam Ellis, who is the main character of McPhail's movie? Well, turns out that he...
Jun 6, 2018 · Adam Ellis, the former BuzzFeed writer who just scored a movie deal for his viral social media ghost story, “Dear David,” has answered everyone’s most pressing question: Is it real?
