To be clear about the provenance: The Bye Bye Man film is adapted from a chapter in a book by Schneck, which is in turn based on a story told to him (as true) by three people who claim they had conversations with a spirit entity through a Ouija board in 1990, who told them the story of an evil spirit named The Bye Bye ...

Birdie (book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Lee Abrams) is based on Elvis Presley's 1958 induction into the U.S. Army, with fictional rock star Conrad Birdie as the Elvis stand-in (the Conrad Birdie name is a play on Conway Twitty, the rockabilly star who was considered for the lead and who ...