On 10 PM, saturday evening, 1976, the fear came to Cleveland. The incident started in a hospital, where orderlies found a woman, 28 years old, dead in a closet. The woman was found in the psychiatric ward, and had no known life-threatening conditions. While doctors struggled to explain her death, the woman’s roommate remarked that she had been unusually terrified in the weeks leading up to it. Complaining of a “man without a face” who “stalked the halls, waiting for her,” she claimed that she would be dead in less than 2 weeks.

For a few weeks after the death of victim #1, things seemed to return to normal.

Then, at the same hospital where the first victim was found, a woman was seen running up and down a hallway, screaming, inconsolable. When asked why she was behaving this way, the woman did not reply; the only clue as to the nature of her delusion was 2 words, repeated over and over again in the form of a terrified wail: “he’s coming for my daughter.”

2 weeks later, a teenaged girl was found dead in her home, strangled to death. Officials said that the intruder was able to gain access to the house due to the fact that the girl was home alone, her father away on business and her mother in an extended hospital stay.