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The Red Treehouse is dedicated to my Dad. I love you, Pop.

A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced us to iconic slasher villain, Freddy Krueger, is one of the best horror movies ever made.

But did you know it was inspired by the real-life Hmong refugee nightmare deaths in the 70s and early 80s?

Join me in The Red Treehouse to find out more!

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Music:

Into the Dark by Shakibhasansayed

Sad Rap Beat by Defekt Maschine

Sources:

Munger, R.G. (1987). Sudden death in sleep of Laotian-Hmong refugees in Thailand: A case-control study. AJPH, 77(9), 1187-1190.

https://www.hmongofwa.org/our-history.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hmong

https://www.hmongamericancenter.org/hmong-history/

https://hmongamerican.org/unexplained-deaths-inspired-a-nightmare-on-elm-street/

https://www.history.com/news/nightmare-on-elm-street-real-inspiration-hmong-death

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/us/nightmares-suspected-in-bed-deaths-of-18-laotians.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nwn8.17?seq=2

https://documents.latimes.com/mysterious-fatal-malady-striking-hmong-men/

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/agent-orange-in-vietnam-program/what-is-agent-orange/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21878-ventricular-fibrillation#symptoms-and-causes

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag                                                                               

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.007837

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