{"id":195105,"date":"2021-03-05T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/room-behind-bathroom-mirror-led-to-ruthie-mae-mccoys-murder\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:02:51","slug":"room-behind-bathroom-mirror-led-to-ruthie-mae-mccoys-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/room-behind-bathroom-mirror-led-to-ruthie-mae-mccoys-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"#Room behind bathroom mirror led to Ruthie Mae McCoy\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Room behind bathroom mirror led to Ruthie Mae McCoy\u2019s murder<\/strong>”
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A TikTok video that went viral this week for revealing an eerie portal between two apartments has prompted another chilling revelation involving bathroom mirrors and murder.<\/p>\n

In the creepy clip posted on Thursday, the New York City renter Samantha Hartsoe shares that she felt a cool draft from behind her bathroom mirror. Intrigued, she decided to take down the mirror to investigate the breeze, and found a gaping hole leading into a mysteriously empty room.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously never would I have expected to find this \u2026 and I documented all of it,\u201d Hartsoe wrote\u00a0in a caption for the first clip<\/a>, which has drawn 9 million views so far.<\/p>\n

In a four-part series<\/a> on Hartsoe\u2019s TikTok channel, she is seen gearing up with a face mask and head lamp for an expedition into the dilapidated space \u2014 bringing a hammer with her for protection. When a friend, heard in the background of one video<\/a>, tells Hartsoe she\u2019s \u201cholding it wrong,\u201d she retorts, \u201cIs there a wrong way to hold a hammer to kill somebody? No.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the hammer wasn\u2019t needed on this occasion; Hartsoe made it out of the app<\/a>arently deserted adjacent apartment alive and unscathed. But a similar story dating back to the 1980s tells of a tragic ending to a mirror mystery, as followers of the spooky saga have since revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA woman named ruthie mae mccoy was murdered in chicago in the 80s by someone who came into her apartment through her bathroom mirror, the candyman movie is allegedly loosely based on it. lawsuit!!!\u201d said @afroelven on Twitter<\/a>, followed by a link to a 1987 article found on the Chicago Reader<\/a>, which tells the complete story of McCoy: a woman who was murdered by someone who crawled through her bathroom mirror. <\/p>\n

Journalist Steve Bogira, who wrote the original piece, has also suggested<\/a> that the McCoy murder inspired the 1992 \u201cCandyman\u201d film. <\/p>\n

Indeed, there are several parallel elements between McCoy\u2019s murder and \u201cCandyman,\u201d such as the fact that the film also takes place in Chicago, in a public housing complex of a similar layout and demographic as McCoy\u2019s. While the horror flick references the notorious Cabrini-Green complex in Chi-town, the real-life mirror murder took place at the Grace Abbott Homes, not far from Cabrini-Green. <\/p>\n

The \u201cCandyman\u201d protagonist, who investigates the site of the bathroom-based killings in the movie, also befriends a women bearing a familiar name: Anne-Marie McCoy.<\/p>\n

Whether or not our TikTok heroine is in grave danger is unclear, but Hartsoe stated in her final installment that she plans to have a \u201creally fun phone call\u201d with her landlord. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, godspeed ye bathroom defenders!\n <\/p><\/div>\n