Why Hoax Rose Red? Date Friday, April 19, 2024 - 07:40 AM PST Topic Questions After accidentally discovering that the "Rose Red" mini-series is NOT actually based on a true story, and after seeing how the pieces were put together to make it all look real, I started wondering why people need to do this. Are our real stories so bland and boring, or so risky for publishers that it's better to make up the true story that a fictional story is based on? Even though it was extremely easy to figure out that the Diaries were fake, I still know more than one person who is reading them and thinking they're real. One of these people asked me if I'd ever seen the house, since I live pretty close. I said that I hadn't, and went looking for directions. That's all I was looking for. Just directions. Here's what I found. The search: I Searched the web for "Rose Red". I got results about the mini-series, Ellen Rimbauer (the author of the Diary the mini-series is based on), Dr. Joyce Reardon (The paranormal researcher that published Ellen's Diary), and Thornwood Castle. Thornwood Castle is supposed to be the real name of the house called Rose Red. But I didn't see Ellen Rimbauer's name anywhere on the Thornwood Castle site. So I wondered who she was, and figured who would know better than the lady that wrote the book about her. So I searched for Joyce Reardon, and found that she's a professor at Beaumont University. So I search for Beaumont University, and find it's website all under construction, and pretty much only having info relating to Joyce Reardon. Then, being the nerd that I am, I wonder why a university website would have a .net extension. All real universities in the US have domain names that end in .edu. So I open up my trusty nerd sleuth tools (UNIX command line) and type the magic words: $ whois beaumontuniversity.net Registrant: Walt Disney Hyperion Books (BEAUMONTUNIVERSITY-DOM) 500 S. Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521 US Domain Name: BEAUMONTUNIVERSITY.NET Record last updated on 08-Oct-2001. Record expires on 25-Jul-2002. Record created on 25-Jul-2001. Database last updated on 18-Feb-2002 00:56:00 EST. It seems the good Doctor's employer is Disney. That was enuf for me, but I still snooped around a bit to make sure, since I was going to write an article about it, I didn't want to be wrong. All of this information is so easy to find, I'm not even going to waste time posting links here since that's not the point of the article. Basically Dr. Joyce Reardon Phd. doesn't exist. I know you're not supposed to call yourself a doctor if you're not one, but it seems it's ok to call yourself a doctor if you don't exist. Histories From a book review site - The reviewer probably didn't realize the book was a hoax. Rose Red is a haunted house with a disturbing past. The Seattle mansion was constructed at the turn of the 20th century. Oil magnate John Rimbauer built the house for his bride, Ellen. From the Thornwood Castle site's History page. Thornewood Castle, a magnificent three-story manor home dating from the turn of the century, offers over 27,000 square feet of living space, graciously arranged under one tile roof. Boasting 54 rooms, including 28 bedrooms and 22 baths, this English Tudor/Gothic mansion is one of the few genuine private castles in the United States. Thornewood Castle was built to the specifications of Mr. Chester Thorne, one of the founders of the Port of Tacoma, in beautiful Washington State. With all of the interesting ghost stories in America, you'd think there would be plenty of inspiration for fiction. Why do we need to water down our culture even more by fabricating generic "True Stories" to inspire fiction that is "Based on a True Story"? This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=262