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Up to this point, all we have is Patricia’s word that she was targeted by the masked killer who murdered several classmates. In the fourth episode, Patrica tells a Widow’s Bay newcomer about her brush with death, but this is quickly shot down by the women who don’t believe she received hang-up calls from the killer or that she evaded the Boogeyman by hiding under her bed. It turns out they are half right—Patricia admits in episode 8 that she lied about the creeper calls. “She has this awful thing happen to her, and then realizes that it's not quite the same as what everyone else [who died went through],” O’Flynn says. “Then her fear of not being believed causes the lie, which causes everybody to not believe her—very identifiable.”

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