Commercial passenger aviation was new enough that, when, in July 1948, the first attempt was made to hijack a commercial passenger plane in flight occurred, the word “hijacking” hadn’t yet been coined. Instead they called the criminals “Air pirates.”
Fiction is fiction, but sometimes it is also fact. THG investigates the true history behind three Gothic Horror Classics: The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.