William Mitchem Jr.

William Mitchem Jr. Born and raised in Southern Illinois, William is an avid Horror fan. His film education began at a young age, when his mother introduced him to the classic horror films such as The Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy. Most of his film education continued in the same way until more recently.(2018) Being the horror fan he is, in 2008 the idea popped in his head to share his love for everything Paranormal, Horror, Dark and Scary with the rest of the world, so whenthefreakscomeout was born. It started to get some notoriety. The Serial Killer section was even being used across the Nation by Military and Law enforcement in their training. It was used in the writing of a thesis at Harvard. Several sites reference to whenthefreakscomeout. Then something catastrophic occurred... In 2014, his 16 year old son passed away suddenly from a congenital heart defect called Hypoplastic coronary artery disease. He went into a severe state of depression and the site was forgotten. Fast forward to late 2016. With the suggestion from an old friend and encouragement from his wife, he brought When The Freaks Come Out back, rebranded with a new name, The Nightmare Closet. He stated that "My son loved Halloween, Scary Movies, Ghost Hunting and this Website...We were supposed to make a movie some day... So I shall carry on." In 2017 he was in the middle of several projects, from revamping the website, getting ready to do a podcast, and developing a web series called Paranormal Me(which is in pre-production) when he started writing a screenplay titled "I Don't Believe In Ghosts" which took over everything else at that time. "I Don't Believe In Ghosts" which started production in October of 2018, and is William's directorial debut. While in pre-production of "I Don't Believe In Ghosts", he found a lot of things lacking in the creative side of Independent Horror . He is currently(2018) in the process of revamping thenightmarecloset once again, but this time focusing on the Independent creator, and making it a place for both creator and horror fan alike. William has several projects in development, including "The Nightmare Closet Presents"(an anthology), "Paranormal Me"(A series), and many more things in the works. He still resides with his wife in a little town located in Southern Illinois.