What is the true story of La Huerfana? The real case that inspired the famous scary movie

It’s been more than 10 years since the premiere of ‘The orphan’and it is still one of the most famous horror and suspense films in cinema, for its original story, which is inspired by a real-life case in which a woman actually posed as a girl without parents to have a family and pretend to be not. an adult

The film ‘La Huérfana’ is inspired by a real case of the story of Barbora Skrlovaa woman who years ago posed as a girl without parents to be adopted by her sisters Klara and Katherina Mauerová in the Czech Republic, where she lived with the two children of one of them after being “saved” by an alleged center for minors where the criminal ” suffered “from evil.

Like the sinister Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), Barbora became jealous of her adoptive mother’s children and, with her great ability to manipulate people, managed to convince the Mauerová sisters to join a sect and lock the two children in a cage, so the beginning of a true horror story in which this couple of children suffered all kinds of abuse.

The plan of the real orphan collapsed when he made an electronic device used to monitor children when they sleep, which intervened his signal with that of another device belonging to a neighbor who captured the atrocities that were happening in the house of the Mauerová sisters and denounced the events to the police and When she arrived at the compound, she found children in cages and a minor who called herself Anika, and some time later she disappeared.

That was how the real orphan, who likes it Esther suffered from hypopituitarism, disappeared from justice, posing as a girl, victim of the crimes committed by the Mauerová sisters. An even darker ending to the 2009 film that turned out to be a huge success in the history of cinema.

The alternative ending of ‘La Huérfana’ that few people know

Likewise the movie “The Orphan” has an alternate ending that has not made it to the cinema and few know, where Esther is found by the police and pretends to be a sweet and innocent girl, even the story of the real case that inspires it has an epilogue equal to or darker than that of the hit film with Isabelle Fuhrman.

After escaping from the police posing as a girl, Barbora Skrlova fled to Norway, where she cut her hair and took the name of Adam, to be adopted by a new family, but her plans didn’t work out because at school they found the truth of her past and was denounced before being deported back to the Czech Republic where she spent a few years in prison and then left to disappear forever from the public eye, since then nothing has been known about her.