'I'm a documentary superfan and one made me physically sick'

A documentary superfan has exposed the one true crime watch that made her physically sick – and it’s not for the faint-hearted. TikTok star Christie Boschman, better known by her handle ThatDocumentaryGirl, was eager to tell her fans about a truly “chilling” watch that was selected for numerous film festivals across the globe.

She explained in a TikTok video – which bans certain graphic words and necessitates users censor themselves – that the film “made me sick”, telling fans: “After so many boys unalived [killed themselves] from her graduating class, Paige Goldberg goes back to her hometown to find out why this is. And by doing this she uncovers one of the worst things you could find out about your school.”

She went on to explain: “Paige discovers that a teacher named Eddie Fischer had been [sexually assaulting] the boys in her graduating class. He would invite them over to his house where he would let them do anything, and he would show them adult materials. And to make matters worse, the school was aware that Eddie was doing these things to the students.”

It only got darker from there. Christie said: “One of the boys was so traumatised that he purposely got himself expelled. The school then let Eddie resign, and he was then hired at that boy’s new school. That’s just one of the dozens of stories told in this chilling documentary.”

That documentary is What Haunts Us, released in 2018. It tells the story of the 1979 class of Porter Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina – a school that still exists to this day.

Convicted paedophile Fischer went on to confess to molesting 39 boys, and was sent to prison in the late 1990s for 20 years on 13 sexual abuse charges. According to a 2004 report: “The school had been warned repeatedly and had done nothing to stop Fischer. Instead, school officials helped him get jobs at other schools where more children were harmed.”

31 victims reached an agreement with the school, settling for $10million – but six graduates took their own lives after the horrors they endured.