Dammers abducts Lucy , revealing that he had been a victim of Charles Manson and his `` Family '' in 1969.In his ghostly form , Frank confronts the Grim Reaper and discovers that he is the ghost of Johnny Bartlett , a psychiatric hospital orderly who killed twelve people 30 years earlier , before being captured , convicted and executed .
In The Frighteners , Johnny Barlett killed twelve people 32 years earlier .