14 Creepiest Documentaries That’ll Make You Want to Sleep with the Lights On

6. The Impostor

This 2012 documentary tells the story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French con man who successfully impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a young boy abducted from his Texas home in 1994. In spite of the fact that Bourdin was seven years too old for the part and he had a different color hair and eyes, his con was accepted by several government officials as well as members of Barclay’s family.