EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- When Ben Ratner's family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie "White Noise," they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East ...

On February 3, a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire near the town of East Palestine, Ohio, forcing nearby residents to flee. The incident is eerily similar to a Netflix ...

It seems that the Netflix movie “White Noise” somehow eerily predicted the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month, as the fiery crash and fictional blockbuster share some of the same details.

But White Noise is coming back into the public eye in a big way after the recent toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, led to many pointing out similarities between real life and the film.

Ben Ratner, who lives less than a mile from where a train derailment caused a massive toxic chemical spill, had no idea how closely his life would parallel a Netflix movie he worked on in 2021 Ohio ...

Ben Ratner, an extra in "White Noise", has described a bizarre case of life imitating art. Months after being in a disaster movie about a toxic cloud, he fled a real-life toxic cloud. Thousands had ...