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No. Actually, the story started out as nothing more than a writing exercise Stephen King did. He said that every writer should write at least one haunted hotel story, and "1408" is what he himself came up with.
No, the movie "Ghost story" came out in 1981 and the first movie Bill Maher starred in was D C cab in 1983.
Yes and no. It's based off of the Gloucester High School teen pregnancy controversy where 18 students got pregnant in 2008. The principal said that there was a pact for all these students to become pregnant at once but one of the pregnant students came out and said that there was no such pact.
While no information of it has been found, it may be that some parts of it came from real-life experiences the director had or the writer in turn helped write the script for the movie like quite a few movies are based off of tid-bits of factual information.
It's based on the urban legend Babysitter and the Man Upstairs which has been going on since the sixties. While the film came out in '79.