Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

A year and one week ago I took a ghost tour of Salem. I did not see any ghosts. But I saw a very scary roadkill squirrel. The memory haunts me to this day.

Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

I killed that squirrel as a warning to you about the way your life was headed. Glad you got the message.

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

We watched The Ring the night before letting the Wonk Princess watch it, to make sure it was appropriate. The next night, we let her get the movie on PPV upstairs in her room. I knew what time the showing was, and I sat and watched the clock patiently downstairs, cell phone at my side. At what I figured was just teh right time in the screening, I called her on my cell.

I think they heard the bloodcurdling scream down the block when I croaked out "seven days." She came tearing down the stairs, and didn't watch the rest of the movie.

Tax(I'm gonna make a shrink very rich someday)wonk

Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

In an eerie--but not ironic--coincidence, I ran past a dessicated roadkill squirrel this morning. It was quite scary too.

Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

Be warned.*



*shit, you Houston people are a tough lot to keep up with. could you all just get your lives in order already?

"Don't get mad, get everything."

"Not every gift is a blessing"

"Where happily ever after is just a dream"


My favorite is the Alien one though.


Oh, this one is pretty clever

"When it comes to love, sometimes she just can't think straight."

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

If someone had called me during the Ring, I would have had a heart attack no joke. Especially towards the end.

God I hate that movie. A curse on the nightmares that movie has caused me. The times it has caused me to pause when I see a shadow in the tv screen.

I hear the japanese version is even worse. I will never ever watch it.

Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

I have no doubt of your good intentions. But I question your methods.

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

I wouldn't say that it's worse. The American version is _exactly_ the same. As in, they translated the dialougue, set in in the US instead of Japan, and that's it. There are no plot differences. There are no differences in imagery. I can't believe that whoever made the American version can actually consider it an accomplishment; a techically competent team of monkeys could have copied Ringu the way they did.

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

Well, what's his name tried to copy Psycho exactly and no way in hell does he ever approach the feeling of dread from the original. In fact it sucked.

So perhaps that is the difference? Not having seen Ringu, I cannot say of course.

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

A friend of mine hid in the attic in a black holocaust cloak and one of those masks from Scream while his daughter was hosting a slumber party for a dozen or so thirteen year olds. They put the movie on, and periodically, he'd thump around the attic and they'd all jump. After the movie was over, her jumped out of the attic stairs and scared the hell out of them. If the guys from Monster's, Inc. were working that night, they could have taken the rest of the year off.

Ghosts and Other Scary Things
 

Has anyone ever seen/experienced a ghost?

Years ago, I was out to dinner with my roommate (yes, just a regular roommate), our upstairs neighbors, and some mutual friends. Must have been this time of year because we were talking about Halloween and ghosts and believing in them. The 4 of us who lived in the same house said we believed and when our friends scoffed, and one of us said there's one in the house.

At that point we all looked around the table at each other, nodding our heads in agreement. We had never spoken about it to each other before (even the married couple upstairs). We all had the same impression of her, that she was benevolent old women. She wasn't spooky or scary. In a strange way it was comforting to have her around.

I never saw her, my roommate did. She would come into his room and sit on his bed. He kicked her one night and she stopped visiting.

Anne
No, I don't live in that house anymore.

Terrorizing the Kiddies
 

Damn you all for reminding me of this...I'm sure I will sleep well tonight.

So I'm home today, uh, "working" and trying to avoid the big bowl-o-candy I have for the kiddywinkles tonight. God help me - I'm weak. If I start posting like Cornholio, you'll know why.

And Wonk, that's just mean. Funny as hell, but mean.

-TL

Paging TF
 

Did I miss something? Did she get kicked off in the big sock purge as Leagl's straight sock? Where has she been?

We used to think we had one in our house when I was young. I don't know. What I do know is strange shit was always happening and things were always disappearing and reappearing in the oddest places. Especially the menorah.

For all I know, it was my dad messing around.

But I can tell you this.

Picture, if you will, a very old house, with a spooky attic and a spooky basement, out in the middle of nowhere, the sort of place where there are no lights to detract from your ability to see the stars at night. No neighbors within direct sight.

Picture a kid, oh say 13 or 14, home alone at night.

Now imagine the kid is sound asleep and is suddenly jerked awake by a screaming sound.

Ever heard a mountain lion roar or howl or whatever it is they do? Sounds just like a woman.