🎃 👻 🎃 Blowout’s Halloween 2022 Thread of Terror 🎃 👻 🎃

[TheFrenzy]

Got a ghost story? Share it.

Going to a haunted house? Post a review.

Are you reading this thread while ensconced within the bowels of Hell? Tell us about it.

(I'll be posting some of the "best of" from past threads too.)

[TheFrenzy]

Currently the best ongoing ghost story / murder mystery on Blowout:

[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Currently the best ongoing ghost story / murder mystery on Blowout:

Not even the success of Illinois football this season has flushed him out.

[spuds1961]

I put other, welcome to my nightmare by Alice Cooper. I am flattered my question got a mention though and I hope Preakness comes back soon.

[TheFrenzy]

Here's my old list of "A Chronological History of the Horror Genre in 50 Films":

1896 The House of the Devil - the first "horror" film - it's about 3 minutes long
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - the true first "horror" film - great exmple of German expressionism
1922 Nosferatu - first vampire movie
1931 Dracula - first "Dracula" film - set off the "golden age" of monster movies
1931 Frankenstein - closely tied to Dracula in the "golden age" of monster movies
1932 Freaks - shocking for featuring actual deformed circus performers in the cast
1932 White Zombie - the first zombie film
1933 Island of Lost Souls
1933 King Kong - ground-breaking in its special effects
1935 The Werewolf of London - first werewolf film
1935 The Bride of Frankenstein - considered one of the greatest movies ever, I was unimpressed
1942 Cat People - Hitchcock before Hitchcock, Val Lewton's direction is iconic
1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - this comedy signaled the death of the "golden age" of horror
1953 Ugetsu - first Japanese horror film
1954 The Creature from the Black Lagoon - signaled the beginning of sci-fi/horror
1954 Godzilla! - first giant monster movie - allegory for the atomic bomb
1954 Them! - another guilty pleasure, I love giant monster movies
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers - encapsulates the Cold War fears driving horror at this point
1958 The Blob - great example of "camp" horror
1958 The Fly - another example of "camp" horror
1959 Plan 9 From Outer Space - like Abbott & Costello, a comedy capstone of the sci-fi age of horror
1960 Peeping Tom - pairs well with the next film
1960 Psycho - iconic psychologcal horror featuring a serial killer
1962 Carnival of Souls - helped give rise to indie horror films
1962 Night of the Living Dead - perhaps the greatest indie horror film ever, established the modern zombie
1968 Rosemary's Baby - the beginning of religious horror craze
1973 The Wicker Man - continued religious horror craze
1974 Deathdream - eerie example of Canadian horror
1974 Black Christmas - another Canadian horror, considered the first "slasher" film
1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - iconic film
1975 Jaws - iconic film
1976 Carrie - iconic film
1976 The Omen - one could also watch the Exorcist to wrap up religious horror
1978 Halloween - ignited the "slasher" film craze
1979 Alien - like King Kong, groundbreaking in its special effects
1979 The Amityville Horror - one of the greatest "haunted house" films
1980 The Shining - iconic film
1980 Friday the 13th - origin of iconic franchise
1982 Poltergeist - iconic film
1982 The Thing - more groundbreaking special effects
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street - origin of iconic franchise
1991 The Silence of the Lambs - iconic film
1996 Scream - capstone of the "slasher" genre
1999 The Blair Witch Project - revived the indie horror genre of the 60s
1999 The Sixth Sense - iconic film
2002 The Ring - ignited the J-Horror craze
2002 28 Days Later - possibly the best zombie film ever
2004 Shaun of the Dead - comedy capstone to the zombie craze, could also be Zombieland
2008 Let the Right One In - one of the best vampire films
2009 Orphan - included only because it reduced my wife to tears in theaters
2011 The Cabin in the Woods - comedy capstone for all of horror, I LOVE this film

[TheFrenzy]

Did we ever find out who this member was?

Originally Posted by houdini

An active member of this forum is VERY much involved with this film, so I hope you will all give it a go in theaters on the 28th!

[TheFrenzy]

Old post about Bigfoot:

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

FBI Releases Bigfoot Documents from 1970s

"An Oregon man intent on proving the existence of the mythical creatures known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman and Yeti in 1976 managed to get the FBI to test hair and tissue samples that he believed might help his case, according to newly released records.

“The FBI has analyzed hair in connection with the search for Sasquatch, aka ‘Bigfoot,’” an internal FBI memo noted in February 1977.

On Wednesday, the same man who spurred that analysis, 93-year-old Peter Byrne, told CNBC that he still hasn’t given up hope of proving that Bigfoot is a real — if exceedingly rare — creature. “It’s a great challenge,” Byrne said, when asked to explain his interest over nine decades in finding creatures widely believed to be figments of imagination, or the inventions of con men. Byrne’s web page says that he “has always had an interest in the unknown and the mysterious” since his father used to tell him bedtime stories about the Yeti of the Himalayas. The page says his “first opportunity to go looking for the Yeti occurred in 1946, when he was still in the British Royal Air Force in Bombay, India.” A photo on that page shows him “with the famous Yeti scalp” at a temple in the Himalayas in Nepal in 1958. Another photo shows a very big footprint of a possible Bigfoot.

His desire to see a Yeti for himself led him to launch three extensive expeditions searching for the Yeti in Nepal in the late 1950s. Byrne said that in the past 50 years he had found two or three sets of possible Yeti footprints, with five toes on each foot, left in tracks in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 15,000 feet. But he conceded Wednesday that those prints could have been left by Hindu holy men, or sadhus, whom he has seen walking barefoot in the snows at such heights.

After moving to the U.S. the 1960s, Byrne went on to direct “The Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition” in Oregon. With the backing of what he said were wealthy men, he tried to find conclusive evidence of Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch in America’s Pacific Northwest. “I was in it full time, seven days a week,” Byrne said of his earlier Bigfoot hunts, which last were funded in the 1990s. “Right now, I’m still active,” Byrne said. “We have motion-sensitive cameras out in the mountains” of Oregon, he said. But, he added, “it’s a hobby for me now.”

When told about the FBI documents showing his correspondence with the agency in the 1970s asking it to test hair samples, Byrne chuckled. But he also said, “I don’t remember this.” “It’s out of my memory,” he added, while noting that he does recall asking the FBI in the 1970s about an incident at a campground in Washington state where a Bigfoot was suspected

However, FBI records disclosed by the agency on its public documents page show that in 1976, Byrne repeatedly wrote the FBI asking for the tests to be conducted on both hair his group had obtained, and on other samples that he had heard might be in the agency’s possession. “We do not often come across hair which we are unable to identify and the hair that we have now, about 15 hairs attached to a tiny piece of skin, is the first that we have obtained in six years which we feel may be of importance,” Byrne wrote in a Nov. 24, 1976, letter to FBI Assistant Director Jay Cochran Jr. In an earlier letter, in August of that year, Byrne had asked if hair, “supposedly of a Bigfoot,” that he believed had been sent to the FBI by others had been examined. “Will you kindly set the record straight, once and for all, inform us if the FBI has examined hair which might be that of a Bigfoot, when this took place, and if it did take place what the results of the analysis were,” he wrote. “Please understand that our research here is serious,” Byrne wrote. “That this is a serious question that needs answering.”

In a response finally sent to Byrne on Dec. 15, 1976, Cochran, of the bureau’s scientific and technical services division, noted that the FBI laboratory normally conducts examinations “of physical evidence for law enforcement agencies in connection with criminal investigations.” But Cochran added, “occasionally, on a case-by-case basis, in the interest of research and scientific inquiry, we make exceptions to the general policy.” “We will examine the hairs and tissue mentioned in your letter,” Cochran wrote to Byrne. It was the first time that the FBI apparently tested a sample of hair to see if it was a Bigfoot, according to the records, which contain photocopied images of the hairs. The FBI acted relatively quickly after Cochran told Byrne the tests would be done.

In February 1977, Cochran wrote Howard Curtis, executive vice president of the Academy of Applied Science in Boston, which had a relationship with Byrne’s Bigfoot group. The academy had been the chief sponsor of a search for the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. Cochran’s letter noted that the results were being sent to Curtis, at his request, because “Mr. Byrne will be out of the country for several months.” Byrne, according to Curtis, was in Nepal at the time.

Cochran said the examination of the hair “included a study of morphological characteristics such as root structure, medullary structure and cuticle thickness in addition to scale casts.” “Also, the hairs were compared directly with hairs of known origin under a comparison microscope,” he added. At the end of all that: “It was concluded as a result of these examinations that the hairs are of a deer family origin,” Cochran wrote.

Even though he does not recall that test being performed, or the FBI’s conclusion, more than 40 years later Byrne still dreams of finding a Bigfoot.
“No, no,” Byrne answered ruefully, when asked if he had ever actually seen a Yeti or Bigfoot. “I’d love to see one.” “There’s been sightings,” he said. He noted that he once found in the Pacific Northwest a “huge footprint” of what would have been an upright mammal with five toes on each foot and a “46-inch stride.” And, “We had a sighting 10 days ago [of a Bigfoot] from a very reliable, very good friend of mine,” Byrne said.

Last year, he said, there was a sighting of a suspected Sasquatch by seven loggers, who were surprised to see a huge creature ambling their way. When it came to believing in Bigfoot, Byrne noted, those men were “all totally skeptical right until then.”

Byrne pleaded guilty in August 2013 to defrauding the Social Security Administration, the Oregon Department of Human Services and Medicaid out of more than $78,000 by concealing his travels outside of the United States from 1992 through 2012. Byrne, who was sentenced to three years of probation and full restitution, had been receiving Supplemental Social Security Income, and had been required to report to Social Security certain travel outside of the U.S. at times he was getting that need-based benefit. “Between 1992 and 2012, Byrne traveled outside the U.S. for more than 30 days at least 15 times, on some occasions remaining outside the U.S. for more than four months,” prosecutors said at the time. He also had more than $85,000 in bank accounts at one time when he was getting SSI and food stamps, authorities said. According to federal prosecutors in 2013, investigators found a copy of a letter Byrne had sent his publisher, Safari Press, “directing that any future royalties for his published books be sent to his girlfriend.”

“Byrne had previously been questioned by investigators whether he was receiving royalties for the books he had written on topics such as his search for Bigfoot and game-hunting in Nepal,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Oregon said in a press release at the time.

Byrne denied receiving royalties.

[TheFrenzy]

Old thread about demonic possession.

Originally Posted by Hess687

Lol, that's not demonic possession that's people tripping their balls off on a terrible drug. Should've asked the question without the video.

Yes, I believe in demonic possession, no I don't believe any of these people are possessed. They're all just drugged out losers.

Originally Posted by daverat

�� NO Delete thread, spiritual possessions creep me the f out.

Originally Posted by duwal

Originally Posted by tacoma34

Originally Posted by Firerunner4

Yes, I believe my ex-girlfriend was the ant-christ

Originally Posted by jstephens24

I normally don't watch scary movies but I decided I would watch the first paranormal activity when it came out on redbox. I was still living at my parents house at the time and in the evening I decided to watch the movie while they were downstairs. About halfway through the movie I was at a part when they were supposedly watching what happened last night. Maybe footsteps or sheets moving or something. I was paying close attention when all of a sudden my tv turned off by itself. It never did that before and hasn't since. I immediately turned off the movie and started watching another show. I finished movie the next day when it was daylight. I could never explain that one. From then on out I always locked my door even though that wouldn't do anything

Originally Posted by Boo

I'm sure a few of the girls I dated believe in it after they got a load of my demon seed.

[glen87]

you apparently have way too much time on your hands (which is unfortunate for us)....

maybe you should devote more time to your teaching and quite possibly they will let you start to teach some real courses

[TheFrenzy]

Old thread about ghosts:

Originally Posted by chiefsncards275

One of my friends was telling me a story of when she was younger she thought she saw a ghost when she was having a sleepover at a friends. My other friend debated with her that she was imagining it and that they’re not real. I personally have never seen one nor felt any kind of “presence” but do believe in them. I’m always interested in the paranormal. Does anyone have have any stories to share with seeing ghosts?

Originally Posted by Magicman32

I've had multiple experiences, so I truly believe. My best experience was when I was at work on an overnight shift with one other person in the store. I was stocking shelves in the front and thought the the girl I was working with had walked up behind me. I said give me a minute, finished stocking the shelf and turned and saw a full body apparition disappear before my eyes. So yup, I believe 100%

Originally Posted by Vintage Collector

Yep, UFO's also.

Originally Posted by majestik101

I live in a house built in 1923 which during the Great Depression was converted into a rest home. My understanding is that it ceased being a rest home sometime in the late 50's. I'm also two houses away from a mortuary. The mortuary has been around since the 80's. When I first moved here about 20 years ago things would go bump in the night and freak me out but it's settled down in recent years.


The most unsettling thing was about 3 years ago, something or someone was tapping on my bedroom window in the middle of the night around 3am.... I have no idea what it was, but it was enough to make me consider moving somewhere else.

Originally Posted by ILOVEBEER

A co-worker has told me numerous times that his wife has some type of psychic ability. Like she feels when someithing good or bad is going to happen. She opened her own business and it failed. She had a very good job after that and she ended up getting fired. Numerous times he was going to get promotyor move to a new job...none of that ever happened. Couldn't predict that crap though! Of course he and his wife went to N.M. and heard about some ghost story. Sure enough, they saw it......

I've met her a few times......yeah, she's a nut.

Originally Posted by Wiseguy917

Ehhhh not true. When I was about 10, me and 2 of my cousins (13 and 15) were at my grandma’s house and we all saw a lady walk from the garage, across the hallway and into the living room. While looking down the stairs we were on, you see a hallway. On the left was a door going to the garage and right across the hallway from that door was the living room. She walked from that door, across the hallway into the living room. She was in our site for maybe 2-3 seconds. The lady looked very similar to my grandma so at the moment we thought nothing of it. We saw her while walking down the stairs to the first floor of the house which was a mother/daughter. In about the time it took the 3 of us to walk down the 8 steps and go into the living room, maybe about 3 seconds, the woman was gone. There was no possible place for her to go without us noticing. She would’ve had to pass us to leave the room she was in. We all looked at each other like, ok that was weird. We then all go upstairs to see if grandma was up there and sure enough, there she was in the upstairs kitchen of the mother/daughter washing dishes with my aunt. We all still talk about this story to this day, 25 years later. None of our stories have wavered a bit. In fact, all 3 of us can still remember the exact dress she was wearing. All black with large white softball sized circles on it. Was it a ghost? Idk, but it was most definitely something all 3 of us saw.

Originally Posted by VeedonFleece

Do ghosts exist in the general animal kingdom or is it just us humans who are lucky enough to be trapped for eternity* in disembodied anguish?

(*Unless they find the real killer, due to advances in DNA technology.)

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by glen87

you apparently have way too much time on your hands (which is unfortunate for us)....

maybe you should devote more time to your teaching and quite possibly they will let you start to teach some real courses

You saw my name on this thread, clicked, and read.

Your actions show how much you care about me. I don't care what your words say.

[oldgoldy97]

Wake up in the middle of the night and try not to think that someone is watching you from the dark corner of the room. You’ll sleep with the lights on the rest of the night.

Now imagine that person is Sibs. You’ll never sleep again.

[TheFrenzy]

I found my old ghost story from the apartment we used to live in:

My wife and I lived in a split level townhome when we got married. One night in 2010 around 4 am I woke up to the sound of someone trashing our downstairs. Furniture being moved, dishes broken, walls banged on, all sorts of racket. As I began to move towards the bedroom door, our cat began running in circles. I opened our door and immediately the noise stopped. I could hear breathing and so I knew they knew I knew they were there. (fun sentence to write) I shut the door and woke my wife up, telling her not to panic. We opened our bedroom window and when we heard the footsteps coming up the stairs, we hopped out the second story window (newly married, I didn't have a gun yet) onto a metal bay window that stuck out from the first floor. As soon as we did, a police spotlight hit us. They thought we were the ones robbing the house (in our pajamas). We told them the real burglar was inside and they got confused. They had actually been patrolling when they saw us obviously being suspicious and had investigated. So after convincing them that they had stumbled upon an in-progressive robbery, they asked if the back door was locked. It was, but at this point I knew I had armed backup, so I hopped back through the window and ran down to unlock the door.

As I ran through the house my stomach dropped. No doors were kicked in. No windows broken. Nothing moved or out of place. I let the officers in and they looked around. No signs of forced entry. Thankfully they didn't question us about drugs. (We were/are totally clean, but how would you explain going out your second story window at 4 am?) We slept the rest of the night downstairs on the couch.

THEN, two weeks later I was at school an hour away when my wife called me and asked if I was upstairs. I told her to get out of the house. When I got home she told me she had been sitting downstairs when someone began opening and slamming our drawers upstairs.

THEN, a few weeks later our landlord asked us if we had met our neighbor. We hadn't. Our landlord then told us that our neighbor was a hardcore Wiccan who had already been reprimanded by the staff for attempting to "curse" other residents. (Apparently she got into lots of arguments at the property's swimming pool and her go-to response was to hex people. Maintenance also got tired of being called to her apartment to fish her "crystals" out of the disposal when she would drop them in the sink.)

We moved a month later (got a great deal, not because of ghosts). Six months later we were hanging out with our old landlord and we jokingly asked her if anything else spooky had happened in our apartment. She laughed and said no but then caught herself and got kind of serious. She told us that actually a widower had moved in after us and had said that the first week he was there he kept hearing his dead wife talking in the hallway, but every time he got up to check, there was no one there. They checked all the CO2 sensors and even replaced a lot of the appliances, but he kept hearing the voices.

THEN, a few years later (circa 2015) we got lunch with the landlord again. This time I didn't even have a chance to ask the question. As soon as we had ordered our food she said "I know what you're going to ask and you're not going to believe what has happened. It's starting to really affect the property." It turns out that after the old man had moved out, that a young woman moved and lived peacefully for a year. Then she moved out and a young couple moved in. A few months after moving in, they were sitting downstairs on the couch when suddenly a young boy comes running down the stairs. The boy stopped right on the last step and froze—looking around. The couple was of course shocked and worried that something might be wrong. So they stayed right where they were and initially tried to speak calmly, hoping not to frighten the boy. But the boy wasn't frightened. He just sat down on the last step with a neutral expression. They asked him what his name was, if his parents were looking for him, if someone had dared him to climb in through their upstairs window. But the boy never answered and his expression never changed. Then the man started to get up off the couch when the boy vanished. Literally "poof"! He didn't run around a corner or duck under a table. He just disappeared while sitting right in front of them.

They moved out shortly after.

THEN, in 2019 (before COVID started), the landlord came out to visit us in Phoenix and we caught up a bit. She said that there weren't any new ghost stories to report, but that a weird fire did break out in the unit and killed a woman's dog.

I haven't heard anything new since then and the property is under new ownership.

[TheFrenzy]

Some highlights from the legendary Ghosts/Spirits Thread:

Originally Posted by CoryM

I recently saw something that I can't explain about 30 days ago,I didn't think much of it and didnt mention it to my roommate. Any ways I moved out and he tells me yesterday that he saw something, so I jumped up to listen to what e had to say and he told me his dog alerted him of something. I asked him what he had saw and he described to me exactly what I had saw.

I don't want to say what I saw so that when you guys respond I can compare my experience to yours. I know this post is asking to be trolled and I probably sound like a loony toon. I consider my self a rational person but I do keep an open mind and feel I'm some what connected with my spiritual side.

I can't say for certain it was a ghost or a spirit but what I experienced was a natural phenomenon.

Originally Posted by DannyShakes

I once woke up to myself standing inches away from the mirror talking to my passed away grandpa about fishing. My fiance didnt understand why I was talking to myself loudly in the bathroom at 4 in the morning about fishing. she came in and saw me inches away from the mirror and instantly woke me up. Our house was built in 1870. Towns first hotel, 4-plex, condo. Been alot of things. We have heard talking downstairs in our surveillance camera's. Our back door to our 6 foot private fenced in back yard was wide open last Thursday night.... and I make sure EVERY door in the house is shut and locked every night.

Originally Posted by bigdog2003

I was at a church camp one summer, and the place we stayed at inside the camp was home to a doctor before the land became a camp. His son died in the home, and people have reported hearing stuff before. It is a huge 3 story house that has about 12 bedrooms in it total before they turned it into a camp building. they closed off the 3 floor due to strange stuff happening up there, but kept the 1st and 2nd floors open. The stairs going to the 3rd floor were all boarded up and there was no way to get up there. The first night, we heard stuff but figured there were other people staying in the building. The next day we found out we were the only ones. The 3rd night, I was sitting on the stairs that went to the old 3rd floor, and felt like there was somebody watching me. It was creepy. The next day, me and 2 of my friends were sitting around playing cards when we started hearing what sounded like a basketball bouncing. We walked around the building, and realized the sound was coming from the 3rd floor. When we got up the the wall they had put up to the 3rd floor, it sounded like something was thrown at the wall. We ran back to where our rooms were, and just sat there trying to figure out what it was. We didn't get much sleep the rest of the week.

Sometimes I feel like somebody is in my car with me during my early morning commute. I can feel the presence of someone or something some mornings. I have an idea about what it could be. I think it could be my great grandma that passed away right before I graduated college. Last thing she told me was that she was proud of me for becoming a teacher and that she knew I would succeed no matter what. It could be her making sure everything is okay.

Originally Posted by marino5084

When I was about 17-18 years old we lived in a house that was built in the late 1800's and was a 3 story estate turned into 3 separate units. My bedroom was in a separate hall away from everything on the second floor. The third floor was vacant.

For several months I would find dead flies (ala Amityville Horror) on my window sill. I would clean them and there would be more the next day. This happened every day. My room and the hallway always ran about 15 degrees colder than the rest of the house.

One night I had a friend that was spending the night and sleeping on the floor. I heard a noise coming from the window where the flies would appear. I looked at the window and saw a German Shepards face with bright red eyes and growling. I remind you that this room was on the second floor. I then heard footsteps upstairs and they started to descend the stairway. The door at the bottom of the stairs opened, then the door to my bedroom opened. There was no one there. I said holy #@#@#@#@ and at the same time my friend said something along the same lines, we had both woken at the same time. When we spoke, the door slammed shut. I got up to see what it was and there was nothing there.

Years later in speaking with my mom, she told me that she had always suspected that something was in the house at that end and upstairs.

Originally Posted by CoryM

I would describe it has a well formed cloud of dark coloured smoke about 7 feet long and maybe 4 feet high, it moved very slow. I saw it for 5 seconds until I got puzzled and it disappeard very suddely. Then about a month later my friend was awoken by his dog growling and described the exact same thing as I did. Keep in mind I didn't even tell him this story because at the time I didn't make much of it

Originally Posted by omahacolts

In 1989 we moved from where I was born to the city I still live in today. My parents rented a house for a few years until they had saved enough money to buy a house. For the first couple years I would occasionally hear my mom freak out and then hear her telling my dad she saw something moving around in the closet or how she was doing her makeup and would see another face in the mirror next to hers. But when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade it happened to me. I had some cousins from out of town visiting. We were playing with my dads tape recorder that night. We would record ourselves singing a chorus from a song or telling a story and then play it back and kind of dub it so the playback would sound funny.

My cousin says let's each say what scares us so we go around the circle recording what we say. There was 4 of us. When it was my turn I tell of this dream I frequently had about evil spirits and the devil coming up from this deep hole we had in our front yard. How they would try to catch me but before they could I would wake up screaming. I would have that dream a few times a week for probably about 6 months. Anyways, since I was the last one when I finished we rewinded the tape and hit play. Everyones story played back but when it came to mine the tape went silent. At first we thought we just forgot to hit record sO we did it again. Again we hit play and when it came to me the tape would go silent again. We called our parents into the room and told them what would happen. Of course they didn't believe us so we showed them. And again when it came to my tuen to speak the tape went silent. My dad made us put the tape recorder up, put a couple crosses in the room along with a Bible. Nothing else ever came of it though and we ended up moving to another house at the end of the school year

Originally Posted by AKHMERICA

To save on time, I'll tell only one story:

When I was 7-8 me and my cousins were playing hide and seek at our local religious building. I was "it" and had just started seeking. There were a ton of rooms in that building so I was just running around opening doors. One of the doors I opened was a room with a collection of cremated remains of people who passed on. As I opened the door I saw an old lady standing there with her back towards me. Quickly I apologized for intrusion. She turned around and smiled at me and said," It's fine. We don't get very many visitors up here." Now it wouldn't have been scary if she didn't dissipate into thin air... Suffice to say, I ran out screaming like a little school girl.

Originally Posted by tolrobb

When I was little, my family lived in Wisconsin in this big old Victorian style home that is actually a historical landmark now (I saw a sign in front of it last time I was in town). Anyways, I used to sleep in a bedroom across from the dining room. I remember very vividly seeing a man pacing back and forth across where the dining room table was (as if the table wasn't there) at night on a regular basis. It looked like a black shadow wearing a cloak and I could not only see him pacing, but hear his footsteps creaking on the ground as he went. I get shivers now just thinking about it. I was only 4-5 years old, so I would just stare at him pacing until I fell asleep.

My dad ended up selling the home to my aunt and uncle. They had tons of experiences there. One time my female cousin who was 14 or 15 at the time, was home alone and in her room with the door closed. She heard some noise coming from the kitchen so she got up to see who was home but could not open her bedroom door from the inside. This door didn't have a locking mechanism on it. Believing that they were possibly being robbed, she called my uncle, but as soon as she got him on the phone, her door creaked open. She went into the kitchen to find all of the cabinets open and one of the kitchen chairs on the kitchen table.

There's much more, but I don't wanna share because I'm creeping myself out now.

[BostonNut]

One night back when I was a security guard a bunch of hooligans snuck up on me and slapped me with stale hot dogs.

[majestik101]

No list of greatest horror movies is complete without a mention of David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly.

The 80's had some great ones, especially 1985-1987

A few of my personal favorites

The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
The Changeling (1980)
The Fog (1980)
The Howling (1981)
Fright Night (1985)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Monster Squad (1987)
Near Dark (1987)
The Gate (1987)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Others (2001)
Monster House (2006)
The Mist (2007)

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by BostonNut

One night back when I was a security guard a bunch of hooligans snuck up on me and slapped me with stale hot dogs.

They took a video that night too.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

They took a video that night too.

Catching strays from Tritty?

Well happy birthday to me……

[Boo]

Originally Posted by glen87

you apparently have way too much time on your hands (which is unfortunate for us)....

maybe you should devote more time to your teaching and quite possibly they will let you start to teach some real courses

[budd2222]

I think the best TV show was Scare Tactics 2003-2013. So many pranks from so many bad movies so many people fell for them.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by budd2222

I think the best TV show was Scare Tactics 2003-2013. So many pranks from so many bad movies so many people fell for them.

I’ll add the old 90s show Eerie Indiana. You can find the episodes on YouTube.

[budd2222]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

I’ll add the old 90s show Eerie Indiana. You can find the episodes on YouTube.

On a Roku TV you can get season one free on a bunch of providers and for $1.99 a episode on Prime, Apple TV and Vudu. Was it on for more than one season?

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by budd2222

On a Roku TV you can get season one free on a bunch of providers and for $1.99 a episode on Prime, Apple TV and Vudu. Was it on for more than one season?

I think there was a kickstarter-funded reboot/second season. I haven't watched those episodes though.

[GoTribe!!!]

Originally Posted by majestik101

No list of greatest horror movies is complete without a mention of David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly.

The 80's had some great ones, especially 1985-1987

A few of my personal favorites

The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
The Changeling (1980)
The Fog (1980)
The Howling (1981)
Fright Night (1985)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Monster Squad (1987)
Near Dark (1987)
The Gate (1987)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Others (2001)
Monster House (2006)
The Mist (2007)

Thank you for including Near Dark.
So often overlooked.

[jplarson]

Anthem for Halloween: Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

Scary ghost story: None.

Horror Show: The Walking Dead... I'm so afraid it'll never end what with the spin-offs and such.

Required Halloween watching: