lindalove

Just now, I finished watching the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Afterwards, I came over to my computer but left the tv on (without the movie running). It started flickering on and off. The way we play our movies is we have JJ's computer set up to the tv, so we play them on the computer and it shows on the tv. It's never had any connection problems or anything but I went and made sure nothing was loose. They weren't but I pushed them in anyway just to be sure. It seemed to work. I stared at the tv for a while and decided it was fine. The moment I turn away it starts flickering again. I knew I should have watched Austin Powers. XD I hate when shit like that happens after watching a scary movie.

...it's still pretty eerie. *shivers*

blahblah454

I got you on that one lindalove. Our TV sometimes decides to just turn on and off for no reason at all. And it only happens late at night when I am the only person home, it gives me the shivers every time.

robbdn

Good thing you hadn't just watched The Ring...

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Sometimes "whomever" just want use to know they're around.

Nothing to worry about at this point.

nefarious

I'm okay with that, as long as that's all they try to do. I would prefer that their timing was a little bit better though. Seems like it's always during the most easily scarifying moments.

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dlish

lucky it wasn't texas chainsaw massacre you were watching!

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ratbastid

That's exactly what I thought....

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SaltPork

don't let your activate imagination get to you The ghosts won't hurt you, they'll just scare the crap out of you.

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Poppinjay

Things like that happen all the time, we just notice them more when the atmosphere is scary.

I'll never forget the freakiest thing to happen to me. I just finished a late night shift at a radio station that was in a former hospital. As I left, I pointed my finger at the elevator button without touching it, and the elevator opened.

The other floors were locked, our floor was the only floor with access to the elevator, and I was the only person in the building. The elevator should have been on the first floor. I was on the third.

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Big O

that type of thing scares the hell out of me. i'm not easly scared, but the paranormal does make me change the channel. nothing to fret about. just don't watch what you were watching.lol

weapon26

I was home sick one day and laying on the couch. All of a sudden a deep voice yelled at me through the tv - over the normal television audio. It yelled, "I'm going to get you, you f***ker!"

I nearly crapped myself. Turned out there were some kids in town with an extremely high frequency cb radio. Certain televisions and PA systems (including our church) were affected by these kids. Eventually they were caught.

Lwang9276

holy shananzas i would be crying or deciding whether or not to move after hearing that. good thing they got caught.

MSD

After watching it, my brother switched my TV (cable box to ch3) to channel 4 and turned the volume all the way up.

One of my friends saw it in theaters with a few of his friends, and left one of them a "Seven Days" voicemail. She almost killed herself out of paranoia. I guess it's a bad idea to fuck around with gullible people.

Zodijackyl

I would love to do some more post horror movie pranks on people for fun, but it might not be the greatest idea with some people.

Anyone have ideas for some based off of existing movies, or new ones still in theatres?

shyr_15

i might have freaked out i were in your place

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Ch'i

Haha, I know what you mean. I think it's the vulnerability of the person that makes it so tempting; you know you could scare the shit out of them.

I think the best way I found recently to rid myself of that "wandering imagination", is a test of will power. If I'm walking down the street alone at 1:40 a.m and see something in a bush that could be something else... possibly a dangerous animal or maybe worse, I walk strait up to it and look whatever object it is right in the face. The first few times I did it I was a little nervous, in a freaked out kind of way, but it does put me at ease afterwards, and builds my resolve. Hopefully I'll be able to tell the difference between an imaginatory threat and a real one...

So if you ever see some guy, at night, walk up to a bush and stare at it, go ahead and say hi.

Deltona Couple

Until you walk up to a bush and come face to face with the local serial killer who was just WAITING for his next victim!

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Ch'i

Yeah. Like I said, hopefully I'll be able to tell the difference...

sub zero

One of the freakier things that happened to me as a teenager was the classic setup. Feel asleep watching a scary movie when I came too the room was dark with only the light from the tv showing. We had those old rabbit ear attennas for the tv and I swear to this very day that those things were moving by themselves. =( No one else believed me..

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Deltona Couple

Since you were using your computer to play the movie, I have a question...Did you have a cel phone in your pocket, or near the computer?

even if you are not talking on the phone, a cel phone can affect the operation of a computer, and its output signals. Happens to me all the time if my cel phone is on the computer desk.

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Sir Granite

Nope...definately evil spirits!

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Bagezio2

The first time i watched it in theaters my cousin was sitting two rows behind me, so i got low in my seat and called his cell phone right after the video in the movie played and said "your gonna die in seven days" and she started screaming and crying she got so scared.

Then there was the time when i watched The Ring on a bus, and then I went to my house which i had just moved into so we didn't have cable yet. I walked past a room and i heard something strange and I walk in and the tv was on and all that was on the screen was white noise I got so scared but nobody could explain how the tv turned on.

Then there is the time that I watched The Ring 2 and went to sleep, when there is a coat rack in my line of sight that looks like a creepy man-figure, so i got up and shifted some things around so that it now looked like a creepy little girl silhouette.

I love watching scary movies, but i always have bad experiences like this with them...

jbw97361

two come to mind...

(1) 1995-ish i was at a friend's house and I notice that one of his toy remote cars would "flinch" every time the lights in his room were turned on and off. Flinch as in it would move a slight amount forward (half an inch maybe). If the car was laying upside down the wheels would twitch to one side. I saw it, my friend saw it, and everyone's parents saw it. Looking back now it must have been EM interference from the light or the circuit in the wall... but at the age of 12 that car was ALIVE!

(2) Senior year of high school- I would frequently wake up on weekend mornings to hear a *tap tap tap tap tap* noise on the wall near my bed. At this point in my life I was reading a lot of supernatural books, and recently one on exorcisms. Conclusion: the devil was tapping on my wall, one of the first signs of an attempted possession. It goes on for a few weeks before I tell anyone; and once i explain what i think it is I scare the hell out of everyone. A massive hunt ensues and the culprit is finally found: the lid to a Tiki-Torch which was bouncing against the wall when the wind blew.

Both times I had everyone in witness worried.

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Villar perosa

Reminds me of a time I was walking down a street after watching the ring, saw a guy who looked decayed and came really close to kicking his ass lol!!!

Not Right Now

I've had tvs and radios turn on and off and had the volume raised and lowered. It's not the safest of feelings.

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