412: Cursed Horror Movie Sets

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, poltergeist the conjuring amnivil horror some films and film sets are just known for being cursed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've already talked about them at length.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so as pop culture, we've covered it, we love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And while these stories are both terrifying and fascinating, and again, something that I will never get sick of, it's time to let some other haunted and cursed sets shine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today on Ghost Town in our wind up to Halloween, we're talking about a handful of lesser known cursed and haunted sets.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You may have heard of the movie, you may have not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You may have heard of the curse on the set, you may not know that much about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But these are deep cuts in the world of movie lore and ones that in my opinion you won't soon forget.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's start easy, low-key, with the film, The None.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The None is a 2018 American Gothic horror movie directed by Koran Hardy and written by Gary Doberman, adapted as a short story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It serves as a kind of spiritual spin-off to the Conjuring 2 and is the fifth installment in the Conjuring Shared Universe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did I realize the conjuring had a universe before I started researching this episode?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I did not, not really.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I had a sense that it was a big movie and I had a lot of things going for it a lot of lore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I, as someone who doesn't watch as many horror movies as you might expect based on my branding here,

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[SPEAKER_00]: The film stars Tysa Farmiga, Damiyan Bashir, and Jonas Blokay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I'm saying those right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that I am.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With Bonnie Erin's reprising her role as the demon none and incarnation of Valak from the Conjuring II, the plot follows a Roman Catholic priest and the none as they uncover and unholy secret in 1952 Romania.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Keeping faithful to its location, the nun actually filmed in an underground Romanian fortress, which is pretty fucking cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There, director Corin Hardy saw, while he was filming, what appeared to be two crew members sitting behind him in a dark room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, normal, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's crew people all over when you're filming a movie, not anything to worry about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when he turned around to speak to them, get feedback, give direction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody was there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: probably the creepiest part in my opinion is that the room only had one entrance, so they would have had to have passed him to leave the room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't see that, and probably they never did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The next haunted or and or cursed films that we're going to talk about is Sam Raimi's

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[SPEAKER_00]: actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan described strange events during the filming of possession occurring all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lights reportedly exploded and unexplained cold wind would appear would flow through rooms without drafts or without windows open.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was possibly the most notably a gigantic storage fire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Days after filming wrapped, all of the movie's props, all of them, including the replica dibbic box, were placed in a storage facility that burned completely to the ground.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fire investigators found no evidence of arson or electrical failure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a complete mystery as to why this storage unit burned down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, it's got the replica dibig box in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not aware of what a dibig box is, we talk about it on an old episode.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's from it's kind of old Yiddish lore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a box that is cursed, that is kind of consumed with a spirit, a bad spirit, sometimes a demon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this box gets passed around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Usually when you open it, you allow the spirit to come out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this movie, possession, huge part of it is a dippic box.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's not a real dippic box that they used a replica, but even still the dippic box is in the storage unit, it gets levelled so that perhaps the dippic box can't get past to anyone else ever again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go back now to 2005 with the release of the ring 2.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the ring 2 had its own wild occurrences during filming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, on day seven of filming, seven, perhaps significant number, hard to say, you tell me the production office began being spontaneously flooded with water, reportedly getting very, very bad, very, very quickly and with like water, I feel like a flood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like think about like a major flood with water all over there, apparently pouring through the walls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I read that in a couple of different places,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this disturbed director Hadeo Nakata enough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that he invited a Shinto priest to perform a purification ceremony at the production office.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shortly after, a five-gallon water bottle spontaneously exploded, flooding the production office kitchen a second time, does not vote well for this movie, but it gets crazier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stay with me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: While shooting on location in Oregon, a prop truck was suddenly swarmed by thousands of

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[SPEAKER_00]: reason and imagine that you're a prop truck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there's a guy in the back, make it a prop, getting a prop ready, all of a sudden, bees everywhere, all around you, mulling you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you willing to show them?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope not, because they're everywhere, thousands of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will never know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But let's come back to Los Angeles for more again for a minute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To the old Universal Studios backlot, their a set decorator had a sudden close encounter with a wild buck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you heard me correctly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Universal Studios in the Valley of Los Angeles, a guy turned saw a giant male deer who attacked him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: crazy with huge antlers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like are we in the Northwoods?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in Burbank, my friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you seeing bucks?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The curse?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it the curse?

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[SPEAKER_00]: In any case, and again, I've not seen this movie, but it seems to be mirroring the movie's intense deer attack sequence, at least that's what people are talking about, which makes it all the more eerie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These incidents over all seemed very similar to scenes in the movie that involved water and again, a deer a buck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is this curse creating a live version of the events that occur in the movie perhaps?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there some kind of synchronicity that people are seeing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: maybe that, too, or instead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever happens, it does seem like a crazy coincidence with this flooding, with these bees, with this deer,

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[SPEAKER_00]: All in this one said, it seems wild and is unexplainable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Food for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move on to the next movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you heard of a little film called Maximum Overdrive?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You might have, if you're a huge Stephen King fan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this film was a mess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Start to finish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Leave all the curses in the hauntings out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Was bad, was train wrecked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've seen it, you should notice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, Stephen King admitted that he directed the film while heavily impaired by cocaine and alcohol.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Later calling it a quote more on movie and vowing never to direct again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where we're starting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's our starting point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our starting point is a cocaine-dusted Stephen King cursing his own directoral debut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so impressive between me too because Stephen King is so prolific, so much of what he makes with he writes, turns to fucking gold.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So to have him be like, look, I made this movie, I directed it my first time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a mess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Horrible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't ever watch it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, don't speak if it's name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is quite impressive to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vowing also to never direct again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot to direct a movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It takes a lot of planning, a lot of passion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to really want to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for him to swear off directing to based on this film, oh, does not vote well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into the mystery, the haunts, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you will and I will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there are also a lot of strange explosions that happened on this film, most notably a very bad injury to based on one of these explosions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So while filming legendary cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi was permanently blinded in one eye when a remote controlled lawnmower spun out of control, I know it sounds insane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is insane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the machine struck a wooden camera support block

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[SPEAKER_00]: exploded, a little, it's not a huge one, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But from it, wood splinters and trap-null flew off, striking the newsy directly in the right eye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he had to have his eye removed, which led to a lawsuit against Stephen King and 17 other defendants for unsafe working conditions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the case was eventually set a lot of court for almost a million dollars, which is great news, but still, what a horrific, traumatizing, random thing to be a part of after being a seasoned director who's worked at upwards of a hundred films.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have your eye taken out your lively hood, but a piece of crazy wooden traptal from a remote controlled lawnmower?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do not like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk Hurricane Gloria.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So on location of this film, the Dixie Boy truck stop in North Carolina, one of the locations for maximum overdrive, was basically decimated by Hurricane Gloria.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine that too, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You go on, you plan this location, you get the vibes right, and it is absolutely destroyed by Hurricane by Hurricane that's in your

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[SPEAKER_00]: adding insult to injury with all of this, the $9 million movie bombed at the box office, grossing only $7.4 million, earning horrific reviews.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, my friends, and receiving many Razi award nominations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So not only was it really hard to make, really bad, but it was also critically peint.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At the very least, Stephen King had some fun, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Little cocaine, little alcohol, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Making his own movie?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was probably the only one having fun, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Getting back to the conjuring universe is Annabelle comes home, released in 2019.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and the movie the predecessor and a bell released in 2017.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why I said them in that order?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's just how I wrote them down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why that makes no sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why would I not say the first one?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in the second one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this podcast is cursed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe my brain is cursed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably more likely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: During the first film, Annabelle, in 2017, a large glass light fixture reportedly fell on an actor's head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobueno.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The incident happened in a hallway where a character was supposed to be killed by a demon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bad, bad, bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't think anyone was hurt too badly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't find any research on that, so that's all very thankful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, during the sequel, Actress Madison Eisenman claimed that the Annabelle doll reportedly appeared in different positions, even though nobody had entered the room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actress McKenna Grace experienced a sudden nosebleed that reportedly stopped when she went outside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Crew members also encountered unexplained electrical problems in a trailer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The production team ultimately arranged for the set to be blessed for people to come by to cleanse the place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it gets even creepier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the doll movements kept going, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The doll...

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very active doll, however way you want to describe it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This doll is moving.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why we don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Changing positions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a prop, it's apparently something that it's more of a Rubik's cube that Rubik's is itself, I would say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in actuality, the Annabelle doll is a vintage raggedy and doll housed in the Warren Occult Museum in Connecticut, known for claims of all kinds of physical attacks, demonic attachments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The war in a cult museum, we talked about it many times in this podcast, houses so many haunted artifacts that in and of itself, this place is haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The war in famed ghost hunters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you could even say that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's the better term for them?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cultus?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact is, the animal doll came from this place and may have brought something with it from the occult museum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that's what a lot of people believe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Many of the haunted items featured in Annabelle comes home, the second movie, such as the wedding dress, the conjuring mirror, and the ferryman's coins were inspired or loosely based on real-life paranormal folklore investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of which, of course, are found in the museum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another connection back to Edited Lorraine Warren and to the paranormal museum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A good connection?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Seems like a pretty bad connection.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it feels like you don't want to take anything out of that museum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm no expert, but I would say just based on my research, what I've heard, what I'm getting a sense of is that, things the horrible haunted museum, that's an accumulation over decades.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably want to keep them there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Keep those, maybe locked up, locked the windows, like the doors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if you're gonna go take a look, just go quick, get back in the car, leave, drive away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just my own professional opinion on the matter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On that creepy note, let's take a break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're back talking about our next cursed film set that perhaps you've never heard of, or you vaguely heard of it, or you've seen the movie, and you don't know the stuff behind the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know the fun Easter eggs, the tidbits.

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[SPEAKER_00]: little bits of spooky materials.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's what I'm here to tell you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you we've been through some spooky ass shit already, but we're on the other side of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about 2009's The House of the Devil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Director Ty West and his crew stayed at the hotel to film this movie called The Yankee Pedlar Inn in Connecticut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, it was close by, it was convenient right

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do they have breakfast in the morning?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, look how quaint it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that smoked salmon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this view.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This bed not so comfortable, but that's okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at all this charm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When they were staying in the hotel, they reportedly experienced doors closing on their own and televisions turning on and off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lights frequently burned out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that was more because it was an old in, not at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But crew members also said that they experienced unusually vivid dreams during their stay, and I know that is a hallmark of being haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I read that many a time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: West said that local residents and in-employees also believed the hotel was haunted, and the fact that they wanted to stay there,

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[SPEAKER_00]: they feel a little uncomfortable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't really want to stay in a place where everyone around you who lives in that area is like, you're there really?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to, you want to do that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You sure?

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's other, there's a best western on the street.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to go over to the Hilton?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The home, homewood, their breakfast too, and that's not going to be haunted in the lights

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then the last, that's where they stayed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ty West said to interview magazine while making the house of the devil, quote, we stayed at the Yankee Pedlar because it was a cheap place to stay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were making the Satanic horror movie in the middle of nowhere, but weirder stuff was going on back at the hotel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was convinced it was haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole town thinks it's haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The place is really cookie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I decided I wanted to make a ghost movie, I was like, whoa, we lived one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What if I just wrote that one?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What if we went back?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How weird would that be?

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it was weird to think that, but in fact, Ty West did go back where he shot his later horror film The Inkeepers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, would I surprise you if I said that this film was also haunted?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I mean, it's shot at the Yankee Pedlar in again, the place where they were notoriously were haunted while they were shooting house at the devil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why would this not be haunted, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: 2011, the movie The In Keepers, Ty West just could not get enough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He filmed the movie at the same hotel that inspired it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had strange vivid dreams just like last time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actress Sarah Paxton reportedly woke up feeling as though someone was watching her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: West chose to film on the hotel's honeymoon suite because it offered good camera angles, not think about anything else, but after filming he learned that the room was considered the hotel's most haunted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Should he go back for a third movie?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How, well, do you not wanna sleep at night?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ty West?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Walls in your court, my friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move on to 1976's The Oman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this famous movie, very canonical horror movie, well known, but do you know the terrible and tragic incidents behind it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know we've talked about this a little bit on Ghost Town, but I'm getting into it a little bit more in depth, perhaps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So lead actor Gregory Peck and writer David Seltzer were on planes that were struck by lightning during this shoot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A private jet, for going with the plain haunted spookiness of it all, chartered for the aerial filming was switched out at the last minute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The original plane later crashed at takeoff, killing everyone on board along with the pilot's wife and children on the ground.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is very heartbreaking, very upsetting bit of information.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The stuntman standing in for pectering the famous rabid dog scene was actually attacked by rot-wilers that bit through the protective gear that he was wearing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now these rot-wilers were trained movie dogs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was not their first rodeo, but all of a sudden they decide to not do their job and attack like killer beasts and actor that really

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, benign was not provoking them, interesting, interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But how about some more death, some grizzly death, some upsetting death?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So a zookeeper on set to tame the baboons was actually malled to death by a lion the day after completing their work and getting the shots they needed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, these animals on the set of the omen seem

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[SPEAKER_00]: dangerous, I would say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why were they doing this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is happening?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Beyond that, producer Mace Newfeld and his wife narrowly escaped two separate IRA bombings in London, one near their hotel and another at a restaurant they planned to visit right after the filming wrapped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of danger, a lot of danger, but also some tragedy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, after the film was completed, special effects supervisor John Richardson and his assistant Liz Moore were in a car crash in the Netherlands on Friday the 13th.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Liz Moore was decapitated by a flying tire in a freak accident that not only tragedy in it itself, but actually mirrored a gruesome decapitation scene Richardson designed for the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The crash site also reportedly sat near a road sign reading OMMEN66.6 kilometers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is so terrifying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So so terrifying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: These are crazy coincidences, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there something bear with me, energetically bear with me that you're doing something and it's like in in the ether, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're making this film out of your kind of playing pretend, but then the pretend becomes real, the pretend kind of comes to fruition with all of the energy to make it seem as real as possible

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[SPEAKER_00]: reality, mimicking, art making.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, energetic, mirroring, mirror neurons, but more than that because it's not just in your brain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm clearly a doctor, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And finally, last but certainly not least, let's talk about the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jennifer Carpenter, who played the titular Emily Rose, reported that the radio in her hotel room repeatedly turned on and off by itself in the middle of the night, creepy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, scary borderline.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But every time the radio hotel turned on, it always played the exact same song.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Creepy, yes, scary, or definitely get in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The song, stay with me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pearl Jam's alive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now I'm truly and officially terrified.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Other casting crew members claim that their own hotel radios and televisions turn on spontaneously also, and some also experience the same strange audio occurrence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll call it the Pearl Jam alive syndrome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The pro-gemmelive effect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The incidents disturb the production team so much that they eventually just had to take all the radios out from the hotel rooms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine this happening and you listening to the same disturbing thing as your radio always comes on, not knowing what happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of being like, oh, there's an explanation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One day you get back to your hotel room and the radio has gone because they've just clicked all the radios because it's just too creepy and unexplained, they can't do anything about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's just move it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it never really happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, a lot of people think this movie has its own effect on the viewer too, which I also love to explore and think about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the idea that watching a haunted movie can haunt you, can impart some of that eerie, mysterious, unknown, onto the viewer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's kind of like a phenomenon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the dancing phenomenon, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's akin to this kind of mass hysteria, but I enjoy exploring it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There have been some reddit comments about people feeling haunted after watching the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to read you one right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the horror subreddit from Linkway Tea Party,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Has anyone experienced anything weird after watching the exorcism of Emily Rose?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was debating posting this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I used to be a huge horror movie fan and there wasn't a horror movie I passed up on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, this movie just creeped me out so much that I never watched a horror movie since.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a pretty rational person, not that religious or anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, I can't help but think that something incredibly weird happened after I first saw the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched it alone in my dorm room, some 10 years back, and then experienced weird things for good six months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After that six month ordeal, I never faced anything like that since.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone experiencing anything weird after watching the film?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I say, if anyone has experienced anything weird while watching any of these films or any other films, horror or otherwise, let us know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd certainly like to hear if you've experienced the pro-GEM effect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've seen Phantom crew members, more hey, if you've had a cold breeze pass by your neck, late on a film set in Romania.