Young children are so pure in their innocence that they are often added to really creepy stories to make them seem even more disturbing. Who can think of ‘The Shining’ without picturing those two eerie girls in blue dresses at the end of the hall? Or that horrible little girl that crawled out of the TV and slopped her way across the room in ‘The Ring’?
I actually don’t enjoy scary movies (and will not even consider watching the new genre of disgusting torture porn flicks). My husband has often lamented that they just don’t make movies that are scary enough for him. He may be a superhero when it comes to scary movies, but I am certainly not.
I’m not sure what the last scary movie that I saw was – it may in fact have been ‘The Ring’. I remember quite clearly that the night after we watched that movie, I lay in bed for hours listening to my husband sleeping soundly, while I imagined hearing quiet sloshing coming down the hall. It was not a good night.
I admit that I can be freaked out. But I don’t spend my life preoccupied by the possible existence of ghosts, ghouls, or well-dwelling dead children.
So, the other day as we were gathered round the front door getting ready to go out, I initially ignored my innocent 3-year-old child when he asked me ‘Who’s laughing?’. I assumed that he could hear someone outside on the street and continued on with the business of dressing children.
K doesn’t like to be ignored and started into the usual repetitive chant that he does to get my attention. ‘Who’s laughing, Mom?’ ‘Who’s laughing?’ I finally asked him if he meant someone outside.
He gave me a serious look, shook his head slowly, and pointed to the ceiling. ‘Up there’, he said, pointing to the empty attic.
No word of a lie. I had chills run down my spine and I hustled the three of us out of the house right quick. Thankfully the ghostly laughter has not returned.
Do you like scary movies or have you had any real life haunted encounters? I’d be fascinated to hear about them – even if I have to read the stories through my fingers.
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You did well to actually watch ‘The Ring’. I used to love those movies, and watched ‘The Shining’ many times in my early teens, it was only when i really understood the scary stuff that I simply cant face them any more.
In my old flat there was an antique pram in the attic left by some previous owners…I have never moved so fast as the first time I saw that, and I never managed to spend much time up there (that’s why we have husband’s isnt it???)
I coped by accepting that ghosties might exist but if they wanted to be nasty (like in the films) I would have known about it long before now.
Good luck
HATE scary movies. Also, I hate anything with realistic gore or violence. I’m a real chicken when it comes to things like that. I like happy movies. As that guy says on the Slap-Chop commercial, life is hard enough as it is, you don’t want to cry anymore. That’s how I feel about sad or violent or scary movies.
My daughter did something similar in the place (a huge apartment complex) that we lived in before we moved into our house. (She was three also.) She was talking about a child crying – a boy. She even told me his name (which I forgot, as this was a few years back.)
Weird things used to happen at that place, too. I have a pair of touch lamps on my nightstands, and they would turn themselves on at all hours of the day or night. Never did they turn themselves off, mind you. Which was slightly irritating because I would come home from work and they would be on – no telling how long they were left on (I’m an energy-miser; I was concerned about the electric bill).
Also had my eyeglasses end up on the floor in the opposite corner of the room one morning. The night before, I put them on the night stand when I went to sleep. I was certain that I heard them fall on the floor, and being very tired, I decided to leave them there. Well, the next morning I got down on the floor to find them and they weren’t there. I got my “emergency” glasses out and looked all over the room for them, and found them on the floor, at the opposite corner of the room. WTH? (I don’t have a spouse, or anyone else sleeping in my room by the way. I went to bed alone and woke up alone, or so I thought.)
A friend was sitting next to me on the sofa one day, and he asked me, “Did you open a window or something?” He told me he felt a draft of air blow into his face. I was sitting right next to him, and yet I felt nothing. There were no windows open. The ceiling fans weren’t on and the A/C wasn’t running. Creepy!
Happy to say that absolutely nothing happens in the current house!
There’s a lot of hauntings going around the internet these days. You’re like the 4th person I’ve read of now with freaky stuff happening.
I used to be a much bigger fan of scary movies when I was younger. Now, not so much.
Phew…good thing the voices haven’t come back!! I’m a huge baby when it comes to scary movies, but the man is the same as your hubs. Must be a guy thing!
~WM
whoa, that is SO creepy!!
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I despise scar movies. I snuck into Poltergeist when I was younger and didn’t sleep well for years…my mom recalls it with just a little annoyance. When my son was younger he used to stare at “things” intently and act like he was having an interaction…with someone/something.
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Ha! Sorry I do not watch horror movies (much to my husband’s chagrin). I can’t take them. Can’t do suspense either. I am left with quirk indie movies and Enlgish parlour pieces
I do not enjoy scary movies at ALL. I still have nightmares about the Lost Boys, I am such a lightweight.
Thankfully, my own children haven’t had any otherworldly encounters they’ve shared with me. However, I do have a story from my own childhood. I grew up in a drafty old house that was built in 1908. My parents came home one night and found the babysitter sitting on the couch, terrified. We had a kite hanging from our 10-foot ceiling, and apparently I’d told her that when it moved it was because of a ghost. I don’t remember saying that as I was probably 5 at the time, and I doubt that it had any basis in reality (hello, drafty house!), but I feel kind of bad for scaring her.
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I love scary movies
But not gory ones… I like thriller-type scary movies I guess!
My husband insists our 3yo is psychic. She has said things that are just too creepy and made statements that come true almost immediately following…well, so he says. I have yet to experience that live
That is a really spooky story! I’m not sure how long I would of lasted in
that house.
I read an article where a psychic said that everyone has a little bit of
psychic ability in them and that kids are more in tune with that part of
themselves. I’m not sure if I believe that but I suppose it is possible.
Attics freak me out. I think I’d of been pretty nervous about that old pram
too. The only thing that would of made it worse is if there was one of those
antique porcelain dolls that always disturb me slightly.