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RTSDaddy2:
Isu, if this is NOT the original ending, I hope they add it to the DVD.

Then again, I don't know if I want to see it or not....according to what I've read about Spielberg's involvement, he wanted no part of it after seeing the original (apparently the door to his study shut from the inside and locked itself).

I've got to go to bed soon - why in the hell am I even thinking about this right now?!?!?! :D

At any rate, between this and "Star Trek", Paramount must be laughing all the way to the bank. This move has made 33 million to date...at a cost of 15,000 to film. Number 3 this past weekend according to box office report.

shmokes:
Xiaou,

Please understand that I don't think you are deliberately making this up (though you may possibly be deliberately dressing it up).  But I also don't think it ever happened.  Everybody invents memories.  We don't mean to.  It's just the nature of human memory.  I have done it myself -- had a clear memory of having a conversation with someone about something and later finding out that it wasn't possible and having to conclude that I invented the memory, likely from an unconsciously remembered dream, but who knows?

Anyway, for the purpose of the rest of this post let's both agree that you really did see a ghost.  I'd like to help you improve your story.

1- This is minor, but most people don't leave bright lights on in their homes at 2 am.  Maybe you do, and if so, fine.  But it's not real normal so it nevertheless seems a little incongruous.  If you turned on the light you should say so because it explains why the light was on at 2 am and it also makes the whole story a little more exciting because of the added surprise.  As I said, it's minor.  Maybe your family was simply strange and left a 60 watt bulb burning all night long.

2- Nobody, but especially a 10/11-year-old child would behave in the way you described when confronted by something horrifying.  You initially said that you were stunned like a deer in headlights.  While this is not the most probable behavior (as opposed to running), it is at least believable.  That is, it is believable until the next paragraph when you describe being in full control of your mental faculties.  You pinched your hand.  Interesting, horrifying apparition continues to rock on her horrifying ghost rocking chair.  You slap yourself in the face.  Very interesting; she remains.  Perhaps I just need to make myself bleed . . .   ::)  Xiaou, you're describing a small child; you need him to behave like one.  It's perfectly reasonable to hope your audience is gullible, but don't assume they are mentally retarded.  When an 11-year-old, by himself at 2 am, is confronted by a ghost there are exactly two possible reactions:

  1) Run
  2) Freeze

You did neither, according to your story.  

If you're deliberately exaggerating, stop because it ruins the whole story.  If you really remember it this way, understand that this happened when you were very young and it simply could not possibly have happened the way you remember it.  Regardless, cut this "am I dreaming?" nonsense out of your story because it didn't actually happen and its falseness poisons the rest of the story.

3- You did not stand there for 60 seconds.  And seconds did not feel like minutes.  First, those two propositions combined means that it felt to you like you stood there for at least two hours.  This is just puffery, of course, but it detracts from your overall credibility and trust me, when you're telling a ghost story you don't need to go out of your way to strain your credibility.  Second, double-click the clock in the corner and watch the second-hand make a revolution around the clock.  A minute is like an eternity.  Again, this is just not believable behavior.  An 11-year-old kid does not just stand in front of a ghost for a full minute or more.  And if he does, and while doing so is in full control of his faculties--pinching, slapping, biting--when he FINALLY decides to leave he's not going to "leave a trail of fire" behind him.  You cannot spend a full minute determining whether something scares the living bejeezus out of you.  One minute (literally) you're staring at the ghost pinching/slapping/biting yourself and considering a conversation, and the next you're running in terror?  It's not like it was just a brief "WTF do I do?" moment. We're talking about a full minute.  Again . . . I'm dead serious . . . watch the clock count down a full minute.  

These details in yours story simply don't add up.  You should tighten it up, not just because it sounds like things didn't happen the way you "remember", but because they simply didn't happen this way.  Of course I don't think they happened at all, but that's beside the point.  If they did happen, they didn't happen the way you describe.

isucamper:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on October 20, 2009, 10:32:44 pm ---And, if I was projecting, wouldnt that Stop the moment I bit my tongue?  Wouldnt it be something more scary
than an old lady?
--- End quote ---

well don't as me how it works

shardian:
I'd be interested in seeing this movie, but my wife HATES shaky cam.


As for ghosts, my wife and I are quite rational folk. She had several ghost experiences in her childhood home. I always thought she was full of crap (she also was convinced of the little boy ghost in the curtains from "3 men and a baby" until I finally used Snopes AND a laser disc copy to convince her otherwise - it was not easy). One night we were watching TV and she got up and walked in the kitchen. I went to check on her and she was pale, clammy, and crying. She said she saw a floating white cloud in the hallway where the 'old woman ghost' usually was when she was a kid. I thought it was funny, but I humored her and went to check things out.

A little backstory: An old woman lived there before they moved in, and she died in the house. My wife had several encounters with the alleged old lady ghost throughout her childhood. Sometimes the bathroom sink would be on in the middle of the night. Many times her rinse cup would be moved/missing from the sink. The old lady ghost apparently only inhabited the bathroom, and the small bedroom directly across the hallway. Also note that only my wife used this bathroom. Her parents had built on an entire new wing to the house, and they had their own dedicated living room, bedroom and master bathroom.

So back to my story. I thought the whole situation was somewhat humorous because I thought it was all BS - probably something her older siblings invented to scare her as a kid. So I humored her and said I would check it out. I went down the hall and went to open that bedroom door across from the bathroom. As soon as I touched the doorknob, I got the creepiest whole body chill I have ever had in my life. It started at my hand and went all the way through me. I went back to the kitchen plopped right down beside her, and was just as pale and clammy as her.

I can't say I have ever seen a ghost, but that experience was weird to the extreme. If that is what the experts claim is what it feels like to have a ghost walk through you, then I don't want to experience it again.

isucamper:
Dude.  That's pretty much the exact story of the movie.  You should force your wife to go see it :).

Shaky cam is not that bad.  Much of the film is actually from a fixed camera in the bedroom. 

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