Ghost Movies: Fact or Fiction?

SyFy's Amy Bruni of Ghost Hunters gives us the scoop on just how real (or fake!) ghost movies really are (8 Photos)

Amy Bruni on Oct 28, 2009 at 2:07PM

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Ghost Movies: Fact or Fiction?

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Poltergeist



The movie starts with some semi-believable paranormal activity. The ghosts of the house start by communicating with Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) through the static of a television, (a popular theory is that entities will manipulate white noise to produce real words) and items move within the home, including chairs stacking in the kitchen. Then all hell breaks loose -- Robbie (Oliver Robins) gets attacked by a tree that tries to eat him, Carol Anne gets sucked into another dimension through her television, a clown doll comes to life and pulls Robbie under the bed, (a scene which I personally have never recovered from), and a snarling skeletal demon appears out of a portal from the kids' closet. One of the best scary movies ever made? Yes. Loosely based on actual paranormal phenomena? Yes. Realistic? Absolutely not.

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