zzzippper
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the Peter Gunn thread got me thinking about old TV. I remember being terrified of the opening to The Outer Limits and the actual show didn't make it any better.
The movie The Haunting also froze me, especially the scene where the girl is in bed and it turns out that a ghost was holding (hurting) her hand and no her roommate. Also the scene where they are locked up in the library and spirits are pounding on the walls and door.
Later, reading The Amityville Horror the dog in the book reacts to unseen spirits. I was laying on my bed with our dog at the foot of the bed. The was Easter Sunday and my parents and sister had gone to relatives, the house was stone quiet. The dog could see down the hallway from where she was but I couldn't. Suddenly the dog lifted her head and picked her ears up! I waited long enough to proved to myself that I wasn't chicken and then decided I needed to take a walk outside in the sunshine.
A few calendars later and married, I was up late reading The Shining. I finished the chapter about Tony barely escaping from the dead woman in the bathtub and I went to bed. I could see into our hallway to the bathroom door. I thought, "If someone comes out of that bathroom I'm going to scream!" Our bathroom window faced the bathroom window of the next door apartment building. Just then they turned on their light which shined through our bathroom as if someone had turned on OUR light. Lordy, lordy, I like to have pissed my drawers at that one!
The movie The Haunting also froze me, especially the scene where the girl is in bed and it turns out that a ghost was holding (hurting) her hand and no her roommate. Also the scene where they are locked up in the library and spirits are pounding on the walls and door.
Later, reading The Amityville Horror the dog in the book reacts to unseen spirits. I was laying on my bed with our dog at the foot of the bed. The was Easter Sunday and my parents and sister had gone to relatives, the house was stone quiet. The dog could see down the hallway from where she was but I couldn't. Suddenly the dog lifted her head and picked her ears up! I waited long enough to proved to myself that I wasn't chicken and then decided I needed to take a walk outside in the sunshine.
A few calendars later and married, I was up late reading The Shining. I finished the chapter about Tony barely escaping from the dead woman in the bathtub and I went to bed. I could see into our hallway to the bathroom door. I thought, "If someone comes out of that bathroom I'm going to scream!" Our bathroom window faced the bathroom window of the next door apartment building. Just then they turned on their light which shined through our bathroom as if someone had turned on OUR light. Lordy, lordy, I like to have pissed my drawers at that one!
