Things I Like #11

Scary (but kinda corny) Shit

Unemployment has made me a fan of Discovery Channel's A Haunting. If you've never seen it, and you've prolly not as it's on at 11am-3pm MTWTHF, it's a show that re-enacts TRUE HAUNTINGS. Usually they're American, but sometimes they jump the pond and do haunted british pubs and manor houses and Shakespearean theaters (bad accents abound).

Sometimes the re-enactments are so bad that you don't believe that the stories are real. Sometimes you REALLY believe the stories. Especially when they turn out to be NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS TRUE, and validated by major motion picture companies producing the stories as full length feature films. Such is the case with,

A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Haunting_in_Connecticut#Specials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_in_Connecticut

Scary shit incidents:
house used to be a mortuary where the mortician conducted rituals with their dead bodies. fuck.

mom mops floor, mop water turns into blood.

cancer-fighting teenage son becomes possessed by the spirits of the dead people who were mutilated by the mortician.

family members don't believe him because they think he's hallucinating off his cancer drugs.

family members do believe him when they start to see a man in a pin striped suit lurking in their rooms. AGHHH. This part isn't shown in the legit movie, but according to wikipedia, is what happened in real life and is what is depicted in the Discovery Channel episode. So naturally this is the version I choose to believe.

other really gross stuff involving decaying flesh and voodoo.

Please watch these so you can freak the geek out with me when I recount the story to you on some night that I get too drunk. Because you know NoPants and I will get vodka-ed up and blerg on and on about episodes of A Haunting, and then you'll just feel awkward without your own A Haunting episode to describe. So really I'm posting these for your own sake and cultural adeptity (adeptness?).