I'm watching a special on TLC all my byself. A Haunting in Connecticut. It's so scary. But I'm captivated. I can't change the channel. I'm so scared. I made Zhoul sit on my lap and watch it with me. And she was being so nice. At a commercial break though, she got up. And I begged her to stay, and she curled up next to me and nudged my hand so that I would start petting her. So I'm typing most of this post one-handed.

7:05 pm:
So the house was a funeral home before this family moved in, they moved there because their eldest teenage son got cancer and they needed to be close to the hospital. They weren't going to tell the children the history os the house because they had enough potential death hovering in their life. But Paul, the son who had cancer, felt like the house was evil and voices kept calling his name, and he's seeing apparitions, and the parents think it's his mental health deteriorating. But Paul was able to guess what the house really was and he told a brother. And the other siblings are seeing things as well, but the parents are convinced that it's just sibling hysteria.

7:23 pm:
What's really weird is that most of this is happening in the basement, where the embalming equipment was originally found. And they're making the son, Paul, and his brother, sleep down there. And they get irritated when they find the boys sleeping on the couch upstairs. Why not just let the kids sleep elsewhere?

It's too scary.

7:37 pm:
So the medication does not induce hallucinations according to the doctors, so the parents think Paul has a psychological problem now. And the bills are piling up, and the family is running out of money because of the medical costs. And their electricity bill was hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. So the dad gets it in his head that the high electricity is due to the light bulbs. And he goes around and unscrews all the lightbulbs and takes them away, leaving the boys in the basement with one desklamp. Oh my god, how cruel is that! They know how terrified they are. Why not just let them sleep somewhere else?

7:43 pm:
And then that night, after the bulbs had been taken away, the boys' sister came down and was flipping the lightswitch in their basement bedroom. And the lights were coming on without bulbs. And one of the brothers ran after the sister, and when he got upstairs his parents were upset, and said the sister was asleep in bed. The thing had taken the form of someone in their family... oh my god...

7:47 pm:
He's confronting the voice that keeps calling him... oh my god...

All the crucifixes in the house (they're Catholic) are disappearing.

7:57 pm:
And now Paul is insisting to have his own room, he's not afraid of sleeping the basement by himself. And as soon as he starting alienating himself from his family, Paul's cancer went into remission, but he didn't seem to care.

8:00 pm:
A cousin, a goof friend of Paul's, came to stay. They hoped that she would help him come out of the depression and alienation. He's sharing a journal with her about all the things that it is saying to him.

8:02 pm:
The demon, this man in a suit with black eyes, keeps telling Paul to do something bad to his family. And Paul is trying to resist it. ANd now the cousin is telling his parents about the things Paul confided in her.

8:25 pm:
They took Paul to a psychiatric ward. And then the demon attacked the family. It was strangling the mom in the shower. It took the covers off the cousin and levitated the rosary she wore to bed. Then the dad went to work, and his truck rammed through the dad's office, and he was the only one there, and he had the keys. And then the mom and the cousin were huddled in the kitchen. And a blackness swept over them, and it levitated the crucifix again and broke it apart.

8:36 pm:
They brought in demonologists from Rutgers University, and they suggested to get a Catholic sanctioned exorcism. And then a team moved into the house to record the paranormal activity in order to prove they needed the exorcism. Because they had already asked the priest for help and he said, "Okay. Now I want you to take the story you just told me and forget about it. Because once you forget it, it will stop happening." Is that their stance on statutory rape as well?

( 3comments )

at February 22, 2005 10:34 PM  Princess Blogonoke said...

Tell me you made this up. Please?

 

at February 23, 2005 12:31 PM  Samantha said...

Nope. I am not making it up, scarily enough. That special on TLC will most likely be re-run sometime this week/weekend. I highly endorse it. If, for other reason, the scary factor is better than most movies. But don't watch it alone, man.

 

at July 7, 2005 1:25 PM  Anonymous said...

I watched that last night!! It was sooo scary!! your right about not watching it alone...I couldnt..I had to watch it with my dad..and I couldnt sleep that night..I dont know I guess theres just something about men with black eyes!! I hope it reruns though!