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32 Paranormal Facts That Will Sit on Your Chest As You Lay Paralyzed Halfway Between Dreamland and the Waking World

December 11, 2023

You might want to run a couple laps before reading these bad boys. We know, running sucks. But your heart is gonna need a little warm up, or the sudden blood pressure spike caused by each one of these creeptacular shockers could blow that thing to smithereens. Getting used to sweating could help too.

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 THE CONJURING Things mysteriously changed places in the Warrens' store room. Actress Joey King became covered with bruises, while Vera Farmiga woke up with three scratch marks on her thigh, and the same marks would also appear on her laptop and cellphone. Also, Farmiga would wake up between 3 and 4 a.m., the same time at which the witch dies in the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2019 ANNABELLE COMES HOME The set for the third Annabelle installment was so spooky, a priest had to intervene. A piano bench would move by itself, door knocks would be randomly heard, and performers saw shadowy figures on the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2011 THE INNKEEPERS The movie is based on a haunted hotel Ti West where and his crew stayed while shooting The House of the Devil. During production, they witnessed flickering lights, slamming doors, and according to West, actress Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2014 GHOST OF GOODNIGHT LANE A movie about a haunted set filmed at said haunted set... had a haunted set. Before production, a specialized team considered Media World Studios actually haunted. Then, while doing the movie, lights flickered, things would move around, and disembodied voices could be heard. People felt slapped by invisible forces, and even reported visions of unknown figures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2012 THE POSSESSION Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan did not believe in spooks, but he does now. While filming, Morgan would feel random cold breezes, a light went from being turned off to exploding, and a fire engulfed a storage room full of props (including the possessed Dibbuk box prop the movie revolves around). CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1968 ROSEMARY'S BABY Shortly after release, composer Krzysztof Komeda went into a coma after falling off a cliff, and soon died. Producer William Castle got hate mail, developed kidney stones, and hallucinated about the film at the hospital, eventually screaming, Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife! And finally, there's the infamous fate of Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the pyromaniac kind) Two teens set fire to a barn in Hanover, Pennsylvania, insisting that it was haunted and a ghost made them do it. They got caught when one of them bragged about it on the bus (no word on what the ghost thought of that). CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Clown panic In 2016, clowns started scaring people in the U.S. and UK. Hundreds of kids called the UK's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children worried about them, and it kept happening for a while. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Aliens (the patriotic kind) One man was arrested at Patrick Space Force Base for trying to get in, saying the president told him to warn the government about U.S. aliens fighting Chinese dragons. Не was charged with stealing a Ford F-150. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Leprechaun in a tree In 2006, crowds gathered in Alabama, claiming they saw a leprechaun in a tree. News stations showed up, and an amateur sketch of the leprechaun was auctioned off on eBay with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Haunting ghosts A19-year-old South African got 15 years for dousing another man in petrol and setting him on fire. Не ran to avoid his victim's ghost, but eventually admitted to the victim's family and a magistrate that he heard the man's voice every night. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (that hang out in houses) A ghost whisperer checked out Hull, UK's most haunted house, and caught some creepy, unexplained noises on camera. Не also felt a presence and heard voices, bangs, and scratching, plus a hiss when he lay in a coffin. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Aliens (homicidal ones) Robert Joe Moody was sentenced to death on his 37th birthday for killing two women in 1993. Не said aliens made him do it, hoping his execution would prove their existence. CRACKED — Source

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A DEAD BODY WASHED ASHORE WHILE FILMING AT THE BOATHOUSE FOR THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. Actress Melissa George said filming of the 2005 remake was interrupted by police seeking Ryan Reynolds' autograph. No wait. They were there because a dead flipping body floated to the surface AMITYVILLE HOR R OIR TAGE 123RF on the shore of the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BILL SKARSGÂRD WAS SO MISERABLE MAKING П, НЕ SUFFERED FROM PENNYWISE NIGHTMARES. The actor compared the role to a destructive relationship, adding, I was so miserable. You'll float foo Skarsgård said that even after the film was done, September X he would have vivid nightmares about the demon clown. Every night, he came and visited, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The Craft hired a practicing witch to keep the film authentic. CRACKED.COM To make sure they were getting everything right, filmmakers hired Pat Devin, the (at the time) First Officer of Southern California's Covenant of the Goddess. Devin had a great experience on set, saying that a lot of my suggestions were acted upon and virtually all of my suggestions were given careful consideration. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Real human skeletons were used in Poltergeist, without the actors knowing. GRACKED.COM The prop master on set realized it was cheaper to get some real skeletons from a medical and science supply company than to have replicas made. JoBeth Williams, who played the mother Diane, filmed with the skeletons in a mud filled pool for five days without knowing the props weren't... props. — Source

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THE CAST AND CREW OF THE OMEN NARROWLY ESCAPED MULTIPLE PLANE DISASTERS. YOUARE ONE DAY CLOSER TO THE END OF THE WORLD. OMEN Actor Gregory Peck, writer David Seltzer, and producer Mace Neufeld all flew in separate planes struck by lightning throughout production. Peck would later elude plane death once more when a flight he had just cancelled crashed, killing all those aboard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED COM Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather Donahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members. — Source

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Miley Cyrus saw a UFO while out driving - and even an alien, apparently. The UFO chased her and a friend in her car, and even saw a being sitting in front of it. They made eye contact, and it shook her, she says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aaron Rodgers saw an orange UFO at night in New Jersey, back in 2005. Two other people saw it, too - it was behind the clouds, he says, so they couldn't fully make it out, but it was large and moving from left to right. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nick Jonas saw 3 UFOs while in his backyard in LA when he was 15. О A friend of his was there too, so Jonas turned to him and proceeded to ask him Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar didn't just see UFOs-he got abducted. That's what he claims, anyway - and he also says aliens were wirelessly plugged into him. It was a download situation, way before wireless, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaquille O'Neal saw a UFO in Madera, California, way back in 1997. Не was with friends, and says he could swear there was a flying saucer coming to the ground with its lights on, then taking off again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1969, Jimmy Carter saw a UFO while waiting for a Lion's Club meeting. Не called it the darndest thing I've ever seen, and he filed a full report about it to the International UFO Bureau years later in 1973. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the vengeful kind) A Zimbabwean woman admitted to murdering her husband after his spirit started haunting her, keeping her up at night. She chopped him up and dumped the pieces in three toilets, which she told her family about much later. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Aliens (romantic ones) Fran Drescher and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson both say aliens abducted them and put a chip in their hands. They think it made them meet, and Drescher insists the chip caused the scar on her hand (although Jacobson doesn't believe that part). CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the thrill-seeking kind) A 51-year-old man was charged with attempted murder, DUI, and battery with a deadly weapon for driving the wrong way on Vegas' 215 beltway. Не said Dale Earnhardt's ghost told him to do it. DE Goodwrench QUICK LUBE CRACKED Goo G NAUGH Winston Cup Goodw - — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Slender Man A12-year-old thought stabbing her classmate would protect her and her family from the memetic monster. Her lawyer says she was mentally ill, so, uh, she's not guilty, somehow. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Aliens (the vandalizing kind) A man from Sheboygan, Wisconsin was arrested for graffiti, arson, and carrying a concealed weapon. Не said aliens made him do it. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (the canine kind) Robbie Williams (yes, that Robbie Williams) sold his house because it was too haunted for his tastes. His daughter said she didn't like living there, and Williams himself says he saw his dog Trixie's ghost there. CRACKED — Source

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Myths with real-life consequences Ghosts (that check up on you from the afterlife) According to someoone close to him, David Bowie said his dad's ghost called him every day for a week after he died. It was always at the same time, so he was sure it was his dad WX from beyond. CRACKED — Source

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