Paranormal Activity
I just saw this movie today, alone. I have no idea what you all have read about it, but I want to tell you it is worth seeing. It is popular with most critics, it is scary, and it is illuminating. There are ghosts and there are demons in many scary movies, but this one deals with a demon and a female it is pursuing. I got scared, I got chills, and even had tears of fear running down my face towards the end. It is very well done. I do not know the back story, or how it was made, but more than the “The Blair Witch” it struck a chord with me. Early in the tale the female protagonist describes the first time she saw the demon. She describe something I saw in my childhood that I never forgot. Something so real that I woke my brother up and showed him too as it danced at the foot of my bed. A black writhing, oscillating and flickering shape about the size of a seal. No noise, not a shadow, just a possessed soul, making itself known to me. Looking back on it, I swear this demon possessed my stepfather, for what we endured while under his authority has haunted all of us, for the rest of our lives…
BLYTHART
Interesting. Artistic creative sensitive people often have an awareness of certain things more down-to-earth people can’t accept. Maybe our emotions are more finely tuned … that’s not alwasy good though, as many (myself included) end up crying over soppy movies :)
BLYTHART
That didn’t come out right – I wasn’t referring to the movie you were watching – that wasn’t soppy :)
Mark Ramstead replied
No the movie was not sappy at all, funny and very human. The house was something we would like to live in as well.
Patricia Anne ...
Intriguing, I too had an event like that when I was a child and so did my mother. We are both believers in Christ, not freaky but take it to our hearts as truth with out question. I was taught to call out the Lord’s name when these things dared to enter our realm of reality. AAn d I did so during my encounter, it worked! that thing left and I slept well even to this day. I You call out His name and know in your hart it is true, that’s all you need. Fear and panic is what those things depend on to control you, keep you open to them, Most people that get caught by one are not believers, For the bible states that the devil and his demons can NOT touch you in reality , but, they can make you think they can, you open to fear and they get inside is my guess.
you have me wondering what kind of monster your stepfather turned out to be.
Mark Ramstead replied
I have not written about all that has gone on for many reasons. He was not a monster but at times acted like one… He suffered from depression and it manifested itself through violent tantrums, once he blew it would take awhile to build up before he blew up again. I’d say every six weeks something happened that should never happen to anybody, and this repeated itself for decades…
Barbara Anderson
It’s always amazing what one can see at times.
whoseenme
just seen the trailer, looks pretty freaky. gonna watch that for sure, thanks mark :)
catherine walker
That is really interesting..and I’l have to watch it even though I don’t like movies like that ..as for your experience..I feel sure that I saw something similar around 1991 or so we were staying with my sister and her husband in sydney in an oldish house and I awoke to see this vision or I don’t know what ..a scary thing something similar to a scene from the movie “jacobs ladder” when he stood in front of a mirror and there was this horrible shaking movement in him like he was seeing many of himself all at once..? ..he was psychotic at the time ..it scared me so much ..well this thing was the same..sort of ahaking or shimmenring ..it was so odd..strangely years later my son was diagnosed with shizophrenia and what he went through was so similar to what that man in jacobs ladder went through..so it was more than scary and eerie..it seemd to have effected my whole life..maybe that movie impacted me so much that I somehow bought it into my world and my reality ..the thought has crossed my mind …so I would be scared to see the one you just mentioned.
Anne McGinn
I am so sorry for the pain you endured, Mark. I grew up in an alcoholic/depressive situation as well and it really was hell
1chick1
how terible i use to get fighted of scary movies but i just say its all fake. by the way dont watch a haunting in connicut i think this movie will tell you alot if things about ghosts.
lindybird
I, too, have had a number of paranormal experiences. I do NOT want to see the movie, however. I have enough trouble, as it is! Recently, while in New Orleans at Hotel Le Richelieu, someone-
a spirit-walked right through me. It took my breath away, and left me feeling colder than if I’d been outside in 20 degree weather. So sorry you endured an awful childhood. Look what creativity you’re gleaning from it, though. Kudos to you.Mark Ramstead replied
I do not wish any changes, or have any lasting regrets, life is hard and he made that very clear to me. Often the best comes from those who have picked themselves off the floor… Have you written about any of your experiences?
lindybird
I did write about my experience at the Mansfield Reformatory. I haven’t written about many of the other personal experiences I’ve had, because they are so personal, and I’ve always been afraid that people would think I was, well, weird, I guess. I will make that a goal, though. I have only had time lately to respond to a few people on redbubble, and haven’t uploaded an image since the end of July, I believe. So sad to be so busy.
Mark Ramstead replied
I too am busy with a schedule from hell, but I am brimming with ideas…