How to set up a fake ghostly haunting?

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:49:37 -0800

How to best fake a haunting, demonic possession, or alien visitation? After years of enjoying shows like Ghost Hunters, A Haunting, and various shows of that ilk with friends, I would like to set up a fake "experience" for them.

How best to go about setting the stage (ie, creating "experiences" that get people thinking the place is haunted), running an "investigation" (ala Ghost Hunters), and giving everyone a good scare?

We have a couple moving into a new apartment in the next month. He is the sort that would get really into/freaked out by this sort of thing and she is the sort that would help me set him up for the haunting. There would, of course, be a big 'reveal' at the end to make sure he can still sleep at night in his new home.

There is no need to limit ideas to simple hauntings. Demonic posessions, alien visitations, and strange Lovecraftian horrors from beyond sanity are all welcome for the set up.

Have you, personally, seen a ghost?

adzm — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:28:44 -0800

I know many otherwise-skeptical people who believe in ghosts. Further discussion often leads to anecdotes, or a single bizarre happening from a long time ago. Perhaps my skeptical mind closes me off to the experience. So I wonder, has anyone here personally, preferably recently, experienced the paranormal? I remember being young and reading all about ghosts and etc. One of my good friends was all about the subject too. Some night afterwards I awoke, and headed to the bathroom... when out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw something. I really didn't, but I wanted to believe it was a ghost, and so I did. I had mentioned it to many people.. and after years I never thought about it. Years later, after some introspection, I decided to stop feeding the lie.

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