Ghost Magnet

06/16/2024

Let’s hope for clear sky’s 🌿 🌕 🔥

06/16/2024

Happy Father's Day!!!

06/16/2024

06/15/2024

Thank you for the laugh Mama Moon Rocks!!! I had to share!! 😂

🤔🤷🏻‍♀️🤣🔮

06/14/2024

06/13/2024

This was the first “ghost conference” I attended. I’ll be there again this year, looking forward to reuniting with many of my para peeps. 👻

America's Original Ghost Conference

06/13/2024

Wise words from my witchy friend, Kitsie Duncan. I’ve always referred to it as the power of the subconscious mind. I just need to do a better job of practicing what I believe.

06/11/2024

Ghost sculpture in the castle of Vezio, Italy

06/11/2024

Truth!!!

06/10/2024

How did I not know these existed? Dead Man’s Fingers are fairly common in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and parts of North America.

In traditional Indian (Ayurvedic) medicine, this fungus is used dried, powdered and mixed with sugar to promote lactation after childbirth. Otherwise, they’re not considered edible. Not to mention, they are creepy looking!!! 🍄‍🟫

06/10/2024

From She's Magic & Midnight Lace

06/09/2024

So many places to visit.
So little time. 👻

06/08/2024

06/06/2024

So fortunate to have worked with Robert Englund while on the convention circuit. He is a gracious soul - even with the Blades out!!

06/06/2024

THE CURSE OF “THE OMEN”

On June 6, 1976, the film THE OMEN, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, and Harvey Stephens as Damien opened in theaters across America. The film – in case you live in a cave and haven’t seen it – tells the story of Robert Thorn, who, after his wife, Katherine gives birth to a stillborn child, is approached by a priest who suggests they taken a healthy newborn whose mother has died. Without telling his wife, he agrees, and they raised Damien as their own. Mayhem ensues, and eventually, Robert is convinced that Damien is the Anti-Christ, the son of Satan.

This is not a cheery film, but it’s a great one, and in fact, THE OMEN has literally created most Christian evangelical’s belief systems in the Anti-Christ because this film creates a mythology for him – something the Bible never does. [Read my book TAKING UP SERPENTS if you don’t believe that!]

Anyway, as with THE EXORCIST and other “devil-related movies,” legends have grown to suggest there may be some kind of curse connected to this film. In most cases, this “movie curse” stories [especially when it comes to POLTERGEIST] are mostly sad, unrelated coincidences, but when it comes to THE OMEN… well, I’m not so sure. I can’t say that the Devil was behind the strange happenings that occurred when the movie was being made, but when you start talking about mishaps, fires, planes struck by lightning, terrorist bombings, and deadly car crashes, things get very weird.

THE OMEN was conceived by Robert Munger, a devout Christian, who was suddenly struck one day with the idea of making a movie about the Anti-Christ as a child. He got producers Harvey Bernhard and Mace Neufeld on board, who saw the potential of devilish films after the success of ROSEMARY’S BABY and THE EXORCIST.

But before principal photography even started, strange things started to happen. Munger was the first to notice them, and he called a meeting with Bernhard, during which he offered a warning -- “The devil’s greatest single weapon is to be invisible, and you’re going to take off his cloak of invisibility to millions of people.”

As plans for the film started coming together, the producers scored big by landing esteemed actor Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn. But soon after Peck accepted the role, his son committed su***de, leaving no note. Although wracked with grief, he continued with the film. In October 1975, he was flying to England to start work on the movie – but almost didn’t make it.

A huge storm came up as the plane was flying across the Atlantic, and Peck’s plan was struck twice by lightning. The engine caught fire and almost went down into the ocean. A few days later, producer Mace Neufeld also flew to England, and his plane was also struck by lightning. Two planes, both struck by lightning – what are the chances?

And those aren’t the only weird airplane stories connected to THE OMEN. One of the first shots planned for the film was an aerial shot of London from a rented plane. At the last minute, the rental company swapped planes and gave the production’s original plane to a group of Japanese businessmen. The plane crashed, killing everyone inside.

Not surprisingly, rumors of a curse started after that and spread among the cast and crew. Doubters became believers as more incidents happened during the filming. Harvey Bernhard later said, “The Devil was at work, and he didn’t want the picture made.”

One of the most frightening scenes in the film is when Gregory Peck is attacked by a pair of mysterious Rottweilers. To shoot the scene, the highly-trained dogs were supposed to pretend to attack a heavily-padded stunt man. But something went wrong, and the attack became real. The stuntman was nearly killed. The dogs tore through the padding and refused to stop, even after their trainer ordered them to. They had never behaved that way before.

The stuntman survived the attack, but Sidney Bamford, a London animal expert, wasn’t so lucky. He was working as a big cat wrangler for the production because the film was supposed to include a scene where zoo tigers menace Damien. Bamford was wrangling the animals. But just as shooting was supposed to start, Bamford neglected to secure one of the tigers, and he was mauled to death.

Special effects consultant John Richardson created THE OMEN’s iconic death scenes. One of the most remembered is the beheading of photographer Keith Jennings by a plate of glass, causing his head to fly up in the air. A few months after the release of THE OMEN, Richardson was on another film set in Holland, and on June 13, 1976, he and his assistant, Liz Moore, were involved in a deadly car accident. The collision killed Moore, who was cut in half by the vehicle’s wheel – much the same way that pane of glass severed the actor’s head in THE OMEN. Weirder still, Richardson, dazed from the collision, opened his eyes on the road, and the first thing he saw was a kilometer marker that read “Ommen 66,6.” The closest town to the accident scene was Ommen in the Netherlands, and the accident happened at kilometer marker 66,6.

During the filming of THE OMEN, Mace Neufeld was staying at the Hilton in London – which was destroyed by an IRA bombing. Luckily, he was not there at the time. But then days later, Neufeld, Bernhard, and other film executives were on their way to a restaurant when that building was blown up, too. Neufeld missed being killed by just minutes – again.

But the curse of THE OMEN finally seems to be over. Right?

In June 2006, a reboot of the original film featured Pete Postlethwaite as Father Brennan. During the filming, the actor’s brother died, reportedly after drawing the wrong hand in a game of poker. “The lads down his club told me they’d been playing cards the week before. They were playing open three-card poker, and Mike drew three sixes,” Postlethwaite said.

Coincidence? Sure, no need for anyone to worry at all.

06/06/2024

Yes. 🐦‍⬛

06/05/2024

I think maybe I’ve been watching too many true crime documentaries!!!

06/04/2024

I love being coordinator for the Route 66 Cosplayers!

06/04/2024

Feeling salty today!

06/03/2024

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06/02/2024

Dream jobs

06/02/2024

Fascinating read.

What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that aren’t hers?

12/20/2023

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