270 – I See Dead People: The Paranormal Influences Behind The Sixth Sense
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Tweet We’re back live from Wizard World Madison 2019 where we celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the scariest movies of the 1990s, The Sixth Sense. A story about a boy who is visited by the spirits of the dead and the child psychologist that is trying to help him, it was the most financially successful horror film of all time until it was finally surpassed by 2017’s It: Chapter One. The movie turned child actor Haley Joel Osment into a star and it skyrocketed the career of its writer-director, M. Night Shyamalan, who became particularly known for his use of Philadelphia as a location and a penchant for Twilight Zone-style twists. View this post on Instagram Huge THANKS to everyone who attended the live recording of Episode 270 today at @wizardworld @comic_con Madison! #wizardworldmadison #livepodcast A post shared by See You On The Other Side (@othersidepodcast) on Oct 26, 2019 at 1:59pm PDT I was 22 when I saw the movie the first time and I don’t think I’ve ever been as scared in the theater as I was coming home from that film. I was walking with my girlfriend at the time up a dark staircase into my apartment and we were convinced that when we got to the end of the stairs and unlocked the door there was going to be a dead person behind it. Re-watching it after twenty years, it’s at first most shocking to see Bruce Willis’ gorgeous hair or how skinny Donnie from the New Kids On The Block looks, but then you start seeing all of the clues that Bruce Willis’ character was dead the whole time and it feels so obvious, which why it was such a great trick the first time around. But while The Sixth Sense might have been a completely fictional film, it doesn’t mean that a lot of the concepts in the movie aren’t taken from real-life hauntings and paranormal experiences and here’s what we talk about in this episode: * Everytime a ghost gets mad, the temperature drops, so what’s up with cold spots in real hauntings?* What do psychic mediums in real life actually see when they hear messages from dead people? * Bruce Willis’ character Malcolm becomes convinced after hearing an EVP, what’s the history of EVP phenomena?* Olivia Williams talking about how an object can be imprinted by its former owners. Does that mean an object can be cursed?* Poltergeist activity, apporte hauntings, and Munchhausen-Syndrome-by-Proxy as a potential explanation for paranormal activity So, for the song this week we reached back into the archives for a track that we released not too long after T...
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