With Halloween coming up people tend to be in the mood for a little fright, could it be the chill in the air? Well whatever the reason, what better way to stir the mood than a scary story to keep you up at night.
La llorona or The Crying Woman is said to have drowned her two kids in a lake and later went insane from missing them so much that she drowned herself. Legend says that at night you will hear the woman yelling out for her children and can often be heard and even seen near bodies of water. Once she gets a hold of you and realizes you are not her child she will then take you to the nearest deep enough body of water and hold you under until your body goes limp.
The Conjuring is a true story about a family of five girls and their parents who move into their new home and start experiencing paranormal activity. The perron family says most of the spirits in the house were harmless except for the spirit of Bathsheba Sherman which the family describes as ¨ perceived herself mistress of the house.¨ Bathsheba’s demeanor is said to be competitive, Andrea the oldest daughter says ¨Bathsheba resented the competition my mother was.¨ When the Warrens tried doing a seance Carolyn Perron (the mother) became temporarily possessed and allegedly was lifted in her chair and flung across the room. Ultimately when asked why the family didn’t just move out of the house Andrea says ¨I think we were meant to have this experience and share it with the world.¨
Bloody Mary is a game where you go into your bathroom,turn off all the lights,light a candle, look in the mirror and repeat ¨Bloody Mary¨ three times. The legend says if you successfully summon her the candles will go out and she will appear in the mirror. Once you see her you will then replace her and be stuck in the mirror for all of eternity. One of the game’s origins is the story of a girl in the 1800 who passed from an illness that washed over her town, when she was buried there was a bell attached to her coffin. The bell was put there in case she woke up after being presumed dead, a week after Mary’s burial that bell rang and rang only no one was home nearby to hear it. Legend says once her coffin was reopened Mary was found with bloody fingers and scratches all over the top of the coffin.
Emily Calles was interviewed and asked what her favorite spooky story is, ¨My favorite scary story is the one of the Nun.¨ The Nun is a movie based loosely on true events as it was more so inspired by an entity Loraine Warren claims had haunted her than by events someone experienced.
¨The movie starts with a priest going to investigate the death of a nun. The priest, Irene and the guy he was with ended up having to stay the night but one of the guys wanted to leave so he did but then he was attacked by the dead nun. Then the Guy and the girl Irene both woke up to explore the church they were at and they both saw the nun. After that the Priest and Irene work together to learn more about the nun because she’s actually a demon and at this point he’s trying to save Irene because shes being haunted by the nun whose name is actually Valak.¨
This was a summary of the story that Emily gave and she quotes this is her favorite because ¨ It is based on true events and I enjoyed the drama and rush feeling I had watching the movie.¨