I feel exactly the same way even though I did watch the ads. I feel like people watch biography films either to learn something they didn’t already know, or because the film puts history in perspective through the life of one person, or in some cases because the costumes are gorgeous.

“If you look at Trump, he’s an easy sell, because you can sell him as the guy who worked his way up from nothing. If you’re the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps candidate, people would identify with that.” Asked if that constitutes a Trump endorsement, Mackie says “I’m on the bandwagon. I’m drinking the Kool-Aid.”

And that’s perfectly fine. Beliefs are like assholes and whatever floats your boat, awesome! I’m not offended by skeptics. My problem was in the way it was stated and the implication that supernatural things don’t exist to “logical” people and all supernatural stories are either sleep paralysis, a house settling, or…

Because she was a prick about it. I’m not religious and my boyfriend doesn’t believe in ghosts and things either. I’m not personally offended by it, HOWEVER: “I know ghost stories make for fun family lore, and I get that folks experience sleep paralysis or have homes that make strange sounds. It’s probably very fun to…

Elvira but nary a mention of Vampira!? The nervvvvve.

Rational person: this movie failed because it was a shitty white savior narrative.

Sounds like someone knew it was a dud from the start, and didn’t want to risk the publicity.

I don’t live under a rock and I never heard a damn thing about this movie. Maybe the promotion was a bomb, too.

That’s a shitty and incredibly patronizing thing to say. Just because you don’t believe it doesn’t mean you need to dismiss everyone who has had those experiences. It doesn’t have anything to do with logic. Go stroke your own dick to a true crime show.

I was reading the submission thread and thinking “Oh these are great stories but I’m not scared because it’s 2:30 in the afternoon”. Then I had to go to the bathroom and I kept being certain I was going to see something awful in the mirror. My imagination is far too vivid. And I’ve never seen a ghost!

I woke up one night screaming in terror because I had a dream that Donald Trump started to make sense.

Holy shit! This reminds me of one of my college roommates. My second year, I missed out on the room lottery and got assigned to a room with someone I didn’t know. His name was Mike, he was a Junior, and seemed nice, if quiet. Like, super quiet. He barely ever talked and we managed to coexist without incident for a…

Note: I originally shared this on a Jezebel thread about 4 years ago in an unrelated story.

I had very strange experiences after my grandmother died. I was incredibly close to her. I gave the eulogy at her funeral, I was with her hours before she died. People at the funeral kept coming up to me specifically to ask how I was doing because I was probably taking this loss harder than anyone else. After she…

I used to work in a very remote town, while living in my hometown 30 miles away. I was 20 and my Dad had just secured me my very first car to make the commute, it was a mid 1990’s Thunderbird with oxidizing paint, leaked every fluid I put into it, and had shitty gas mileage. Needless to say I was in love.

https://xkcd.com/1468/

Right?! We just bought our first place, and I am going to deliberately ask my mom to not tell me if it’s haunted.

My mom is a magnet for supernatural stuff, but thankfully it skipped a generation with me. The only thing that ever happened to me personally was this:

I am still not over “Look at Me”