Reply #59: A matter of taste [View All]

[booksenkatz]

As disturbing as I find "The Ring," I know people who said they laughed all the way through it. And those same friends are the ones who can't sit through something like "Halloween," which makes ME laugh. I'm very interested in why people are scared of some things and not other things. Another example: I'm terrified to this day of that doll from Night Gallery, and if you were a fan of Serling, you'll know which doll I mean... the one with the black around her eyes. The doll on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album has bothered me all of my life. Yet I know that to others, these are mere dolls. Where do these things come from, I wonder? Are we pre-wired for certain things?

I'm really enjoying this thread! I was thinking it would be fun some upcoming night for someone to start a thread for DUers to "tell" ghost stories, or even better, tell about odd things that have really happened to them (my fav ghost stories are the "this weird thing happened to me when I was ten" kind of stories). They did something like that at DU sometime in the last few years, and a few DUers told of some real-life stuff that made the hairs on the back of my neck tingle. I bet you or Boomer could really knock my socks off with some kind of story about a doll and a mirror.........:scared: