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Dry cleaning expenses have really cut down on the classic “White Sheet”. Even the living challenged have been hit by the economic recession.
This would make for an interesting plot twist in the new Ghostbusters 3 movie. (via lacarpa.tumblr.com)
Culture Buzz Switzerland: No longer on my bucket list. Not even the supernatural can hide from the all-mighty Street View cars.
Starring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning, and narrated by Tom Waits, this ghost story will reportedly be tailored to each specific audience it is shown to. Click here to read more about the film, which will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Italian outfit NotWorkingFilms has re-imagined our yellow pellet-chomping friend as a tweaked-out roadster chasing ghosts and cherries along the highway. (via neatorama.com)
An educational chart detailing the evolution of spooks and specters in pop culture. Survival of the frightest? Nah.
Ms. Pac-Man would never stand a chance with these 48 ghosts coming after her.
Culture Buzz We’ve all seen houses like this. The old house on the end of the block that you wouldn’t walk by at night for any amount of money. These are no fairytale homes.
(And also some ghosts.) This is really charming, unless you were trying to finish your novel at the NYPL and wound up singing the Ghostbusters theme to a homeless man all day.
Paranormal Activity is the new Blair Witch Project. It's super low-budget and opening in a very limited run on September 25, but it's generating a whole lot of “OMG this is the scariest movie ever” buzz. Here's a trailer (with audience reactions) so you can judge for yourself.
First, MJ's ghost moonwalked on live TV before showing up in a tree stump. Now he's resurfaced on some dude's car hood. We should've seen this coming after his recent trip to the DMV.
Ghosts HATE holy water. They hate it so much, because it burns them. Which pretty much explains this video, I think. Skip to about a minute in if you want to watch some evil ghosts getting their asses burned right out of people. (Via.)
Pacman joins a popular social networking site just to find that he's being followed by some old friends.
This plushy toy cat either loves a ghost or …is one, considering that it looks mangled and dead. Hey, Amazon, do you guys carry this shirt in Human? …Can you?
A video that explains (with a delightful British accent) why being skeptical of an assertion is not the same thing as being closed-minded and exposes the logical fallacies that believers in Gods and ghosts typically fall victim to.
This photo taken at the Tantallon Castle in Scotland was voted the most convincing ghost photo by nearly 250,000 people. This picture was part of a larger study conducted to find the best haunted amateur photos. Experts have ruled out any digital fiddling. You convinced?
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
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