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Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?

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Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
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Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Stories such as the Conjuring and the Rite are considered true stories.

Why?!?!

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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 3:41 pm (This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 3:41 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
They're not true. Not even in the scare-quotes sense.
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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 3:43 pm
(August 20, 2016 at 3:41 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: They're not true. Not even in the scare-quotes sense.

Then why do movies say they're true. Are they lying?
Is that illegal?

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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Movies are lying cunts.

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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Actually, they DON'T say these films are true. The language used is always something like 'Based on true events'. The 'true event' usually means that it is true that someone claimed these things happened.

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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 5:26 pm
(August 20, 2016 at 3:43 pm)ScienceAf Wrote:
(August 20, 2016 at 3:41 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: They're not true. Not even in the scare-quotes sense.

Then why do movies say they're true. Are they lying?
Is that illegal?

No.
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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 5:33 pm
(August 20, 2016 at 3:40 pm)ScienceAf Wrote: Stories such as the Conjuring and the Rite are considered true stories.

Why?!?!

Movies say the stories are true because it builds the fear factor. The same reason you tell kids ghost stories are true when around a campfire.
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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm
The true story behind those movies is usually something like "There actually was a girl who lived in New York" Smile
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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 5:41 pm
(August 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm)Alex K Wrote: The true story behind those movies is usually something like "There actually was a girl who lived in New York" Smile

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RE: Can someone tell me why some ghost stories are "true"?
August 20, 2016 at 6:02 pm
This thread reminds me of the film 'Yankee Doodle Dandy', starring the great James Cagney as showman George M. Cohan. The story goes that after Cohan saw the film, he was asked what he thought of it and answered, 'It was a great movie. Who the HELL was it about?'

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