Did anyone catch the show that’s been running on the Fox Family channel this week, “The World’s Scariest Places” It’s a weird cross between “Survivor” and the “Blair Witch Project”. Regular folks, just like us, stay overnight in haunted houses, after being pumped full of local “don’t go in the house alone” stories, and are filmed running around screaming like girlie girls when they lose their nerves in the middle of the night.
My favorite segment involved a bunch of teenagers going to
“The Bunnyman Bridge.” It was a grafitti-covered viaduct where an escaped mental patient had hung some teen-agers. They were told that (I forget the exact number) something like 20 people had died at the bridge. All found hanging. More teenagers kicking it them the average Freddy Kruger movie. It sounded suspiciously like the hook man stories we used to tell on camping trips, but Fox was selling it as gospel truth.
Could it be that television has been lying to me and these stories are just made up?
And, although I am the sort of sick, twisted parent who let her kids watch this show, why does Fox call this family entertainment?
And when is hostess Linda Blair going to give up on crap like this and get a real job?
I can’t get enough of that show! I’ve always been obsessed with haunted places, and with abandoned buildings, and this show offers me plenty of both. Like that prison they showed last night (3/28/01)- I’m going to have to go there one of these days.
Last week they showed a bunch of haunted sites in Alton, Illinois. I only live about an hour and a half from there, so I’m going to have to go there one of these days. Yee ha!
That voice over they do at commercials. Is that supposed to be Linda’s exorcist demon voice? My ten year old heard it, and said, “That’s Bobby from King of the Hill!” Killed the mood for me, I must say.
No, that’s the actress who did the dirty work in Poltergeist (“Go into the light Carol Ann!”) Her name escapes me, but she’s a very little woman. She was also the church organist in Sixteen Candles. Good Heavens, do I have a weird memory!