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[msbeesknees]

BIO. channel: Celebrity Ghost Stories

1-hour special

Famous personalities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal.

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky, celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in this one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal. Celebrities featured: Gina Gershon, Ernie Hudson, Belinda Carlisle and Sammy Hagar.

Just saw this and eeeps!!!

The red rocker's story regarding the "crisis apparition" in particular was so freaky!!

[laurielu]

The celebs' actual stories were pretty cool, but the show would've been twice as good if it weren't for the terrible reenactments! If you don't have money for special effects, please don't try. But yeah, a good show for Halloween, and I'm very glad I watched it in broad daylight.

[Twilight Man]

OK folks, look what we got on cable now......

Everyone from Debi Mazar, to Tom Arnold, to Sammy Hagar

"I was awakened by somebody pounding on my front door"
(Yeah, it was David Lee Roth, singing "I Ain't Got Nobody")

even Carnie "Famewhore" Wilson shows up
(I was kinda wondering what she would do for an encore after "Outsider's Inn" and "Celebracadabra")

so is the big question:

"Do you believe?"

or is it:

"What will these people do next?"

Edited by Twilight Man, Oct 28, 2009 @ 3:53 PM.

[Malibu65]

Haha I wondered if anyone would make this a topic. ; )

I watched only one episode. It featured the late David Carradine. GASP! It was just so sad to watch it knowing he was no longer here with us and here he was talking about his "experience." I cannot even recall what his segment was about as I just kept thinking about his own death and how creepy it was to air his segment. I wonder if his family gave the go ahead on that or what?

[lvmom]

Couldn't even get past Carrie Fisher. Love love love CF, but they repeated her story. Immediately following the first telling. My 13 year old lover of all things ghost even had difficulty with it. It was like that awful show where preteens tell ghost stories and that kid tries to narrate with his spookiest voice. Nails on a chalkboard.

[Drew328]

Carrie Fisher? I thought that was Belinda Carlisle?

[daisy720]

I watch this show and I enjoy it. They tell pretty cool stories. Some are lame, but others are decent. The fact that they're D list or has beens doesn't bother me at all.

[Delirium64]

I enjoy this show also. I like hearing ghost stories.

[Gank Em]

I enjoy this show also. I like hearing ghost stories.

I agree. I enjoy hearing about the ghostly experiences of others. One of my favorite shows is Ghostly Encounters.

[TwoBabies]

John Waters! The story itself wasn't very good -- as far as a spooky ghost story -- but he told it masterfully.

I liked Sammy Hagar's story about his father as well as Joan Rivers' story. Some good stories, some mediocre -- Carnie Wilson had an "eh" story (why don't they just have Carnie's sister Wendy on if she's the one who sees ghosts) and I felt Belinda Carlisle was just a girl who was fascinated with the occult and just desperately wanted something to happen to her -- I thought her story lacked the feel of a real specific, personal experience. BC's story was exactly like someone retelling an urban legend.

Tom Arnold's was good but I had to laugh bc he would be the kid who was known for having a pipe organ at home!

Edited by TwoBabies, Nov 1, 2009 @ 4:49 AM.

[Malibu65]

Doesn't it say at the beginning of this show "Celebrities share their SUPPOSED real-life personal encounters with the paranormal"? I think I read that the one and only time I saw this program. When a tv show uses "supposed" in their description, I have to laugh.

[farishta]

The celebs seem to be D-List losers. Charisma Carpenter (of Angel and Buffy) was doing a segment I watched on A& E this morning, and her acting is so atrocious it was laughable--esp in all those moments when they are supposed to look sincere--look down or away. She sucked, and the segment sucked, being all about a hole in the wall that literally sucked--truly ridiculous. I'd seen an episode earlier and it wasn't so bad in the beginning, but it's getting worse. And I agree the reenactments are just bad...embarrasing.

ETA: I just realized that the post before mine came 26 months ago...I guess not too many people are talking about this show and maybe not that many are watching it, which is as it should be, I suppose.

Edited by farishta, Dec 18, 2010 @ 7:17 PM.

[MeInTheMiddle]

Gail O'Grady's story about her brother and the ten of spades made me tear up a little.

[ubi]

Why is this on the Bio(graphy) Channel? Do they ever play anything besides shows about ghosts? That said, I like hearing ghost stories but am not sure if the events happened or they're reading from a script.

[watchteoftv]

Yay! I was wondering if there was a thread for this show! I grew up in a haunted house (yeah, yeah, I know - but it's true!), so I've been fascinated with things that go bump in the night since I was a teenager, and weird stuff happens in my family all the time, so I kind of love this show...even if some of the stories are kind of ooookaaaay... yeah, the Gail O'Grady story made me tear up, too - and the Michael Imperioli and Larry Mannetti stories were sad, rather than scary; the poor woman mourning her husband, lost on the Titanic, and the poor waitress...I get the feeling, from the way LM said she looked so sad the last time he saw her alive, that maybe she was in an abusive relationship, and she had a feeling she was going to die. It just seems that her last thought before she died was of the nice man who was kind to her, and offered her help, and that's why she showed up to him.

Oh, well - most of these people may not be A-Listers, or even B-Listers, but I'm desperate; A Haunting is long gone, and there's nothing else on tv that I know of like this, so I have to get my Ghoulies-and-Ghosties fix from this, and Ghostly Encounters...and hope My Ghost Story comes back!

(Though why it's on the Biography channel is an Unsolved Mystery...Hey! Another show!) *g*

[lola212005]

I love this show so much. I don't mind that the celebs are d list or whatever. "Celebrity" is a relative term anyway. I'm such a sucker for ghost stories, partially because I really believe my house is haunted too :) I could watch this show all day, lol.


My favorite stories on this show thus far: Vincent Curatola (from the Sopranos), David Carradine, Daniel Stern, Karina Smirnoff, and Donna D'Errico to name a few.

[stephf13]

I love this show! DH even watches it, and he usually makes fun of me for watching all those ghost-y shows. Some of the stories have freaked him out, and he generally unfreakable.

The creepiest one for me was a guy I had never seen before. He was a black guy, and he told a story about how a friend of his was murdered, then he got a phone call from the murdered friend. Still gives me chills.

[Ananayel]

Sometimes I don't know who these people are, even with their captions, and the reenactments are uniformly horrible. But I watch anyway, even repeats. Occasionally I've even tried to look up more information - Daniel Stern's for example, the honeymoon trip to England and the "ghost town." Turns out only a few people were killed when lightning struck the church, not 60 or however many he said, and the town in most respects seems to be a completely ordinary town. I think the people in Tavistock were pulling his leg once they saw how upset he was.

Margaret Cho's creeped me out to no end.

[watchteoftv]

Occasionally I've even tried to look up more information - Daniel Stern's for example, the honeymoon trip to England and the "ghost town."

Oh, I was gonna look that one up after the show went off, but got busy, then forgot about it.

The creepiest one for me was a guy I had never seen before. He was a black guy, and he told a story about how a friend of his was murdered, then he got a phone call from the murdered friend. Still gives me chills.

That was Mykelti (sp?) Williamson - I think that's the last name... anyway, he was in Forrest Gump - his story freaked me out, too; first, because as a teenager, I had a book called Phone Calls From The Dead, but outside of that book, I'd never heard of anybody actually saying they'd had one before seeing this story, and second, because just as they went to commercial after that story, my phone rang! Talk about bad timing...*g*

[Glass Ocean]

I am currently swaying between the possibility that these folks actually experienced whatever they're talking about AND/OR they are simply reading from a prepared script, perhaps one that was tailored to their own history. For example, is Shelley Long really that bad an actress that she can't convince me of her own real life episode with burning buildings? Or is that her standard mannered way of speaking? By comparison in that same episode, Gail O'Grady deserved an Emmy. Her emotions seemed very real and I believed she had that particular brother with that particular sense of humor.

Is anyone else feeling on the fence? No...?

[IgnaMom]

I recall an interview with Milo Ventimiglia (Peter on Heroes) where he talks about his ghostly encounter with a frisky female ghost in a hotel in Paris (?). Yeah, I wouldn't want a ghost to crawl into bed with me, thank you very much. I keep wishing he'd do this show and tell his story.

[Glass Ocean]

One celeb [Maggie on Northern Exposure] told her story of shooting in the Italian Alps and the long dead Italian soldier who kept her company in bed. She didn't seem too happy about it, especially after he removed the key from her door, the only way out. That encounter did not seem particularly frisky.

[lola212005]

Occasionally I've even tried to look up more information - Daniel Stern's for example, the honeymoon trip to England and the "ghost town."

I looked it up because I was fascinated by the story, a "zombie village". There was in fact, a storm which did occur in the town hundreds of years ago which caused damage to the local church, however only four were killed. There is some mythology surrounding the storm. However, I've only found a few stories of any ghostly or supernatural sightings surrounding the town.

Edited by lola212005, Dec 22, 2010 @ 12:46 AM.

[PhPhan]

I'm watching the marathon tonight because, seriously, there is nothing else on. I saw the name Joey Lawrence in the description and I was ready to turn the TV off. That guy really grew into some looks. I was surprised.

I can listen to the stories, but the annoyingly jumping editing is giving me a headache.

[78rules]

Best ep ever is Joan Collins- seriously: best ghost story EVER. Not because it's super scary, because it isn't. It's so Joan Collins/Dynasty-ish it's utterly fantastic.

The whole story starts with her telling how her dearest friend Mrs. So&so was hosting a party for her granddaughters 18th birthday, and so Mrs. so&so rented a palazzo in Venice- and it's more delish with every word.

[Zanne]

I catch this show every weekend, and the scariest thing about it is the makeup. I notice it more often on the women, but every single one looks like she's suffered a severe sunburn because her cheeks (and nose and chin) are so very PINK. Put down the blush brush, makeup artist. It is doing none of these people any favors.

[Glass Ocean]

Seriously, Corbin Berenson is half Cherokee? And that had what to do with his story? Still, I had to chuckle at his logic regarding all the girls who wanted to get out of bedroom and fast.

I found myself getting caught up with John Schneider's story, strange as it may sound. Number one, naming a newborn after a dead sibling was creepy enough, straight out of My Sweet Audrina and Flowers in the Attic. A twisted Gothic touch. But then he remembered the raisin box outside the high window and his childish desire for it, which never happened to him but rather the dead brother. I can understand the possibilty that his parents mentioned the other baby falling out of the window, but John himself felt the urge to go climb up and get the box outside. More down home points for reincarnation.

[PhPhan]

I thought Corbin Bernsen's story was like one of the flashback moments on Psych. Like little Shawn getting into trouble and getting caught all the time.

It also seemed like a good forum to tell everyone about all the tail he was getting back in the '70s.

If I can recall art history from college - a long, long time ago - I believe that Vincent Van Gogh was the second Vincent Van Gogh. If I remember correctly, he was even born on the same day as the first VVG infant. Maybe that's why he was nuts. He was sharing the same space with his deceased brother with the same name.

[Glass Ocean]

If I can recall art history from college - a long, long time ago - I believe that Vincent Van Gogh was the second Vincent Van Gogh. If I remember correctly, he was even born on the same day as the first VVG infant. Maybe that's why he was nuts. He was sharing the same space with his deceased brother with the same name.

Wow. That bit of info they didn't teach in my art history class. But maybe Vincent had double the amount of artistic talent if there were two of him in the same body?

[MethodActor05]

I think my favorite one was the Michael Urie story about his friend who won't be left alone by a little boy who died, which he discovers on the night they all play Ouija board.