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Share a scary superstition. Win a "Drag Me to Hell" DVD!

October 01, 2009 01:00 PM EDT (Updated: October 30, 2009 10:50 AM EDT)
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Christine Brown is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend, a hard-earned job position, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment. Director Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre with a vengeance in the film that critics rave is “the most crazy, fun and terrifying horror movie in years!” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly)

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Comments: 164

Tara C. Oct 1, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
The scariest one I've heard is that when you have a dream about falling, if you ever hit the bottom you will die in your sleep. It's scary to me becasue I've had those dreams, and I've never hit bottom.
♥♥LoViNg♥LiFe♥ ♥♥ Oct 1, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
I have heard that too and I always have dreams that i'm falling.
Crystal R. Oct 1, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
That is the one I was going to say. It used to scare me so much when I was younger. I've tripped in a dream and smacked my face on concrete and my teeth have fallen out. That was a scary dream.
Tara C. Oct 1, 2009, 9:22pm EDT
Crystal R. I've had one where my teeth just started falling out for no reason. That was very scary too.
Loretta E. Oct 5, 2009, 10:57am EDT
I agree I have had both of these dreams, they are very scary!
MyBaby Loves0207 Oct 8, 2009, 1:50am EDT
Oh, my gosh I have had the teeth dream to. It completely FREAKS me out.
Kris M. Oct 8, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
I always hit bottom in those dreams, and I have them several times a year. Hopefully that'll help with that superstition.
Kimberli T. Oct 9, 2009, 1:43am EDT
When you teeth fall out in your dreams you will notice that there is usually something stressful going on in your life that you have no control over.
Marsha S. Oct 1, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
there are a lot of superstitions
I am with Tara.....I fall in a lot of my dreams and have always heard the same as her...if you hit before waking up you will die.
anne ( way 2 crazy of a life ) c. Oct 1, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
If a robin flies into a room through a window, death will shortly follow.

this is one that scares me and I will never look at robins the same
Tiffany v. Oct 1, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
The one that always scared me as a child was the one about the Bell Witch and Bloody Mary. They are so similar. For either one you are supposed to stand in a completely dark bathroom with nothing but 1 candle for light. For the Bell Witch one you spin in a circle 3 times, each time saying "I'm not afraid of the Bell Witch" and then the Bell Witch is supposed to show up and scratch your face. The Bloody Mary one is where you stare into the mirror and say, "Bloody Mary-Bloody Mary-Bloody Mary" and the ghost is supposed to show up. I never made it through either of these! lol
♥♥LoViNg♥LiFe♥ ♥♥ Oct 1, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
haha! we did that in our elementary school and all 7 of us girls left the bathroom screaming. the principal happened to walk by and asked why we were runningout of the bathroom like that. None of said a word.
Angela A. Oct 1, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
Oooh, I remember Bloody Mary too.
We chanted her name as kids and looked in our bathroom mirror.
I can still swear to this day that I saw a face. It was green and I was terrified for weeks.
Tiffany v. Oct 2, 2009, 12:57pm EDT
I have also also heard that when you are dreaming and you see yourself falling from the top of a building or cliff.....you will die a horrible death. The way I heard it was that when you hit the bottom or ground, your lungs will collapse or ribs can break. When they find your body the next day, they will see these injuries on you even though you only dreamed of falling. The only way to avoid the death is to wake up before you hit the ground.
Nicole T. Oct 9, 2009, 5:04am EDT
Bloody Mary was big in elementary school. At one of brownie sleep overs we all stood in front of a large mirror and started chanting bloody mary.

Before we could finish a red flash came across the mirror. We all went screaming to our sleeping bags. I now believe that her mom was nearby and created the red illusion that kept us up all night.

Its funny now but I was probably very scared of dark mirrored rooms for a good while afterwards.
Michelle S. Oct 1, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
so many from when i was a kid. like step on a crack, break your mother's back. i still avoid stepping on cracks.

i don't walk under ladders.
B.B. B. Oct 1, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
oh my the "step on a crack, break your mothers back" sounds really awful, i never heard this one before and i wonder who came up with something creepy like this????
B.B. B. Oct 1, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
the scariest thing for me was always the blairwitch, since this really happened, not sure about how much of the stuff that was shown in the "blairwitch project" movie was true, but i really would freak out if i had to go to those woods and search for the blairwitch, all those weird things they found in the ground.... oh my, just thinking about it makes me go crazy.
Joanne Vicente Oct 1, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
I think the one that alwasys scared me most was the idea that, if I made hideous faces at someone, I'd be stuck looking that way forever. It taught me to be a bit more careful aboit sowing contempt!
Denise W. Oct 1, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
The one that has always bothered me the most is:

When you are Pregnant if you look into the eyes of something that has died (person, bird, animal....) Your baby will be stillborn.
Nicole T. Oct 9, 2009, 5:04am EDT
Thats a mean one.
Melissa D. Oct 12, 2009, 10:21am EDT
I agree, that's just mean!
Nancy * Oct 1, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
I'm not really superstitious person, but when I was a little girl of about five or six, the neighbor kids would weave stories about these abandonded and burned out houses and ghosts. I honetstly believed if I walked the sidewalk in front of one of these houses that the ghost would come after me wanting my head. For a long time I would cross the street whenever I came across an abandoned or burned out house.
When you pay a visit to a dead person, usually at their family home, and then going back after that. Never go back straight to your home, it is believed that the spirit of the death will follow you and stay at your home.
♥♥LoViNg♥LiFe♥ ♥♥ Oct 1, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
never heard this one but very scary.
Angel sent from God Secret Sisters Oct 9, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
I never heard that either Nellie... No wonder I have spirits falling around my house.. But not since I left Indiana...
When eating with chopsticks, never leave them standing up in your rice, this is the same way it is done at funeral/alters...
brittany c. Oct 1, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
I know this is kind of a superstition and urbal legend rolled into one.. but flashing your headlights at a car that passes, because they don't have their lights on is not a good thing to do. I was told that gang members used that as an initiation and they had to drive with their headlights off and if someone flashed them, they followed them and killed them. That one has always freaked me out and even if it's not true, I still never flash someone if they don't have their lights on.
brittany c. Oct 1, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
Urban*.. typo
Pam H. Oct 1, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
I have heard this one too.
☀ Aunt Shanny Oct 1, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
I would love to win one of those movies, even though I don't believe in any superstitions.
Pam H. Oct 1, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
Several years ago at a wedding two birds got into the open doors of the church, one of the birds made it out, the other did not. After the wedding one of the ladies I work with told us that there is a supersitition if this happens either the bride or groom will die shortly thereafter. The couple went on a honeymoon to the Bahamas I believe. When they got back the bride became ill, She was sick for quite a well before they figured out she had a brain tumor. She died within two years of their wedding. It was very sad.
D M. Oct 1, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
If you break a mirror you'll have bad luck for 7 years...doesn't sound scary until you start thinking about what bad luck it could be.
Pam H. Oct 1, 2009, 1:55pm EDT
i also heard once never count the cars in a funeral procession or you will be the next to die.
colleen m. Oct 1, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
I think it is scary when they say that when one person dies another two will follow, because the rule of death coming in three's. It does seem to work out that way...at least lately in Hollywood.
jenn g. Oct 1, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
it would have to be "step on a crack, break your mothers back" that was VERY scary when i was younger! how morbid!
Ashley M. Oct 1, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
Opening an umbrella in a house always tickled me, because when i was young I loved to do that.
Lilith Dorsey Oct 5, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
supposed to be good luck to open a parasol :)
Jan S. Oct 1, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
My grandma taught us a lot of superstitions, but the worst were:

If a picture falls off the wall, someone will die.
and
When you smell the scent of flowers where there are none, someone will die.
Breaking a mirror = 7 years bad luck!
Death comes in three's
Jen K. Oct 19, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
That really does happen .. or it seems to happen.. with my family/friends!! Its freaky!
d d. Oct 1, 2009, 2:33pm EDT
Death comes in three's. My husband travels so much, that when I hear of one or two...I search for the third.
Rachel W. Oct 1, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
You need to hold your breathe while passing a graveyard or you'll consume any and all evil that has been buried there. My sister still hold's her breathe to this day and she's 37 years old.
Jason Nickolay Oct 1, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
It is definitely The Bloody Mary superstition. I don't necessarily believe in it, but it still scares the crap out of me and I am not going to find out it is real the wrong way!
J G Oct 1, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
The scariest superstition I've heard is that any private insurance company contract is better than universal healthcare funded by a truly progressive tax system.
Christina L. Oct 1, 2009, 4:06pm EDT
Amen to that!
Angela A. Oct 1, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
Hmm, the scariest superstition I've heard..
I'm not a real big believer in bad luck.
But, we always used to say,
"Step on crack and break your daddy's back."
We used to step over cracks in the sidewalk all the time as kids. (Me and my sister)
Kelly K ~ Jesus Saves ~ Oct 1, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
I am not really supersitious, but the one about death coming in three's.
In June 1999 my Grandfather passed away,
a few months later a Great Uncle Passed away,
then in April 2000 my aunt's husband passed away.
=(
Sarah (I want points) Oct 1, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
Probably it would be the whole bloody mary thing, but I don't really believe in all that.
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Oct 1, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
the only one i cant think about it the death in 3's.
donna h. Oct 1, 2009, 3:50pm EDT
passing away the way my dad did....and us having dreams about it before we were notified
Christina L. Oct 1, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
As someone else mentioned, the one about flashing your headlights at someone who doesn't have theirs on is scary. I don't flash my lights at anyone.
David E. Oct 1, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
About the scariest one I am thinking of is stepping on a grave, I don't remember the consequences but I know it's not good.
Justin Reid Oct 1, 2009, 5:21pm EDT
Everyone says that if you die in your dreams your brain actually believes you die, and you actually do die.
Kim B. Oct 7, 2009, 7:03am EDT
i've heard that one, it scares me
Nurse Nancy S. Oct 1, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
If a patient is terminal and in the hospital, you must tie a knot in the corner of his/her sheet. If you do not, they will die on your shift.
Amber C. Oct 1, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
I have no idea. I used to think when I was a kid, if I didn't pray every night before I went to bed, I'd die overnight. I don't know why I had that superstition, but I did.
Melissa D. Oct 12, 2009, 10:25am EDT
I think a lot of kids had that fear because of the prayer: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Kind of intense for a little child when you think about it!
Amber C. Oct 12, 2009, 10:42am EDT
Very very true.
Teresa W. Oct 1, 2009, 6:24pm EDT
I think the Bloody Mary one is the scariest. I didn't used to think that but then the TV series Supernatural did an episode on Bloody Mary and made it freaking come alive for me and I've been creeped out big time ever since!!
Victoria H. Oct 1, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
I saw that episode! It was freaky!
Scariest? Superstitions are scary?

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman
Victoria H. Oct 1, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
Man, looks like everyone has already said all the ones I can think of!!

I was going to say the Bloody Mary thing where you say "Bloody Mary" three times in the mirror and if you leave the light off she'll come out and kill you or if you turn it on fast enough you may just end up with a cut on the cheek or something. Always freaked me out!
Jamie Hall Oct 1, 2009, 8:16pm EDT
Breaking a mirror is 7 years of bad luck
Ruth Luce Oct 1, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
Oooo, Sam Raimi, delicioso!! As a kid, I must concur, Bloody Mary hands down...
Vikki M. Oct 1, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
One that scares me is dropping silverware means company's coming. And depending on WHO that company is, well, that can be very scary! :)
Patti M. Oct 1, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
Mine is easy. I can't sleep with my back to the door because Gody will come in and hack me to pieces with his axe.
You say, Who is Gordy? He is the grown son of our neighbors just to the East of us. He had some kind of illness that caused terrible brain damage when he was quite young. His father was a well known Dr. He was tortured by his inability to do anything to help his son.
He promised his wife they would never instutionalize their son. Unfortunately he passed away. His wife couldn't take care of Gordy by herself.
I remember him roaming the streets at one time with an axe.

What scared me though was his wailing. It sounded like an injured animal. He was chained to his bed and he would clank the chains and wail.

To this day I can hear his mournful cries.
Annmarie B. Oct 1, 2009, 10:58pm EDT
The worst superstition in my large family is that if you don't kiss a dead person in their coffin that you will miss them all the time. So when my Grandma died I was forced to kiss her cold face. Twice. I never got over it until I got married and had someone to sleep with.
April H. Oct 2, 2009, 12:02am EDT
What is the scariest superstition you've heard?Dropping an umbrella on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house.
Bhawana 'Gather Proud Mom' Oct 2, 2009, 5:08am EDT
Breaking mirror!
Stephanie B. Oct 2, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
When I was pregnant my mom told me that if I reached my arms too far above my head then the baby's umbilical cord will wrap around his neck and strangle him. Talk about a paranoid wreck!
Loretta E. Oct 5, 2009, 11:12am EDT
My mom said that one!
Kimberli T. Oct 9, 2009, 3:01am EDT
my ex used to tell me that!
Heather ~of the Whippets~ M. Oct 2, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
I'm not really a superstitious person. I would say, though, that Bloody Mary is probably one of the spookier ones, especially when you're a kid.
jennifer r. Oct 2, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
I have to say that I see three here that scare me, or have at one time. Bloody mary scared me as a kid. The possibility of stretching and wrapping the umbilical cord around my babys neck scared me both times when I was pregnant. And last but not least the whole falling in your sleep if you hit the ground you die still scares the crap out of me. I have the sensation or dreams of falling in my sleep at least once a week.
DIANE D. Oct 3, 2009, 7:55am EDT
Step on a sidewalk crack and break your mother's back.
Donna S. Oct 3, 2009, 2:48pm EDT
I hate to even write it but the number 666!
DIANE D. Oct 4, 2009, 11:54am EDT
Yikes, you did!
Angela <:3---}~~~~ M. Oct 6, 2009, 6:35pm EDT
LOL, its a number, I use in in my email addresses it really freaks people out. I find it amusing
Jen K. Oct 19, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
I was told once that it is really supposed to be 999... but I dont know how true that is!
lisa marchal Oct 3, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
The one thing that scares me most... being raised in part by a very superstitious grandmother from the back woods. I suppose the omen's would scare me as a child. She insisted (even to her death) that as a child she saw things. She insisted that the world today could see things if only they were more in touch with their surroundings. The night her mother died she swears she saw a light circle her home and go up on the mountain and stop at the exact place where her mother was to be buried. I asked her if it scared her and she said "No. This was God's way of letting us know she was leaving." I suppose the forwarnings that were once accepted but are now ignored or explained away by doctors or scientists. I have heard these stories from many folks who have lived a long life. Long before television or modern times have overwhelmed our senses and limited our minds. I am not sure I am afraid of the existance of the warnings or the absence of them in our modern time.
Terri Hall Oct 4, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
Hi Lisa! I loved your post. Have you ever read Rudolph Steiner? He explains that as children we are open to many things, and can often see 'things' that adults cannot. My mother passed away a year ago and my 8 year old nephew is constantly saying that my mom comforts him in his dreams. His descriptions are far to vivid to be made up. When she was alive, she always worried about him. I think its her way of trying to comfort him still.
lisa marchal Oct 10, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
Hi Terri,

I fully believe that children are more open to things which we have closed ourselves off to. I think that older people who did not have television or other factors which help to close us off were in touch as well. It seems that anything we see we can always "explain away." I am sure your mother is there for your nephew. And just as she is there for him maybe he is there for her as well.. Keeping her alive inside of himself.
Terri Hall Oct 4, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
One time a black cat crossed my path on Friday the 13th and then I found a dollar. Since my birthday is October 30th, I always considered that good luck. My biggest superstition is when I purchase something and the total comes to $6.66, then I always add something at the counter so the total will be different.
Angela <:3---}~~~~ M. Oct 6, 2009, 6:34pm EDT
In Germany or if you are German a cat crossing your path is considered good luck
Loretta E. Oct 5, 2009, 11:18am EDT
Bloody Mary where you stare into the mirror in a dark room with a candle on and saying, Bloody Mary,Bloody Mary,Bloody Mary, and the ghost is supposed to show up.

Candy man is the same as Bloody Mary.

If you dream of a person who has died don't let them touch you or you'll die.

Death comes in 3's

Don't walk under ladders.

Breaking a mirror, you'll have bad luck for 7 years.

Opening an umbrella inside is bad luck.
Lori A Oct 5, 2009, 11:50am EDT
looks like all the one I know are taken my Grandmother use to say its bad luck to brag about anything an if you do you may find you have less to brag about . I know more about whats lucky than what is unlucky
Lilith Dorsey Oct 5, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
Leaving your shoe at the crossroads is said to prevent ghosts and other unwanted things from following you... but then how do you walk home?
Rita j. Oct 6, 2009, 7:49am EDT
covering up all the mirrors in the house after someone has died because at night they will come back and you can see them in the mirrors
Alex In Wonderland Oct 6, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
I am terrified of falling in my sleep (dying if you hit the bottom) and looking into a mirror in the dark (seeing the dead, and maybe letting them through to our world). I can't control my dreams but you better believe that I will NEVER look into a mirror in the dark!!
Charles Evans Oct 6, 2009, 6:31pm EDT
NOW HERE IS THE REAL DEAL... TRY THIS FOR YOURSELF.. ANY TIME YOU ACCIDENTILY DROP THE DISH RAG IN THE FLOOR ...YOU CAN ALMOST BE GUARANTEED COMPANY OR SOMEBODY WILL VISIT.... COULD BE THE IN-LAWS.... NOW THAT IS SCARY STUFF!!!!! LOL :-).
Charles Evans Oct 6, 2009, 6:34pm EDT
One of the scariest feelings is to place your pointer finger against the pointer finger of somebody else. Take your thumb and pointer finger of the opposite hand and stroke both sides of the 2 fingers touching. This will definitely let you know how a cold dead body feels.... really creepy.... Just try it and see !!!!
Charles Evans Oct 6, 2009, 6:38pm EDT
Now a real scary moment is to loose your dentures ....only to find that your little caring neice had found them soaking and placed them under your pillow so the tooth fairy will come and leave you some money....Now isn't that a kodak moment and if the tooth fairy was real then i could have retired...LOL LOL LOL....
elaine laflamme Oct 6, 2009, 11:10pm EDT
Step on a crack,break your mother's back has always been the scariest for me . My mom did everything she could for us when we were kids and after I heard that cute??? little rhyme,I was so afraid of breaking her back that I stayed away from sidewalks for years . I walked in the grass and snow before I walked on sidewalks .
Trish A. Oct 7, 2009, 2:01am EDT
I remember the one about a couple making out in their car in the woods and a crazy monster attacks them. I think this was thought up by parents!
Kim B. Oct 7, 2009, 7:05am EDT
Black cat crossing in front of you on the road . You make a sign of the cross while saying, "Black cat, don't cross my Path"
Kim B. Oct 7, 2009, 7:07am EDT
Bird in the house is bad luck, if it dies , then it means a death in the family
Linda J. Oct 7, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
the worst one I remember is that if you roll your eyes up into their sockets, where only the whites are showing, that they will stay that way!
MyBaby Loves0207 Oct 8, 2009, 1:55am EDT
The Bloody Mary one. I know it sounds silly, but I have had someone that actually saw stuff. And they aren't the kind of person to lie. So that one scares me the most.
amy r. Oct 8, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
That was my first thought, but the other one freaks me out more, but yup, I was terrified as a child of that one and then I saw a movie called Mirror of Death! I didn't have a mirror in my room for many years!
amy r. Oct 8, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
The notion from certain countries in Asia that you have to sleep on your side or tummy because if your face is exposed spirits can suffocate you really freaks me out!
Dana F. Oct 8, 2009, 12:42pm EDT
My MIL...used to sing to the kids a lullabye and Kiss the palm of her hand and slap the roof of the car, when a HURSE passed by.

'The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.

In your stomach and out your mouth,

so when you see a hurse go by,

Now you know you're going to Die'

I thought it was creepy as He11 , but her kids were giggle.
Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R. Oct 8, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
my scariest superstition is: if I return to the place where I've met my current significant other... that's the time he'll leave me.
Never happened, but it always crosses my mind.
karen h. Oct 8, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
i would love to see this one
Listening to Rush Limbaugh causes venereal warts.
Oh, sorry. That's not a superstition.
Lower taxes result in increased tax revenue.
If business is allowed to operate completely without regulation everyone will be better off.
If you get rich, you will become a Republican.
Not that I, personally, have anything to worry about.
Giving frogs all your money, jewelry, negotiable securities, and land will cause bad luck.

Everyone knows it's the other way around.
Refusing your workforce access to health care increases productivity and GNP.