I was thinking about really bad ghost stories I have either read or watched (movie or tv form).
They all have the same people in them.
a. people who refuse to walk away from equity - The house is haunted, they won't leave. Dude, seriously, burn the place to the ground, collect the insurance, and then don't worry about the ghost in the bed sheet.
b. weird old person who knows what's going on, won't tell anyone until the last half of the movie - this bugs me in the sense that they should know better. They should want you out of the place, whatever, and should attempt to pull an intervention immediately. The only time this wasn't the case was in Friday the 13th (which is really a ghost story, if you think about it). The old lady says immediately that the girl they are looking for is dead, that they will be too if they stick around. Still a horrible horror ghost movie, but at least it did something different.
c. creepy ghosts - never a ghost that just says, "hi, I'm charlie, how are you?" but they always want to frighten the hell out of the occupants.
d. some type of devil ritual, curse or plague that happened on the land of the house - really? after so much time, no one thought they might as well just bring a backhoe over the place and destroy it for the insurance.
Again, I think pretty logically, which doesn't work with ghost stories. Here is a ghost story movie which scared me when I was a kid... It's called "Burnt Offerings" and no, it isn't about the promise of social security being undermined by Congress.
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