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SPOOKY etor,9 THE BLINDS Steve will never forget the horror movi that unfolded i nh i s own bedroom hen I was 20, a blinds slowly moving away shock as we witnessed, few friends and I from the window of their own after several seconds, the rented a couple o f accord. They kept going until blinds slowly returning to movies from the they forrned a 45 degree angle their normal position. local video store and returned to the top of the window! 'What was that?' I gulped. to my room to watch them. I looked at the bushes and 'No idea!' Paul replied. Nothing out o f trees outside. If The Exorcist was scary the ordinary They weren't this was petrifying! We happened We raced out moving. The promptly turned off the until we were weather was movie, ejected the video, and watching the of the house calm and there raced out of the house. Then, second one − was no wind, still shaken, we all drove to The Exorcist. I looked back Peter's mum's plase, Even though it had come at the blinds, still suspended There, we struggled to find out back in 1973, the horror away from the window − and an explanation for the moving movie, based on a true story a sense of foreboding gripped binds but it was apparent to about a girl possessed by the me. I turned to my friend the four of us that what had devil, was still scary We were Peter, who was also staring happened was paranormal. about halfway through it open−jawed at the blinds. They had somehow been when I saw something out of 'Have faith, Steve,' he said. moved by a supernatural the corner of my eye. I turned The other two guys, Paul force. Could the movie itself to see my heavy venetian and John, also watched on in have evoked a spirit entity? There had been many reports of eerie events surrounding the making of it We considered that a very real possibility I didn't sleep in my room again for two weeks after that eerie episode. Even today, 25 years on, the thought of that film gives me the creeps. • Steve Tritton, 45, Hawker, ACT tl.featuresOacificmags.com.au if you havd a spooky story to shore C) email: tlfeatures@piih − cmags.win.au or tit write: GPO Sox 7804, SydneiNSW 2001 kekame ib y:LJR A new dining hotspot is about to Victoria's most vicious cut off his ears there to be opened, but it's not for criminals. It's the prison where − roams the place. the faint−hearted. Its located in the execution wing of Pentridge Prison − the place where sadistic murderers took their last breaths. It's the first phase of the redevelopment of the 1851 Melbourne jail, once home bushranger Ned Kelly was The jail will held before being executed and ultimately be turned where murderer Julian Knight into a luxury hotel. and notorious underworld Guests will stay in figure Carl Williams were cells once inhabited Locked up. It's also allegedly by infamous killers. haunted, with claims the ghost Book your restaurant of Mark 'Chopper' Read − who table soon... 52 www.thatslife.com.au Ned K e ly 'ChopW Read
