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The Poltergeist curse

Sep 12, 2026 · 4m 9s
The Poltergeist curse
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The detail everyone files under legend is the one part that is straightforwardly true: the 1982 production really did use real human skeletons in the swimming pool, because genuine medical...

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The detail everyone files under legend is the one part that is straightforwardly true: the 1982 production really did use real human skeletons in the swimming pool, because genuine medical specimens cost less than props convincing enough for a close-up. What turned a props decision into a curse was what followed — a young actress murdered months after release, two older actors from the sequel lost to illness, and the twelve-year-old who played the youngest daughter dying of a bowel obstruction that was misread until it was too late. A sober look at the arithmetic the legend declines to do, and at how private grief became a marketing-friendly ghost story.

This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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