Raising the Dead

To prepare for Halloween here are some ways to let the dead or undead in to your life in movies and legends.

• Answer the phone - Not necessarily how the dead are allowed into your life, but still a main stay of horror films.
• Go to sleep – This not only allows monsters that invade dreams to attack, but makes it easier for vampires to control you, but only if you have met before.
• Say their name 3 times into your mirror in a darkened bathroom – This only works with killers and in some legends they slowly materialize in the mirror, in which case if you turn the lights on quickly they will disappear.
• Just invite them in – This works for vampires and all other demons or partial demons and is most likely based on the Christian belief that Christians can’t be possessed without letting the demon into their lives i.e. “Evil must be invited in.”
• Get an old Gypsy lady mad at you – In legends just about any bad thing can happen to you if you piss off an old Gypsy woman.
• Build your house over a gate to Hell – This is really a duhh!!! problem, “well, this is really a great location; the only thing is the portal to the netherworld in the middle of the land.” “Oh, that’s OK, we’ll just put the basement there.”
• Build your house over a graveyard and don’t move the bodies – Another duhh!!!! Always remember to check out the land before building a house.
• Build your house on an ancient Indian (Native American, not people from India) burial ground (And no I have no idea why they are not called ancient Native America burial grounds, may be you get stuck with whatever is the politically correct name for your people at the time you died.) – In this case it doesn’t matter if you move the bodies or not. If you don’t you have the same problems as building on a graveyard, if you do then the ghost are mad because even in death the white man’s stealing their land. Maybe if it is of certain tribes African Americans and Hispanic people could move there as the tribes let them join them in life, but you shouldn’t risk it.
• Move into a house where a gruesome and/or unsolved murder took place - If moving to an older house ask neighbors if it’s haunted, in California the realtor must inform you if a house is haunted in some other states they must tell you if any murders or suicides took place there.
• Have brains – Zombies will attack anything with brains.
  
  Well we hope that helps you not get attacked by the dead or undead this Halloween, for more thoughts on the ways of the paranormal check out this website from our friend who spends much more time think and reading about these things.