was it real? - Fear Discussion

[–] Martian458 20 years ago

I know that much of what happened at the Buck Hill Inn episode was made up. The owner said that MTV came to check it out, physically and paranormally. MTV wasn't happy when the phychics brought in said that only "happy spirits" were in the building. Therefore, they made a lot of stuff up and happen.

It is a creepy building, though. It's freaking huge in real life. BTW, the area where the safehouse was, burned down due to arson. Just a little info.

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[–] LilMissSupernaturalBitch 20 years ago

I think its possible that the majority of the places, except "Dugan Bros. Cement Factory" (Ive read numerous things that state that place is used for various movies and such), were either really haunted or just plain scary, but I dont believe that spirits would manifest themselves simply because there are people there. I think what made the contestants scared was not only the fact that they were being sent out alone into the dark, but also that while they are out there alone, they have their teammate telling them this gruesome story about what supposedly happened there. I also think that it was all in their heads.

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[–] agentmulder320 19 years ago

You remember the one , i think was in either an insane asylum or a prison? And the guy got dared to go to the attic (where supposedly some guy killed himself). And this fool goes in, and when he pops his head in there he sees a body/ghost (OBVIOUSLY FAKE! I mean, thats the only part of the show as far as im concerned was just fake looking. Hell, it was just a guy in a checkered shirt.

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[–] hollaboochy 19 years ago

white t-shirt....with a vest....cargo pants.

I don't know why i remember that so vividly

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[–] HR4L 19 years ago

I don't think any of it was real. I think the stories may be true and that gruesome things really did happen long ago, but no, I don't think there were any spirits or anything.

All the banging and random noises they heard were soooo staged.

I still liked the show though.

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[–] kman_2015 19 years ago

I donnno though, i rememebr one episode where like, in the safe house, there was all this white haze stuff, like on camera is was there but when they looked to see it it wasnt, which would indicate a sprite or soemthingw as there, I dont know, it was really scary though, that show freaked me out sometimes

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[–] LuchaBoy88 18 years ago

I loved the show, especially the reunion special they had with the psychic where some girl (dont remember her name) actually ****ed a spirit on one of the episodes and the psychic explained that it entered through her feet and this girl was actually possessed and she started crying and the psychic "sealed" her from the spirit, seemed real to me, a couple of the background things and noises were redundant, but the show was great!

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[–] m_hebner 18 years ago

I wouldn't be suprised if it was fake. then again I think some of it was real. on the reunion show, when that one girl started crying because of her experience from that ghost that possesed her, I didn't laugh at her or anything like that because I felt kinda bad for her because of what happened. I mean people don't experience those kinda things with ghosts or spirits everyday.

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[–] blckstng73 18 years ago

i think everyone is missing the point. the show wasn't about whether the hauntings were real or fake- it was about putting a group of people in a reportedly haunted place in the middle of the night and have them investigate. it was about them facing their fear and keeping it together enough to win the money. its like telling campfire stories. you know theyre not true but out in the middle of nowhere in the dark of night, your mind tends to play tricks on you.

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[–] lord_finesse 18 years ago

Thats implying that the places aren't haunted and that it was all physcological, which it wasn't. I'd say about 50% of it is people over-reacting to normal noises, and the other 50% people reacting to some crazy ghost noises. Not unless MTV set up speakers in the place and wired them up to scare them. But I saw no speakers so I doubt it's that.

I honestly believe some of those places are haunted and there are just sounds you can't easily explain away. Any skeptic will say it's just environmental noise but that's too easy to explain away. Some of the noises they hear are genuine. Mind you, you can't go by what you hear during the episodes because MTV dubs in all sorts of ambient noises and music. So yeah MTV does a good job of making it look 100% staged but it truly isn't, these places have some messed up activity in them.

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[–] ImReallyANarc 18 years ago

In 2001 I was in a theatrical lighting class with a girl who was part of the crew for the first episode. She claims that while nothing was staged or set up (with the obvious exception of the props necessary for the show - ouija boards, etc.), MTV spent a few days beforehand "preparing" the people on the show by keeping them up all night making them watch movies like The Exorcist and Poltergeist. They also showed them documentaries and made them read first-hand accounts of "real" ghost stories so that when they were ready to the show, the kids were already exhausted and very edgy. Their reactions to very simple things on the show were much better than they would have been, had MTV not spent days trying to freak them out beforehand.

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[–] lord_finesse 18 years ago

In 2001 I was in a theatrical lighting class with a girl who was part of the crew for the first episode. She claims that while nothing was staged or set up (with the obvious exception of the props necessary for the show - ouija boards, etc.), MTV spent a few days beforehand "preparing" the people on the show by keeping them up all night making them watch movies like The Exorcist and Poltergeist. They also showed them documentaries and made them read first-hand accounts of "real" ghost stories so that when they were ready to the show, the kids were already exhausted and very edgy. Their reactions to very simple things on the show were much better than they would have been, had MTV not spent days trying to freak them out beforehand.

thats *beep* up. the producers/creators of the show tried so hard to get these kids weirded out. then to send them inside what i believe is wv state pen as the first episode. that sounds fishy though, not allowing these kids to get any sleep before the actual shooting..

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[–] helmu 17 years ago

In the beginning when they tell you about the places history, were all those psychics, experts and local people just actors or were they real people? And did MTV tell the stories to the psychics before the show or did they actually know all that stuff? And what about in the USS Hornet, when that girl completes the dare without even knowing the instructions, using her "psychic" powers? Was that somehow staged too?

I'm sure it's partially staged, but those few questions just bother me, so if anybody knows the answers...

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[–] g-bhxu 16 years ago

The easiest way to fake the girl finding the key that unlocked the brigg on the US Hornet would be to have given her a radio that had 2 channels

Channel 1 - Fear contestants
Channel 2 - MTV Production Crew to girl contestant.

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[–] MydnightRose 16 years ago

Most of it was probably fake, some of those places have been featured in other ghost shows or literature so something might be going on there. But most of Fear was just telling people a scary story and sending them into a scary place alone in the dark; anyone would be freaked out. I think I see or hear a ghost after I watch freakin Scooy Doo Where Are You episodes.

"I want to record a song with Michael Jackson, I just want a wall between us"-Joe Jonas

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[–] DisturbedPixie 12 years ago

I guess this is a really old post, so it's silly to argue with you here, but when the reality show The Colony was made, they simulated a world wide apocalypse where the "survivors" would have to work together to "survive" and rebuild a society, and the people were isolated and forced to stay awake before the show started so that they would be more in the right state of mind for the experiment. They agreed to have this done to them and if at any point they were really endanger, the crew would come in and help, which was only shown once on the 2 seasons (so far).

Back in the Stanford Prison Experiments, things were way worse, and I don't think they ever got sued, so yeah, the can do this kind of thing to people.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

What I want to know was if any of the sounds or shadows were added in post production. Or if their batteries in their lights and cameras were purposely run down so they would stop working mid shoot. Because I am very much a skeptic but ghosts freak me out and I personally have heard and seen things that I can't explain, so this show totally scared me. I think i would actually feel better if I knew that someone had staged though noises and equipment failures.

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[–] pkmatikainen 17 years ago

That is easy to fake. Video cameras (and still cameras) can generally see into the infrared, but the human eye cannot. To create that 'glowing wall' all they had to do was set up an infrared light source pointed at the wall; the reflected infrared light would be invisible to humans, but would appear as a bright flare up (hence the 'glow') to the cameras.

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[–] daria319 17 years ago

Unfortunately, no concrete proof of hauntings was found during the making of this show. MTV also defaced property within the prison in the first episode. They were banned from the property when the damage was discovered.

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[–] Shattered_Wake 17 years ago

There were some parts of it added to keep suspense and 'Fear,' but most of the stories and what we saw was real.

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[–] trotfoxtrot 12 years ago

Nah, nothing that MTV does is real. It's all staged, besides if it was real why would they cast actors. Never believe "reality" tv, it's all preconceived garbage.

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