Every year a lot of movies are shot in Hollywood. Along with the crew members, the acting stars are also often seen as good or bad from a movie. Often celebrities also share their filming experiences with their fans through their interviews or through social media in some way or the other.
But sometimes these experiences are so terrible that celebrities have never experienced them in their entire lives or they have no true explanation for them.
Celebrity encounters with the Unexplained events while filming
In this article, we have made a list of some such movies in which, during the filming, the celebrities experienced some things that shook them, and no one has the answer, but this really happened.
The Exorcist (1973)
Directed by William Friedkin, The Exorcist is based on the novel by William Peter Blatty in 1971. Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair were the main characters in the film.
The filming was done in the various locations in New York Citya and some starting scenes are filmed in Iraq.
As soon as the filming of this movie started, some incidents started happening on the sets of the movie. At the very beginning of the production of the movie, a massive fire broke out in the set.
Some people also died during the filming, including an actor and family members of some cast and crew members.
Jack MacGowran who played Burke Dennings died from illnes shortly after filming wrapped, before the movie was even released.
Linda Blair (Regan) and Ellen Burstyn (her mother) got permanent spinal injuries while filming a stunt for the film, and other were Vasiliki Maliaros (Father Karras’ mother)
and Brother of Max von Sydow (Father Merrin).
In an interview with Castle of Frankenstein in 1974, William Friedkin said, “I’m not a convert to the occult, but after all I’ve seen in this film, I definitely believe in demonic possession. There are things that cannot be treated by medical or psychiatric means. It seems strange, foreign, and impossible, but it exists.”
He continued, “We were plagued by strange and sinister things from the beginning, it is simply the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.”
The Conjuring (2013)
Directed by James Wan The Conjuring is marked as the first film in The Conjuring Universe.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren in the film both are paranormal investigators and deal with the haunting cases. The film is inspired by real-life reports.
While talking about her filming experiences of The Conjuring, Vera Farmiga revealed how she read the script of the film and got some unexplained bruises on her body.
She had said in her interview that during filming, she often found bruises on various parts of his body.
She had also told that when she returned home after the filming of the movie was over, she had some bruises on her thighs which looked like inflicted B class.
This film was about the real-life haunted experiences of the Perron family, and when they came to the set of the film, a swirling wind appeared around them. It was noticed by everyone on the set.
Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist has a reputation for being a cursed film. After the release of the film four cast members died in the years, including young Heather O’Rourke who played Carol Anne Freeling, Dominique Dunne played Dana Freeling, Will Sampson who were in the role of Taylor the Medicine Man, and Julian Beck played Reverend Henry Kane.
The death of several cast members became the headline at that time. However, all these deaths are tragic, and there’s no evidence that they can claim a supernatural curse.
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Annabelle Comes Home was directed by Gary Dauberman. It is marked as a sequel to 2014’s Annabelle and 2017’s Annabelle: Creation and as the sixth installment in The Conjuring franchise.
Mckenna Grace who played Judy in the film shared one of the scariest experience while filming, Annabelle Comes Home.
She told Cinemablend in an interview, “I’ve done about three scared scenes so far, and I haven’t been too scared in those, but I do have a scary story. On one of the first days, I came and looked at the house that they built, on set. We were doing our rehearsal and my nose was pouring blood, all of a sudden.”
She continued, “The lights were off because they had to re-set something, and I was like, “There’s blood!” and then, as soon as I stepped outside to go to the restroom to get a tissue, it stopped. It was creepy. But then we had the set blessing, so everything is good now.”
The Omen (1976)
1976 Omen was directed by Richard Donner. The film stars include Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens, and more.
This is the story of Damien Thorn, whose mother dies while giving birth to him. In the same hospital, Robert Thorn’s child is also born dead. To save his wife Katherine from grief, Robert adopts Damien on the advice of the doctor, about which his wife does not know.
After 5 years, meteoric deaths start happening around them, and they learn that Damien is, in fact they were the prophesied Antichrist.
As per Yahoo sports reports, How the West Was Won star Gregory Peck, who played the role of Robert Thorn in the film, was struck by lightning on his plane while he was flying to shoot the film.
Not much time had passed since the accident, and a few weeks later, executive producer Mace Neufeld‘s plane was struck by lightning, causing a lot of rock formations.
Horror film producer Harvey Bernhard was struck by lightning during filming in Rome. Bernhardt was so worried after the incident that he started wearing a cross on set.
About a decade after the film’s release, he told to heraldscotland that:- “The devil was at work, and he didn’t want that film made.”
Another horrific incident occurred when special effects artist John Richardson’s partner dies after being decapitated.
John Richardson, special effects artist for The Omen, did make-up for the decapitation scene during filming. At first, he survived from curse of this haunted movie, but a year later, he was injured in a car accident in which his assistant was decapitated, and he remembered the makeup of the film The Omen from the decapitation scene.
As per metro reports, Director Richard and actor Gregory Peck were in a hotel during the filming in London of The Omen, which was bombed by the IRA the day after filming.
Alf Joint, who filmed many of the stunt sequences in The Omen, also experienced some ghostly incidents after filming this movie.
After finishing filming on The Omen, he was seriously injured while filming a routine roof-jumping stunt for the new film “A Bridge Too Far”. After which he was taken to the hospital, and there he said that he felt as if someone pushed him.
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