Darkness seems to be something that humans have feared for centuries. Thank God for Fire! But have you ever been in a situation where you were in total darkness. Either in a cave or a power outage or something.Did you freak out? Does anyone on this board have an irrational fear of the dark or have had a strange experience in "The Darkness."?
shareAfter seeing this movie as a child I was terrified of the dark! I still get the "heebie jeebies" when I think of this movie.
It scarred many of us from the era. Hard to believe it was an ABC Movie Of The Week shown on broadcast television.
When I was sixteen, I was in an upstairs hallway at an old (historic) movie theatre where my school put on its Christmas program. I was on the third or fourth mezzanine level, looking for a restroom (the ones on the main floor, the only other ones in the building, either had long lines or stunk too bad).
Not only was the hallway pitch dark and scary as hell, but when I eventually did find the restroom, it had a terrible TERRIBLE echo. No lightswitch, nothing.
Try as I may have to psyche myself out of it, being a rational person able to understand primal fear of the dark as a human instinct and not a true threat, I tried to make myself go in. But the scary patterns I saw in the dark, and the horrible 'distortion' of the universe as we know it, caused by the horrid echo, made me terrified. Stepping into the dark and the echo was like leaving the physical universe to something primal and dark and blacker and scarier than death itself.
The echoes themselves seemed to produce something like light, but an altogether different wavelength of energy
Seems like outdoors there is always at least some residual light from the sky. But in that restroom was the thick, hellish thesis of fear. I could not let the door close behind me so I must've peed elsewhere.
Thanks. Great story. Old, big, abandoned places are always a bad place to be "caught" in the dark...
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One thing's for sure, we see patterns in the dark that can scare the hell out of us. I hate leaving a dark part of the house with the darkness behind me.
I don't believe in ghosts, either -- or, whatever they are, I think ghost phenomenon is harmless and has little intelligence or malice. Howbeit, when I read about ghosts and horrors on the internet at night, I do NOT like having open doors to dark, adjacent rooms.
I know it was just imagination, but I once saw a white head float by an open door in a dark living room. What I probably really saw was car headlights at a weird angle. We may not believe, but it scares us anyway.
"One thing's for sure, we see patterns in the dark that can scare the hell out of us. I hate leaving a dark part of the house with the darkness behind me."
Aaahhh! I feel the same way! As if something is sitting behind you in the dark waiting for you to turn your back!
I was in a bathroom in the basement of my parents friends house once when the power went off. No lights, no windows, strange place-I was terrified! And whats worse, I couldn't unlock the door!