Anyone heard of Bloody Mary game b4 this movie? Anyone try it alone?

We "played" Bloody Mary a couple of times when I was little.....that would be in the 60s......of course nothing happened......thank Goodness!!!

There are several *versions* of how to 'do' the Bloody Mary ritual.

I'd first heard of it when I was a child. One night, I was sleeping over my cousin's house & we decided to try it out.
We turned out the lights and said it 3 times, if I recall. Nothing happened.

But we were both so scared that night that when one of us had to use the bathroom, we went together lol! After the first couple trips together, we stopped being so scared.


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We used to do it all the time when we were kids. We never did it alone in front of a mirror. We always did it in groups. No one ever said we should do it alone. Nothing ever happened but it was a creepy and fun thing to do with friends.

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I was born in 1974. I think I was around about 6 or 7 the first I heard of this (so, approx. 1980-ish).
As many others, the version I heard then (whether it matters or not this is in suburban, south-of-Atlanta, Georgia) was that you were in a bathroom alone, with the lights off with the door closed. You repeated simply: "Bloody Mary" three times while looking at the mirror in the dark. You then flipped the lights on and you were supposed to see this 'Mary' character in the mirror all covered with blood. That was apparently enough to be terrifying.

As anything and everything dealing with the supernatural and/or 'occult' it did not, does not, and never will work or come to anything, since it is (again, as with anything and everything dealing with the supernatural and/or 'occult') absolute *beep* and has 100% no basis or correlation with the actual, real world (excepting the wild and weird ways in which the human brain and mind work with regards to things persons imagine this or that, being equally if not much more fascinating than spooks or aliens humans imagine).

Scaring one's self is a long-running past-time of humans. It's why ghost stories have such a long shelf-life. It's why we all love horror films. It's why some folks, unfulfilled in their real life in this or that manner, run towards the fiction and pretend or present it as fact, attempt to continue or contest that the fiction/myth/illusion/misunderstandings are "real" (in the supernatural sense).

"Bloody Mary" is an illustration in many ways of both our desire to experience otherworldly fear and also how still many of us are yet foolishly held back by believing in such simple-minded, near-caveman nonsense.

Meet a person who claims to have had some sort of 'actual' experience with such, and one meets a person who is empty in some way and for some reason or another desires attention, one who is a liar or one who is insane. There is no other.

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I remember a friend and I read about it in one of those "Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark" books around 4th grade. I was always too afraid to try it, but my friend claims he did and saw a human silhouette in the mirror and came out with a scratch. I never entirely believed it, though. I thought he was just making it up.