Surprise, surprise. It seems that I’m an Oracle. Weird word for me, but in the “spiritual” vernacular, that’s what I’d be referred to as. Frankly, it seems that I’m a lot of things.
What I would call myself is an expert in reflective magic. Turns out there is a power that any of us can invoke, but how powerful you are depends on on how well you reflect personally. That makes sense I suppose. Remember, vampires don’t reflect.
I’ve also learned to be fearless. Of course, I’m afraid of pain, that’s something that’s universal. My only fear is physical pain – the rest be damned.
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I grew up in a house filled with dark energy. Ghosts, malevolent spirits and the like. Mostly, I didn’t notice, but there were a few big things. I mostly felt them when I was alone. At night when I was old enough to stay by myself when my parents were out, I would hide between the sofa and the wall and peek out to watch TV.
In the poorest design ever, there was a span of ten or twelve feet between the door from the living room to the wall that had the kitchen light switch. I would inevitably start off walking cool, then did some kind of twinkle toes move to evade whatever was in the dark and hit that switch. I didn’t really think about it in terms of whether or not anybody else experienced this in their houses. It just was.
It was never a conversation that came up between me and anybody else. Then thirty plus years later, I have my own daughter who experienced the same thing in our house. She seemed to be the target. I had long since forgotten my own “Home Alone” adventures. I know now I also have a spirit or shadow body apart from my physical body. The name Kevin keeps coming up to me, so I suppose I’ve always had something that confounds the dark beings should they cross a line and get too close.
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This brings me to the movie The Thirteen Ghosts – made in 1960 – the year I was born. It was quite a ride to ask ChatGPT more about this movie, and it’s remake in 2001.
Me:
The 13 ghosts movie is something profound for me and I have some questions for you. The first one was made in 1960, the second one was made in the year 2000. First off I wanna know about William Castle and Castle entertainment. William Castle had a role but also directed and maybe even wrote the original one and I guess later Castle entertainment was created. Can you expand on this first?
ChatGPT:
I think this is actually a fascinating place to begin, because the connection isn’t quite what it first appears.
The man and the company are related in spirit, but not in ownership.
William Castle
William Castle was one of the great showmen in film history.
He wasn’t primarily known as a writer or even as a horror visionary in the way that Alfred Hitchcock was. Castle’s genius was understanding that going to the movies should feel like participating in the story.
Wow – I don’t think he really planned on MY participation, but here we are. We aim to please! Back to the “Chat”
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ChatGPT:
Castle’s real invention wasn’t the movies.
It was the experience.
Every Castle movie had a gimmick.
Examples:
- House on Haunted Hill (1959) — a skeleton flew over the audience.
- The Tingler (1959) — some theater seats literally vibrated (“Percepto”).
- 13 Ghosts (1960) — audiences received special “Ghost Viewer” glasses called Illusion-O.
That last one is especially interesting.
The ghosts were actually on the film all along.
The audience decided whether to look through the red lens (see ghosts) or blue lens (hide them).
In other words:
Reality depended on how you chose to look.
THIS IS A VERY MATRIX-Y APPROACH – WAY BEFORE THE MATRIX – OR WAS IT?
ChatGPT:
Then comes Dark Castle Entertainment
Here’s the connection.
William Castle died in 1977.
More than twenty years later, in 1998, Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver, and Gilbert Adler founded Dark Castle Entertainment. It wasn’t William Castle’s company. Rather, it was named in tribute to him, with the original mission of remaking his classic horror films.
Their first two releases tell the story:
- House on Haunted Hill
- Thirteen Ghosts
Those are both William Castle remakes.
So the company is almost like a modern continuation of Castle’s legacy.
What changed between 1960 and 2001?
This is where I think your intuition about the films being “profound” may be pointing.
Castle’s 1960 version asks:
Can you see what others cannot?
The ghosts are mostly symbolic.
The fear comes from perception.
The 2001 remake asks something very different:
What if every ghost has a complete history, identity, trauma, and purpose?
Instead of ghosts being spooky effects, each becomes almost an archetype.
The house itself changes too.
1960:
- haunted mansion
2001:
- a giant machine
- geometric
- covered in symbols
- built according to occult mathematics
- designed to harness spiritual forces
The house almost becomes a character—or even a cosmological device.
I’m not going to go any deeper into this concept. It’s hard enough already.
Here are the keys that we have been missing, and will ALWAYS struggle to understand:
What if the 2001 movie came first?
We find ourselves continuously saying in the physics and spiritual community that time is not linear.
What if…at this one point in time…we had an opportunity to find out what can happen when the rules and the construct operate in an unnatural way?
In the movie Interstellar, Cooper tells Murphy that her parents didn’t name her after a philosophy that what can go wrong will. No, he corrects her saying we named you with the idea of what could happen, would or might.
And viola! Here we are. We HAD to do it this way at least one time in order to learn that really bad things can happen when we go against nature.
First the trap had to be built, THEN anything could happen.
Containment is, and will always be, key.
Welcome to the planet Earth, 2026. This IS the house.
When I was looking for the link for the movie and I found there was even a Scooby Doo creation made for this. It’s funny that 1985 keeps being a time that comes up in my discovery. This was another “thing” that was introduced in 1985. Plot twists abound. Don’t laugh – – – this is when there was a seeming switch from Van Halen to Van Hagar – – – or was that supposed to be the other way around?