Strange Fears

I have some pretty weird fears. The fear of not being good enough, getting lost in a foreign country, the dark (actually more like the things that may lurk in the dark), being depressed for a long period of time, not being able to get into college, and quite a few others that aren’t really “cliché”. As for my stereotypical fears, I am afraid of clowns, spiders, heights, and failing at life (even though I kind of already have). If you think those are weird though, you should see some of these:

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1. Ablutophobia: The fear of bathing yourself. Ew. That’s all I have to say. 

2. Nomophobia: The fear of not having your phone or service all of the time. I relate to this on a personal level as the school’s 4G service is complete crap.

3. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: The fear of long words. Ironic much?

4. Aerophobia: Fear of swallowing air. Not breathing, but swallowing air.

5. Boogeyphobia: The fear of the boogey man. Check under your beds, kids. 

6. Cibophobia: The fear of food. Those who have it, bless your soul.

7. Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of school. Again, I can relate to this on a personal level. 

8. Jeliophobia: The fear of laughter. For those with no soul.

9. Levophobia: Fear of objects to the left side of your body. 

10. Dextrophobia: Fear of objects to the right side of your body. 

Can we just take a moment to reflect on these? If you legitimately have one of these phobias, I’m not really sure whether to feel bad for you or to laugh at you. 

11. Melanophobia: The fear of the color black.  Well stay away from my soul then…

12. Panophobia: The fear of EVERYTHING. I don’t even know if that’s possible but okay.

Oh so I just remembered… One time in fourth grade there was this girl and she claimed that she was afraid of the sun so the teachers let her stay inside during recess. Like what??? If I said I was afraid of learning would I get an excuse???

13. Peladophobia: Fear of bald people.

14. Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.

15. Phobophobia: Fear of fear. Well that’s really unfortunate and if you have it why the hickitey heck are you reading this post????????

16. Triscadecaphobia: Fear of the number thirteen. I’m pretty sure that a lot of people actually have this one. 

17. Clinophobia: The fear of going to bed. PARTY ALL NIGHTTTTTTT.

There’s literally about 250 more hella weird fears that I couldn’t get to, so I just chose best ones that I found. Here’s the website we got them from. Link

Maybe I’ll do a part two to this post. Let me know if I should.

-Allie

Shoutout to Jade for reading the names of these phobias out loud and spelling out every single one for me. 

Evil in the Dollar Bill?!?!?

Many, many, many people believe that the Illuminati is behind literally everything and anything. Major disasters, terrorist attacks, crocs, and so much more. Well lately, there’s been this trend where people find hidden messages in one, five, ten, twenty, and one hundred dollar bills. Naturally, the first thing everyone assumes is that the Illuminati is behind this. I guess they have a good reason to; I mean, the little triangle symbol with the eye on it is on the back of the one dollar bill. The thing is though, after really looking at the pictures of the bills I don’t really see a resemblance. You would have to have a REALLY active imagination to see the images that some people see. Here are a few of them: 

1. The World Trade Center Towers Burning

Out of all of these images, it seems like this one makes the most sense. You can clearly see two towers that are enveloped in “smoke” so I get where people are coming from. However, that image could be a variety of things, so when people say that they are 100% sure that it is the twin towers, it could really be two exhaust pipes or something. Chances are someone was just folding a dollar and they saw that and wanted to freak people out. 

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2. The Owl

This I don’t get AT ALL. Many people claim that this is supposed to be an owl, but this picture literally just looks like a bush. If you’re curious as to why the owl is significant to the Illuminati, there is yet another conspiracy about a big convention that happens once every two years or so where all of the world’s leaders meet up in a forest with a giant owl statue in the middle of it and worship satan. But as for this picture, I don’t get why they think the Illuminati had anything to do with this, someone is just overly obsessed with trying to get the Illuminati confirmed. 

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3. Nuclear Disaster

I don’t know about you, but all I see are two buildings with a heck of a lot of trees in the middle, not a nuclear disaster. 

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4. Osama Bin Laden 

As for this one, someone probably just had a dollar bill in their pocket too long and when they pulled it out it spelled out the world “Osama”. BOOM. Illuminati confirmed. Just kidding this was totally a coincidence but hey, it’s another reason to blame the Illuminati so why not, right?

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What do guys think? Personally, I think these images were just coincidences, and that only people with extremely over-active imaginations can think that this was a sign from the Illuminati. If you have any more information about this conspiracy, leave me a comment so I can write about this topic more…

-Allie

Get To Know the Illuminati

Okay, so as you can see the background of this blog is clearly a picture of the well known Illuminati symbol. Well, you may have noticed that I haven’t even posted one single thing about the Illuminati (or any other conspiracy really). The title of my blog is literally “CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SUCH” and so far all of my posts with the exception of my first one are categorized under “and such”. So, it’s pretty surprising to hear that this post that you are reading right now is actually going to be about a conspiracy theory! *applause* Okay I’m just going to jump right in…

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The illuminati is all around us.... some of us just haven't realized it yet.... 
Doritos are triangles... Illuminati confirmed.
Obama has eyes... Illuminati confirmed.
Ebola was in America... Illuminati confirmed.

But on a more serious note, here’s a little background information: the Illuminati is a secret order that apparently controls everything even though we don’t know it and it may or may not actually exist. Personally, I don’t know whether to believe in it or not. Anyway, they are supposedly linked to the shape of a triangle, and there is actually a spoof twitter account that finds triangles in literally the weirdest things and says that it is proof that the Illuminati is real (which is actually pretty funny).

Now it’s time to get to the dirty details. The Illuminati supposedly can be traced back hundreds of years, as it is thought that it was started by the founding fathers. But you may ask, “Well who is involved with it now if the founding fathers started it?” Many people believe that many world leaders such as Kim Jong-Un and Obama are members, as well as celebrities such as Jay-Z, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and even the queen Beyoncé. The stupid part is, it is also thought that those celebrities perform initiation ceremonies WHILE they are performing. Don’t ask how or why, I don’t get it either. On top of that, the Illuminati is believed to have been the cause of major events such as 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing, the MH370 plane disappearance, as well as a variety of others. 

Fun fact of the day: If you type in the word illuminati backwards (itanimulli) followed by “.org” into your search bar, it will take you directly to the National Security Agency website. That’s actually kind of freaky if you think about it, but after doing some research, it turns out that if you pay a small amount of money to this company, they will let you buy a web address and have it link to whatever else you want it to. So that was actually probably just a troll trying to freak some people out.

The Illuminati is actually way too complicated to explain in just one blog post, so I will be doing a lot more blog posts in the future dedicated to the illuminati and some of things that they are thought to be responsible for. Those types of things include the dollar bill Illuminati conspiracy, the MH370 conspiracy, and even the Monster Energy Drink Illuminati conspiracy. Keep an eye out for those posts!

-Allie

30 Things To Do In The Dark

Okay, so I know that this post is pretty different from my other ones, but I was thinking to myself and I realized that you can do a ton of cool stuff at night or just in the dark. Not all of the things that I list will be scary things, but hey, they’re all super fun. Okay so without further adieu, here is a list of 30 things to do in the dark.

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1: Sleep… duh.
2: Have a glow in the dark silly string fight. Have everyone wear glow sticks on their heads, legs, arms, etc., and give everyone at least 5 cans of silly string (if you do any less the game will last for only about ten minutes). Chase each other around and spray each other; I would recommend doing this outdoors (I say this from experience). Also, if you play really intense music in the background it really adds to the effect.
3: Play “The Midnight Game”. If you don’t know what that is, I have a whole post dedicated to it down below. It’s really sketchy.
4: Have a fire and roast marshmallows
5: Have a midnight snack
6: Freak yourself out by watching horror movies. It obviously doesn’t have the same effect if you watch them during the day.
7: Play “Mafia”. It’s super fun but takes a long time to explain so here’s a link to all of the rules.
8: Become a real mafia.
9: ^^^Actually don’t do that last one… ;)
10: Film a horror movie with your friends. But if you don't have any friends you could just do it by yourself I guess.
11: Go to a haunted house. I have a list of good ones in one of my posts.
12: Tell ghost stories
13: Play with a Ouija board. I don’t really want to but if you do that’s cool.
14: Watch fireworks; it’s kinda hard to see them during the day.
15: I sound like such a white girl for saying this but… take artsy pictures. Trust me they’ll turn out really cool.
16: Read creepy-pastas.
17: Have a late night jam session
18: Play “Ghost in the Graveyard”. I don’t know about you but that game was my childhood and I was devastated when they told me that we weren’t going to play it in P.E. anymore…
19: Sneak up on someone
20: Explore an abandoned house
21: Go ghost hunting. Even if you don't believe in them it’s still really fun.
22: Play hide an seek in a forest 
23: Visit an old graveyard
24: Read my blog. *coughselfpromotioncough*
25: If it’s Christmas time, go see the festive lights.
26: Have a “zombie night”. People dress up like zombies and chase you around trying to infect you.
27. Flashlight tag is always fun.
28: Prank call someone and use dialogue from horror movies.
29: Perform a seance
30: Snuggle with your cat… or your dog… or with whatever pet you have.

I know that you can still do these things in the daylight, but I personally think that they are more fun to do when it’s dark out. Hopefully this list will help you out if you are beyond bored one night with your friends and have nothing better to do.

-Allie

The Woman In Black 2: Movie Review

WARNING: SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!

So, not many horror movies have come out lately, and I am a total horror movie junkie, so when I found out The Woman In Black 2 was coming out, I knew I had to see it. After watching five different teaser trailers and two official trailers, I was super pumped to see it, so Claire, Teia, and I stocked up on snacks to sneak into the theater and headed out. 

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The movie started in London, during WWII. The city was being bombed, so all of the parents were evacuating their children out of the city. The main character, Eve, and her co-teacher were in charge of a group of kids who didn’t have relatives in England. They were taking them to a house (actually more like a mansion) on an deserted island to live for the next few months. Okay, can we just talk about the fact that they thought it would be a good idea to take children to a DESERTED ISLAND??? Like, what if something went wrong? (Which it does, duh.) 

Anyway, throughout the first 25 minutes of the movie there was only one jump-scare… and it was literally just a guy who smashed a window and it made everyone jump because the noise was so loud. Even though Ryan Moran screamed, it was such a weird sound that everyone in the theater started laughing and wouldn’t settle down for like ten minutes.  Anyway, the movie goes on and things start to get strange and surprise, surprise, someone dies. It was a boy who had managed to unlock all of the doors in the house and walked outside and somehow managed to choke himself with barbed wire. And an even bigger surprise, THE CO-TEACHER DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE AND SHE FORCED THEM TO STAY EVEN THOUGH EVE SAID THEY SHOULD GET OFF OF THAT DAMN ISLAND. At this point the movie was starting to get really cliché. Oh, I forgot to mention that there are two more main characters in the movie. One is a little boy named Edward who is a mute and somehow becomes friends with the Woman In Black, and the other is a man named Harry who Eve becomes friends with. He works for the train station and is always driving up to the mansion to check on her, the cheeky fellow. Anyway, two more kids commit suicide so Eve goes down the road to an abandoned shack to investigate, which by the way, happened in the middle of the night. Why do characters always insist on doing things in the middle of the night? Why not use daylight to your advantage? So she finds this key that ends up showing her the secret history of the Woman In Black, who is the ghost of somebody; I couldn’t hear who because Ryan screamed again because of a minor jump-scare and the whole theater started laughing again. Also, when she finds the key a man briefly captures her and although she escapes, he doesn't appear at all later in the movie. THAT.IS.A.MAJOR.PLOT.HOLE. Seriously, why would they include a completely useless character? 

FINALLY the co-teacher realizes that they need to get the hell out of there and so they take the kids to an old air raid shelter. While they are there, they realize that the Woman In Black has followed them, (yet another cliché) and Edward goes missing. So, Eve drives all the way back up to the mansion to find him, and yep, you guessed it, he was there, and he was about to be “taken” by the Woman In Black. Just as he and Eve were about to disappear, Harry comes to the rescue and he dies instead of them. (UGH another cliché…) The movie ends with Eve and Edward living a happy life together, and Edward is wondering where the Woman In Black is now. And, as if the movie couldn't possibly get anymore predictable, the Woman In Black shows up in the reflection of a picture of Harry to really finish off the movie.

Honestly, this movie was a huge disappointment, it was super similar to all other horror movies, there were major plot holes, and IT WASN'T EVEN SCARY. There were maybe four jump scares in the whole movie, and that my friends, does not qualify as a horror movie in my opinion. I kid you not, someone literally fell asleep in the theater. Please don't waste your time with this one, try something scarier, such as My Little Pony. :p

-Allie

The Midnight Game

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So there is this thing called creepypasta, which is literally just a collection of stories and myths that make you sleep with your light on because they freak you out so much. Most of them aren't true (or so we think) so this one probably isn't either, but some people who have played it claimed to have almost died or know people who did die while playing. Regardless, it's still a hella freaky game. You basically wander around your house for three hours with a candle while some demon-thing chases you. Here are the steps to play the midnight game and the rules: 

1. Write your full name (first, middle, and last) on a piece of paper and put at least one drop of blood on the same paper. Allow it to soak in.

2. Turn off all the lights in the house. Go to your door and place the paper with your name in front of it. Take the candle and light it.

3. Knock on your own door 22 times (the hour MUST be 12:00AM upon the final knock), then open the door, blow out the candle, and close the door. You have just allowed the "Midnight Man" into your home.

4. Immediately relight your candle.

So after you've done these steps, you pretty much just walk around your dark house until exactly 3:33 a.m. Apparently, if the midnight man is near you, your candle will blow out, and you have to relight it within ten seconds. If you don't, you must stop everything and immediately surround yourself with a circle of salt and stay within that circle until the game ends at 3:33 and the midnight man leaves. 

However there are some very important rules that you cannot break under any circumstances.

DO NOT turn on any lights during the Midnight Game.

DO NOT use a flashlight during the Midnight Game.

DO NOT stop moving throughout your house.

DO NOT leave your house during the duration of the Midnight Game. 

DO NOT go to sleep during the Midnight Game.

DO NOT use another person's blood on your name.

DO NOT use a lighter to substitute for a candle. It will not work.

DEFINITELY DO NOT attempt to provoke the Midnight Man in ANY WAY.

And you might be wondering... Well what does he do if he catches you? There is some speculation about what the midnight man does when he finds you. Some say that he makes you live your worst nightmare until the end of the game, some say he physically attacks you, some say that you end up possessed, and some say he just straight up kills you. Once again, I honestly don't think this is real, but I’m not taking my chances by taking a trip to sketchy town. Don't mess with the devil kids. Also, walking around your dark house in the middle of the night with nothing but the light of a candle to guide you really doesn't appeal to me. But hey, if you really want to freak yourself out, go for it, even though I don't personally recommend it. 

-Allie