Research is Fun (Especially When It Involves Watching Movies)

I’ve now officially watched three out of the six movies I could find on Bloody Mary, “Urban Legends” being one of them. I don’t know if any of you have seen this, but it’s your typical cheesy horror movie, more laughable than scary. Which was great for me because I scare easily. I’m the kind of girl that has to buy a clear shower curtain for fear of Norman Bates or the decrepit lady from “The Shining” showing up. Bloody Mary has always freaked me out for the fear of looking into a mirror and seeing a psycho in the reflection next to me. What is that??? It works every time in the movies. They’re causally washing their face, they look up, BAM! Someone is in the mirror next to them. CREEPY! To be honest, so far my research has been more fun than really hunkering down and finding out the facts. I’ve found some websites that tell basics, or other people’s experiences, but it’s just so hard to tell if the people are telling the truth or just telling stories. The one thing about the human condition: If you don’t experience it yourself, you tend not to believe it, and everyone is guilty of that. My job on this paper is to keep an open mind and not dismiss every thing, even though my nature tells me too. If it hadn’t been for my “Mary” experience as a child, I would never take any of this kind of thing seriously. I’m listing a bunch of links on my links page on helpful sites, some just informative, some personal stories, and some just ridiculous, but I thought I’d give a variety☺

My Bloddy Mary Mission

Okay. So. I’m starting this blog because I just started a really cool class about Urban Legends. The topic itself appealed to me since I’m completely fascinated by ALL urban legends, but when I found out I actually get a science credit through the Anthropology Dept. I was all in. On the first day, the teacher announced that we would all be doing one paper for the entire semester. Basically, we get to pick our favorite Urban Legend and write about that. I’m doing mine on the myth and/or legend of Bloody Mary. I chose Bloody Mary as my topic for personal reasons. I had a really weird experience as a kid and out of fear, I’ve kind of avoided the subject like the plague. Which is why I wanted to do this paper, deflate my fear by researching the heck out of it. I make my cash for school designing websites, so I thought I’d start a Bloody Mary site of my own. A place where anyone can blog, or share stories, or anything related to Bloody Mary. If you’re not familiar with the legend the basic gist is this: You light a candle in front of a mirror, say Bloody Mary three times and BOOM! She shows up and kills you. As a kid whenever we’d have slumber parties there was always at least one attempt to bring back dear old Mary, but usually the only thing we succeeded at, was scaring ourselves to the point of sleeplessness (which is always fun at a sleep over so I can’t complain) But there was one time, where I swear, something freaky happened. Obviously, I’m still here, so Mary didn’t kill me, but I’m telling you, I definitely saw something in that mirror. Anyway, I may share later, depending on how many people respond to this☺ There’s been about six movies based on Mary, I’ve never seen any of them, but as I am doing this paper, I will be renting them soon. The only one I’ve seen that’s remotely close is Candyman. It’s the same premise. You say Candyman three times in a mirror and he kills you, too. Maybe he’s Mary’s son☺ All things I will be researching for this class. Basically, I want to know: where the legend comes from, how old is the legend, any recorded cases, movies, TV shows, anything and everything. So if you have any stories or know of anything you think I should watch, read or rent, let me know.