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THE BLINDSSteve will never forget the horror movithat unfolded in his own bedroom

hen I was 20, a blinds slowly moving away shock as we witnessed,few friends and I from the window of their own after several seconds, therented a couple of accord. They kept going until blinds slowly returning tomovies from the they forrned a 45 degree angle their normal position.

local video store and returned to the top of the window! 'What was that?' I gulped.to my room to watch them. I looked at the bushes and 'No idea!' Paul replied.Nothing out of trees outside. If The Exorcist was scarythe ordinary They weren't this was petrifying! Wehappened We raced out moving. The promptly turned off theuntil we were weather was movie, ejected the video, andwatching the of the house calm and there raced out of the house. Then,second one − was no wind, still shaken, we all drove toThe Exorcist. I looked back Peter's mum's plase,

Even though it had come at the blinds, still suspended There, we struggled to findout back in 1973, the horror away from the window − and an explanation for the movingmovie, based on a true story a sense of foreboding gripped binds but it was apparent toabout a girl possessed by the me. I turned to my friend the four of us that what haddevil, was still scary We were Peter, who was also staring happened was paranormal.about halfway through it open−jawed at the blinds. They had somehow beenwhen I saw something out of 'Have faith, Steve,' he said. moved by a supernaturalthe corner of my eye. I turned The other two guys, Paul force. Could the movie itselfto see my heavy venetian and John, also watched on in have evoked a spirit entity?

There hadbeen manyreports ofeerie eventssurroundingthe making of itWe considered that a veryreal possibility

I didn't sleep in my roomagain for two weeks after thateerie episode. Even today, 25years on, the thought of thatfilm gives me the creeps. •Steve Tritton, 45, Hawker, ACT

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