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Creepy haunted ghost mirrors

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By Dastagir MohammedPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Mirrors, despite their ubiquity in our homes and workplaces have always retained something of the eeriness that came with their origins. Myths and superstitions about them are common; mirrors used to be covered upon a death in many homes for fear that the soul might enter them in confusion and become lost, breaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck, Vampires have no reflection for one must have a soul to have a reflection.

In Feng Shui one's bed should never face a mirror, and there were the urban legends about Bloody Mary and the like. From the earliest times, mirrors were often used as ritual objects in long dead religions and dark mirrors were indispensable tools for ''scrying'', a kind of divination using reflections used by Nostradamus, among others

Mirrors have a strange quality in that the self we see is us...but not quite, us, a reversed self so it's not surprising they have long been associated with the otherworldly, and many have believed them to be portals to other worlds, other selves, other dimensions or that evil spirits could use them as portals to our world and our homes.

It was natural, therefore, that mirrors would feature in the worlds of supernatural fiction and the broader literature of the fantastic, having made only a short journey from the world of legend and folklore, to the world of weird fiction. I have not been able to find all the ghost or horror stories-and films-that involve mirrors, so I can only present a selection here, but I hope to add to this list, as I learn more.

Of course, the cinema and television soon discovered the possibilities of the mirror and we have a number of examples here. The two films that concern themselves most directly with haunted mirrors are the Kiefer Sutherland movie Mirrors and Oculus with Karen Gillan. However several other stories include mirrors as part of the paraphernalia of dread and terror.

Examples include The Skeleton Key (2005), Mirror, Mirror (1990), Friend Request (Unfriend) (2016), Candyman,Poltergeist 3, and Amityville: A new generation.

In The Vault of Horror, an anthology horror film from 1973, there is an episode The Gate Crasher where a man buys an antique mirror from an eerie, backstreet antique, (the proprietor played by Peter Cushing). Some Dracula films include a scene where it is discovered that the Count has no reflection, most dramatically in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The Dark Mirror

Recently, a dark mirror has been discovered and is captivating anyone who spots it. Hundreds of people have been affected by the mirror.The dark mirror has been giving people weird feels, and some even experience a type of vision. For example, in one of the cases, a woman looked into the mirror and saw her own corpse staring back at her.

It is said that the mirror isn’t technically haunted by a person, but by an entity that feeds off of fear and negativity.

As the fear grows, the more interactive the mirror becomes. So, would you look into the dark mirror????????

Bad Luck in London

his story takes place in 2013, in London. Sotiris Charlambous and his roomate, Joseph Birch, found a mirror in the dumpster outside of their residence.

It appeared to be in great shape, so they made it the newest addition to their flat–and that’s when things started to go downhill.

It started off with Sotiris waking up in the middle of the night with pains shooting through his body. Joseph became extremely depressed and lethargic, which was very out of character. All of this couldn’t be from a mirror–right?

These were minor setbacks; nothing too extreme. That is, until Sotiris painted the frame. At this point, Joseph was also feeling the pains in the middle of the night. Things around the flat had also started to go missing. Yikes.

The story doesn’t stop there. Joseph started to see things moving in the mirror, shadow-like things. This was happening even when no one in the room was moving. After all of this mayhem, the boys realized they needed to get rid of this mirror ASAP.

They auctioned it off on e-Bay, giving full disclosure of their experiences with the mirror. Once the mirror was out of their possession, their lives returned to normal. Do you think it was a coincidence? Or was it the mirror from the dumpster?

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About the Creator

Dastagir Mohammed

The scariest moment is always just before you start. .

Myself Dastagir Mohammed and I started writing about the stories which are seen by myself and also share thoughts about general topics.

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  • Mobina Akhtar3 years ago

    Insightful

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