Welcome to my blog today for the letter P in the AtoZChallenge and my theme of Fictional Phantoms. I have two dangerous ghosts for you today, one from Western tv and one from the Asian film industry. I hope you enjoy their creepiness.
Pam Ashbury (Rose Red)
Now Pam (Emily Deschanel) does not start off as a ghost. She is a touch-know, a psychic who can read things about an object or person just by touching them.
She is part of a group put together by Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis) to investigate the house, Rose Red, in the excellent TV mini-series of the same name, written by Stephen King. The house is not only haunted, but inside it people disappear. Unfortunately for Pam, Rose Red like to eat it's guests and it is not long before she ends up one of the permanent residents.
Once taken by the house she is used by it to lure other members of the party to their doom. Quite timid and a little uptight when alive, dead she is happy to play the tempter and the bait.
Come back for R to meet another resident of Rose Red.
Pocong (The Real Pocong)
A Pocong is an Indonesian/Malaysian ghost which is caused by not properly dealing with the dead. This ghost is the soul of the dead person which has become trapped in their shroud.
A traditional shroud (kain kafan) is used to wrap the deceased and tied over the head, under the feet and on the neck. If the ties are not correctly released after 40 days the soul is trapped and will reanimate the body to come after those who have not looked after it correctly. Because the shroud is knotted under the feet, the ghost cannot walk correctly and therefore hops.
The Pocong seems to be especially popular in the Indonesian horror industry.
Would you come back to haunt people if your body was not treated correctly after death, or does that seem like too much hard work? Would you visit a haunted house with a reputation for disappearing people?
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Pocong sounds like an interesting ghost. Although I might laugh if one hopped toward me.
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It's like Chinese hopping vampires - I'm not sure I can take them seriously :)
DeleteLOL, I don't think I would want to visit any haunted house, yet alone one that was known to have disappearing guests :)
ReplyDeletebetty
Me either :) I'll leave the houses that eat people to others!
DeleteDefinitely don't want to visit the haunted house! I'm not too sure about the hopping, but I guess if I was the one who tied the knots incorrectly I'd be running!! Actually I'd probably be running anyway!
ReplyDeleteMars xx
@TrollbeadBlog from
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I think running away sounds like a very good idea :)
DeleteThe Pecong looks terrifying, but if I saw a ghost hopping like a rabbit, I think I'd collapse in giggles. Don't know how I missed Rose Red. I'm a big Stephen King fan. As for going into a reputed haunted house where people have disappeared? I think I'd just watch the YouTube video, thanks.
ReplyDeleteHopping must be a real drawback to being scary :) Can you imagine ghost therapy - "They all laugh at me..." Rose Red is the only one he has written specifically for TV rather than converting a book, so it might have snuck in through unusual channels :)
DeleteThe Pecong looks terrifying, but if I saw a ghost hopping like a rabbit, I think I'd collapse in giggles. Don't know how I missed Rose Red. I'm a big Stephen King fan. As for going into a reputed haunted house where people have disappeared? I think I'd just watch the YouTube video, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe Pecong is interesting. Can't imagine a hopping ghost!
ReplyDeleteI loved the movie Rose Red! I remember it well...
Good fictional phantoms today Tasha, as always. :)
Michele at Angels Bark
Thank you :D I love Rose Red - I keep rewatching it. Not as much as my sister though, I hate to think how many times she has seen it now :)
DeleteGosh, the Pocong sounds freaky as heck!
ReplyDeleteIt does, doesn't it. Would not want to meet them.
DeleteAnother really weird Asian ghost! They are the coolest!
ReplyDeletePiper Presley
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They totally are - just wait for T ;)
DeleteI'll have to watch this miniseries! I do love Emily Deschanel. Also, as an archaeologist, I wish I had that psychic power...
ReplyDelete@TarkabarkaHolgy from
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MopDog
It really is a good one. No more educated assessing, just knowing - might be an awful lot of information at once though :). I've always thought psychometry might be a blessing and a curse.
DeleteI might be tempted to visit a "haunted" house, but as to coming back for revenge, that's just too much trouble.
ReplyDeleteProbably better in the long run just to let it go :)
DeleteI own the DVD for Rose Red but have not watched it and now I cannot think why. Thanks for the reminders.
ReplyDelete@Kathleen01930
Meet My Imaginary Friends
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It is well worth the watch - spooky and entertaining :)
DeleteI would visit a haunted house but not at night. I need to re-watch Rose Red.
ReplyDeleteSusan Says
The problem with Rose Red is it doesn't care if it's day or night, only if you're tasty :)
DeleteI have never watched Rose Red, but it was one that caught my eye fleetingly in the past. I'll have to check it out. As to the Pocong, it seems like a really interesting form of zombie or ghoul.
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Frox'n'Fox
It's a good mini-series - good characters and scary effects, I thoroughly recommend it.
DeleteI am not a fan of King, but I did enjoy Rose Red. Not familiar with Pocong.
ReplyDeleteRose Red is my favourite of his on the screen, right up there with Salem's Lot and IT.
DeleteGood ghosts today! And I'm not familiar with either one. Love finding new spooky things.
ReplyDelete@mirymom1 from
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Rose Red is definitely worth a watch - I've not managed to find Pocong with English subs yet though.
DeleteSo a pocong is like a zombie? I guess those things are popular everywhere, in some form or other.
ReplyDeleteIt was in a list of ghosts, so, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure if it's a zombie, or something in between. I can't find a movie with one in with English subs :)
DeleteI am a big chicken! I guess it would depend how I was mistreated...
ReplyDeleteI suppose there must be a line not to cross :)
DeleteI hav enever heard of neither of these stories. Especially the first, by Stephen King. How is it that I knew nothing about it?
ReplyDelete@JazzFeathers
The Old Shelter - Jazz Age Jazz
It was never a book, he wrote it straight for TV, so maybe it fell down the cracks?
DeleteI don't know about haunting - it would feel too intrusive on my loved ones. I have watched a programme about people visiting haunted houses and it was pretty scary! I don't hunk I'd want to... although, our last house, our 2 year old daughter asked us who the man was who just walked into the living room. She said he was grey with a flat hat on. She later showed us a man in a cap on the street, said it looked like that. (She was very able speaker.) We weren't scared of living in OUR haunted house!
ReplyDeleteOur house is/was haunted too, but we never saw her, only heard her and saw when she moved things around. We think she might have moved on now.
DeleteIf my wishes for a Woodland burial are ruined, then I'm coming back as a vengeful nature spirit...and forget about hopping. I'm trading in my wheelchair for a velociraptor...
ReplyDeletehttps://rolandclarke.com/2016/04/19/p-for-phytotoxins-atozchallenge/
Both fascinating and new to me. A house that consumes its guests; interesting concept!
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