#ghostwatcher

[sunkissedliterarylightofchrist]

sooooo that girl content? 👀

What do you think is the ‘checklist’ to be one?

Waking up at 6 AM or earlier every morning no matter what, and going to bed earlier as a result

Daily Bible and prayer time for at least 30 minutes, preferably longer. And intentionally pray multiple times a day

Self-discipline

Consistency

Routine and habits

Delayed gratification

Daily exercise

Highly limit social media- assess where it adds actual value to your life and cut everything else out ruthelessly

Asking who you want to be. Then seeing what steps you need to take to get there. Then do it.

Blocking out distractions

Saying no to people

Have a clean space

Drink water and eat healthy foods

Only have friends who bring actual value to your life. You don’t need thirty friends. A handful of ride-or-dies is all you need

Having a simple effective beauty routine. Rather than jumping on beauty trends or obsessing over your appearence, figure out how to enhance your natural beauty and stick with it. Genuinely teach yourself to love the way you look and be confident in it without becoming vain.

Treating yourself with the value and respect that God sees in you

Having beauty (inner and outer) and intelligence be your default setting

Keep your cards close to your chest, only share required information with people you trust

Always be learning. If you’re in school, achieve academic excellence. If you’re not, still be learning things each day and filling your mind with knowledge. Read books and articles, and listen to podcasts and watch informative movies and videos

People will always be smarter than you and wiser than you. Surround yourself with those people and ask them to teach you

Intentionally look for the beauty in everything and be thankful for it

You can always grow and improve more in every area

Set yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals and break down the steps to achieve them and follow through. Focus on the proccess

Devote yourself to the things you love

Focus on the mindset > the aesthetic

Stop consuming self-improvement content and actually doing the hard work that self-improvement requires

Don’t tie yourself to anyone’s opinions but God and people who also follow His will

Work on your dreams. Actually work on them, don't just dream about them. If it seems impossible, do whatever you have to do to make it achievable

Kick laziness and procrastination out the window

Intentionally set aside time to rest and make sure that the time you rest is actually restful and fills you up. And when you’re not resting, you’re working.

Make a list of your priorities, in order. The ones at the top are what you spend the most time on, and things that aren't on the list don't deserve your attention

Hold yourself accountable for what you do every day. Celebrate your wins, and acknowledge your losses. What do you fail at, figure out why, and then take the steps to make sure that it won't happen again

Take care of your outer physical body and your mental health

Quit the excuses. There is a difference between having an actual legitimate reason for not doing something and just trying to beg off how you've failed yourself.

Develop a good work ethic

Do not shy away from hard conversations that make you uncomfortable and force you to change the way you think

Do small acts of beauty and self-care each day that only take a few minutes, but make you feel good and excite you

Forgive yourself for your past mistakes and failures but don't let it happen again

Be kind and humble and loving to everyone. But people who haven't proven themselves to you haven't earned anything from you

Motivation is wonderful. Find it, use it, harness it. But it isn't constant. Be able to work just as much with it as you can without it

Praise God for the work He has done in you and the prayers He has answered. What you have right now? That just used to be a pleading cry for help. Thank Him for it, it came from Him and not you, and make sure everyone else knows it.

Develop speech and debate skills

Develop a workout routine that covers all the bases and that you genuinely enjoy doing. The goal of working out should not be to punish yourself or your body, but to love to move your body and get physically stronger and more capable.

No screens for the first or last hour of the day

And finally, submit everything that you do to the Lord and ensure that it is His will. And if you are ever unsure if He wants you to take a course of action or not, just step out in faith and see what happens.

I know that this list sounds exhausting and utterly impossible. But it isn't. It has taken me three years from the time I decided to start caring about myself in this way and becoming a hard-working disciplined 'Christian That Girl' to today, but I am here. Every single thing on this list I actively do, I'm not just listing it to sound better than I am. I'm not perfect at it and I mess up sometimes. But I do intentionally do each and every one of these things. And guess what? I started seeing results from the immediate things after days. And a lot of these longer term things are only a few months of hard work away.

At the end of the day, if you don't have something you want that you could've had, that's because you chose comfort in the moment over success in the future. Of course, life and tragedy happens, but for way more things than you realize, YOU are in control of your life and everything that you do has consequences. It is up to you to decide if they will be positive or negative. Don't look back kicking yourself saying 'I wish I had spent my time doing that.' Instead, look back and say, 'Praise God I spent my time doing that.'

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Okay fuck it coming up with names for Vanillatoe and Birdfall's kits:

Boarkit

Sheepkit

Roosterkit

Horsekit

Cowkit

I'm actually thinking that Birdfall was formerly a barn cat before falling in love with Vanillatoe and joining SkyClan, hence the barn animal naming theme for her and Vanillatoe's kits!!!! Shame they all died though... not sure how exactly yet though, I'm leaning towards some kind of animal killing them all, but not sure which one

for some reason I get 'killed by weasel' vibes. It's plausible and also I like to imagine something smaller than a fox or badger

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

annual reminder not to feed the ghosts! yes I know it seems like a cute tradition, but these are wild spirits with specialized diets, and humans unintentionally cause serious havoc by interfering with their ectosystem

[freshfromzaunas]

Haunted California:

Denny's Vallejo, California ( Former 1792 cafe)1,000 ghosts of Denny's on the Hill .Some ghosts go as far back as the Revolutionary War.

Barnes and Noble El Cerrito, California ( Former Town and Country Store of Chattanooga, TN open since 1802)900 ghosts counted

Pietros, Vacaville, California ( Former Bugsy Siegel's House of Pasta of Chicago) 980 Ghost counted.

[dailyflicks]

The programme you're about to watch is a unique live investigation of the supernatural. It contains material which some viewers may find to be disturbing. No creaking gates, no Gothic towers, no shutter windows, yet, for the past 10 months, this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. Ghostwatch (1992) dir. Lesley Manning

[classichorrorblog]

10 Ghost Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[polkadotjohnson]

Horror's Greatest - Hidden Gems (2025)

[finniestoncrane]

rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favourite films, then tag ten people to do the same!

tagged by @march-harrigan tagging @wingedqueenlynx @sleeplesswooper @gilverr @dearest-meat-mutt @twinlinds @littlemisscactus @we-are-all-just-a-bit-crazy @wolfsrahne28 @finzsideblog @glorified-monster @gethrax

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

I could easily see Viperthorn, Vixenlight, and Vanillatoe (and Birdfall, ofc) coming with Vinestar to the DF!

Vixenlight and Viperthorn barely even got a chance to be warriors, so I'm sure they'd revel in the opportunity to grow in the DF!

And ofc Vanillatoe and Birdfall would love to spend time with their adoptive son and his new family - though Ghostwatcher's murders came as a shock to them, they still love him to the end and back regardless!

...Actually, I just remembered that Vanillatoe and Birdfall had a litter of kits that all passed away right before they adopted Ghostkit/watcher. Maybe they come with their parents as well, so they can grow up?

*screams so loud that I break the sound barrier*

[unreesonable]

"To have done that on TV... I can't imagine the response"

Reece talking about Ghostwatch (a big influence on Dead Line) as part of Channel 4's "100 Greatest Scary Moments" programme.

[general-sleepy]

WNUF Halloween Special, Ghostwatch, and Late Night with the Devil (in that specific order) triple feature.

[partywithponies]

Me when I see a youtube video titled something like "broadcasts that tricked people" or "broadcasts that terrified people", knowing full well my beloved Ghostwatch will be on there:

[npddraw]

Ghostwatch

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Ghostwatch (1992) is about rape culture/domestic abuse and the media's complicity in it. Btw. Discussion of domestic violence, SA and CSA below.

It's literally about a family of women who will not be believed about what they're going through no matter what their evidence. Case closed thanks for reading. Okay but seriously:

Haunting is SA/Domestic Violence

The signs of the haunting are: items of monetary value being destroyed (making it harder to afford to leave even if they weren't already in council housing - they can't afford a new home); children having unexplained marks; disturbed sleep; children talking about being asked to do things they don't want do (such as drown the "bad bunny"); children having someone in their room at night that they dont want in there; inappropriate writing found in school books; literally feeling the sense of being touched all over. These can be signs of abuse.

The site of the most horror, the glory hole, is where Suzanne and Kimmy's father (and Pam's husband) spent a lot of time. When Kimmy peaked in there, that's when she saw Mr Pipes.

Multiple phone-in accounts of the supernatural take place in the viewer's homes.

Dr Pascoe says that Suzanne would be easily victimised by a poltergeist because she's from a "broken home". If there's already family upheaval, it can be very easy for the warning signs of abuse to slip through the cracks.

All but two of the people most willing to take the paranormal seriously were women. Of the men, one was a victim of it himself and opted to obscure his face before talking about it due to fear of ridicule (whose trauma revolves around an unpleasant gloopy liquid being put on him without his consent) and the other was an occultist who didn't take the story of this particular family seriously enough to do the whole shebang, instead merely prayed with them. I'm not saying that only/almost exclusively women get sexually assaulted, or that women do believe each other more frequently - because we don't- but I am saying that the 90s would.

Media complicity

Initially, the reporting on the paranormal in Ghostwatch is lighthearted but aims to entertain the idea that the Early family are being honest. They have Dr Pascoe in the studio, they send a team to investigate, they do believe that something is going on, if not a haunting.

However. Over time, the cracks in the media's willingness to believe women starts to show.

They bring on an "expert" (who says merely that 'this could all be fake', not getting into any specifics of how or why, who openly insults Dr Pascoe and then she is tone-policed when she responds to his criticism - "did he upset you?" "[clearly upset but knows she's being goaded on live tv] no!").

Pam shows how print media responded to her, using her as a spectacle to keep eyes on their product - which is also what the BBC is doing in-universe. (Ironically, having so many eyes is what ultimately dooms the broadcast!)

And then, of course, Suzanne is caught hitting the pipes. Immediately, with one piece of evidence against them and regardless of the other evidence, Michael Parkinson gleefully (from, I suspect in part relief that he doesn't have to believe this could happen) starts disregarding everything else Dr Pascoe has to say. Why should we believe her? We have one piece of evidence to the contrary.

He hangs up the phone when she gives advice. He (more openly) devalues her contributions as false. He interrupts her saying that they don't want to give people nightmares. He's indulging, while maintaining his professional façade, in the high of catching someone out.

Suzanne is caught and discredited on the basis of her recreating the events of the haunting - aka the abuse. Dr Pascoe says this is part of the pattern, and she's not wrong. Children can do this as victims of abuse. Suzanne not wanting to talk about these actions - the writing in her schoolbooks, hitting the pipes - is taken as a sign of her guilt. In-fiction, had Suzanne believed that she would be taken seriously regardless of whether something happened specifically that night, she likely wouldn't have taken that action. But the BBC themselves staged a joke on Sarah earlier that night with Suzanne as a co-conspirator, having Craig jump out at her, implicitly mocking them. She knew she wouldn't be taken seriously if nothing happened. She needed there to be spectacle because otherwise they would be condemned just like her mum was by print media.

The BBC turns on this family, just as media outlets and public opinion can and will turn on victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault if they are 'revealed' to not be perfect victims. If they hold something back that they're embarrassed about, they're a liar, if they ever tried to protect themselves, they're just as bad, if they tried to communicate their distress in a way that isn't palatable or immediately understandable they're denied safe housing and ridiculed.

Even after seeing more ghostly events after the Suzanne reveal, and even with the phones ringing off the hook with more people who relate to these events, Parkinson is perfectly happy to accept that the girls and the reporter team are now happily playing board games again. He stops investigating. He's decided who the guilty party is, and his condescending correspondent is in agreement.

We cut back to Craig Charles, and he's having a laugh with the other (male) paranormal invesigator about how nothing is happening. How silly it would be if ghosts were real! "Where would I hold the microphone!" While being followed by two kids, out alone past the watershed - after Parkinson calls out a distressed mother for her kids watching tv after the watershed. Who's looking out for them? Certainly not Craig.

And then. After the problem is willfully ignored. It gets worse. After being ridiculed on the trusted news channel BBC 1, paranormal activity goes on the rise.

"It's in the machine", Dr Pascoe says, and again, she's not wrong. At the end of the film, Parkinson is literally, physically used by the ghost to spread its message. The callous disregard for women's safety, the downplaying of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, the lack of respect for the reality that some people have to live in - part of it is down to the media's portrayals of the people that bring these cases forward. The stigma perpetuated by the machine empowers abusers to continue and to escalate their behaviours.

In real life, one should definitely be skeptical of someone telling you that ghosts are real, especially someone with dubious, unsubstantiated evidence and who's trying to sell a book about it. However, in the film Ghostwatch, the paranormal IS objectively real and it is an effective metaphor for how victims can be mistreated by the media. If the BBC had believed the Early family outright - or at least treated them with a greater deal of respect than camping inside their house and making jokes at their expense - the problem would not have spread.

[swanluvrr]

Fated to love the film Late Night with the Devil due to my childhood fixation on the Mr. Pipes Ghostwatch broadcast.