The Walking Dead and Creepshow Showrunner Tells Real Ghost Stories – Den of Geek

Until one night:

I was lying in bed with my eyes closed and felt this movement right in front of my face. For about 30 seconds, it was almost like someone was nose-to-nose with me. For about 30 seconds, I felt this disturbance in front of me. I was like, Do I open my eyes, or do I not open my eyes? What is the best thing to do here? Of course, in my brain, what I imagined this thing looking like was probably much different than what it actually looked like. By the time I got up the nerve to open my eyes, it was gone. I still remember that sensation like it was yesterday.

As to why he ever ended up in such a strange rental for the shoot, Nicotero says, I dont know what they were thinking before saying, I figured John thought I would probably love it.

Though the house in Village of the Damned was a potentially paranormal encounter, he likewise recalls a favorite scary experience when we were talking about his upbringing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And like so many suburban legends, this one involved a creepy house, and inquisitive neighborhood kids.

There was an abandoned house near where we grew up that was deep in the woods, he says. It was called Jacksons Mansion. It was sort on the way to school; if you took a little detour into the woods, you would see this house. We used to go by there all the time, and everyone was, ooh, its haunted.

Nicotero describes the house as just tucked off the main road where all these other houses were, so you wouldnt even know it was there, but remembers, we used to go over there, and dare people to run into the home.

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