The Dark Knight Curse

[Richard]

Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 5th, 2008

A Batman beheading? Have people so quickly forgotten a recent tragedy?

Heightened awareness of decapitations has occurred in the last few days due to the incidents in Brazil, Dubai, Greece, and, of course, the bus event in Canada (during the showing of The Legend of Zorro, which features the beheading of Zorro’s brother). There remains no explanation of why the name “Badger” became the code word given to suspect Vincent Li of Edmonton, Alberta by the law enforcement officers.

Chronologically, it should be mentioned that these news items were proceeded by a Batman-related beheading.

On Saturday, June 28th, at Six Flags Over Georgia, 17-year-old Asia Leeshawn Ferguson of Springfield, South Carolina, scaled two six-foot fences and passed through restricted areas posted as dangerous to visitors. Ferguson jumped the fences and then was decapitated by the Batman roller coaster. (It should not be lost on people that the victim of the Canadian bus beheading was a young man who told his friends he “loved being a carny.”)

So we come to The Dark Knight.

On August 5, 2008, The Boston Herald reporter Stephen Schaefer asks, “Is The Dark Knight cursed?”

As those watching for the curse of threes have noticed, Heath Ledger has died, Christian Bale has been arrested and now Morgan Freeman has been in a tragic car crash.

Schaefer writes:

The box-office behemoth, expected to pass the $400 million mark this week, is notorious as being the late Heath Ledger’s last completed movie.

Now Morgan Freeman, the 71-year-old actor who plays Batman’s techie Lucius Fox, is in serious condition following a car accident in Mississippi late Sunday night.

The Oscar-winning actor was driving his wife’s friend Demaris Meyer’s 1997 Nissan Maxima when it rolled off Tallahatchie County Highway 32, flipping over several times. Meyer was treated for minor injuries and released.

Freeman, who was driving to his Charleston home, reportedly suffered broken ribs and was air-lifted to Regional Medical Center in Tennessee.

This tragedy follows assault allegations made last month by the mother and sister of “The Dark Knight” star Christian Bale. The 34-year-old Bale denied the charges. He’ll be back in court next month.

“The Dark Knight” is dedicated to both the 28-year-old Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose last Jan. 22, and Conway Wickliffe, 41, a stunt supervisor who died in a freak accident in London while setting up a car crash.

As an update, blogger Todd Campbell, after reading the above, has forwarded the following photographs to my attention, from the movie. He has a post on this now.

What do we find these photos have revealed?

Embedded within the move is the Heath Ledger character, the Joker, using the Joker/Death card as his “business calling card,” as pictured, shown holding a decapitated head.

Schaefer writes that The Dark Knight joins a grim list of “cursed” motion pictures.

The Superman hex struck Christopher Reeve, who shot to fame after starring in the 1978 movie, after he broke his neck in a horse riding accident. Television’s original “Superman,” George Reeves died in an apparent suicide in 1969.

(In June 2007, a teenager’s legs were severed when cables snapped on the Superman Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky.)

The 1982 horror classic Poltergeist was haunted by the premature deaths of two of its female stars. Vanity Fair celebrity scribe Dominick Dunne’s daughter Dominique was murdered by her live-in lover soon after the film was finished. And Heather O’Rourke, the film’s child star, died in 1988 at age 12 of cardiopulmonary arrest prompted by Crohn’s disease.

I have written of the “Mothman Death Curse” online and specifically in the August 2004 issue of Fortean Times, with a list of over 80-related deaths, some of surprisingly young people and others of elder members of the crew, cast, and aligned associates of the film.

From Batman to Mothman, whether or not there are curses is not important. The fact that they have become part of popular culture and that there is a dark sense that there may be such things in the modern world, in the end, may be what becomes more significant.

Photos and story here:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dark-curse/

[Polly]

This may have occurred too soon to be connected in any way but on July 12th, in the evening, I was walking to the kitchen and as I stepped up from the living room I caught to my right, in my peripheral vision, a tall, neatly dressed, headless man standing in front of the outside door with his hands on his hips.  There was no blood or gore, just no head or neck.  As I turned to look at him more directly, he disappeared.

[SilverInfinity]

I keep seeing headless people when I try to meditate, no matter where I lived, in northern california or southern california. It's not intimidating because I got use to it, but it is definitely annoying when I can't clear my head about it. Maybe I got my head chopped off or I chopped someone's head off in my past life. But in this life, I wouldn't do that anymore than I would physically hurt someone deliberately.

[MC]

Or,you're both attracting dead people?

Look what's on the joker card on this website.On this link is the second part to this story.It's quite interesting.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2008/0...tions.html

Take a look at the tattoos the young guy who got killed had.
He was marked for death,so to speak.Either the movie, activated the guy,or he was already activated.By the accounts of his behaviour,it seems the movie activated him.
He had vigilante programming.Which means,the purpose of the kill was to eliminate someone whose programming was not successful or who was chosen for elimination for some other purpose.There are several different kinds of vigilante programs.The guy who plays the Joker in the movie,was also ritually killed on the night of the full moon.He did not die of an overdose which they claimed.That was a story told,to cover-up the fact that he died at night,in a ritual.