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The Creepy Hotel Room Stories Behind ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’

Carpenter said her radio turned on by itself, while Linney said her TV repeatedly switched on during production.

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Working on a horror movie can certainly be scary for some people, but it’s especially creepy when unexplained things start happening after you’ve wrapped up production for the day. While in Vancouver shooting 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose, both Jennifer Carpenter and Laura Linney had eerily similar experiences as they were trying to sleep in their hotel rooms.

According to some sources, Carpenter even thought she’d been followed home on at least one occasion. That’s in addition to a strange phenomenon that continued to occur........

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