Lot 070 : Does Anyone Remember This Hallmark Movie? // Ouija Board

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When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.

A year later, their past comes back to haunt them, and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth.

Someone knows what they did last summer, and is hell-bent on revenge.

As one by one, the friends are stalked by a killer.

They discover this happened before, so they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport massacre of 1997 for help.

Starring Madeline Klein, Chase Sue Wonders, Jonah Hauer King with Freddie Prince Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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There you are, friend.

Welcome, welcome!

And happy new year to you!

It seems fate has brought you back to right where you belong.

Wouldn't you know it?

You've arrived just in time.

The air in here is thick with curiosity, and our shelves...

well,

they've been whispering secrets again.

Now I can see it in your eyes.

You're drawn to something, aren't you?

Something peculiar.

Something

forgotten.

Follow me then.

I have two objects waiting for you.

Each with a tale that may raise more questions than answers.

The first is quite the Enigma.

A rare promotional card for a made-for-TV movie called Love by the Lighthouse.

A quaint name, isn't it?

Soft

and unassuming.

Like a warm blanket on a stormy night.

Here's the thing.

No one remembers this movie.

Not the studio, not any actors, not even the die-hard fans who devour these tales of love and redemption.

How strange.

Did it ever exist at all?

Or was it story destined to drift into shadow?

Like a fog rolling in from the sea?

Then there's the second item, but we'll get to that soon enough.

Sit back, settle in, and tell me, does anyone remember this Hallmark movie?

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Oh, yes.

Welcome to the Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

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Does anyone remember this Hallmark movie?

Posted by user Gingerbread Woman86,

September 25th, 2020.

Does anyone remember this Hallmark movie?

I'm sitting here enjoying a lovely fall thunderstorm, and it was making me feel nostalgic in a big way.

But it did spark a memory for me that wasn't quite as pleasant.

And I wondered if anyone could help shed some light on this for me.

A little context.

Sorry in advance for the long post.

I am from Maine, and a few years back, fall of 2017, to be exact,

we had the worst windstorm our state has ever experienced.

I won't go into too much detail about the storm itself, since a quick Google search will turn out plenty of information.

Suffice to say, it was bad.

Now, I do love a good storm, and leading up to my husband and I eventually losing power, I had snuggled into my favorite hoodie and PJ bottoms, grabbed some hot cocoa, and I invited our yellow lab up on the couch with me as I tried to find a good, cheesy romance movie on TV to lose myself in.

Our reception wasn't the best, probably due to the storm, so I re-scanned for channels and came across one I don't remember having seen before or since, for that matter.

It looked like it was playing Hallmark movies, and I love those, especially on rainy or cold days.

I can't remember the name of the movie, but it just so happened to take place, as many do, in a small town in Maine, and was probably something very generic and a hallmark sounding like a romance in Maine or a very main affair or something.

I think I came in around the middle of the story, but it's never hard to fill in the missing details with these movies.

The son, a rather strikingly handsome one, I might add, of a wealthy real estate tycoon is sent to a small town in Maine to try to convince its residents to allow him to turn it into a commercial resort or

something.

He meets a lovely young woman who lives in the most adorable cottage connected to a lighthouse with her widowed father who is the lighthousekeeper.

And they have a dog, of course, because Hallmark.

Predictably, the daughter and the real estate tycoon's son end up having to work together for some delightfully contrived reason, and they end up butting heads just the whole time, as she and her father have deep ties to the community and don't want to see it commercialized and ruined.

Eventually, there's a town hall meeting where, despite the daughter's best efforts, the tycoon son manages to get just enough votes to be able to move forward with his daddy's dastardly plans.

As he prepares to fly back to whatever big city he's from, the town is hit by a huge storm and his flight is canceled.

I'm sure you can guess where this is going.

The lighthousekeeper, much to the chagrin of his fiercely justice-minded daughter, invites the young man to wait out the storm in their cottage where his mind would inevitably be changed somehow.

The young man would return to his greedy father, stand up to him by refusing to destroy the small town, and finally, he'd rush back to said town and would wed the lighthousekeeper's daughter.

But alas, the happy ending we've been expecting is called into question when the lighthouse beacon stops working and a small fishing boat, obviously crewed by many of the side characters we've grown to love so far, is in danger of losing its way and being dashed upon the rocky main coastline.

At this point, the lighthouse keeper risks his life by climbing the old lighthouse until the storm rages and reignites the beacon.

The crew cheers, but unbeknownst to them, the lighthouse keeper has been injured by a flying piece of debris from part of the lighthouse.

The young man risks his own life to save the girl's father and bring him safely downstairs and lays him down on the couch where he appears to be in a stable condition for now.

Cue the hopeful Hallmark music that always starts playing at this point towards the end of their movies.

The daughter and the young man know that if the storm passes, they should be able to get her father to the hospital in time and he will make a full recovery.

This is

this is where things started getting bizarre and why the movie stuck out to me so much instead of fading away into the comfy place in my heart that every other Hallmark movie inevitably does.

It's also why it's bothering me so much and why I'm

hoping that someone else out there also remembers this movie.

As the lighthouse keeper rests on the couch and that hopeful Hallmark music plays in the background,

His daughter leaves the room to grab her and the young man some hot cocoa.

As she leaves the room, the lighthouse keeper calls the young man over to him and, so only he can hear,

tells him that the town is worth saving and encourages the young man to stand up to his tycoon father to save it.

I'm not sure

I'm not sure how to express my shock

when the young man is shown

gently picking up a decorative pillow from the couch

and smothering the old man.

I remember the lighthouse keeper breathes his last breath and the young man returns the pillow to its original place on the couch right before

the daughter returns with the hot cocoa.

The young man lies to her and tells her that her father succumbed to his injuries, but that right before he passed, he told the young man that turning the town into into a commercial resort was

for the best.

Two hot cocoa mugs fall in slow motion and shatter on the ground as the daughter breaks down

sobbing beside her deceased father on the couch.

After a moment, she

sniffs, wipes her...

her puffy red eyes,

gets up and climbs the the stairs to the lighthouse beacon where, in the wind and the rain,

she snuffs out the light.

She then returns, completely soaked, sits down on the couch,

breaks the fourth wall, and

stares

in a catatonic state right at the camera for the remaining

20 minutes or so

of the movie.

All while that

hopeful

music remains playing in the background on a loop.

I remember sitting for a long,

long time,

just

staring at the screen and

trying to comprehend what I was watching.

The other thing I remember was that there were a couple of brief cutaways of her dog growling and

barking for some reason in a small fishing boat now wrecked on the shore.

I never saw the young man in any other scene after the woman initially climbs the lighthouse stairs and comes back down.

He was just

completely missing from the movie after that.

At that point, we lost power in our home due to the real-life storm raging outside.

So, I have

no idea what happens after that.

When our power was restored a couple days later, this was a big storm, I'm sure some of you can remember.

I tried to find that channel,

but I never could.

i re-scanned the channels with the tv remote but could never find it

please tell me someone remembers this movie and and caught the name of it posted by user gingerbreadwoman86 september 30th 2020

no one

october 5th 2020.

update I don't know why this came back to me just now, but maybe this extra detail will help jog someone's memory.

I I mentioned the scene with the dog, but that scene in particular has been coming back to me in more vivid detail lately.

I remember it was when the woman came down the stairs in a daze.

The dog seemed to sniff her suspiciously for a moment, and then backed itself into a corner and started growling and barking at her, like

it didn't recognize her and

was scared of her.

Posted by user GingerbreadWoman86, October 9th, 2020.

Another update.

Another user side-chatted me and asked if I was certain if it was a Hallmark movie that I saw and not some horror movie.

I remember having the same thought while I was watching it.

I'm sure I remember glancing at the corner of the screen and seeing that all too familiar Hallmark Crown logo.

But I also remember there being commercial breaks and seeing the Hallmark logo appear prominently on the screen with that magical golden swish.

You know the one I'm talking about.

It was Hallmark.

Since my first update, I remembered one other bizarre detail about the movie.

I said before that the man, the tycoon son, was completely gone by the time the lighthouse keeper's daughter went up the lighthouse stairs and came back down.

I now recall that wasn't quite true.

I'm not sure how or why I'm remembering this now,

but I recall that he was in the background the entire time, just

standing in the far corner of the room, facing the wall,

out of focus and

motionless.

In fact, the more I think about this, the more that one detail amid so many other weird details

unsettles me the most.

I even had a nightmare about it recently, where I was back on that couch,

watching that scene on repeat.

All the while, the tycoon son was standing

motionless in the corner of the room.

This time in our living room, not the room in the movie.

With that upbeat hallmark music

playing on a loop

posted by user gingerbreadwoman86 January 4th 2021

Final update

Wow

It's uh it's been a little while and um

I'm not sure how to begin

I saw that my post has gotten a fair number of views since I originally made it, but I still haven't seen any replies.

I recently brought it up in conversation with my hubby.

Originally, when I saw this movie, he had been in the other room playing a game on his computer.

I do remember him occasionally passing through the living room on his way to the kitchen to grab drinks or snacks.

I asked him if he had any memory of that night.

He got very quiet.

I don't.

I don't think I've ever seen him look that

unsettled.

This is how he remembers that evening going.

He remembers me watching my Hallmark movie.

Occasionally, like I mentioned, he got up and passed through the living room.

He said that he didn't pay close attention to what I was watching, aside from the fact that it looked like any other Hallmark movie.

According to him,

he took a break from his game and suddenly noticed the house was very quiet.

No TV,

no me sipping on my cocoa, no more panting from our dog.

Nothing.

He said it was like something in the atmosphere had shifted, and there was this

heaviness or

tension throughout the house.

The tension was broken when our dog yelped and started going bonkers, barking, snarling, etc.

He brushed in and said that I was just

sitting there on the couch,

staring at my reflection in the TV, which was now

turned off while our yellow lab was backed into the corner of the room opposite me,

barking

and growling at me with her hackles raised.

He quickly put the dog in the other room and tried to get me to snap out of it, but

said I was softly crying and shaking

like I was cold.

No.

At the same time, I was unblinkingly staring at the blank screen, and I was completely unresponsive.

He said at first, he thought I was having one of my manic, depressive episodes, but that something just seemed really off, and the dog's reaction to me really scared him.

I have no memory of this happening.

And I asked him why he never brought this up.

His answer was

that he tried to a couple of times right after I snapped out of it, but

said I turned to him

blankly, each time whispering something like,

The man in the corner is finally gone.

Then smiled

and acted like I didn't even hear his question.

Learning

all of this was as alarming as you might imagine, but

the part that has me worried the most is that my husband paused after telling me all of this and admitted that he had been planning on bringing it up with me again.

I've been whispering in my sleep the last few nights.

And last night he was finally able to make out what I was saying.

The man

in the corner of the room

is back.

This post has been locked by the moderator.

February 24th, 2021.

Well, well, well, looks like Gingerbread Woman has landed herself a walk-on role in the movie of the week.

Why do I feel like her character is killed off in the sequel?

You know what?

I'll just catch a rerun.

For now, I promised you another item, and another item is indeed what I have.

Let me go grab it from downstairs, and I'll be right back.

Today's episode is sponsored by I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Get it now on digital.

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.

A year later, their past comes back to haunt them, and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth.

Someone knows what they did last summer and is hell-bent on revenge.

As one by one, the friends are stalked by a killer.

They discover this happened before, so they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport massacre of 1997 for help.

Starring Madeline Klein, Chase Sue Wonders, Jonah Howard King, with Freddie Prince Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

I know what you did last summer is a perfect summer slasher, says Jordan Crucciolo of NPR.

Your summer is not over yet.

Don't miss a killer movie night at home.

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You've reached the antiquarium.

If you wish to leave a message, please do so with the town and have a great day.

Hello?

Hello?

I know somebody's there.

Please pick up.

Please.

I just wanted some antique jewelry for my mother, but now

everybody's dead.

Everybody's dead.

I don't want a return.

I don't want an exchange.

I want you to tell me why this is happening.

Why did I kill all of them?

Why did I kill them?

I didn't want to kill them.

Please.

Please tell me how to fix this.

Please.

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Ah, another mysterious artifact and another stormy night, much like the one that plagued our dear lighthouse.

This

is an antique Ouija board.

The craftsmanship is exquisite.

Old wood, hand-carved with symbols and markings, as if to coax the spirits out of their hiding places.

Its story tucked into the attic of a woman who sought answers from those who had long since passed.

What she found, though, was something far more sinister.

Put your hands on the planchette while I summon the Ouija board.

Today was a good day for talking to the dead.

That's the thought I woke up with when I saw it was one of those gray, rainy days.

Days where I felt my loneliness harder than ever.

People walked by on the sidewalk in twos and threes, their forms blurred by the pouring rain.

I went up to the attic and grabbed the dusty old Ouija board.

I hadn't used it in years.

I set the board on the coffee table and grabbed the planchette, taking in a deep breath.

Does this work with just one person?

I gently placed my middle and index finger on the planchette, positioning it over the G to start.

I took a deep breath in and let it out.

Spirits, we call to you.

For a moment, nothing happened.

And then the planchette began to move.

I watched in horror as my fingers moved over the letters.

Is anyone there?

Yes.

What is your name?

My throat tightened.

Why did the spirit want to know my name?

Ada.

Are you happy, Ada?

Cold chills ran down the entire length of my body.

I closed my eyes tight.

Yes,

I suppose I'm happy enough.

I took a deep breath in, a deep breath out.

That wasn't really true, but it was the simplest answer I could give.

I opened my eyes.

There wasn't just one hand on the planchette.

There were two.

I leapt back and shrieked.

In an instant, the hand was gone.

I sat there, panting, my heart going a mile a minute.

Shaking, I made my way back to the Ouija board, placed my fingers on the planchette.

Who are you?

The planchette moved under my hands almost frantically, snapping from letter to letter.

H-O-W-D-I-D-Y-O-U.

My throat went dry as it spelled out the final word.

D

I

D.

What the hell?

What kind of mind games was the spirit trying to play?

The planchette moved again.

Who killed you?

I'm not dead.

You are.

The planchette was deathly still under my fingers.

But then something flashed through my brain.

Alone.

I was alone because I'd moved out.

A rainy day like this one.

I'd made it to a friend's house, but he'd followed me, didn't he?

It was his form standing in the doorway as the rain pattered on the tin roof.

It was water dripping off his face that I heard plopping to the floor.

My.

I started saying his name, but it was too late.

The planche had careened from under my fingers, settling on goodbye.

And then there was silence.

I was sitting in the house all alone on an endless rainy day.

Silhouettes flipped by on the sidewalk,

blurred through the windows without faces or form.

The silence was only broken by the sound of the rain.

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Lot 070, Ouija Board.

Written by Blair Daniels.

Narrated by Brooke Blackwell.

Does anyone remember this Hallmark movie?

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