If you could concentrate on something other than the DNC or JD Vance ordering donuts just like a Veep character Yesterday, you may have been treated to another, scarier saga playing out online. (Well, just a little scarier. The Vance video is pretty harrowing.) “While I’m in Aberdeen, I’m staying in an old 19th-century hotel,” said legendary director Guillermo del Toro, who Really knows how to draw his audience into a ghost story, published on Twitter/X on Tuesday. “I’m in the most haunted room of it – which was vacated this morning by one of our producers. Strange electrical and physical occurrences scared her so much that she left as quickly as possible. Stay tuned – if anything happens, I’ll report.”
And he reported. Over the next few days, the director sent out a steady stream of similarly worded reports, documenting a story that was more compelling than any other in the Cabinet of Curiosities. “I always stay in the ‘most haunted rooms’, but only once have I experienced anything supernatural – nothing else,” he posted shortly afterward. “I have high hopes.”
Yesterday at 1:31 am he gave another update:
UPDATE-. All I can say is:. Nothing has happened yet, but the atmosphere in the room is oppressive and I won’t be spending much time there anymore. It may be a suggestion, but at this point I’ve kept it, but am sleeping in a different room – I need 6 hours of sleep to have a good day of shooting-…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) 22 August 2024
Fans and ghost hunters alike waited with bated breath to see what kind of creature was in the room with the Pan’s Labyrinth Director that day. Was it an evil spirit, brought forth by one too many cinematic explorations of Frankensteinthat the director shot on location? Was it a devious poltergeist planning to replace his space bar with the “b” key? No one knew.
12 hours later:
6:28 Scotland. Filming day finished. Going to room now – dinner at 8:00. If anything happens, I’ll let you know. The room has more than just a mood, there’s something angry and territorial. A hint of rage. Room No. 4
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) 22 August 2024
This was followed by some photos of del Toro trying to capture the angry and territorial spirit in Room No. 4, whatever that was in front of the cameraas any good ghost hunter would do. The director even tried to Download an EVP (electronic voice phenomena) app on his phone, but in the end it was all in vain. “No sounds or images happened – just a depressing mood – room number 4, I will return… Life is unstructured – no grand finale,” he posted late last night. If The is not a perfect summary of life on Earth right now, we don’t know what it is. Perhaps the real ghosts were the finished scripts we received along the way.
