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Celebrity Ghost Stories

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The setup

A Biography Channel promo promises celebrity tales of the paranormal, with dubious hauntings and even stranger explanations.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A promo for Celebrity Ghost Stories introduces famous people recounting supposed supernatural encounters. Billy Bob Thornton blames strange changes in his appearance and music on a haunted house, while Anna Faris confuses a face in her soup with a dead singer. Sharon Osbourne mistakes helpful household and gardening work for paranormal activity. Matthew McConaughey recounts an experience suspiciously like the plot of one of his films, and Ray Parker Jr. explains how his Ghostbusters success led to a haunting and an apologetic follow-up single. A baffled Charlyne Yi appears in the teaser for the next installment.

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Highly quotable.

Sometimes I would put on my album and it would sound terrible.

Oh, I love noodles.

Do you know what ghosts don't like?

ScriptEnglish · 22 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Speaker 1

    You're watching the biography channel.

  2. 00:02

    Speaker 2

    Hey, I know it's not my place, but open the blinds let some light in

  3. 00:08

    Speaker 1

    50% of Americans claim to have had a run-in with a ghost some of these people are celebrities The biography channel presents celebrity ghost stories a New series with a famous and infamous recount their interactions with the paranormal normal. Famous people like Billy Bob Thornton.

  4. 00:34

    Billy Bob Thornton

    I was living in this house in Laredo, Texas. It was chock full of poltergeists. My Kangol hats and leather vests would go missing. I'd go to bed with a goatee and I'd wake up with a soul patch or maybe a freaky Van Dyke.

  5. 00:50

    Billy Bob Thornton

    Unexplained phenomena. Sometimes I would put on my album and it would sound terrible.

  6. 00:57

    Billy Bob Thornton

    I was so shaken up I acted weird for like 27 years.

  7. 01:02

    Speaker 1

    Here, Anna Faris recount her terrifying tale of the haunted sushi restaurant.

  8. 01:09

    Anna Faris

    It was the day after Lou Rawls died. I was at Sushi Samba and they brought me my miso soup and right away I look in the bowl and I was like is that and my boyfriend is like no

  9. 01:37

    Speaker 1

    true stories of real things that happen to normal unmedicated people like Sharon Osbourne

  10. 01:44

    Sharon Osbourne

    would

  11. 01:55

    Sharon Osbourne

    be shorter the grass leave a blouse on the floor and later I would come back and the drawer and it It would be folded. Yes. There were ghosts.

  12. 02:22

    Speaker 1

    The Biography Channel presents a series that anyone could have thought up, but we did. And we got Matthew McConaughey.

  13. 02:32

    Matthew McConaughey

    I've faced a lot of adversity in my life. I've battled rattlesnakes, coyotes, shirts. But then on the night before my brother's wedding, I was thrice visited by the ghosts of my girlfriend's past. Now, these sexy spirits take me around for about 90 minutes, give or take. It's ironic that it took three dead ghost women to show me how to live.

  14. 02:55

    Matthew McConaughey

    I am so terrified right now and so very horny. All right, all right, all right, all right.

  15. 03:04

    Speaker 1

    And if you thought that was terrifying, prepare yourself for celebrity ghost experts like Ray Parker Jr.

  16. 03:11

    Speaker 1

    Junior.

  17. 03:12

    Ray Parker Jr.

    In 1984, I had a hit with the Ghostbusters theme. I was on top of the world. And in an act of hubris, I bought a haunted mansion.

  18. 03:23

    Ray Parker Jr.

    Do you know what ghosts don't like? A hit song boasting that you are not afraid of them. And in order to prove me wrong, they decided to haunt my ass. Finally, I had to say it. I am afraid of a ghost. The haunting stopped after I released a public apology in my 1996 single on second thought parenthesis ghost scared me very much yeah it was a hit amongst ghosts and a miss amongst the living

  19. 03:48

    Speaker 1

    all that this week on celebrity ghost stories and tune in next week to see charlene yee bravely reveal her battle with the other side

  20. 03:59

    Speaker 1

    celebrity

  21. 04:09

    Speaker 1

    ghost stories

  22. 04:10

    Speaker 1

    no you suck

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