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'The Sixth Sense' still sends a notable chill down my spine regardless of the fact that I've watched it countless times.

The idea of using a child to depict the terror and fear of the supernatural was pure GENIUS.

Aside from the ever famous, "I see dead people" scene, here's one of the movies many memorable moments...

Malcolm puts his fingers to his temple. This time a little bit slower. He gazes at Cole's school uniform.

MALCOLM You don't like to say much at school. You're an excellent student however. You've never been in any kind of serious trouble.

Cole takes a slow step back.

COLE We were supposed to draw a picture. Anything we wanted... I drew a man. He got hurt in the neck by another man with a screwdriver.

MALCOLM You saw that on T.V., Cole?

Cole answers by taking a small step back.

COLE Everybody got upset. They had a meeting. Momma started crying. I don't draw like that anymore.

MALCOLM How do you draw now?

COLE I draw people with smiles, dogs running, and rainbows. They don't have meetings about rainbows.

MALCOLM (soft) I guess they don't.

Malcolm looks down at Cole's feet. They're almost at the doorway. One more step and he's there. Cole is very still. He doesn't move at all.

COLE (whispers) What am I thinking now?

Malcolm takes his time before speaking. He just stares. No fingers to the temple. No games. He just stares.

MALCOLM You're thinking... I don't know what you're thinking, Cole.

Cole quietly takes a step back into the doorway of the other room.

COLE (whispers) I was thinking... you're nice. But you can't help me.

Cole's tiny figure steps away. Malcolm stares helplessly at the empty doorway where his client used to stand."

A scene from 'The Sixth Sense'

Undoubtedly, 'The Sixth Sense' remains to be, one of the best horror movies of all time.

It was said though, that M. Night Shyamalans inspiration to his character 'Cole', was in fact, himself as a child. In addition, most of his movies, has a hint of his own life experiences; His personal encounter with numerous bizarre phenomenons..

Or so I thought after watching a documentry on him a couple years back.

All that however, is absolute bullshit. Yup, I found it particularly absurd too, but take a look at this...

Sci Fi Channel hoax

In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with the Sci Fi Channel, which when eventually uncovered by the press prompted Sci Fi's parent company, NBC-Universal, to denounce the undertaking as "not consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press and we value our relationship with both".

Sci Fi claimed in its "documentary" special — The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village — that Shyamalan was legally dead for nearly a half-hour while drowned in a frozen pond in a childhood accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural.

The Sci Fi Channel also claimed that Shyamalan had grown "sour" when the "documentary" filmmakers' questions got too personal, and had therefore withdrawn from participating and threatened to sue the filmmakers.

In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with Sci Fi, going so far as having Sci Fi staffers sign non-disclosure agreements with a $5 million fine attached, and required Shyamalan's office to formally approve each step. Neither the childhood accident nor the supposed rift with the filmmakers ever occurred.

The hoax included a non-existent Sci Fi publicist, "David Westover", whose name appeared on press releases regarding the special. Sci Fi also fed false news stories to the Associated Press and Zap2It.com among others.

A New York Post news item, based on a Sci Fi press release, referred to Shyamalan's attorneys threatening to sue the filmmakers; the attorneys named were non-existent. After an AP reporter confronted Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer at a press conference, Hammer admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to generate pre-release publicity for The Village.

Despite his office's disclosure-agreement requirement and approvals of each marketing step, Shyamalan told the AP, "I was, of course, involved in the production of the special but had nothing to do with the marketing of it. If the Sci Fi Channel erred in their marketing strategy, it was totally out of enthusiasm."

Article from Wikipedia

That, my friend, is why you can hardly ever believe what you see on T.V. The big question is, can we trust sources from the internet any better??

Guess we'll never know for sure..