"Oh, PS, God, make those things that go bump in the night go away! They scare me."
Posted on 03/26/2003 10:41:16 PM PST by Mister Magoo
DIXIE CHICKS SPOOKED BY EVIL MANSON VIBES
Trio calls in medicine man for exorcism
DIXIE CHICKS
The sizzling-hot Dixie Chicks needed a little special spiritual help recently to calm their nerves. Confidential hears the country trio called on an Indian shaman to "cleanse" a California set they were using to film a television commercial.
No April Fools' Day joke! The wildly popular singers – Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines – drafted a medicine man in full regalia and armed with traditional Indian sage-and-cedar wands after they learned that the place picked for the ad once was home to imprisoned serial killer Charles Manson.
"They just wanted to get rid of bad vibes," a source on the set of the Lipton Iced Tea commercial reports.
"Everyone got pretty spooked when we heard. One of the world's all-time evil guys lived there. You can't expect the place not to have bad vibes."
The set, used in late February for an ad that's due to air next month, was on a creepy, boulder-filled property next to Santa Susana Pass State Park, high above L.A. in the town of Chatsworth.
Years ago, the place was known as the Spahn movie ranch. It was rented by companies that took advantage of its rugged chaparral-covered landscape for cheap cowboy-and-Indian shoot-'em-ups. The ranch, however, became infamous in the late 1960s when bloodthirsty Manson moved in with his devotees, the Family.
Manson and his followers were later suspected in up to 40 killings, including the high-profile 1969 death of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski.
While the murders took place throughout the L.A. area, most were planned at the ranch, and at least one occurred there. The body of a stablehand was discovered in a shallow grave on the property, hacked to death.
In 1970, as Manson's trial was about to start, several buildings on the Spahn ranch burned to the ground. The land changed hands several times, until it was finally bought by The Church at Rocky Peak, a Christian congregation that sometimes rents it out.
The Dixie Chicks – who recently landed in hot water when Natalie Maines criticized President Bush's Iraq policy – also had some of the born-again Christians at the church rolling their eyes.
"We're already praying for that place," one church member said. Preacher Dr. David Miller even brought up the use of the shaman during his March 8 sermon on how folks sometimes get hung up on the supernatural instead of God.
"We do not follow the Dixie Chicks' beliefs," says church spokeswoman Shelly Holling, "but we don't make fun of anyone when it comes to spirituality.
"People who use our land for movies or commercials are fully aware of what went on here. We don't hide it."
The seven-time Grammy-winning singers of Wide Open Spaces and You Were Mine – who each have tattoos of chicken feet on their ankles – seemed satisfied with the cleansing. The two days of filming, I am told, went off without a hitch.
Published on: March 26, 2003
lol...that's hilarious and so true!
"Oh, PS, God, make those things that go bump in the night go away! They scare me."
What are the odds that Saddam ever lived there?
This sounds series.
"No, Bones, why do they?" "It keeps the flies out of Natalie's mouth!"
Bada Bing!
Want a break from war news? Go to Stark Trek for a laugh or two. Then come back refreshed and loaded for bear whether he goes in the woods or not!
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