Topic: The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, Documentary (Sci-Fi, 2004)
(Available on Netflix)
Here is a posting from Museum of Hoaxes' section on the M. Night documentary controversy: 
inquisitive, inspired
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 | 07:21 AM
"The truth is, i paid Sci-Fi to announce that its a hoax. When i drowned, i saw dead people. I tried to describe my childhood in the movie "the 6th sense", the drowning in "the unbreakable", the death of my family in "signs", and if you still don't understand the meaning of "the lady in the water", here is the explanation. The lady who comes out of the water is me when i came back from the dead after the drowning. The wolf who keeps the lady from jumping into the pool is the same force of belief that keeps me from jumping back into the pond and giving up on my superpowers. "The Village" is about a group of people i see everyday of my life. Those people are from very past generations with very old tradition believes. I see them everyday.
The reason why i include my life in movies because this something no one can be quite about, i need to tell someone, i need someone to know what i'm seeing, how i'm living. But, if i say it out loud directly people would believe i'm insane. Thank you for believing in this, for those who think the actors don't know how to act its because those are not hired actors, they are real life characters who had to do something included in my life.
Once again, thank you. ~Posted by m. night in Phila"
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I, Jerusha, am aware of the common belief that this movie was a hoax. And that M. Night himself has said so. But to me that does not put an end to it.
To those skeptics who do not believe. . . We all have choices. We can choose to have the courage to believe or to instead choose the tempting ability to condescend to others, which oftentimes goes along with skepticism. Skepticism can be healthy and a protective mechanism, but sometimes it limits our ability to experience more pleasant feelings. Some of those pleasant feelings are spiritual in nature.
I too am skeptical when someone tries to sell me something. However, it costs me nothing to believe M. Night's own words in the documentary. And it costs me nothing to believe that M. Night would have written something very like what the person above wrote.
I too am skeptical when someone tries to sell me something. However, it costs me nothing to believe M. Night's own words in the documentary. And it costs me nothing to believe that M. Night would have written something very like what the person above wrote.
M. Night might very well have waited this long, 'til things have pretty much blown over to write, there being less at stake. Possibly those who would have been a real danger to him have moved on by now. Also, I believe him to be a genuine, large-hearted man who might feel just a bit sad about having lied to so many believers.
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This documentary really touched me. The shots of Night in the doc. touched me. I'm from that part of Pennsylvania, and it is magical there compared to other parts of this country. Hauntings are very common, I grew up on those stories.
The Pennsylvania Germans that settled there first are a very strong, yet mystical set, some would call it superstitious. The ancient reconstructionist religion called Asatru, which is based on their pre-Christian beliefs, shows that.
It makes me sad that so many of us decide we have to be so hard and skeptical to survive these days. I think some of the skeptics of this documentary are *afraid to believe. Afraid that they might be taken advantage of. But not this time, What harm will it do to believe the documentary, or Night's movies for that matter?
~Have some courage, walk there with him into the unprovable.
