The Myth: See that eerie-looking figure tucked behind the curtains in the image above? Apparently, that's a ghost. In the original version of the film, the proposed spectral figure of a young boy was spotted by audiences, giving rise to a particularly popular myth that the set of the film had been the scene of a grisly murder. The handle of a shotgun can purportedly be seen in an earlier scene in the film, giving rise to the myth that the boy in question committed suicide by shooting himself - hence why the house that the characters of the film live in was vacant when shooting started. The Truth: Absolute poppycock. Putting aside the fact that there's absolutely no evidence that ghosts are even real to begin with, the supposed ghost is actually a cardboard cut-out of Jack: one of the characters in the film. The film was originally supposed to have a scene that featured the cut-out of Jack in a dog food commercial, but the scene was eventually scrapped for various reasons. If you're wondering why the cut-out looks like a boy and not the fully-grown man that Jack is, most critics put it down to the angle in which the scene in question was shot.