Ooooooh! Four cinematic urban legends...

With it being Hallowe'en week and all (yeah, we're making a week of it), we thought we'd give you four very creepy stories about films you know and love. Here's what we found!

THE EXORCIST - Cursed Set

According to William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, he had such bad luck during production of the film that – at his wit's end – he asked a priest to perform a blessing over the film set. Why so? The first set had burnt to the ground under mysterious circumstances. Fire investigators were unable to detect a cause. The priest, as it turns out, declined to perform it.

THREE MEN AND A BABY - Ghost Child

This story has been debunked, but it picked up traction as an urban myth. According to the legend, a small child is visible in a window during one scene in this 80's classic. If you freeze-frame, you came make out a shadow outline. The director, Leonard Nimoy (yes, Spock from the original Star Trek) clarified what it was. It was a cardboard cut-out of Ted Danson. Awh.

BEN-HUR - On-Screen Death

This is an old one and, as far as we can tell, has been disproven. According to one of the stuntmen on Ben-Hur, there's a shot of a colleague of his being trampled by one of the chariots during the race. It was left on the final cut and against the wishes of the stuntman's widow. What happened, according to Snopes.com, is that there was an silent film version of the film made in 1926. That production had a number of deaths – fifty-five in total – which was covered up by studio executives at the time. When Ben-Hur – the Charlton Heston one – was released in 1960, people confused the two and thought that Heston's version had an on-screen death. It didn't.

THE SHINING - Faked Moon Landing

If you've never watched the fantastic documentary 'Room 237', go out and watch it now. It's a great companion piece to, for our money, one of the greatest horror films ever made. So – the urban legend about the Shining is this. It was actually about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing. No, really. Don't look at us like that. According to the documentary, Kubrick was approached by NASA after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey and was asked to prepare footage IN CASE THEY NEVER REACHED THE MOON. The US and the Soviet Union were inches away from a full-blown war and the Space Race was neck and neck. The US, desperate to ensure that they won it, created a fake film to use in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn't make it. Kubrick's film is loaded with nods and references to the Apollo 11 mission. In fact, the final scene where Nicholson freaks out about his “employers” and that he has “signed a contract” is Kubrick's actual frustrations with his wife over not being able to discuss his work with NASA. It's outlandish, sure, but it COULD be true.