In parallel narratives, Brittney and Daisy-with the help of a documentary filmmaker and psychic, respectively-seek truths while struggling with the realities of their respective mothers. Brittney’s own abusive mother was a guest there after Daisy’s mother turned it into an Airbnb, and it was a positive turning point that she wrote about in a bestselling memoir that put the so-called Miracle Mansion on the map. A decade later, Black film student Brittney is investigating what actually happened to Daisy, her mother, and the notoriously deadly house for the web series Haunted. With an estranged father and a volatile relationship with her mother, Daisy, whose family has origins in Trinidad and Tobago, doesn’t resist when an opportunity arises for mother and daughter to leave Toronto for northern Ontario and an inherited home. Seventeen-year-old Daisy Odlin recounts constantly seeing, feeling, and fearing the dead visions of the dead lying atop her are paired with memories of an abusive 21-year-old ex-boyfriend, betraying an unrelenting sadness that Daisy theorizes the dead feed on. *A haunted mansion is the site of unmistakable horrors and horrific mistakes. That my name was nothing more than a pretty tattoo: permanent and meaningless. Because that was the point, that there wasn’t one. Which meant that the second story wasn’t a story at all. The one where Grandma whispered that of course a sixteen-year-old would name her kid after a flower. In a place where only one plant seemed to grow was this other thing that shouldn’t have survived. You could find the best blueberries after a burn, she’d say.Īnd there, in the midst of gathering the sweet fruit into the hem of her car-sweaty T-shirt, her tongue stained purple with juice, she found something else. They grew in patches, short, small, and wild, alive in a field of death. She walked into the wreckage of fallen trees, burnt branches crumbling to white ash that stuck to her fingers and still smelled of fire. She stepped over the squat metal barrier between expressway and earth, careful with the swollen bump of her belly. When I was little, growing up in a city, it was hard to picture a place I knew to be packed and busy, suddenly devoid. In this dream, Mom pulled onto the shoulder, bright emergency blinkers flashing on an empty highway. The sort of tar-black road that scorched your feet with its heat and left the scent on your heels, smoky and stained, lingering in the air. It was a dream of a drive long enough that you strain not to doze off, mingled with the extra-sweet tang of wild blueberries.Īll of Ontario seemed to be built along rough gray roads stretching seemingly forever into the distance, where rolling down your window meant breathing in the sharp smell of burned rubber and stinging asphalt. There were two stories of how I was named. But as she gets more wrapped up in the investigation, she’ll have to decide: if she can only bring one story to light, which one matters most-Daisy’s or her own?Īs Brittney investigates the mansion in the present, Daisy’s story runs parallel in the past, both timelines propelling the girls to face the most dangerous monsters of all: those that hide in plain sight. She decides the new season of her popular Haunted web series will uncover what happened to a young Black girl in the mansion ten years prior and finally expose her mother’s lies. But Brittney knows that’s nothing but a sham. But the house is nothing like Daisy expects, and she begins to realize that her experience with the supernatural might be no match for her mother’s secrets, nor what lurks within these walls…Ī decade later, Brittney is desperate to get out from under the thumb of her abusive mother, a bestselling author who claims her stay at “Miracle Mansion” allowed her to see the error of her ways. So when her mother inherits a secluded mansion in northern Ontario where she spent her childhood summers, Daisy jumps at the chance to escape. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.ĭaisy sees dead people-something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto.
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