Turns out the horrors of the show had an effect in real life too (Picture: Netflix)

Haunting Of Hill House has well and truly freaked everyone out – and it turns out that even the actors couldn’t help but get caught up in their own ghost stories while on set.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays drug-addicted Luke in the latest Netflix smash hit, revealed that living in the horror fantasy world took its toll on him over the course of filming, to the point he even began seeing things.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk about working on the show, Oliver revealed: ‘Obviously you know, because we’re actors, we’ve got stupid imaginations.’

The cast were so affected by the show they began to imagine ghostly goings on (Picture: Netflix)

‘In prep I started to think that someone was sat at the end of my bed in the night and stupid shit like that,’ he admitted.




Elizabeth Reaser, who plays his older sister Shirley, agreed, and added: ‘I had no ghostly interactions but I feel like there’s something that happens to your unconscious when you’re pretending like this for nine months. It’s more not being able to sleep, feeling crazed…’

Oliver added: ‘There was like a week when all of us…we shot for nine months and I remember calling you [Elizabeth] one day and you just hadn’t slept.

‘I just can’t sleep because, like you say, when you’re drumming that stuff up for so long, you kind of get a hang-up on it.’

Oliver’s character Luke is haunted by a man in a bowler hat (Picture: Netflix)

‘It’s like your body doesn’t know that you’re pretending,’ added Elizabeth.

Haunting of Hill House has been proving to be the latest addictive binge watch for Netflix as viewers have been left feeling sick and mortified at the ghost story unfolding over the ten-episode season.

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The story follows the lives of the five Crain children, who have all been left to deal with the aftermath of their time in the haunted mansion, Hill House.

Despite it picking up 25 years later, it’s clear the events have shaken the family forever and left them damaged – which they’ll have to confront when they’re forced to go back.

Haunting of Hill House is available on Netflix now.

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