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Liam D asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

What film/show ends with a girl finding skeletons of a missing family hidden behind a fireplace?

I have a half-memory of a seeing a film when I was a kid, but as many times as I've searched for it using various search terms I've always come up blank. That being the case, does anybody recall seeing a film like I'm describing? It's been bothering me for years...

What I remember is that one of the characters (likely the lead) was either a child or teenage girl. She had recently moved to or was visiting an old house of some sort and hears a story of a family that lived there a long time ago; possibly during the Civil War. Nobody knew what happened to the family apart from that they had simply vanished. Toward the end of the film the girl discovers some sort of clue to the disappearance in a lamp or lantern in a shed or an old barn. This leads her to check out a fireplace in the house where she finds a secret hiding place or escape route and the skeletons of the family. It turned out that they had been trying to flee from someone who had followed them into this tunnel and killed them and sealed it up behind them.

That's all I can remember. I know it's not a lot to go on, but if anybody knows what it is could you please tell me? :oD

Update:

EDIT: It would probably help to mention that this would have been sometime in the 80s, but I'm not sure that the film/show was definitely new at the time... :o)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It's not Skeleton Key. Lol. Hey, sorry to say this but it's like 95% you won't find out what film that was. Knowing at least one name of an actor in the film really helps a lot. Trust me and I'm sorry again.

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    4 years ago

    I hear that the Birdy is on sabbatical, between the goats grew to become into right here previously, have not considered the different in a whilst... The skeleton owes me $10 so in case you spot her permit me comprehend, the rat is asleep under my mattress, and the mullet lover moved to Jersey with some guy that drives an IROC-Z

  • 4 years ago

    The answer was Mystery Mansion. And I've frequently and people have their questions answered about films based on obscure bits of info. You just have to ask the right people. Clearly the denizens of Yahoo forums are not the right people.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sounds like it could be either Skeleton Key http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/

    or possibly The Others http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/

    If not, it may help to know how old you are or when you were a kid. :)

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