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'Poltergeist' partners with DiedInHouse.com site


Poltergeist just got that much creepier.

The horror film featuring a family who moves into a house possessed by angry spirits has partnered with the website DiedInHouse.com.

The real website can help users from making the same mistakes made by the ill-informed Bowen couple from the movie, due out July 2015 — and the same mistakes the family made in the original 1982 Poltergeist.

They both moved into houses with dead people. Lots of dead people.

Diedinhouse.com bills itself as "the first of its kind, web-based service that helps you find out if anyone has died at any valid US address." The site instantly searches records to determine if a death has occurred at that location.

At the end of the Poltergeist trailer (debuting on Thursday, February 5th at 9 A.M) fans will receive an promotional code to check their location, or loved ones' locations. Other signs include slamming doors, strange moaning at night or spiritual abduction.

Poltergeist director Gil Kenan calls the website "super cool," admitting he typed in his own home hoping to find something freaky.

"I tried it just now, with the hope that my home holds some ancient secrets, but I'm afraid to report that my house is clean," says Kenan.

Bummer, dude.