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When Michael Caine thought he’d been haunted by the ghost of Lillian Gish: “You get that sort of thing”

As Halloween nears, the tendency to think about ghosts and hauntings naturally intensifies, with darker nights welcoming fears of apparitions and ghouls loitering the streets, at the top of the stairs, or perhaps at the end of your bed.

Even the staunchest non-believers in ghosts will likely experience moments of doubt when a certain shadow or an unexplained phenomenon teases the existence of something supernatural, although most of the time there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation, the keyword being most…

Telling ghost stories is good fun, it’s why we love horror movies so much, and it can be genuinely disappointing when a potential ghost sighting is debunked (although I’m still waiting to find a sensible explanation for the ghost experience I certainly had in a fish and chip shop in York a few years ago). Actor Michael Caine isn’t the first person you think of when it comes to spooky films, but he still has a ghost story of his own, kind of.

The London-born actor is known for his Cockney accent, which carried him through many British classics before he ultimately got whisked away to Hollywood to win several Oscars. As his star power rose, he found himself invited to all kinds of fancy events, where he was able to mingle with the stars, but there was one instance in which he saw a famous actor and was convinced he’d seen her ghost as he had no idea she was still alive.

You see, Caine thought he saw the ghost of Lillian Gish, the leading star of one of cinema’s most controversial films, the horrifically racist The Birth of a Nation, which came out in 1915, so it’s understandable that decades on, he assumed she was no longer with us. Hence, seeing Gish in the flesh admittedly gave Caine a fright, wherein he really thought he was experiencing a proper ghost encounter, and one featuring an Old Hollywood star, no less.

“I remember being at the tribute for Alfred Hitchcock and they gave the Lillian Gish scholarship, and the spotlight goes up and just beside me is Lillian Gish, who I thought was dead for years,” he explained to Deseret News. 

The fact that “she wears white makeup and has grey hair” really didn’t help when “this spotlight went on her and she had on a white dress, and I looked around and suddenly this ghost of Lillian Gish came up. And you get that sort of thing,” Caine clarified.

To be fair, seeing Gish, a staunch Republican who had no qualms about starring in a movie that reignited support for the Ku Klux Klan, must have been pretty frightening, and while she was an icon according to many, until her death in 1993, but how iconic is it to appear in a movie as diatribe that is The Birth of A Nation?