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Wit & Attitude Quote by Ryan Reynolds

"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"

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Reynolds smuggles a spooky belief into a punchline, and that’s the trick: he gets to flirt with the paranormal without sounding gullible. The first clause borrows the language of science ("dark energies") like a costume, not a thesis. It signals, I’m not talking about ghosts with incense and crystals; I’m talking about vibes with a veneer of credibility. That wink matters because celebrity talk about the supernatural can curdle into self-mythology fast. Reynolds keeps it light by immediately grounding "energy" in a blunt, tabloid-ready scenario: the murder house.

The subtext is less about hauntings than about consequence. A home isn’t neutral real estate; it’s an archive. Trauma clings, whether you frame it as "bad juju" or as the psychological weight of knowing what happened there. By choosing an extreme example (six murders), he makes the moral calculus obvious: some bargains are so cheap they feel indecent.

Then he pivots to the real target: not the supernatural, but the buyer. "What the hell is wrong with you" flips the fear outward. The house isn’t cursed; your decision-making is. It’s a jab at our culture’s appetite for proximity to horror - true-crime tourism, sensational listings, the idea that everything has a price if the discount is steep enough. Reynolds’ persona thrives on that reversal: he starts with the irrational, ends with the pragmatic, and leaves you laughing at the uncomfortable implication that the scariest thing in the story is human choice.

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Reynolds, Ryan. (2026, January 15). I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-in-energy-like-dark-energies-i-believe-165781/

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Reynolds, Ryan. "I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-in-energy-like-dark-energies-i-believe-165781/.

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"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-in-energy-like-dark-energies-i-believe-165781/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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