Patricia Arquette has never shied away from weird projects. The actress, who plays a femme fatale in "The Hi-Lo Country" (limited release Dec. 30), has dabbled in creepy cinema ranging from David Lynch's "Lost Highway" to "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors." But working on the upcoming "Toby's Story" surpassed even Arquette's elevated freak-o-meter.

On the set of the film, which follows the plight of a nightlife-loving hairdresser who supernaturally receives the holy stigmata, Arquette claims a lot of weird stuff was happening -- for real. "On the first day of shooting, the rigging fell down," she tells EW Online. "It would have crushed all these people except it landed on a statue of Christ." There's more: "One day I was taking a shower, and there was a little shelf where the shampoo bottle was. There was no water hitting it, but suddenly it's going perpendicular and straight back up without falling down."

Arquette says she finally called upon her own powers to convince the otherworldly visitors to cease and desist. "I've always been a little bit psychic and open to that kind of thing," she explains matter-of-factly, "but I finally had to make a deal with the spirits, like, 'Okay, there's only so much I can absorb of this.'" Believe it or not, she says, the strangeness stopped.

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