Barog Vs. The Amityville Horror

Poltergeist are loud supernatural ghosts that are not something you want to mess with. Have you ever had the bed shake unexpectedly? Or have the power go out when there’s a not even a storm? Or maybe even had some disappearing objects… Well this could be the result of a Poltergeist. We believe that Poltergeists are real. (MOLLY)

“But in the history of the United States there are several influential and persisting paranormal mysteries that have formed the haunted landscape of our shared country and cultural experience and have formed the basis of the themes and motifs examined in this work” (Fitch 8). In “Paranormal National” Marc E. Fitch, talks about the history of paranormal activities that occurred in the United States. Since the ancient times, people all around the world has seen ghosts or assumed haunted places dwells with ghosts or spirits. With the help of television shows, horror movies, and stories, people around the world are consumed by the “facts” that made them believe an urban legend about ghosts turning into true stories. “Nobody has been able to prove

Ghosts are not there just to haunt, they have a purpose (same goes for other supernatural creatures found in literature)

All houses are haunted; all persons are haunted; throngs of spirits follow us everywhere, we are never alone. Every county has they own haunted places some more known than others. I will take you on an adventure though Wisconsin’s past and present gulls and goblins that will sure give you a new look on Wisconsin. The haunted places in Wisconsin are worth learning about.

Located on the grounds of Roanoke College’s campus is the reportedly haunted house known as Monterey. This house was built in 1853 by the Huff family, over time passed through many different owners, and in 2002 was officially bought by Roanoke College. Throughout the history of the house several of the occupants are known to have died within the premises of the property, thus contributing to it’s reputation of being haunted. In our investigation of the Monterey house we spent two nights in the house gathering various types of data to aid us in our attempt to discover what theory of haunting is consistent with the experiences within the house.

Many individuals ponder whether paranormal activity in fact does exist, or whether it is just a hallucination of the mind. Although, this may be a controversial topic, countless individuals can swear that they have witnessed a spirit with their own eyes, as others couldn’t disagree more. In the book, The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown, the author uses personal encounters of witnesses to justify the presence of a spirit in a historical location. The tales the author includes pertains to people from all different classes and statuses such as, slaves, soldiers, lost-lovers, and even the prosperous individuals of Virginia. Meanwhile, the author also provides historical information, by stating the establishment of towns and informing the reader about the effects of wars, such as the Revolutionary and Civil War.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone says, haunted houses? Scary? Ghosts? Studies show that people hear and see things that aren’t there when they are scared or frightened. Leading them to report “paranormal” activity. Haunted houses make people do that. But, in order to successfully understand the Amityville haunting, one must know the murderer of the family, the other family who purchased the home, and how the haunting of the house started.

To be haunted means more than to living in a house inhabited by ghosts, but to have the ghosts of loved ones continually affect the living for the rest of their lives. In Jennifer Finney Boylan’s memoir, I’m Looking Through You, she attempts to mentally understand how the word ‘haunted’ held significance in her life. In the memoir, the main conflict deals with her finding out if she had haunted herself when she was James and living in Coffin House and then wanting to make peace with her father through ghost hunters she hired. This conflict becomes resolved when she speaks to him as a ghost, to tie up loose ends with him. The author gained the understanding that she must make sense of her past in order to not feel so haunted herself, such as

I read the true story, The Amityville Horror. The book is a retelling of the 28 terrifying days a family spent at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island. George and Kathy Lutz, along with their three children, move into a house that seems to be almost too good to be true. As they stay in the house longer and longer, more and more frightening phenomena occur. In this journal I will be evaluating and predicting.

The story “The Haunting of Hill House” written by Shirley Jackson and “Rose Red” by Steaven King have many similar things that happen. In both the movie and book it talks about a group of people that are psychic that visit a haunted house that has had so many things happen inside. They believe the house is alive and they go inside to see it for themselves. Both houses had a family Crains and the Rimbauers that have died in the house or on the way to the house.

The article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, it talks about ghost whisperers or people who talk to ghosts, it also talks about why people are so interested in ghost stories. One example to show that people are interested in ghost stories is they are spooky. The article states “Sarah Winchester starred in terror at Adam Coons, trying to comprehend the chilling words he had just uttered” (Bachko 4). Sarah was the wife to the man who owns the company of the Winchester rifle, this shows how the ghost story is spooky because, it makes the reader spooked of what could come next. If someone didn’t know what going to happen next they would wonder and question what would happen and generally people like stories when they have to guess what

It was summer time and I was finally home from college in Maine, My family’s house is in Upstate New York and I’m an only child so my parents didn’t need a huge house, Though the house was small it was very old Build and built famous Architect in Buffalo, New York. It was a wonderful house with French doors with a full basement and big rooms for all of us. We all enjoyed our times there the happy, sad, funny, and wonderful experiences, it wasn’t a place I would call “Haunted” Sure it had those creeks in the middle of the night and those weird cracks and groans from the age of the house. As far as I knew it was all Normal, But I was wrong...

When the family who purchased this home first moved in, they thought all their dreams had come true. The log home in a beautiful location seemed to be everything they wanted. Soon, however, they started seeing mysterious lights and hearing chains dragging and other noises. They spent a fortune trying to discover what was wrong with their precious home, only to have a medium confirm their suspicions that it was, in fact, haunted.

break down, that vitality is discharged into nature. There is no proof that "vitality" remains or can be contained in a human-looking element after the body is dead. Inside of the corpus of paranormal writing, phantoms come in different sorts. The phantom is a loud, troublesome, problematic substance. Clever spirits might associate with individuals or be deciphered as having some natural reason to attempt. Lingering hauntings are portrayed like the procedure of a tape replaying in nature. Shadow individuals are said to be versatile dark masses that discharge an insidious vicinity. Phantoms that take after individuals from numerous time periods have been accounted for yet the most widely recognized reports are those of the later past or from

Okay, I shall say with a scared heart or whatever a door has, that I definitely believe in ghosts. Let me explain. So I was hanging there on my hinges, like a normal door should, when suddenly, out of nowhere, SOMEBODY FLIES THROUGH MY FRAME. Yes and did I mention that that somebody happened to be Jacob Marley? The exact guy that has been dead for 7 YEARS! So as I’m trying to cope with the fact someone just flown through me, my friend Doorknob started to speak up.