Creative Writing: Moving Into A Haunted House

It was also discovered, that there was a lady buried in the backyard, one who passed away 50-60 years prior. She also learned from her neighbors that the lady who had died in the house before they moved in, was a very good housekeeper. She was described as always keeping her house clean. Filban said it might have been her moving the furniture. She also added, since her mother did not keep the house very clean, it might have been the woman’s spirit coming by to clean house.

The Haunting of Hill House is a book about four people that all have backgrounds of experiencing supernatural events. Because of this, they were all chosen to explore the supernatural happenings occurring at Hill House. The house was originally built by a man named Hugh Crain. It had been a place of mysterious events and also the deaths of those who lived there. Dr. Montague, a supernatural investigator, then carefully selected three people with paranormal backgrounds, and invited them to explore the occurrences at the house. Luke, the future heir of the house, Theodora, a careless artist, and Eleanor Vance are invited to the house. Eleanor Vance is the main character and narrator of the story. She lived alone,

In the author's life he had witnessed his father's death at a young age, Wes wasn’t completely sure as to what was happening until he had gotten older. Without his father Wes had his grandparents and his mother to take care of him, but before Wes had moved in with his grandparents his mother had been sleeping on the couch and she claimed she did that because there had been many robberies in their neighborhood lately and she wanted to protect her children. Wes really knew why she had been sleeping on the couch and it was because it “allowed her avoid the haunted bedroom”.

Day after day, we would pass the mansion building on our way to and from school. Branches of vines and clusters of moss crawled up the sides of the building. I could see the paint, tearing off the walls. People for years have said the mansion building is haunted, but I don’t believe it. They say people have been possessed and killed there. Olivia, of course, believes every detail anyone tells him. To teach him a lesson, we decided to plan to spend the night in the mansion building this Saturday.

“Oh dear, this town is just rather small. Most people that come to town do not need a place to stay,” she adds to Billy’s comment. It started to get late, and Billy could not decide what to do. Should he leave this insane place, or should he just hold off until morning. He decided to make conversation with the landlady. He wanted to figure her out because, deep down, he knew something was up.

Following these attacks David’s delusions dissipated. It seemed as if the demons had been feed and were in a dormant state. He moved from the Bronx to a two-family home in Yonkers. Here though the delusions would grow stronger and more elaborate. The Cassara family, whom he was renting from, owned a German Sheppard who was noisy and howled frequently. He would become David’s unrelenting torment. Inside this family’s dog lived a demon that was ordering David to go hunting for blood. This would drive him to the edge becoming even suicidal at one point. No longer able to bear he left the Cassara’s and moved to an apartment home in Yonkers. Here a man by the name of Sam Carr owned a black Labrador that would also torment David.

This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.

The footsteps reached his door. There was a barely perceptible pause, then the door creaked open loudly. David shrieked as a dark shadow threw itself at him, passing through him as a gust of poisonous air.

Eventually good times started to turn bad, “ My relationship with mom drastically changed from discipline to punishment that grew out of control”. David had to crawl away sometimes because the things his mother would do to him was to crucial at times. David knew something had changed about his mother when his father left and she would lay on the couch and do absolutely nothing. One day she told David and his two brothers she started the to search the entire house for nothing

The house is said to be haunted by Dies Drear and two slaves who were killed by bounty hunters. The third slave ran away. The neighbor, an old man named Pluto lives in a nearby cave who acts fishy, almost like two different people. Weird things start to happen to the family like them finding 4 triangles(which the slaves used to use) which makes a Greek cross and the kitchen covered full of flour when the family was gone. Thomas thinks these are the acts of Mr. Pluto. After the incident of the kitchen, however, Thomas and his dad run in the middle of the night to Mr. Pluto's cave, thinking he caused the mess. After finding a secret passage in the cave which is full of jewels and valuable artifacts, Thomas and his dad realize that their were two

Cameron’s House - When Cameron and his mother moved into a new house for the fourth time, they lived in a very rustic house, with paint stripping. The home previously belonged to the McTavish's family; this has caused a ghostly and mysterious feeling around the building.

there 's something sort of haunted about it. The boy is not strong for one

As their guest runs away, the entire family wonders what caused him to leave so abruptly. However, the one member of the family who knows the exact reason he ran quickly tells a blatant lie. Vera tells her family that she believes the reason he left is because of a great fear of dogs. However, the actual reason he left is due to the ghost story of sorts that Vera has told him. Vera knows she has deceived their guest, and continues to do the same with her family.

The howling of the wind brought my eyes to open. Where was I? Focusing in the dark of night, confusion washed over me as I came to realize I was in the desert. Distant landscapes of dry and worn rock surrounded me, and beneath my bare feet I felt the gritty sand caught between my toes. I was surrounded by those rocky hills and yet as I scanned the desolate desert it seemed never ending. The irony of the nighttime desert suddenly set into my body; that ghastly wind moving right through me and chilling my bones to that of splintering ice. The need to move started me forward though, and I felt a sharp ache all over, my body trying to fight against change. Was I lost? My heart began pounding fast in my chest, the blood pumping through my veins

On their walk they would pass one house and one house only which was in the heart of the woods. It was a dark brown house with white curtains. The house was very old and looked to be falling apart. They assumed it was abandoned and thought nothing of it. But every time Derek walked passed he would get a minor headache not even recognizing