Muffins: Saving A Haunted House

Edgar Allan Poe shows his insanity in the Black Cat through irony. The narrator says in the begining of the story; "My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events"(1). Later readers discover the fact that the events are in no way mere household events, buts much more gruesome and highlights the narrator's perverseness. Later, the narrator buries his wife in a very loosely constructed wall, yet when the police come by he tells them; "By the bye, gentlemen, this - this is a very well constructed house"(5). As he tells them this he knocks against the wall and the cat cries. This stirs the policemen and we soon realize it was not a well constructed wall as the bricks

Every haunted house usually has a sad or treacherous past. Lemp Mansion is no exception. Declared as one of the nine most haunted places in America, the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis has its own history of suicides and untimely deaths. The members of the family had wealth and power yet it seemed almost like a curse was on the family, causing misery and grief over the years.

The article “Ghost Stories: There Was Something About My New House” by Hannah Betts, follows the author’s own paranormal encounter in her old home. Hannah and her family moved into a spacious Victorian manor that was always rumored to be haunted. Being skeptics, the Betts family decided to move into the house anyway. During their time in the manor, several smaller encounters, such as hearing footsteps and voices; which ultimately led to a ghost breaking a mirror, etching 666 into the shards of glass, and writing “I’m going to (explicit) kill you all” in blood. In her article, Betts uses pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions by her use of tone and mood, the parts of speech, and foreshadowing.

Once upon a time there were three ugly witches on Cat Lane. They were taking a pumpkin at 292 Cat lane and it was a cat punkin they took and they cast a spell to the punkin. They went another house nearby Cat Lane and took all of their pumpkins and cast a spell on them. Then on Halloween they brought all the pumpkins back to all their houses and they had a spell so when someone walked by they got the spell and turned into a zombie. So there were these five little kids and they were going to get candy at 292 Cat Lane and they walk by the pumpkin and they all turned into a zombie. Then, they went to these group of people walking by and he touched all of them then then the one kid Matt said

One day there was the new family moving into that one goes near or walk by. It was their first day in Douglas, Georgia. Their names were Tamesha Burch and Doran Burch, the dad. Jakobe Burch and Jamesha Burch, the twins, Doran Jr. Burch, their brother. They got out their cars and walked slowly into the house they opened the fence door. They walked on the stairs, they were creaking. Doran walked in first and yelled,’’Is anyone in here?’’ Everybody walked slowly behind him. They walked into the house and the door slammed behind them and they heard a loud screech from the backyard and went outside to see what it was………….there was nothing there. They walked farther out there a black cat jumped out of the bushes and limped towards the family and spurred on their leg. Doran asked,’’Can we keep him mom

Once there was a crooked man who had a crooked house and in that crooked house lived a crooked mouse and every night that creepy crooked house could walk among street lights at 3am. The creepy crooked man once lived in this creepy crooked house but sadly died in a brown rocking chair in the living room corner.

It has been almost a year since all of that and Mr. Ping-Pong and his pack of freaks now spend most of their time basket weaving in the Sing-Sing Correctional Facility. I received one of the baskets and a handwritten letter on unlined prison stationary. It reads:

Joella Corra loves her cat. She doesn’t talk to anyone else. She is very solitary. She is an avid cat person. She could not imagine a life without her cat. She didn’t just like cats, she loved all animals. She felt as free as a bird in nature. When she went home, she hugged her dog and waved to her brother. “Hello Patrick, How was your day?” she said. In the middle of the night, her cat slipped away. They searched all day, but then it started to rain cats and dogs. It was a catastrophe!Meanwhile, Aspen Little let in a wet cat, and fed it. She noticed that the cat was as black as night. “Hello little kitty. Would you like some food?” said Aspen. The cat seemed to smile and say yes. Joella was very lonely. She felt dismal. She missed her beloved

On day Jack walked in a big red camping trailer he saw a big master bedroom to the right with a bathroom, he also see something lying on the bed. Jack walked in the room and he notices that it is a pellet gun lying on the bed.Then he looked to the left and he saw a round wooden table with chips and soda on it,he also saw a pink couch and a baby boy sleeping on it with a blue shirt on.Then he saw a white refrigerator,so Jack went and looked to see what was in the refrigerator and there was Mountain Dew,SunDrop,and Green Lipton Tea.Then Jack looked around to see what the beating noise was,And he went and see that there is a washer and dryer and he heard the beating noise coming from the washer and dryer.

When we are scaffolding a lesson for our students we are just breaking up the learning into chunks, and then providing them with a tool, or structure, with each chunk or piece. For example when scaffolding a reading piece, I might preview the text and then discuss the vocabulary words, or I could chunk the text and read as we go. There are several strategies. Scaffolding is simply what we do first with our students. Here is an example of an assignment:

There are several locations that have a reputation of being haunted. Some of these locations host beings that are usually friendly and pose no threat to people. However, other haunted locations are homes to hostile beings who are not shy in showing their displeasure of the living. From the ghost of Marilyn Monroe to a ghost truck which chases people off a cliff, America has had a very long history of paranormal happenings which haunt visitors and locals alike. Here are 10 creepy places in America you will never want to visit.

A man and his wife were sitting in the Living Room watching TV. The man gets up and goes into the kitchen to get some popcorn. He comes back into the room to find his wife on the floor behind the couch unconscious and covered in blood. He hears rustling behind him. He turns around to find a masked man holding a baseball bat, the bat gets swung then it all goes black.

This mansion was built in the 1860’s in Louisville, Kentucky but was not taken care of.The

One day a little girl was on her way home from school. When she ran into him, the dog. She didn’t know what do she just kept looking at the dog. All of a sudden she blacked out. When she woke up she was in a nasty smelling room with many other ghost dogs, as she herself was a ghost dog. There was a ringleader of the group and he said she must try to turn people into ghost dogs. The little girl and now dog was terrified she

The number of haunted houses, both professional and ameture, has reached well into the thousands as of 2016. That means you have many to choose from this coming holiday. The average big house, a professional house with a substantial run time, draws in at least 300 patrons a night. Yet, with the millions of participants every year, I would confidently say that less than half, if even that, are really getting the most out of the experience. Worry not, for i have prepared all that you need to know about having the best experience that you can.