The Legitimacy Of Haunted Houses

A child’s ghost haunts several rooms on the second floor of one of the buildings. It tugs on peoples’ clothing and its spectral laughter is heard. A woman’s ghost has tapped people on the shoulder and touched them. Books fall from shelves by themselves. Crystals hanging from a set of candlesticks move back and forth when there is no breeze to account for this.

For example, the numerous dowsing hits found in the house can be attributed to the priming or bias of the people conducting the dowsing sweeps. They might be unaware of the priming and the bias caused by following or trying to repeat the results of another. In addition to the dowsing hits, the psychological theory of explanation is also supported by the reports of hearing voices that are not actually there. This can be attributed to a lack of sleep causing hallucinations, fueled by a self fulfilling prophecy, like purposefully looking for a specific piece of evidence in your data until you find it, and can even be attributed to hearing damage or impairment due to health problems or old age. Another possible explanation for the hauntings can be seen with deja vu, or the experiencing of intense familiarity with something in the present environment that leads you to believe you have experienced it before. An exemplification of this theory can be seen when Robin experienced feelings of familiarity while listening to a song during one of the vigils, but could not place where she had heard it before. This feeling of familiarity is derived by the brain’s inability to recall the information related to the potential memory, and is sometimes referred to as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomena. Overall, the data collected from Monterey is mostly explained by the

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.

According to Avery Gordon, a ghostly encounter, is a reference or an acknowledgement of some social spectacle or event happening that has taken place. Avery Gordon would use the 9/11 and the most current event of the Paris terror to describe he theories on ghost encounter “the fear of

The book Ghosts and Demons: The Truth of the Bell Witch written by KyL T. Cobb, Jr. is a skeptical and

Many people have been inside haunted houses or lived in a haunted house. Some people do not realize actually if there house is haunted or not. People who actually know about a haunted house , they want to visit and video what paranormal activities happen at the haunted house. In Alabama, three places have been visited and recorded of the ghost inthe haunted facility. The word facility is being used because not all ghost exist in houses, they can be in backyard, bridge, anywhere. The big houses you pass by on the highway that you think are pretty, they might not always be as they seem. The Crying Spirit at the Well, The Little Boy with No Eyes, and Cry Baby Bridge are three different haunted ghost stories that happen at three different places.

If you believe in ghosts, you aren’t alone. A YouGov survey of about 1,000 people says that 45% of people believe that ghosts or spirits of the dead can come back and interact with us. It kind of sounds crazy to believe that people can stick around after they die and even interact with objects in our world, but so many people swear they have encountered something that they can’t explain. I’ve always grew up really skeptical of these things. The Idea that spirits stick around with us after death is an ancient one, and is incorporated into countless literature, from the Bible to “Macbeth”. It has inspired so many different kinds of media like horror movies, ghost stories, and tv shows. I grew up watching some of these things, and the question always remained in my head: Are ghosts real? I really wanted to answer that in this senior project. I think I finally have a good answer that I’m going to stick with.

“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

Though it may not be a national holiday, America loves Halloween, and intends to have a scary good time this year. In fact, more than half of the country - 157 million people - intend to celebrate Oct. 31 this year, according to the National Retail Federation.

Populating the world of popular literature in today’s society, a plethora of ghost stories of haunted houses exist. Though what truly captures the mind of the human population about haunted houses cannot be explained or identified, the occurrence is definitely a popular subject. Demonstrating this, statistics suggest that 1,200 haunted houses currently exist in the United States to entertain the population. Whether it be storytelling, movies, or parties, the idea of spirits haunting people proves to be one of the most successful forms of entertainment. However, few of those aforementioned stories explore the realm of the perspective of the dead in occurrences of haunting. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, The Others recounts the tale of a mother

Around half of the American populace, in a great many surveys, say they put stock in phantoms and haunts. There have been many TV programs, books, recordings and Web destinations in the previous 20 years, including individuals who choose to be paranormal examiners who discovered confirmation of the paranormal. Around Halloween time, the media is trickling with buildup about apparition visits, phantom cases, and neighborhood paranormal examinations of the group's authentic spots with short of breath cases of confirmation of phantoms from these novice phantom seekers. What would it be a good idea for us to think about phantoms? It's a convoluted inquiry. Here are a few truths and FAQs to get you square about where we are with our insight into

The world is filled with many untouched wonders that we have yet to discover, as well as fully understand. We have uncovered a significant portion of the natural and the nature of science on this planet, but what about the supernatural? There are some situations in life in which we simply cannot apply the knowledge that we have learned so far. For example, in class we spoke about the mysterious repetitive, consistent knocking the Fox sisters heard. Scientific explanations cannot always explain the natural world, and it only makes sense to therefore view these situations with a different, outside perspective. That is, supernatural forces exist. The objective of this paper is to not only support this domain of science of this undermined world, but to explain how such supernatural instances plays an impact on its characters’ lives.

The fear of the unknown drew wandering bodies into the depths of the woods, known as the Strid. This isolated, rayless cavern was known to claim ghosts, if they even existed. As he stood in front of his former friend, Weigall pondered on the afterlife and the supernatural. Perhaps there is no such thing as ghosts, perhaps they are just ideas fabricated to soothe the human mind once a person passes away? Suddenly a crisp breeze chilled Weigall’s spine. The wind wailed in between the rotting tree trunks, bringing the ghastly smell decay to Weigall’s nose. An uneasy feeling downed upon Weigall as he parted from his longtime friend. The further Weigall ran the more the light faded. Soon he was surrounded by darkness and panic rushed through his veins. Something or someone was out to get him. Was this Gifford’s ghost rekindling their friendship or was it the Strid claiming its newest

The second explanation is infra-sound which are sound waves can't be realized by us, but it can affect the physiological state and can give false information about the surrounding environment. The third explanation: Shane Rogers is an engineering professor has passed many months in some haunted places, as it was rumored about them, and discovered that Molds there were responsible for irrational fear and

As we can see in the introduction of this essay, the ghosts has the status of having been and not being in the same form anymore, it is a diachronic status. While the status of the ghostly identities is synchronic, meaning this that this status of neither being nor not being takes place at the same time. But where does these status come from? What are the mechanisms that establish and distribute these status?. The frames of ontology can be seen as the mechanisms that dis-adjusts, that give this out-of-jointness, to these phantasmagoric entities.