The Legitimacy Of Haunted Houses

Ghost stories are commonly told as a mystery or even called the “unexplained.” Topics such as ghost are a great for discussion and Moore presented this very well by also touching on each of the rhetorical

Have you ever heard of a ghost? Have you ever heard of a poltergeist? Well if you have, you might know about The Great Amherst Mystery of 1878. The Great Amherst Mystery was about a woman who goes by the name of Either Cox. Either just moved into her new home and was immediately struck by a sequence of hauntings by what people now know as a poltergeist. This is one of the most witnessed paranormal event recorded.

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.

In the novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because, like American ghosts, they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may or may not be real. There spirits are there but physical appearance is a mystery.

“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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Ghosts, as with any other misunderstood group or people, have been preyed upon by others without understanding. The lack of knowledge about ghosts and haunting activity has led people astray as to what they really are. What Hollywood and television portrays is very inaccurate and cannot be relied upon as truthful. They show these spirits of the dead as being evil in nature, filled with malice and harmful intent. But that this is not the case. The field of paranormal activity is amazing. It has caught the imagination of people from every walk of life. It has always interested me and has influenced me to pick this as the topic for my research. Through this research I wish to uncover the truth about the existence of ghosts.

Dunwich, Gerina. "Ghostly Superstitions." A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page, 2002. 162. Print.

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.