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    Haunted House Legend

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    This haunted house was no ordinary old unattended creepy house. It was the most terrifying house, mostly because it was in the middle of Dark Greenwood forest and even at daylight the trees blocked out the sunlight therefore it was always dark. The house had been a town legend since 1950, Mother’s and grandmother’s used to scare their children into behaving good and being home before the streetlights glowed. According to the legend, this house was haunted because even in a famous and wealthy family

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    “Toll House”, “The Usher Family House”, “The Goblin Market”, “Young Goodman Brown”, “Catnip”, and “Suffer the Little Children” are the evil places that would be what carried the story. The place that held all the evil in The Shining would have to be the Overlook. The Overlook became inherently evil by the corruptness that happened in the hotel. Since a man, the caretaker at the point, killed his whole family in this hotel and more specifically in the haunted room, Room 237, it has been haunted ever

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    by Amy Tan and The Haunted House by Virginia Wolf are both deep with emotion and feeling a place of their past to celebrate their life revealing memories of the days gone by. The feeling of love is presented in two different fashions with similarities and differences first through Amy Tan’s story of a living family in search for her sister and seeing family after numerous years. The author, Virginia Wolf who tells the story of a couple who are ghosts and return to their house they once lived looking

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    there was a rumor going around the small town of Jefferson that there was a haunted house back in the woods that nobody has ever been to in about 75 years. On May 24, 1922, 3 kids named Ashley, Billy, and Cody put it to the test to see if they could find this house that everyone had been talking about. When they found the house after 4 hours of searching for it, all 3 kids walked up to the house. From the outside the house was very scary, big bushed not trimmed down, veins running down every window

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    themselves is a different story. In the text, "Army Apparitions" and the clip, "Most Haunted" is an article and a clip, but have similar points to share about paranormal activity. In "Army Apparitions" Moore tells his audience about ghost stories that are related to the military. In the clip, "Most Haunted" Yvette Fielding is trying to tell her audience of the paranormal activity that happened in the Whaley House. First, the rhetorical appeal being used in "Army Apparitions" is pathos because of

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    Haunted Wisconsin

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    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. Do you know what the closet haunted places to you are? The closet haunted places are in Weyauwega, Marsh Road. There are actually

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    In life, some people prefer to watch movies, and some people prefer to read books. Then there are some who love both movies and books. However, when one genre is portrayed in cinema and in literature, it is easy to compare the two. Are they complementary or are they in opposition to each other? In terms of gothic cinema and literature, they are both complementary to one another. In the two movies, The Conjuring and The Skeleton Key, gothic cinema proves to go hand in hand with the style of textual

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    Alabama Ghost Stories

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    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

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    In the Turner House by Angela Flournoy hauntings and unhappiness played a vital part. The Turner family seems to deal with problems such as hauntings and unhappiness, and each member of the turner family deals with their problem in a unique way, which causes bigger problems in each of the characters life. In the beginning of this novel Cha-Cha and his brothers and sisters thought they were being haunted but they thought that they were only being haunted in the house’s big room. Cha-Cha father never

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    mansion. This ghost movie derives from typical characteristics of the subgenre haunted houses. Unexpected sounds, intense music, and a ghostly monster scare the viewer as this movie plays out, but the twist is finding out the monster is not the ghost. The Awakening’s twist in plot allows the movie to surpass the layout of a haunted house movie by making the movie more interesting, suprising to the viewer. To begin, haunted movie’s subgenre characters usually come in five types known as the skeptic

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