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    In the woods when the sun was just starting to set, there was a van driving on a long-abandoned road, behind the wheel of said van was a tired looking girl who seemed to be about 19. She took a sip of the long cold coffee, and turned to the turquoise haired girl sitting next to her. "Hey uhhhh Cas, Cassie? Where are we?" Noting the headphones, she stopped the car and turned around to inquire of the two boys in the back, "Kenny, Timmy, do either of you have an idea where we are? It seems like we've

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    We shrieked with laughter and accused each other of moving or pushing the planchette but of course no one admitted to it. Question two was then asked, “Are you a friend or a foe”? The pointer then spelled out the word BOY. We resumed the questioning by asking what his name was. The planchette moved to spell out a name, SAMUEL. Suddenly the planchette seemed to go crazy and as if it had a power of its own, I pulled my fingers away and watched it spell out R O

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    Jade was sitting in the empty dark basement with her friends. Luke, Chelsey and June, they have been friends since the 3rd grade . It was late summer and it was too hot outside to do anything. No one could deny that they were bored out there mind. They were basically just staring at each other. “Well this has been nice...but this is extremely bored.” Chelsey groaned. Jade rolled her eyes. “Then what should we do?” Luke asked, obviously getting more bored. Jade thought about it for a second. “What

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    I awoke from mid-slumber, and the grogginess of my eyes could make out one simple specific time: 3:00 AM. The smell of dust resided inside my nose from the restless amount of sleep I’d gotten since the previous night. I rotated my head to the stand at the right of my bed to see a photo of me and my two younger sisters. A morbid chill ran down my spine in the remembrance of the countless nights that my younger sisters Clarice and Tarice, stayed up to tell scary stories in the time that they considered

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    One day me and my friends went to an abandoned jail it was really big and we had no clue where to go because it was a out first time there.we had to jump over a gate to get in and when we were all in we started looking around the jail for an entrance and we found an open window and one by one we entered the window and we were in a very sketchy room so when all of us were in we realized there were two doors so we out the door right in front of us and it was the main hallway with all the jail cells

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    The Haunting of Hill House In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of weather the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known

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    The Haunting Of Hill House

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    In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of whether the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known quote is very ambiguous and

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    psychologist at the University of London. The study was completed with an Ouija-playing robot and a blindfolded player. The robot’s purpose was to simply act as another player, so that the real person would assume that another person was moving the planchette with them. The study showed that when asked factual questions (such as, “What is the capital of Brazil?”), people would answer correctly 50% of the time on their own, but 65% of the time with the aid of the board (with techniques above in place)

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    treating and we were all a little loco on sugar and we decided to play the Ouija board inside the bell tower and when we circled the planchette 3 dreadful times Sage asked the first question “Are there any spirits in this room?” After Sage asked the question the planchette flew across the room and hit Sage in the face. We all screamed in horror as we watched the planchette fly. As we all sat in complete silence we heard a high pitched scream and the bell started ringing uncontrollably and we couldn’t

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    The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House is considered a classic to many people. It has a certain sense of feeling missing from today's novels. The Haunting of Hill House has suspense, horror, a little bit of romance, and an ending that will leave you thinking for days. Shirley Jackson is well known for her twisted work. At the beginning of the book, you our introduced to a character that has a major impact on all of its "guests". Hill House. "Hill House, not sane

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