The Donna J. Seifert and Joseph Balicki’s article, Mary Ann Hall's House, discusses about the archaeological investigations conducted at two vacant lots located at a proposed building site for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. In the archaeological investigations, the archaeologists discovered material remains associated with a mid-nineteenth brothel called Mary Ann Hall’s (Seifert and Balicki 2005:59). In addition to the discovery of the brothel, the archaeologists also discovered other households from the mid-nineteenth century that were built around the same time as the brothel. The two excavation sites provides an interesting case study in North American historical archaeology because, archaeologists working…
Aynne McAvoy’s childhood was unlike any other. Growing up in a family of five, her family moved closer to her grandparents for extra support as her father was often away for business. Quite a lot of history was left within the 50 year old house. In this article, McAvoy goes into depth of the mysteries encountered at the house, such as: apparitions, mysterious noises, and furniture shaking. As many people believe the paranormal are false accusation, McAvoy’s article shows a great amount of pathos, background evidence, along with an extraordinary amount of well-structured language and composition that draws you into believing her stories as you continue to read.…
Teish shares her experience of Halloween, where her neighbor Mr. Buck invited kids inside his house and then scared them dressing up in white sheet with a rifle and a rope. Children who witnessed Mr. Buck's appearance were scared and ran out the house screaming and crying, including Teish. Later, Teish adds that Mr. Buck was dressed in the hood and cloak of the Ku Klux Klan (Carnival of the Spirit, 166).…
“Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West” is a biography of American explorer Meriwether Lewis, written by Stephen Ambrose and published in 1996. The biography is supported by historic texts (letters and logs produced by Jefferson, Lewis, Clark and the Corps of Discovery members – some of which appear in the book) and outlines the trials and triumphs of the Corps of Discovery Expedition (also commonly known as the “Lewis and Clark Expedition” – which was the first American mission crossing western North America from St. Louis all the way through the continental divide and to the pacific coast). Ambrose provides some context by also writing about Lewis’s youth, his career as a planter and assistant…
With the barrel of her musket propped firmly on the limb of a tree, Charity took steady aim at the deer. The medium-sized buck was grazing at the edge of a thicket of wax myrtles, near where she saw the deer tracks the day before. John and Uriah were squatting in the bushes behind her. She had brought them along to help with the bleeding out of the deer, should she kill one, and to help carry it back to camp. They could then dress it out and help her prepare the meat for making jerky and so forth. She also hoped to can some of the meat so that it would last a lot longer. She was glad that Nancy had shown her how and taught her how to preserve food in glass jars- it was much better than having to dry it all into tough leather strips… Taking careful aim, Charity squeezed the trigger, while saying a quick prayer that the bullet would hit its mark. She was worried that she wasn't close enough to the deer, but if she had tried to get any closer, it would have seen her and ran off into the woods.…
The old barn was gloomy, but the light of the sun came gleaming in through the cracks of the barn, and made the straw glimmer like little tiny bits of gold. The shingles were in disrepair, however, the structure was sturdy, and the wood that surrounded it was worn with age, but it gave it character. Similarly, hay covered the floor as if it was a shield from danger. Hulga stood in the middle of the barn with her hands on her hips, looking toward the posterior of the barn at the ladder leading up to the loft romanticizing about Pointer and how their passions will ignite. Comparatively, hay covered the floor of the loft which set the prospect of love like a candle lit room. As well as, there being no animals in the barn which gave it a look of…
In the article, the appeal of pathos grabs the readers attention first hand. Living in a haunted house as a child was…
The reason that this statement is relevant to the paper, is because a similar events happens in the Poltergeist. The spirit in the house separates Carol Anne from her family to benefit the other souls in limbo. The spirit also causes feelings son to be attacked by a tree and a clown in order to direct everyone's attention away from the daughter. On the other hand, another difference is that the home in The Haunting of Hill House was a victorian style, while the home in Poltergeist is a American craftsman. Hill House was designed to be confusing to the eye, Huigh Crain made it to be disorienting on the inside, and look ordinary on the outside. His goal was not to make the house pretty, like the house in Poltergeist.…
THE HAUNTING OF SARA HILL is a supernatural thriller. The idea of a vengeful ghost haunting innocent people always seems to resonate with the mainstream audience. The script uses some of the elements that make for a potentially compelling tale. There’s a haunted house, scary noises, ghostly visions, and the threat of physical harm. The plot also has a backstory that drives the current hauntings.…
A haunted house should be a place where visitors feel excitement, fear and relief. Excitement begins in line towards the entrance of the haunted house because one is experimenting this with a group of friends. Fear rushes throughout the body, legs begin to shake, and palms begin to sweat because one is mentally preparing for what is coming up. After going through the 20 minutes haunted house toward the end, which felt like hours one begins to feel a relief because it is finally over. In the…
Life is full of things that we can’t explain but in Why Do People Believe in Ghost by Tiffanie Wen she explores the cultural, emotional, and scientific reasoning behind believing in ghosts, although there are still questions left unanswered and unexplainable. In this point of time science and reason can’t answer all our questions. Children believe in Santa until they are told that he is not. Well, until there is an explanation for ghosts, astrology, psychics, and others humans will continue to…
Each year people from the tri-state area travel to different haunted houses to experience some of the scariest moments of their lives. The scariest haunted house of the state is located in Tuxedo Park, New York, called The Forest of Fear. This event is more extreme than ever this year, containing five attractions for one admission price between $20 and $30. The five attractions are Uncle Jimmie’s Place, Das Kamp, Blind Panic, The Graveyard, and the Slaughterhouse. This haunted house is not recommended to children under the age of 12 due to the gory, disturbing characters walking throughout the forest. Sara Abouaf, a junior at LHS, is going to the Forest of Fear with the Lady Lions Soccer Team for team bonding the weekend of the 23rd. Sara stated,…
•She remembers terrifying herself with imaginary nighttime monsters as a child, and she enjoys the notion that the house they have taken is haunted. Yet as part of her “cure,” her husband forbids her to exercise her imagination in any way. Both her reason and her emotions rebel at his treatment, and she turns her imagination on neutral objects—the house and the wallpaper—in an attempt to ignore her growing frustration…
Much of the narrator's personality is revealed in the cemetery. The reader learns that he knew the truth about her, but that after she died, he only thought good things about her. He did not reflect on the horrible things he knew she did to him, but rather on the strong love he felt for her. This shows us how great his love for her was and how he could forgive and forget the things she did to him. This also shows that he wished that they could have been together longer and that he still loved her, even after what she did to him. Since the reader learns that he knew about his wife, but did not confront her while she was alive, shows us that he was in denial because his love for her was so strong. The ghosts' that the narrator sees in the cemetery are actually…
The main thing is, why don’t they just leave? The answer in the best haunted house literature is, they don’t leave because they cannot. Something keeps them inside. When someone takes on a house they form a bond between self and architecture. Houses are where people have to go when they are trying to hide. This makes it all the more terrifying when the houses turn on us. Our houses are everywhere.…