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The novel Popchuck's Ghost is similar to the movie Bunks which is a film that I saw many years ago. It is similar because in both the novel and the movie, there is a haunted cabin. In the novel, Cabin 5 is haunted by Popchuck's Ghost and strange things happen to the people staying in ced cabin. In the movie, the members of the cabin wander into the forest and stumble upon and old, run down cabin. This cabin is supposedly haunted since a child went missing in it many years before. Also, in the novel and the movie, the members of each cabin were known as social outcasts. In the book, the cabin members were normally the last ones there when they needed to run to the flagpole before meals and they often didn't come in first place when they needed

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