Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories Analysis

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In, "Army Apparitions," Alan Moore informs his audience about ghost stories that are related to the military. In the text, "Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories," Ambrose Bierce tells his audience of paranormal activity that has happened in all of the ghost stories. Some of the stories are related to the spirits of the dead, and the other ghost stories are related to the disappearances of the living souls.
The implied message in the, "Army Apparitions," text is paranormal activity is not just in haunted houses or scary places, it can be everywhere. This text includes examples of paranormal activity on army posts or sites that have been affected by the toughest soldiers. For instance, this sentence states, "In a 1983 SOLDIERS article SSgt. Victoria Mouze recounted tales of ghostly visitations at several posts." (Moore 3). The implied message of the text, "Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories," is the supernatural effect is more common than what people might actually think. Paranormal activity has been going on in the United States for decades. For example, this line indicates, "In the summer of 1881 I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of
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In the text, "Army Apparitions," Moore explains the story of a young priest, who died in a fire, but also haunts the building that was built right after the fire. In "Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories," Briscoe explains how paranormal activity is more than a misery, death in a location, because he mentions how paranormal activity is a disappearance or a life after death situation. He tells the story of William Holt, who saw a figure of his wife holding her child at 11:25pm. The next morning, William found out that they died in a house fire at 11:25pm. Even though both texts have various examples, they don’t always agree that paranormal activity is the effect of a careless

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