Haunted House Essay

The house itself was fine, but I couldn’t ever be in my room for more than five minutes without getting nervous. I always felt as if I was being watched, and there was always a tapping noise whenever the room got colder than usual, which was often. I was positive my room was haunted, and my asthma and bizarre dreams when I went to sleep only furthered my reasoning that something wanted me gone…

Halloween is slowly approaching, and you know what that means: time to scope out the spookiest places you can find. Outside of the more traditional haunted houses, there are plenty of other buildings and well-known landmarks that hold a certain degree of creepiness all around the country. Here are the top seven spookiest places across America. While California may not seem like an unsettling place, it is home to one true ghost town. Bodie, California was originally a mining town in the late…

rich guy named W.H. Treason. Only the main section of the house stands because it had a huge fire and that’s what killed the owner. The parts of the fired were sealed off. He owned thousands of slaves and made them do everything. Now as the kids enter the house they wonder if it was a mistake. They try to get out and it seems the house is haunted. “Did you hear that noise?”, one of the four kids said. They heard the owner haunts the house but they didn't think it was true. One of the kids…

wasn’t until I visited the first haunted house of the Halloween season. During my childhood, I was overly obsessed with horror movies and anything that was guaranteed to send shivers down my spine. I lived to seek for blood and guts. I lived to seek for scary. I lived to seek the abnormal. Everything in the horror genre, fascinated me, but scared me at the same time. So when I finally got old enough to go out on my own, my mother agreed to let me go off to a Haunted House with my sister and her…

The Haunted Houses of Fort Leavenworth, was the well-known title of his book. “Army Apparition” by Alan Moore tells us about extraordinary things that happen in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by using rhetorical appeals, personal stories, and its historical background.…

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.…

like haunted houses, Halloween parades and haunted hayrides. In most cases, the attractions start around the beginning of October. Haunted Trails A haunted trail usually happens in the forest or woods. It can also happen in an empty theme park. The trail is normally around a mile long and has various buildings or roped off areas with scenes and scares. The scenes are often based on scary movies like Saw. There can also be themed areas full of scary clowns or decapitated heads. The haunted…

most all of us have been to a haunted house or heard of off the wall ghost stories. Are these true? Are there really ghosts or spirts out there? The answer is yes. As you continue to read I will begin explaining to you the realization of how true and as real as you and me, these spirits really are. Cultures all around the world believe in after life in another realm. Ghost are the most widely believed paranormal phenomena, 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses. Half of that 35…

Sentience Transcendence: Just as fire feeds off of oxygen in the air, the house of the Usher’s continues off of the family’s heirs. The backdrop of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher further emphasizes the chasm between the natural and the unfathomable and the effects upon which it inflicts on the human subconscious. The bleak, desolate conditions in which the Ushers live in contribute to the overall deterioration of the characters within the story, almost like a fire which…

She establishes credibility with the people who believe in the supernatural by providing locations to visit which are supposed to be haunted. Dabbs writes about spending two nights at a haunted hotel in Savannah, Georgia,…