House of Mystery

The Winchester Mystery House is one of California's most interesting attractions. Rumors say the owner built the house to confuse evil spirits and appease pleasant spirits. During the 1900's it was estimated to cost five million dollars to construct but no one knows the true value of the house today. You can now tour the house and decide for yourself if the house is truly haunted. Sarah Winchester was married to William Winchester; son of the inventor of the repeating rifle. The couple lost their infant daughter to a protein deficiency disease. Fifteen years later, Sarah lost her husband to tuberculosis and fell into a deeper depression. She inherited her husband's money and stocks in the Winchester Company. After speaking to a psychic medium, Sarah believed that she had to move…

Getter: Does anyone believe that Ghosts exist? Countless questions arise as you walk through the twisting maze at the Winchester Mystery house. How could one mansion be beautiful yet bizzare at the same time? Thesis: The fasinating story behind the Winchester house entails a deep personal tragedy; one in which led sarah winchester to build obsessively until the day of her death, still standing as a popular tourist attraction. Preview/Roadmap: Today not am I only going to explain the…

Brother to Brother Brother to Brother all throughout history that has been the question. It's always a competition between them, they constantly fight for the approval of their father. Which one is greater? Which one is stronger? Which one is smarter? That's is the evil deep inside of us all. The constant battle between each other for greatness. All the death and sorrow it has caused and yet we still have not learned from our mistakes. We constantly struggle with one another for these…

The story of Cain and Abel played a major part in the theme of East of Eden. The biblical tale of brotherhood jealousy was used to emulate the relationships between the “C-Characters” and the “A-Characters”. The story of Cain and Abel depicted two brothers fighting for the affection of God, which ends with Abel being murdered by Cain. Steinbeck uses this story to create the narrative that ends up pitting the “C-Characters” against the “A-Characters”, in which the A-Characters are usually on the…

One Corpse Too Many is a mystery book by Ellis Peters and is the second book in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The book is a murder mystery centered around an extra dead body amongst other dead bodies about to be buried. As there is no specific moral or theme highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of…

look interesting to me. It was living rocks that can move, grow, and reproduce, so I drew again. I drew the Anjikuni Lake in Canada. I looked through a couple of sites and decided that I would keep it because it looked interesting to me. I looked at more sites and each site helped me understand the disappearance of the people more and more. It is an unsolved mystery of the disappearing people of Anjikuni village. Joe Labelle, the person who discovered this mystery, had a few guesses, but his…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

a French con-man pretending to be the missing boy. The director, Bart Layton, leads the audience through one of the most intense real-life mysteries in American cold case history. Layton’s goal throughout the film is to entertain the audience with a bigger-than-life story. The director achieves this goal by creating the element of mystery using in-depth interviews, selective music choice, media from the time of the event. Layton shapes all of his characters and builds suspense in the film by…

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

from the dance and during her long vacation in Bath becomes close friends with Henry’s sister Eleanor. In result of this friendship she is invited to stay at the Tilney’s home, Northanger Abbey. Through her travels Catherine began reading the gothic novels of the time. Influencing her imagination, once she reaches Northanger Abbey, she becomes obsessed with finding a mystery. She creates scenarios of mystery and murder in her head only to realize that it was all her imagination. Even through her…