The Haunted Palace

When people think of Halloween, some view as a holiday of fun. Its purpose in the United States is viewed as a holiday for children and adults alike, since children get free candy from trick or treating, while adults go out partying while dressed in costumes. However, Halloween’s actual purpose was more of a holiday or festival in the Celtic religion called Samhain, the holiday was to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. As time passed, Halloween went from festivals…

It was night and my sisters are coming home. I was bored and I wanted to scare them. So I put on my Halloween costume and I thought of where I was going to hide. It took me a while to figure out where I was going to hide. After a few minutes later I found out where I was going to hide and I hid behind the door. I hid behind the door because I hide in the same places all the time. So I hid in that position to see if i was able to scare them. It was a good spot to scare them. I had to wait because…

Brandon Medina Medina 1 Jena DelaCruz English II Pre-AP 8 May 2015 Alcatraz Ghosts Hauntings The Alcatraz prison is one of the many places in America that is haunted by ghost today and there is usually a strong belief in ghosts whether or not they actually exist this discussion has been argued for a long time in about all civilizations around the world since the old times. Such beliefs in ghosts started out from religion by believing in evil spirits called demons who were said to be…

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…

Reading counts assignment: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl In depth examination: Looking at the title, “The Haunting of Sunshine Girl,” I can tell that this story is about a ghost with possibly the name “Sunshine”. Examining the cover, you can tell the story has a creepy, kind of disturbing purpose, like this story is meant to make your heart thump, to make sure no monsters or ghost are behind you ready to take your life. Paige McKenzie’s horror story; “The Haunting of Sunshine Girl.” The…

live there was all murdered in their beds by a family member who lived in their basement. Killing the couple and their two sons and two daughters. After they move in they go to a priest and have him bless their house, but the priest says it's very haunted and the evil spirit makes him blind and sick. The father doesn't care, do with him not having a strong faith but Kathy is terrified. Sadly the priest seems to lose his mind. The…

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,…

We entrust many aspects of our lives to figures in positions of power – our births, our educations, our marriages, our livelihoods. The list could go on. But one important aspect we entrust is our health. We count on doctors and nurses to make the right decisions for our bodies, and sometimes that decision is the difference between life and death. In spite of the expectations set for our caregivers, human nature can lead us astray. Medical abuse has been very prevalent in a plethora of settings.…

As my father was driving me to an old worn out brick building. He drove me there two times before, but tonight was special tonight was Halloween. The building I was working at was made of old brick. The bricks were faded because of water and had scars where vines were the summer before. There were small props like a homemade box for someone to jump out and scare the people in line. There was a ticket booth painted like it was from an actual circus. The glass door that had a freaky clown behind…

was a haunted scary looking house. Mya saw a ghost in the window she thought it was just in her head or a reflection of something so Mya kept walking. She went around the block again and said to herself she will not be scared, she came back to the house and saw 2 ghost in the window. This time 1 of the ghost looked at her. Mya ran home screaming. When she got home she told her mom and dad. Mya didn’t go to the house for a long time. The next few weeks Mya decided to go back to the scary haunted…