Its one thing to hear an urban legend but it’s another to actually put you in the place the legend happened. Realizing the truth for you is one of the biggest reasons behind the many different stories told of myths and legends. But one of the problems with these stories being passed down is the lack of historical evidence. Anyone can come up with their own personal experience of something that may or may not have actually happened, but the solid background information is key in making it actually believable. This is why I’m lead to believe that story of The Nunnery, based in Logan Canyon, has too many fictitious angles surrounding the legend.
Built in 1910 by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch, Hatch’s Camp (later named St Ann’s Retreat, but most commonly known as The Nunnery) has had plenty of time to surface mysterious tragedy information. Many of these stories are told by local teens/young adults to visitors, many of which attend Utah State and are intrigued by the information given. The variations of the story ranges anywhere from Nuns bearing devil children, to Ghost Dogs chasing you if you trespass or even the children born to the Nuns being killed or scarified in the pool or fireplace. Though they make great ghost stories while camping up in the canyon, the facts behind Hatch’s Camp will make this story seem less spooky.
Chad Godfrey is the current owner of the retreat and I had the opportunity to speak with his sister, one of the caretakers, Lynette Godfrey. One of her stories tells of her family spending most of the summer of 2009 fixing up the retreat. Having so many kids break into the many buildings on the lot, destroying and vandalizing including but not limited to breaking doors and windows and stealing/burning the belongings...
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...ng on less than 3 acres, the Nunnery has many false claims which it has grown over the years. These claims have led me to believe that this supposed haunted area is nothing but ghost stories.
Originally plotted in 1910, the spacious lodge and cabins were designed by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch who was one of the first to place a cabin in the canyon. Hatch’s Camp was later owned by L. Boyd Hatch and Floyd B. Odlum who expanded the retreat during 1920-30’s. Floyd B. Odlum was one of the ten wealthiest men during that time and he and L. Boyd Hatch helped grow the summer camp to a retreat that would host many friends and family. Some of the visitors included celebrities with ties to the Hatch/Odlum duo. Following the duo the Catholic Church used it as a retreat for Nuns, but only for short periods of time, which leads me to believe it shouldn’t really be called a nunnery.
Do you know what the closet haunted places to you are? The closet haunted places are in Weyauwega, Marsh Road. There are actually two haunted roads by the name of Marsh Road in Weyauwega (Haunted Places in Wisconsin 29). There is one where I live stretching from highway 54 to White Lake Road, which is the road I live on, and there is one near highway ten just off of Evanswood road which is a dead end (Haunted Places in Wisconsin 29). Both of these roads are unmarked, which means that they don’t have any street signs. The first Marsh Road I am going to talk about is the one off of Evanswood Road (Haunted Places in Wisconsin 29). Legend says that in the 1960s and 1970s there was a “Make-out Couch”, and on the night after prom there was a couple that was on the couch late that night and it is said that a man, in which they call the Goatman, killed them and left there remains still on the couch (Haunted Places in Wisconsin 29). Also another myth is that if you stop your car on the bridge of marsh road that your car will not start back up. Many people have said that they have seen the couple’s ghosts. Other paranormal activities include orbs found in pictures from studies that have been conducted on the road (Haunted Places in Wisconsin 29). Also many people say...
“We have travelled from Florida to Radford, Virginia on four different occasions to investigate St. Albans,” said Terri. During that time they have experienced a plethora of paranormal activity, including the sounds of disembodied voices, the vision of a full-body apparition, having an investigator slapped by an unseen hand, disembodied growling, and a disappearing door, among others.
When one usually thinks of a hearing a ghost story, the setting is dark with flickering light (such as around a campfire or in a basement with bad lighting) and, of course, it is nighttime. Needless to say, when I heard this story during the middle of the day on a Friday, I was a little taken aback. When prompted for any urban legends or ghost stories a white, female friend of mine immediately responded with, “Have you ever heard of de Sales Academy?” With my negative response, the nineteen year old student jumped into her story:
Perhaps some of the best stories told are classified as urban legends. Urban legends have become a part of culture, and a way to tell stories. They can tell us things about ourselves and about how we lead our lives. They serve to entertain us, but can also teach us lessons, such as morals to live by. Urban legends are passed on between generations, and become a part of the oral history of a place. Whether the stories are true or not, urban legends are often taken to hold at least some truth about a culture. No matter how radical some of the stories may be, people often take the urban legends to be true. People may take these stories to be true simply for entertainment purposes, but mostly because the morals the stories teach are important. Urban legends can become a part of the place where they originate, and can help define a culture, and shape its history.
The Franciscan Terrane of central California represents an accretionary complex formed by long-term subduction of an oceanic plate under the Western margin of the North American craton. The Franciscan complex is composed of three distinguishable belts: the eastern belt (Yolla Bolly and Pickett Peak terranes), the central belt, and the coastal belt. Age and metamorphic grade of the belts decreases to the west (Blake and Jones, 1981). Formation of the accretionary complex began during the late Jurassic in the eastern belt and has continued into the Miocene along the western coastal belt. The complex trends NNW and is bounded by the San Andreas Fault to the east and by the coastal range fault to the west. The coast range fault separates the Franciscan complex with the partly coeval Great Valley sequence. Debate exists over the tectonic evolution of the Franciscan, centered around the geographic origin of the Franciscan rock units.
She knows of the story after hearing it from fellow students at the University of Washington, where she went for her undergraduate studies. The story was told during a regular hangout, by a girl from a town near Port Townsend. The person I heard the story from doesn't really pay the myth and "ghost story" idea any attention because of its common presence in that area. Washington state is a region known as the "Haunted North West." Capitol Hill has so many "ghosts" that companies offer ghost tours year round.
...ional Museum- that being the Houston Race Riots. They highlighted the problems that the nation was dealing with on the home front during the war. Camp Logan was an emergency training camp that required men to be away from their families during a time of war, but today Memorial Park is anything except that. According to the Memorial Park Conservancy, “Memorial Park has 30 miles of running and walking trails. More than 4 million people visit the park yearly, and more than 10,000 runners use the Seymour-Lieberman running trail every day. The park's golf courses host 64,000 rounds of golf every year.” (Guy). To people who live in the surrounding area, Camp Logan solely refers to the neighborhood in the northeast corner of Memorial Park. There is little left today, if anything, that helps the park’s multitude of visitors remember its short yet uniquely important history.
According to the documentary, the prison has more attacks on inmates and staff than any other facility in the state of Ohio. Typically new arrivals are classified as 4B. These inmates spend their entire stay in the “hole”. Which means the inmate is confined to his/her cell for 23 hours of the day with strict movement and little privileges. If the inmate breaks the rules, the time starts over. If the inmates are compliant, their status moves to 4A, where the inmates will still spend 23 hours a day in his or her cell, but the inmate will have more privileges such as recreation time that is not as strict. The prison staff needs to be strict and concise to prevent an inmate take over, which has happened in the past at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility res...
First, The narrator is sceptical and doubtful about the red room and its alleged supernatural powers; "I can assure you that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." His arrogant behaviour creates uneasiness in the reader's mind as it is typical in a Gothic story. the smug non-believer to be the first victim of the story. However, as a result, it is. the story continues, we see that there is very little dialogue in the later parts of the story.
Karr-Morse, R., & Wiley, M. S. (1997). Ghost from the Nursery. New York : The Atlantic Monthly Press.
The Nelly Butler hauntings is referred to as the first recorded ghost story in American history (LiBrizzi 5), and possibly the most exciting hauntings to date as there are still many unsolved mysteries. The apparition appeared on more than 30 separate occasions to over 100 witnesses in Sullivan, Maine, just over fifteen years after the American Revolution (5-6). Although the Nelly Butler apparition is one of the most convincing ghosts of all time, it was subject to suspicions of fraud. These claims turn out to be groundless as the evidence reveals the ghost to be genuine.
The shelter's that social services send the families too are not only priced ridiculously however are incredibly horrifying to picture families staying in. The Emergency Assessment Unit, otherwise known as the EAU, are supposed to place people in shelters that will provide a safe place for those in need. This is not the case, and although the original thought is ethical the circumstances that these innocent families are placed are unethical. In the text, the Martinique Hotel charges each person in poverty to stay a nightly fee, usually around $63 a night. This rounds to about $1900 a month. If they want visitors they must pay $12.40 for husbands and $16.70 for grandparents or extended family to stay the evening (59). Families are placed here and are expected
At last I arrived, unmolested except for the rain, at the hefty decaying doors of the church. I pushed the door and it obediently opened, then I slid inside closing it surreptitiously behind me. No point in alerting others to my presence. As I turned my shoulder, my gaze was held by the magnificence of the architecture. It never fails to move me. My eyes begin by looking at the ceiling, and then they roam from side to side and finally along the walls drinking in the beauty of the stained glass windows which glowed in the candle light, finally coming to rest on the altar. I slipped into the nearest pew with the intention of saying a few prayers when I noticed him. His eyes were fixated upon me. I stared at the floor, but it was too late, because I was already aware that he wasn’t one of the priests, his clothes were all wrong and his face! It seemed lifeless. I felt so heavy. My eyes didn’t want to obey me. Neither did my legs. Too late I realised the danger! Mesmerised, I fell asleep.
The 2002 film, Magdalene Sisters, written and directed by Peter Mullan, portrays the experiences of four young women who were sent to Magdalene laundries where they were expected to work to gain redemption through intensive labor, typically for the duration of their lives. These women were considered “fallen” for committing sins such as promiscuity, pregnancy out of wedlock, flirtatiousness and even for being victims of rape or incest. These inmates were beaten, dehumanized, humiliated and stripped of their dignity. This film, based on the documentary Sex in a Cold Climate, highlights the reciprocal influence of the Catholic Church and society that formed the views and treatment of women, which ultimately led to the creation and perpetuation of Magdalene laundries until 1996. Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the heavily intertwined nature of Irish society and Catholicism allowed for a strict interpretation of Catholic teachings which overtly condemned, dehumanized and sexually repressed women. Distorted catholic teachings that formed expectations for women deeply affected all levels of the operation of laundries including the greater society, the inmates and the nuns in a way that perpetuated and facilitated oppression and abuse.
Women in the Catholic Church take on many roles, from parishioner to laywoman to nuns. Women parishioners help prepare for the mass. They can be lectors, choir members, CCD instructors, etc. Laywomen “…are the Catholic women traditionally permitted certain ministerial responsibilities (Wessinger, 244).” They work in churches, schools, prisons, etc. Nuns dedicate their lives to religious devotion. They take three vows; poverty, chasity, and obedience. They are to live simple lifestyles. They live their lives teaching others and helping others.