As If By Magic - Ghost Story "As you can see from this tour this mansion is a bargain buy and you only need to make a few adjustments and it will be as good as new!" Said the Estate agent gesticulating widely with his hands. The estate agent was a tall man, who was smartly dressed in what appeared to be a tailor made suit. The estate agent had a white name tag that read Ian and he had a short, but pointed nose. He had smart squared glasses with a noticeable parting of his hair. Each side of his parting was gelled to his head. Ian took two other men round a corner into a room that was lacking light, a good paint job and anything that a room needs! All the elongated room had was a table with two chairs and a window which was single glazed with cob webs and dust that had looked like it had been collected over fifty years. The table was the main focus point as it was the only real thing in the room but as you walked in and you saw the room with its peeling paint and wallpaper and splatters of different colours of paint over the walls like the paint had been thrown over the walls. The room looked different from all of the other rooms in the house. One of the men, the taller one, then asked Ian, " why is the room different from the rest of the house?" The man that asked Ian was about 6ft 6, brown hair that was cropped with dark bushy eyebrows. He had light green eyes with a dominant cheek line. He seemed to be a self made man as he spoke with quite a northern accent and did not pronounce his t's like you would expect a rich, posh man to. He was wearing a black suit with a white shirt and a black tie. He looked like he was a local bouncer and 'if your name was not down you weren't going in.' "I'm sorry I did not quite catch
In the story “Listening to Ghosts” Malea Powell talks about the native Americans on challenges and educational practices. The story is about the native American living in America before the British came to ruin their lives. This effect caused the Native Americans to disappear for good and became shadows. Afterwards there were different theories about the beliefs such as white guy philosopher's theory and western culture theory.The white guy’s philosopher's theory states that the stories were special and central civilized.Western culture, people thought that they were “savages” and “civilized”.
The book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” was published in the year 2008 on the 12th of February by Knopf Canada. The author of this book is Dr. Gabor Mate who has worked for twelve years in the eastside Vancouver with patients suffering from addiction, mental illness and HIV. He is also a renowned speaker and a bestselling author. He also received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for his work. (….)
visitors had gathered to take a to tour of this beautiful mansion; then, the guide revealed
The Haunting of Hill House is a gothic horror novel written by Shirley Jackson. Supernatural occurrences take place within the house revolving around Eleanor. Eleanor is a thirty-two-year-old woman who never once has felt the sense of inclusion. Eleanor seems to never recall the feeling of delight in her adult years due to the fact that she was a caretaker for her now deceased Mother; who took away most of her freedom by being incredibly restrictive. Dr. Montague, a doctor that specializes in analysis of the supernatural rents Hill House, a supposedly haunted house. During the renting period, Dr. Montague begins an experiment inviting individuals who have had involvement in abnormal events
They live in the castle to keep it safe. The narrator is in the castle
the last third of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th
cabin . . . . The roof had fallen in and the mud between the logs had fallen out in
The groom would wear a black and white tuxedo with either a bow or a tie.
Life and death are leaves us with an known and unknown that are unavoidable. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost symbolism, rhyme, and allusion are used to describe not only nature’s life cycle but the human life cycle as well. The allegory “Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys uses symbolism and motif to deliver a story of a woman who has died but is unaware that she has actually passed away. Even though both of these pieces of literature utilize similar elements that symbolize the human life cycle in their writings they are very different in nature, and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” leaves you with an actual reality of all beings lifecycles and the allegory leaves you with imagination only.
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.
Paranormal activity better known as parapsychology is a non-fictional idea. Parapsychology is the scientific study of interactions between living organisms and their external environment that seem to transcend the known physical laws of nature. (Teresi, 2000) The Society of Psychical Research was established in London in 1882 (Teresi, 2000). Major parapsychological studies had not begun appearing in mainstream scientific journals until the sixties and early seventies (Teresi, 2000).“Furthermore, groups such as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer and the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) have been formed to disseminate credible information on the paranormal. Credibility should be less of a problem in the future” (Teresi, 2000).
Epilogue chapter to Spook: A Ghostly Love Story in Three Parts told from Stiles point of view about four years later.
For many years, people have debated whether or not spirits are real. Some people get scared at the fact that there might be something unknown lurking in their house in the middle of the night making their footsteps known to everyone in it. Maybe that person feels watched upon or feel some kind of presence in their home, or even sees shadows moving their way through rooms. Different people around the world have their own opinions based on religion and experiences when talking about angels, demons, and the spirits that have life after death. New technology is getting closer to detecting these energies happening in the world today. The history of haunting dates back many years, and more people want to get involved because of the new technology.
a dull grey colour as if it had lost the will to live and stopped
The Dilemma of a Ghost is a short play written by the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo. The story is about a young Ghanaian man, Ato, currently studying in America. Here, he meets and falls in love with Eulalie; an African-American girl who lives in America. When he returns home with his new bride, Ato is torn between his family’s traditional custom against his wife’s western culture. His marriage and his wife’s behaviour become sources of great criticism from both family members and the Ghanaian community at large. The writer uses various scenarios to point out the difference between the African traditional culture and the modern western culture.