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    if I liked haunted houses I would tell them “Eh”. I like the idea of a haunted house. I would go to one. Although every time I go to a haunted house I get nervous. It’s like a switch turns my brain off when I agree to go and when I’m about to go in, it flips on. As I found out today. Meanwhile, it was a cool Friday in Michigan. I was bouncing up and down in my chair as I scarfed down a hearty breakfast. I couldn't wait. “Hey, (Anonymous) do you want to go to Erebus? It’s a haunted house,” my stepmom

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    If there was one thing that has grasped my attention as much as it caused me nightmares, it was haunted houses. Not the type of haunted houses that pop up around Halloween and frighten you with organized jump scares. I mean real haunted houses with a backstory. The kind where someone ended up being murdered on the property and the person’s spirit lingers years later. That’s what I am on the search for. My interest started after I had accidently watched My Paranormal Encounter while channel surfing

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    I’m just getting in the door, and I say to myself “oh course it has to be a two story house.” As I walk into the house I get shivers up my spine, and I know something is in the house I just don’t know what. As me being the curious one I know I have to keep going, and there I was standing in the doorway of a “haunted house.” I looked all through the living room, but I didn’t see anything. I was as scared as a jack-rabbit that had heard the howl of a wolf. I was just about to step on the first

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    In gothic literature, the settings are usually old, dim places. Such as dungeons, monasteries, and mansions. Later, it is described as a “colonial mansion,” and a “haunted house.” These descriptions do clearly match that of typical gothic literature. This element contributes an eeriness to the story, as we imagine this dark, haunted mansion that our narrator is locked up in, with no escape. Which deeply contributes to this disturbed story. Gilman explores many themes throughout this story, one

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    about the haunted house, up on the hill, on the west side of town, coming off of Elm. Once, I spent the week with some friends and, Halloween came upon us, while I stayed with them.” I was telling my first-grade brother and his friends stories to scare them out of their wits. Besides, no one wants little kids tagging along with you to go trick or treating, when you could go with your friends to Haunted Houses, and not ones set up by the town hall. “We were just about to pass the house, not thinking

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    William haunted house Rachael and Erin I know what you're thinking not another William story well to bad it is. This is the story of William and his grate big haunted summer home. He and Lily moved into his summer home for the, well, summer. As they were making themselves comfortable, Lily went into the bathroom to take her makeup off and then saw a creepy face in the mirror. Screaming, she tore from the bathroom and hid in the bed, much to the disgust and confusion of William. “Don't be such a wimp

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    My friends consisted of Mary,riley,and Samantha we had all been friends for a while now and got along pretty well. “ So are you guys ready to go to the haunted house yet?” “No but I probably never will be so I guess I am” riley said a little too loudly. “Okay then let's go” Mary said with enthusiasm. So we went off walking towards the haunted house. We blended in pretty well with all the children trick-or-treating because we had all dressed up even though none of us were trick-or-treating. I was wearing

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    (2) Haunted House Robert, the security guard, drew his gun, took a deep breath, and headed down a shadowy corridor full of plastic cobwebs, fake blood, and recorded screams. It was Robert's worst nightmare, a real-life killer on the loose in Cohan's Haunted House. At least one person was dead, and behind any one of these doors might lay another victim -or worse, the killer - waiting for another victim. Someone somewhere turned off the sound system and switched on the emergency lights. Robert tried

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    attest. "This is something that brings out the kid in me," Asmussen, 52, said Friday of All Hallows Eve, Naper Settlement's annual haunted house extravaganza that's been attracting thousands of visitors for the last 13 years. ADVERTISING For two nights, a dozen historic houses on the Naperville history museum's 12-acre Naperville campus are transformed into haunted dwellings filled with creepy characters and things that go bump in the night. "Everybody likes Halloween," said Asmussen, of Naperville

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    be safe and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do my mom said as she left. I sighed as I listened to my friends talk in the lunchroom about going to some house that is said to be haunted. Alex my best friend hail said taking me out of my thoughts. Yes what did you want? I said hoping it wasn’t about the haunted house. We are gonna explore the haunted house you're going with right? Guys why do we have to do that can’t we just go to the movies or something? I said trying to get out of this. Because Alex

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