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07-10-2010

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The Creepiest Houses In The World

The Creepiest Houses In The World

The haunted house is one of the oldest horror archetypes in the world. Does some sort of energy in our bodies, or our souls perhaps, get attached to property as time goes on, so attached that this energy feels the need to stick around even after death? This is perhaps an unanswerable question, but there are witnesses that claim that this is indeed the case. They do not just simply claim this to be true, but also believe with an amazing conviction that the spirits of the dead linger in their former homes. Here are some of the creepiest houses that are supposedly haunted.

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07-07-2010

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Vampires Vs Ghosts

Vampires Vs Ghosts

The idea of a human corpse or body coming back to life or the spirit of one who has since passed on revisiting the realm of the living is not new. All cultures around the world have some form of this myth. Scholars (and even those who have strong common sense) have hypothesized that the prominence of these myths, legends, and stories is related to the human fear and wonder of what awaits beyond the land of the living. Having a loved one reanimate after their heart has stopped beating or the spirit of him or her return to inadvertently interact or even speak to the living is a very comforting thought to the family and friends of a recently deceased person. However, many tales of bodies moving around and performing actions after death or a spirit that has contact with living humans are actually rather frightening. Dead bodies coming back to life could be vampires who continue living off of human blood or zombies who live off of human flesh. Ghosts have a tendency to haunt the living or disturbing inanimate objects to scare humans or destroy a certain inhabited area. These two entities seem to make up two different parts of a human being—the vampire or zombie being the body and the ghost being the soul. The combination of the two might even make a living person again. However, since the concept of a zombie is a relatively modern one and is only seen in in the Voodoo religion, vampires are really the most dominant form of dead bodies that receive new life. Still, one must look into which is the better legend—the body (as vampires) versus the spirit (as ghosts).

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05-26-2010

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The Thing in the Closet

The Thing in the Closet

The sudden lightning and crashing of the thunder woke little Billy out of a restless sleep. The rain clacking at the window like long wicked finger nails only added to the fright that held him paralyzed in his bed. Again another hit of lightning struck with a sudden crash of thunder following it. He could tell the storm was directly over his house now. The lightning and thunder exploded right outside his bedroom window as the rain poured down. When the lighting would strike Billy could swear that he saw things outside his window; Long, strange evil things with claws the size of daggers. “They’re only the trees. They have to be just the trees”. He said in an effort to console himself. He lay there watching the rain bang at his window as the tree things seemed to move closer. With every step the tree things took, Billy felt his strength to move slip away. “Close my eyes and count to ten. That will make it go away” Billy told himself in childish desperation. So he did. He closed his eyes and counted to ten. When he opened them to his horror the tree thing was now at his window. Its long, branch fingers were scratching at his window.

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05-21-2010

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The 5 Scariest Urban Legends

The 5 Scariest Urban Legends

The Urban Legend can have its lineage traced all the way back to the earliest form of storytelling, when terrifying tales were traded around fires, either as a warning or for mere entertainment. The Urban Legend is a contemporary legend, a modern form of folklore or mythology which reflects the era’s fears or trepidations. While originally, like the original talks of folklore, they were passed around by word of mouth, modern technology has seen the distribution of tales taken on by the new forms of communication and media. The latest of these being used are the chain-email and the use of various social networking sites, which have been able to add an extra fear dynamic in the added clause that if the note is not forwarded to a certain number of people, some form of paranormal revenge will befall the ill-fated reader.

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