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Haunted New England



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Phantom Clown Scares
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NY Times Article on the Clown Scare of 2016
Why clowns are scary
People afraid of clowns for centuries
CLown scare of 1981
Some explanations of clown scares
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Local Legends
Central berkshire ghost hunters - pittsfield
the bloody pit
Haunted Berkshires
More Haunted Places in the Berkshires
These Mysterious Hills Blog
Berkshire eagle ghost stories close to home
Haunted Bennington VT
the walloomsac inn, bennington
Obscure Vermont
Berkshire bigfoot sightings back to 1765
bigfoot sightings berkshires
Barrington Bigfoot 1895
UFO Sightings in the berkshires
Berkshire secret korendor ufo base

Berkshire Haunted Houses featured on National Television shows: The Mount and Ventfort Hall in Lenox and The Houghton Mansion in North Adams

The orbits were sunk, and the thick red-lined lids hung over the eyeballs like blinds of which the cords are broken. One lid drooped a little lower than the other, with the effect of a crooked leer; ~ The Eyes

The Ghost Stories
by Edith Wharton

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pity and social norms
The eyes: haunted sexuality
ghost tours at the mount
Ghost archives at the mount
the dog ghosts of the mount
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the triumph of night text
the lady's maid's bell text
the lady's maid's bell audio
the eyes text
the eyes audio
afterward text
Afterward audio
miss mary pask text
kerfol text
Kerfol audio
Mr. Jones text
bewitched text

...a place where a drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,
and to pervade the very atmosphere...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
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the legend of sleepy hollow text
Rip van winkle text
the devil and tom walker text
the specter of the bridegroom text
the adventure of the german student text

Battle of merritt hill
origins of the legend
Washington Irving BIo
washington irving band
irving's works online
legend audio downloads
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A real sleepy hollow?
the real landmarks
New York Times Article
sunnyside irving's home
washington irving quotes
volunteer for librivox
headless horseman haunted hayride
The legend of sleepy hollow webquest

"Well, now." Mr. Summers said soberly, "guess we better get started, get this over with, so's we can go back to work. "

The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
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the lottery
the daemon lover text
monstrous Acts
This link is from Salon. PPS considers that site "Adult" and won't allow school access.
the banality of evil
the sorceress of bennington
eleven facts about the lottery
an outsider in bennington vermont

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is --

The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Seven Gables Text
house of the seven gables
meeting of hawthorne and melville
the solitude of nathaniel hawthorne
Seven gables a national hist. landmark
The ghost that haunted nat. hawthorne
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Painting of the house in Lenox from which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables."
the ghost of doctor harris text
feathertop text
ethan brand text
rappaccini's daughter text
the snow image text
young goodman brown text
dr. heidegger's experiment text
lady eleanor's mantle
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