He jumped and screamed and, as he did, the face of the thing came up
towards him: no eyes, no nose, no mouth. He screamed again and
rushed to the door. He felt the thing touch his back and start to tear
at his shirt...
Things ... things in the night, things in the house, screaming,
running, staring ... In these stories there are things that are worse
than your worst dreams.
Giant black spiders living in a tree. The terrible ghost that
waits outside a window. Empty clothes that walk. The strange
thin woman who moves through a man’s picture. The boy with
the long, dirty fingernails - and a hole in his chest. The woman
who screams from the bottom of a lake. And the dry dusty old
man who reads - but has no eyes!
SCIENCE AROUND HORROR
According to these researchers, stimulation is one of the driving forces behind the consumption of horror.
Exposure to terrifying acts like stories of demonic possession or alien infestation can be stimulating both
mentally and physically. These experiences can give rise to both negative feelings, such as fear or anxiety,
and positive feelings, such as excitement or joy. And we tend to feel the most positive emotions when
something makes us feel the most negative ones.
Horror entertainment can also provide a novel experience, like a zombie apocalypse, that doesn't
necessarily happen in the real world. At the same time, horror entertainment is a safe way to satisfy a
curiosity about the dark side of humanity through storylines and characters facing the darkest parts of
the human condition.
TRICKS AREN'T ALWAYS TREATS
The question remains as to why some people get a kick out of horror while others do not. Research
suggests that those who enjoy horror have a psychological “protective frame” that falls into three
categories.
First is a safety frame. Watching a horror film or show means we have to know for sure that we are safe,
and that the evil entity is distant and cannot hurt us. The second category of protective frame involves a
sense of detachment. We need to be reminded that horror we are seeing is not real—it's just great acting,
special effects, and art direction. Finally, the protective frame involves our sense of control and the
confidence in managing the dangers we encounter. We can still get a thrill from a good scare if we feel
confident about controlling and overcoming the perceived danger.
Our sense of control can serve as a form of psychological protective frame, a prerequisite to experiencing
IS NEGETIVE POWER REALLY EXISTS,
ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
From many years, there are some unsolved questions which are haunting mankind. One among those
mysterious questions is “Do ghosts and such entities really exist?”. This is a million-dollar question,
though many people say that “it’s a trash”, there are some fascinating facts and proofs which makes that
trash a hidden treasure yet to be found. There are many people who dedicated their lives in order find the
answer to this question. According to a survey, even in the most developed countries like America, around
45% of the people believe in the existence of paranormal entities. There are many scientific theories
which explain about the existence of the unknown entities. Even there are many proofs which can prove
the existence of paranormal creatures, simply termed as ghosts. Though some of them are considered to
be pointless, some of the theories and proofs may not be neglected, as there is no evidence to disprove
them. In this paper we are going to discuss about various theories, and about various researchers who are
termed as “parapsychologists” and their explanations regarding this topic. Here we are going to discuss
about different energies and their impact on human brain and also some information regarding
mysterious terms like “Exorcism” and “Pocession”.
pleasure from horror consumption,”
Visitors to Castringham Hall in Suffolk will find it almost
unchanged from the days when our story took place. They can
still see the beautiful old house with its gardens and lake.
However, the one thing missing is the ash-tree, which used to
stand, proud and tall, in front of the house, its branches almost
touching the walls.
This story begins in 1690 with a strange, lonely old woman,
Mrs Mothersole, who was found guilty of being a witch. Sir
Matthew Fell, the owner of Castringham Hall at that time,
described how she used to climb into the ash-tree outside his
bedroom every time there was a full moon. He said that she
usually carried a strange knife to cut off parts of the tree and that
she talked to herself. Once he followed her home, but she
disappeared and when he knocked on the door of her house, she
came downstairs in her night clothes looking sleepy. He and the
villagers agreed that it was certain she did these things by magic
and so she was hanged. Before she died, she fought and shouted,
and her last strange words were: ‘There will be guests at the Hall.’
After the hanging, Sir Matthew felt uncomfortable and guilty,
and he told his friend the vicar about his worries. ‘You did the
right thing. Sir Matthew,’ were the wise words of the vicar. ‘I’m
sure she was a dangerous woman.’ Sir Matthew felt happier.
That evening, Sir Matthew and the vicar went for a walk in
the gardens of Castringham Hall. It was the night of the full
moon. As they were returning to the house, Sir Matthew pointed
to the ash-tree in great surprise. ‘What kind of animal is that
running down the ash-tree? It looks very strange.’
The vicar only saw the moving animal for a moment, but he
thought that it had more than four legs. He shook his head.
‘I
‘What kind of animal is that running down the ash-tree? It looks
very strange.’
must be tired,’ he thought to himself. ‘After all, what animal has
more than four legs?’ He said nothing to Sir Matthew, but just
wished him good night.
The next morning, Sir Matthew’s servants were surprised not
to find him downstairs at his usual time of six o’clock. When
seven o’clock and then eight o’clock passed, they began to suspect
that something was terribly wrong and they went up to his
bedroom. The door was locked. After knocking several times and
still getting no answer from inside, they broke down the door and
entered, to find that their fears were right. Sir Matthew s body lay
on the bed, dead and completely black. There were no wounds or
other marks on him and everything in the room looked as usual,
except that the window was wide open. His servants at first
suspected poison but the doctor who was called found no such
2 thing and could offer no real explanation for Sir Matthews death.
When he heard the news, the vicar rushed to Castringham
Hall, and, while he was waiting to hear the doctor’s opinion, he
looked at Sir Matthew’s Bible, which was lying on a table by the
dead man’s bedside. He opened the book and the first words he
read were from the book of Luke,
♦
The servants locked Sir Matthew’s room that day and it stayed
locked up for the next forty years. By that time, Sir Richard Fell,
Sir Matthews grandson, was living at Castringham Hall. He
enjoyed spending money, especially on rebuilding parts of the
Hall. He also decided to make the local church bigger so that his
family could have a fine new seat in the new part of the church.
In order to complete this building work, some of the graves in the
graveyard had to be moved. One of the graves was that of Mrs
Mothersole, the old witch who began this story. The villagers
were excited about the opening of her grave and a crowd came to
watch. However, they and the workmen were amazed to find the
grave completely empty: no body, no bones, no dust.
At about this time, Sir Richard started to sleep very badly. The
wind made his fire smoke and the curtains move and, because his
room faced east, the sun woke him up early in the morning. One
morning he asked his servant to help him choose a better room and
he made a tour of the house, finding something wrong with each
room. Each one was either too cold or too noisy or it faced the
wrong direction. Finally, he found himself outside his grandfather’s
old room. His servant tried to persuade him not to go in:
‘It’s a bad room, sir. They say terrible things happened in there,
and no one has opened the door since the death of your
grandfather. Also, the ash-tree is right outside the window and
that’s always unlucky, sir.’
3 But Sir Richard was not listening. He unlocked the door and
walked straight in. ‘See? Nothing unusual in here, James!’ he said
and he opened the window. As he did so, he noticed how tall and
dark the ash-tree was. Its branches seemed to be trying to reach
into the room. But he said nothing.
At that moment, a stranger rang the bell at the front door of the
Hall. The servant brought him up to the bedroom, where Sir
Richard was standing, looking around him at the old paintings and
old books. ‘I must apologize for interrupting you, Sir Richard,’ said
the stranger, ‘but please allow me to introduce myself. My name is
William Crome. My grandfather was the vicar here in your
grandfather’s time. I have some papers to deliver to you.’
‘Delighted to meet you,’ said Sir Richard. ‘James, please bring
us some wine in the library and then move my clothes and things
into this room for me. I will sleep here in future.’
While he was drinking a glass of wine with William Crome in
the library, Sir Richard looked at the papers, many of which
belonged to his grandfather. Among them he found the notes made
by the old vicar about the day of Sir Matthew’s mysterious death.
‘Well, well,’ said Sir Richard, laughing quietly. ‘How very
interesting! It seems that my grandfather’s Bible gave a piece of
advice on the day he died and your grandfather thought it could
be about that old ash-tree outside the bedroom window - “Cut
it down” the Good Book told him. Those were the first words
your grandfather saw when he opened the Bible on the day of
my grandfather’s death.’
‘Do you still have that old Bible?’ asked William Crome, ‘I’d
very much like to see it.’
Sir Richard found the old Bible easily. ‘Yes, here it is. A bit
dusty, I’m afraid. Let’s see what it has to tell me. I’ll open it at any
page and read the first words I see, just as your grandfather did.’
He opened the book and his eyes fell on the words, ‘You shall
look for me in the morning, and I shall not be here.’ Sir Richard
4 was sure that the words were again about the ash-tree - the Bible
was crying to give him some advice! He ordered some of his
servants to cut it down the next day.
♦
But Sir Richard did not live to see them cut the ash-tree down.
That night, at exactly midnight, a strange and terrible animal
jumped from Sir Richard’s bed, ran silently to the window and
disappeared into the shadowy branches of the enormous tree. No
one was there to see it but the next morning they found Sir
Richard’s body, like his grandfather’s, dead and completely black.
When William Crome heard the news of his new friend’s
death, the words from the Bible came back to him: ‘You shall
look for me in the morning and I shall not be here.’ He
immediately hurried to Castringham Hall, where he found the
family and servants crowded round the ash-tree.
‘Sir Richard’s last orders were that we should cut down this
tree,’ explained James and then, in a quieter voice, he went on,
‘and there’s something very strange about that tree, sir. Very
strange. It’s hollow and they say something lives inside it.’
The gardener put his ladder against the tree and climbed up to
look inside. As he held a light over the hole, his face suddenly
looked so terrified that several of the people watching from
below screamed and turned to run. The gardener himself fell off
the ladder, dropping his lamp down into the hollow tree, which
quickly caught fire. As the tree started to burn, the crowd saw an
animal run from the tree. They screamed in horror as they saw its
shape and size. It looked like an enormous spider, about the same
size as a man’s head and covered all over with grey hair.
‘Look, there’s another! And another!’ someone shouted. For a
long time the men watched these terrifying animals trying to
escape from the fire one after another, and then they killed them
with sticks. As the tree started to burn, the crowd saw an animal run
from the tree. At last, the fire burned itself out and William Crome, James
the servant and some of the braver people went to look inside
the blackened tree. There they found the bones of a human
being. The doctors who examined it afterwards said that it was
the body of a woman who died around 1690 ... the year that
old Mrs Mothersole was hanged.
Two men, John and Edgar, were having dinner together one
night when a conversation started on the subject of school-days.
One of them, John, told the following strange story:
‘When I went to the school in September of 1870, I
immediately became friendly with a Scottish boy called McLeod.
It was a large school and the teachers changed quite often. One
term a new teacher named Sampson came to teach at the school.
He taught us Latin. He was tall and pale with a black beard and
he was popular with the boys because he used to tell us all about
his travels to different countries. He always carried an old gold
coin in is pocket, which he found on a trip to Turkey, and one
day he let us look at this coin closely. On one side of it was the
head of a king - I don’t know which one - and on the other side
of it were the letters G.W.S. (for Sampson’s name) and the date
24 July 1865.
We enjoyed Sampson’s classes because he often asked us to
invent sentences of our own, instead of always doing the boring
exercises in the grammar book. One day, he asked us for
sentences using the word ‘remember’ in Latin. We all wrote our
sentences in the usual way, and Sampson came round to correct
each of us. My friend McLeod seemed to be having some
difficulty in thinking of a sentence and when the bell went for
break, I saw him write something very quickly, just before
Sampson reached him. So McLeod’s sentence was the last one
that Sampson corrected that day; I waited outside the classroom for
what seemed a long time before my friend at last came out. I
guessed that he was in trouble for making a mistake. When he did
come out, he was looking thoughtful.
‘What happened? Was old Sampson angry?’ I asked.
‘No. My sentence was all right. I think. I wrote “Memento
putei inter quattuor taxos”,’ said McLeod.
‘Well, what does all that mean?’ I asked.
“That’s the funny thing,’ he explained.’ I don’t really know, you
see. I couldn’t think of anything to write until just before
Sampson got to me. Then those words just came into my head
from nowhere and — it was very strange — I could see a sort of
picture of it in my head. I think it means “Remember the well
among the four trees”. When Sampson read it he went quiet for a
long time, then he started to ask me questions about my family
and where I came from. Then he let me go.’
We soon forgot about the lesson and McLeod’s strange sentence
because the next day McLeod became ill with a cold and he didn’t
come to school for a week. Nothing happened for about a month,
until one day when we were, again, writing Latin sentences for
Sampson. This time we had to write them on pieces of paper and
give them to him for correction. He started looking through
them, but when he got to one piece of paper he turned white and
cried out. looking very frightened. He got up and hurried out of
the classroom and we sat there for a long time, wondering what to
do. Finally, I got up to have a look at the papers and the first thing
I noticed was that the top one was in red ink. Our school never
allowed us to use red ink; it was against the rules. The sentence on
the paper said ‘Si tu non veneris ad me, ego veniam ad te’, which
means ‘If you don’t come to me, I will come to you’. All the boys
looked at it and they all promised that the sentence was not theirs.
To check, I counted the pieces of paper - there were seventeen of
them ... but there were only sixteen boys in the class. Where this
paper came from, no one could say. I put it in my pocket and it
wasn’t until that afternoon that I took it out again: it was
completely white, with no sign of the red writing on it anywhere!
I know it was the same piece of paper because I could still see my
fingermarks on it. Anyway, Sampson eventually came back at the
End of that lesson and told us we could go. He looked at the papers
one by one, and probably thought it was his imagination playing
tricks. He looked pale and worried.
The next day, Sampson was in school again and he seemed
quite normal, but it was that night that the third strange thing
happened. It was about midnight when I suddenly woke up;
somebody was shouting at me. It was McLeod, who shared my
room; he looked terrified, ‘Quick,’ he said, ‘I think a burglar is
trying to get into Sampson’s room.’ I rushed to the window but
could see nothing. Somehow, though, I felt that something was
wrong out there and the two of us waited, watching closely.
‘Tell me exactly what you saw or heard,’ I whispered.
‘I didn’t hear anything but about five minutes before I woke
you I just found myself standing here at the window,’ McLeod
whispered back. ‘There was a terrible-looking man standing just
outside Sampson’s window. He was very tall and very thin ... and
... he didn’t really look like a living person at all. More like a
ghost. He seemed to be making a sign to Sampson to go with
him. That’s all I saw before I woke you up.’
We waited a long time, watching, but we saw nothing more that
night. Everything was quiet outside. We woke up feeling tired and
strange in the morning. But during the day the news went round
that no one could find Sampson anywhere, and he didn’t come for
our Latin class that day. In fact, we never heard of or saw Sampson
again. Somehow, McLeod and I knew that we should keep quiet
about what he had seen that night and we never told anyone.’
‘It’s a good story, John,’ said Edgar, listening to his friend as he
finished his wine, ‘a very good one. But now I really must be on
my way home. I hope I don’t meet any strange, thin men on the
way.’ The two men laughed, shook hands and went their different
ways.
It was about a year later that Edgar, the listener to John’s story,
travelled to Ireland to visit another friend who lived in an old
‘There was a terrible-looking man standing just outside
Sampson’s window.’
Country house there. One evening his host was looking in a box
full of various old things for a key that he wanted. Suddenly he
pulled a small object out of the box and held it up. ‘Have a look
at this, Edgar. What do you think it is?’ he asked.
It was an old gold coin with the head of a king on the front.
Edgar looked closely. ‘Where did you get it?’ he asked quietly.
‘Well, it’s quite an interesting story,’ began his friend. ‘A year or
two ago we were working on that area of the garden over there
in the corner, can you see? Among the four trees? Right in the
middle of the trees, we found an old well and at the bottom of it,
you’ll never guess what we found.’
‘Yes. I will. Was it a body, by any chance?’ asked Edgar.
His friend was surprised. ‘Yes, it was. In fact, we found two
bodies. One of them had its arms tightly around the other. They
were probably there for thirty years or more. Anyway, we pulled
them out and in the pocket of one of them we found this old
coin ... from Turkey or somewhere, by the look of it. It’s got
something on the back of it, too. Can you see what it says?’
‘Yes. I think I can,’ said Edgar. ‘It seems to be the letters G.W.S.
and the date 24 July 1865.’
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