7 Creepy Unsolved Mysteries. The moment I saw the photograph--a grave enclosed in an iron cage--I knew there was a book in it for me. The online article I'd stumbled across was brief and uninformative, claiming that this girl's family caged her grave because they thought she was a vampire (or maybe a werewolf). Even the location of the grave was obscured in the article, listed as "near Rorhbach's outside Catawissa, Pennsylvania. " I had to see it. No matter what the explanation for this grave was, I knew it wouldn't satisfy me. This was going to be one of those stories that left me chilled in spite of anyone's attempt to debunk it. I'm attracted to unsolved mysteries, especially bizarre ones. If there's a "rational explanation," so much the better, because it's somehow even creepier when a reason is given and it makes no sense. I wrote my first novel, We Hear the Dead, about Maggie and Kate Fox, teenage sisters who claimed the strange rapping noises that followed them everywhere were messages from spirits.
Close 1. 10 Most Terrifying Places on Earth. Creepy There are places on this planet that are stranger than the most alien landscapes we have ever imagined. Places that make your skin crawl. Places that induce heavy breathing and paranoia, before anything has even happened. We walk the dark, dusty steps of old castles and houses. We hear screams in the night, footsteps in the hall. The History The Riddle House in Palm Beach County, Florida, was originally a funeral parlor. The Terror Joseph, one of Riddle’s former employees, committed suicide by hanging himself in the attic of the house. The Northern part of Summit County in Ohio is known by the eerily blunt moniker, Helltown. Whether based on a kernel of truth or cooked up in the heads of creative visitors, the persistent legends of Helltown add to the creep factor.
Stull, Kansas, is a tiny, unincorporated town in Bumfuck, Nowhere- er, pardon, Douglas County. “There are graveyards across America that go beyond merely being haunted and enter into the realm of the diabolical. 1. The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World. Many people doesn’t know, and didn’t even heard about these famous abandoned places. Many of these places are really something amazing, but they are also really sad when you take a closer look at them. On the folowing list, you can see abandoned planes, abandoned ships, as well as the abandoned houses, and so many other things, that are really amazing and magnificent. So, check out these amazing abandoned places photos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 15th century monastery in the Black Forest in Germany 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.
Most Popular of All Time. See also: the most popular from the last 30 days. David Vanderbyl Only a few blocks from home my 3-year-old brother opened the rear door of our family's Dodge Polara, and quick as a wink he was gone. tags: childhood drama [add] 2006-09-02 19:10:06 / Rating: 7330.25 / ferdinandthebull When I was 5 or so my mom would tell me to lie down before she tied my tie and I just now realized at the age of 19 that she did this because she's a funeral director. tags: funeral disenchanted humor [add] 2008-04-08 16:46:37 / Rating: 7305.5 / What are the odds? I knew God had a sense of humor when I hesitantly answered the ringing K-Mart payphone, only to hear my best friend, who had misdialed my home phone number, on the other end. tags: coincidence telephone humor friends God random [add] 2008-06-10 10:39:09 / Rating: 6474 / Ashamed My atheist neighbor has helped more people in the past year than my entire congregation has in the past ten. tags: religion shame hypocrite ashamed atheist atheism [add] Alexandra Limey Tom.
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7 Distraction-Fighting Strategies. A blank screen or sheet of paper glares at you, insisting you produce something now. Meanwhile, a lot of other voices are calling out, "Pay attention to me! " Suspect a lack of focus if your gaze wanders to the bookshelves over your desk, or your mind keeps drifting off to future plans, or you leap to answer the phone on its first ring, thinking, "Great!
A reprieve! " How can you best access your creativity and get the words flowing? Whether or not it comes naturally to you, focus is a matter of deciding to pay attention, and then strengthening your focusing ability by using it. When I interviewed an array of experienced writers , I found they regularly use a variety of techniques to get and keep themselves focused on their work. Here are seven strategies: 1. To try: Plan a series of stories or articles that conform to a theme, or create structure by writing a piece that is based around numbers or bulleted items. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Copyright (c) 2012 by Susan K. Creative Thinking Tools. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi, who also identified 36 situations.
Publication history[edit] “Gozzi maintained that there can be but thirty-six tragic situations. Schiller took great pains to find more, but he was unable to find even so many as Gozzi.” This list was published in a book of the same name, which contains extended explanations and examples. The list is popularized as an aid for writers, but it is also used by dramatists, storytellers and many others. The 36 situations[edit] Each situation is stated, then followed by the necessary elements for each situation and a brief description. See also[edit] References[edit]