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1. What we learned about the topic that was most surprising is how often hauntings are linked to mysterious deaths. There is almost always a precursor to hauntings they do not just begin on their own. People usually claim there was some sort of violent death on the property beforehand that caused the haunting to happen.
2. This topic is interesting to me as I find researching haunted places interesting. As a child my father was a security guard for the ministry of finance and while it is not a house, he did claim it was haunted. He said he saw figures roaming the halls at night as he did his rounds, and that radios would randomly turn on after being turned off. This sparked my interest in learning about hauntings.
3. The video research was the most interesting as you can see how people link occurrences to the house being haunted. They are also interesting to research as they are more nuanced, with editing and perhaps special effects doctoring taking place in them.
4. What we are most likely to remember from this research is how easy it is to make people believe in things, especially if that thing is the easier explanation. People want to believe their loved ones are still with them, or they want some excitement in their lives, or they're spinning a tale for the news, either way with the right story you will have people believing your house haunted.
5. We believe ideology is the most harmful, as it leads to things like the anti-vaccine movement. We believe patternicity is the least harmful as it just leads people into seeing patterns in pictures.
6. The most important thing to pass on from all of this is to always apply skepticism and critical thinking and to always do your own research. Yes, sometimes it may be easier to just believe what people what people tell you, but unless they are an expert on the subject look it up yourself.

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This is a picture is from a surveillance camera that lead a restaurant owner to believe that there is a ghost in his kitchen.

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This pictures connects to Patternicity as the owner saw this image and thought the fuzzy black thing looked like what he thought a ghost looked like. This also relates to simplicity as the answer of "must be a ghost and my kitchen is haunted" is an easier answer to come to than what it more likely is. When critical thinking and skepticism is applied you can see red flags like, Red herring, he first thought "ghost" which then lead him to haunted kitchen which then further strengthen the ghost theory with no evidence. Now these views where present confirmation bias comes in and makes thing that normal seem like nothing strengthen the hunted theory. This looks like a bug on the camera. The flaw is that no thought was with the picture and the limitation is no real research was done.

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The photo above was taken in Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England by Captain Provand. The picture is said to have captured the portrait of the ghost 'The Brown Lady', who is thought to be Lady Dorothy Townshend. People believe she haunts Raynham Hall, as they think her husband locked her away in a remote corner of the house for infidelity until she died. Many people have spotted her in Raynham Hall, but this is the first photograph ever taken.

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This picture connects to patternicity as the lighter figure in the image has a somewhat humanoid shape everyone assumes it is a ghost because that is what they want to see and that is what their brain comes up with. However if you think critically, you can recognize that this photo was taken with a film camera and a flashlight pistol. The assumed ghost could simply be an error in the film, an error in the development of the photo, overexposure from the flashlight pistol. This picture also connects to emotional connection as people assume The Brown Lady is haunting Raynham Hall as she was killed by her husband and therefore their emotions are blurring their rational thought. The picture also links to perception and observation as it gained so much traction due to there being many eye witness accounts of the supposed ghost before the picture was captured. However, of those who saw her they all describe her differently. Some say her eyes are gouged out, some say she is carry a lantern. Did any of them really see a ghost? A flaw within this picture is that it was taken so long ago, that you cannot evaluate the authenticity of the image or the claims of the individual sightings. A limitation within this picture is the technology it was taken with - there is no way to tell if it was simply a smudge or overexposure on the film.

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The Pink Lady of Greencastle picture - Guy Winters 

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These photos were taken at the O'Hare mansion in Greencastle, Indiana. Guy Winter's and his team went to investigate the abandoned house. He snapped the photos above with a film camera. The pictures depict a supposed ghostly entity in the window of the abandoned house.

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The picture connects to perception/observation as they decided on it being a ghost rather than say a smudge on the film. Applying critical thinking and skepticism to each ghost sighting would be very useful. It would allow people to evaluate each source, the evidence, their assumptions, emotions and biases, and consider alternative explanations (like in this case a smudge on the film). Applying the critical thinking process would likely uncover other reasons for belief attached to the belief in haunted houses. For example, patternicity is another reason for belief in haunted houses as people believe they see ghosts and subsequently believe their houses are haunted. For example, in the above picture people see a ghost where there is not one. A flaw within this picture is that it is old and taken with film so there could have been error developing it. A limitation with this picture is that it could have been doctored and no one would know.

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A hunted house in Beaufort South Carolina, known as the Joseph Johnson house, which is home to a ghostly 500 year old French dwarf. The "ghost" is there because in 1562 Jean Ribut and his Huguenots (French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin) came from france to found a colony on what is now Parris Island. The story goes that he brought a dwarf with him that was named Gauche, and Gauche died in reputedly died in battle, impaled on a pike where the Joseph Johnson house is now.

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This website connects to Simplicity because it is much easier to believe that a ghost of some dwarf that supposedly died on the land where the house was built and is making noises and moving things, than it is to find the root cause of what is going on. This also connects to Perception/Observation  as people have said they have seen the ghost or heard noises that is Morse code that is archaic 16th Century French. After applying critical thinking and skepticism, this is most likely just people hearing what they want to hear based of preconceived biased, especial considering Morse code didn't come around till 1830s. A flaw in this website is there is no real proof of any of the claims.

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Haunted Beaufort: The Castle and its ghostly French dwarf - Explore Beaufort SC

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The well known ghost of the 16th Century French dwarf has been seen by folks as far back as Dr. Johnson himself, both inside and outside of The Castle.

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This website is about the House of Death in Greenwich Village, New York. The building is said to be extremely haunted most notably by the ghost of Mark Twain. The first incident of bad luck the house suffered was in 1897, where the current tenant was arrested for striking a child with his bicycle. Jan Bryant Bartell a resident in 1957, a psychic, reported many ghostly encounters in the house, such as her animals becoming more aggressive and large monstrous shadows. She also reported strange scents and food randomly appearing. This is when deaths began to occur within the house, the first to die was Jan's dog. And more deaths followed. A child was beat to death by her father in the house. The hauntings apparently continue today and people still reside in the house.

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This relates to the unexplained as since they could not understand the animals becoming aggressive for no reason, the strange scents or the food 'randomly' appearing, they decided the house must be haunted.  It also relates to simplicity as there are definitely scientific explanations for animals becoming aggressive, and random scents but it is much easier to blame it on ghosts. If applying critical thinking and skepticism there are answers to these questions besides the house is haunted. Animals have better sense than humans and will react to things we do not see and hear like cars outside or animals in the walls. Strange scents could drift over from over apartments or inside from outside. The food randomly appearing could be food they bought and forgot about or left there by rodents. This also relates to perception and observation as eye witness accounts are not accurate and the supposed ghost sightings could have been tricks of the light. A flaw of this website is that they are trying to sell tours of the "Ghosts of Greenwich  Village" so they could have embellished the information to make people want to go on a tour more. A limitation of this website is that most of the proof of the house being haunted comes from someone who claimed to be a psychic, and also wrote a book about her experiences in the house. Those two pieces of information discredit her claims as she would not of thought critically about what she was experiencing.

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The House of Death – Greenwich Village Unassuming brownstone in the heart of Greenwich hides a dark and scary past. The House of Death, located on 14 West...

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This website is about the Sallie House which is located in Atchison, Kansas each year it is visited by hundreds of people all because in the early 1900 it was a doctors office and on one night a mother arrived carrying her 6 year old daughter, named Sallie. Sallie had collapsed due to severe abdominal and the doctor think that her appendix would burst soon started cutting her open right there before anesthesia took full effect. She died. In 1993 a couple owned the home and claimed that he man would be attacked and the dog would bark at nothing. So now it is thought to be haunted

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This relates to unexplained as since they could understand why the dog was growling at seemingly nothing, and they could not explain why the nursery would become cold, they started to think "maybe it is ghosts?". It also relates to simplicity as it is much simpler to simply believe that the house is haunted then maybe there is another reason a almost 100 year old home might have cold spots or fires. If applying critical thinking and skepticism there is much simpler answers to theses wild claims are the that dogs have much better senses that humans and can hear certain frequencies that humans can't also there smell is much better so the dog probably heard something that the owners could not and assumed ghosts. I have owned multiple dogs and they have all growled or barked and seemingly nothing before. As for the cold spots and fires... the house is almost 100 years old, my house is over that and it too has cold spots simply because the insulation is old and the heating is not well done but not once have I though ghosts. Fires can also be started from a great many of ways including very old electricity, candle left out, or even light through a magnifying glass. There are many thing that can better explain these wild claims. A flaw with the website is that it is all claims that have not been experienced recently. A limitation  is anyone can make these claims.

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Sallie House is one of the most haunted houses in Atchison Kansas. Enjoy self-guided tours or stay overnight; if you're brave enough!

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This video is about a haunted house in Hanover Pennsylvania the owner claims there are several ghost in the house and most are evil. During the interview a camera man felt his arm burn and they thing it is a ghost. She claims that she has seen shadow men and orbs, and has audio and video's of them.

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This video connects to patternicity as she has photo's of the "ghosts" that are more just shadows of or reelections that you could see a ghost or demon in. It also connects with Agenticity as she believes that the demons don't want there stories told so they attack. When critical thinking and skepticism is applied some red flags are clear, first confirmation bias once you believe the house is haunted then you see more proof for that. Secondly is Proof by verbosity, when the camera man look to have felt something she starts shooting out a whole bunch of stuff about what it is and makes it hard to digest and break down. The other big concern is money is involved, she said herself they want to sell but they put too much money in it would be hard to recoup cost, so making it a famous haunted house and have tv shows come in as she has is a good was to make money. the flaw with this is the owner is bias and the limitation is it is only her word.

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Most Haunted House | Hanover, PA | Ghost Attacks News Crew Caught on Camera!

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This video is an excerpt of a news broadcast where they visit a house in Royal Oak Detroit, it is the Orsan star house. It was built in 1845, they believe there are ghosts because they have heard voices on voice recorders, and have seen ghosts.  apparently the star family lost three young children within a week in the home.

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This video connects to Perception/Observation as people have thought that they saw something or heard something and then biased there beliefs off that, there is also a good bit of simplicity in these claims as well since they claim 3 kids died in the house so that is way people might see things. However with critical thinking and skepticism red flags like Confirmation bias become clear, they already think there are ghosts so anything to prove that becomes more true. The other big issue is money is involved the house is a huge tourist attraction so making up stories to fit a haunted narrative is profitable. The flaw with this is the new clearly uses doctored video and images in there report and the limitation is nothing concreate backs the claims.

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The video shows a clip from a TV show Ghost Hunters. In the clip they have their client Tony listen to a recording they captured the night before during their investigation. They claim the clip depicts his mothers ghostly voice caught on tape.

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This video connects to emotional connection, as due to Tony's emotional connection to his mother his first thought when he hears a recording with a high pitched noise he assumes its his mother trying to communicate with him. His emotions overwhelm him and overcome his rational thinking and he applies words to the unintelligible noise on the recording.
The video also connects to proof by verbosity as Tony is sitting alone with three Ghost Hunter team members. They all overwhelm Tony with evidence that this is his mother's ghost in is house, yet they have no solid proof.
Applying critical thinking and skepticism to this video is incredibly useful as this is a TV show and if they never found evidence of ghosts it would not be very popular. If you think of that you begin to ask yourself - to they change anything in the videos to make them more interesting to viewers.
A flaw within this video is you cannot believe everything you see on TV - they edit it, add things, there are special effects. A limitation within this video is you cannot see the unedited version so you do not know was taken out.

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Ghost Hunters: Ghost of Mother’s Voice Caught on Tape (Season 1) | A&E

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Christina Vinette & Spencer Jones