The Pocomoke forest has an eerie history of ghost stories. Some of the scary stories about The Pocomoke Forest are the Cellar House, the Goat Man, the Boyfriend, the Hook Man, and The Marva- theater, all the story’s occurred in the Pocomoke Forest. It also has a rich history rooted here on Del-Mar-VA, with it vastness of forested land, the river and its swampy marshes. One of the scary stories that supposedly took place in the woods was called The Boyfriend. A couple was driving through the forest and they ran out of gas. The boyfriend left to get help. The girlfriend fell asleep, when she woke in the morning she started hearing strange noises on the window. Her boyfriend had told her not turn look out the windows, but she turned around and saw her boyfriend hanging from a tree upside down. His head on the trunk of the car (Burgoyne). Moral of this story is you should never run out of …show more content…
Many people have come together to enjoy an art form. Marva theater is named because of its location on the border of Maryland and Virginia.it was a vaudeville theater purchased by Dawson Clarke, he played piano for silent movies shown. Dawson Clarke was a mayor in Pocomoke. Curt lippoldt, also a mayor of Pocomoke. He had a heart attack and died just after his eighty-fifth birthday. People believe they are spirits in the theater. In the theater there was no paranormal activity until after their deaths. Things disappear and reappear when someone calls out to one of the men. People who work at the theater say toilet flush by themselves, lights go off and on without anyone flipping the switch. Emily, who works at the theater, says that “the theater is full of spirits” She claims to have heard voice and a scream from a small child, she fled the theater quickly. The theater has lots of old energy and the community loves it. Movies are played on weekends, tickets are five dollars and popcorn are one dollar, and the ghost are
Santana Janis was by no means an atypical young teenager. Others described her as a “bright [and] outgoing” girl who liked horseback riding. Her community’s characteristics, however, were very different from that of a typical American town. The median household income in her hometown, Manderson, South Dakota, is less than half the U.S. average, and almost four-fifths of the town’s population live below the poverty line. This dysfunction affected Santana: she lived with as many as a dozen siblings and her grandfather in a dilapidated trailer.
Swamplandia is a book written by Karen Russell, an American novelist born in Miami,FL. Swamplandia was the finalist book for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Orange Prize. The story sometimes is related to magical realism, it is nothing more than the acceptance of something mystical in a rational world. Fabulism is a part of magical realism, which fictitious elements, characters, can be found in a “normal” day doing humans actions. The chaotic Bigtree family, situated on Florida, starts having troubles to keep the place since another attraction opened.
All of a sudden, all of the lights went out. They ran around helplessly for what felt like hours. Soon Mrs. Davis saw a white figure coming at them. Mrs. Davis passed out and Mr. Davis heard a loud thump. He was scrambling
There was four victims. They had just returned home from dinner. When it was time a few members of the family cult, broke into the house,trapped the victims in the living room. They sat them in chairs, and tired their legs, and arms to the chair. The first victim , Jay Sebring was shot, and kicked to death.
Tenement districts in Brooklyn throughout the early 1900s provided challenges that entire families were forced to handle. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, depicts the Nolan family facing difficulties that even children had to overcome while they lived in one of these districts. Francie Nolan, the main character of the novel, is faced with the greatest difficulty of them all: growing up. Poverty was one aspect of Francie’s life that caused her to lack certain fundamental features of a regular child’s life. This is shown through Francie consistently being without food due to poverty, and having to discover for herself in a very difficult way that hunger was a painfully real issue.
Unbeknownst to her, that night would be the most important one of her life. It all started when her car broke down while driving to a business meeting in Sydney, Nova Scotia. She was told that repair would take a while. She decided to stay so she got a hotel room and decided to watch a movie at the Roseland Theatre. She requested a ticket for floor seats, however, she was unaware that the ticket seller gave her balcony tickets instead.
The old ford lurched off the road and climbed a hill adjacent to the road, only to roll back down and land roof first into the icy terrain. As I was hanging upside down, dangling by my seatbelt, I could feel blood dripping onto my face. I remember the buzzing in my head, my mom screaming my name, but I couldn’t reply. Everything was in slow motion. The firefighters shining light into my eyes, the ambulance sirens blaring, my dad rushing to us after hearing the news.
They said that he was the owner of the Lidke Mill, and that he just stayed inside all the time and doesn’t like trespassers. Then they asked about their friend that went crazy and the police said that the ghost took his soul. All of the friend just went home and pretended nothing
The theme of superstitions can be directly related to the main theme of social class distinction because if Mrs. Johnstone hadn 't have given one away, none of the conflict and divergence in play would 've greatly affected the characters in the story. Therefore, the ending of the play is a consequence of Mrs. Johnstone ignorance of
She claims that the theatre captures the spirits of the youth and holds them hostage under its spell. It makes the youth feel as though the real world will never be as good as it is depicted in the plays and shows. As a result of this, often times the youth parade around with their heads held down because they feel as though nothing exciting will ever happen to them. Instead they try to create excitement for themselves because the theatre causes them to believe that they have the ability to control their own fate. It is not uncommon for somebody to view the successes and challenges of the hero of a story as their own and attempt to take them on.
The governess thinks that the kids can see the ghost too, they are just too afraid to admit it. Miles who is persuaded most by the apparition won’t admit that he see’s Peter Quint. By him not admitting that he can see the apparition the people in the household start to think that the governess is going mad. The governess tries to get everyone out of the house, so she can get Miles alone, along with the governess “was already, at the door, hurrying [Mrs. Grose] off. ‘I’ll get it out of him.
It shows whoever reads it why lying is a sin. A society or puritans, focused on perfection of religion, is shocked by an occurrence of witches. Witches are the Devil’s evildoers, and should be persecuted at once. Abigal, the drama queen of the play, attempts to kill the wife of the man she loves with witchcraft. They are found, but whenever Abigal and the others attending are being accused, they lie, blaming others of being witches.
This shows the fear that people felt about theaters during the worst of the black plague. Overall, the black plague affected theaters, profits, and Elizabethan times greatly. This was devastating because everyone was economically challenged and they could not afford food so the population suffered a great depletion from the Black
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a truly inspiring coming of age story about overcoming hardships and poverty with amiable characters that take the reader on an emotional experience on how life was like in the 1900s. The book’s main theme is if someone works hard and long enough, they will achieve their goals. The title of the book even supports this statement. There is this tree in Francie’s backyard that grew through the cracks of the cement. The tree has been cut downed and burned multiple of times, but still continues to strive into a beautiful tree, which Francie loves.
The governess progressively believes in things around her that are pseudo and assumed. Nobody else at Bly can see the ghosts that she claims even when the children tried to believe her, they just could not see the ghosts she could see. Things slowly but surely fell apart at Bly, and it seemed to start right when the governess made assumptions about the ghosts she had met. The governess had done many things at Bly, but proving her insanity is something she could not