...usually just children or young adults dressed up to get Halloween candy in the scariest costumes they can imagine. Some dress as monsters their parents may have told them about during a bedtime story, while others dress as the most popular villain in the movies. Many people dress up as ghosts for Halloween because they either believe in ghosts, or they imagine it would scare everyone else. One might ask themselves, “What would I do if one of these fictitious creatures came to life?” or “What if a creature that I’ve never even heard of before just magically appeared?” Well, let me tell you the story about one of the scariest monsters you will ever hear of--the story of Boogla-Boogla! Boogla-Boogla was formed, not by being born or having been murdered and coming back as a ghost, but by campfire stories. Parents would take their children and their children’s friends camping, and as nightfall began to fall, they would light a fire at camp and tell the scariest stories they could think of while roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. Those late-night stories actually formed a monster in early autumn of 1985. It didn’t really have a name until a parent, who was hiding waiting to scare one of his children, uttered out the name, “Boogla-Boogla!” Boogla-Boogla was first thought to be a ghost since he always hung around ghosts, but Boogla-Boogla’s powers were much stronger than any ghost’s powers. The more stories that were told around campfires, the stronger Boogla-Boogla became. Boogla-Boogla...
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...The scariest clowns in pop culture today (-- removed HTML --) Okay, let’s just put it out there. Clowns are terrifying. If you don’t think so, then you have been blessed by not seeing any kind of movie or reading any book with a killer clown in it. Once you have, clowns will always be terrifying. There also isn’t just one scary clown in pop culture. There are a lot of them. Brace yourself for these scary clowns. Pennywise, from the movie It Obviously, Pennywise from the movie It is on the scary clown list. Just look at him. He’ll have no problem murdering children…oh wait - he’s already been there and done that. After seeing this movie you will avoid the circus and never hire a clown for any kind of birthday party, ever. (-- removed HTML --)...
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...scared of spiders. Who would ever know, that my biggest fear would change my life completely! It all began when my mom said, “I think it’s time for you guys to meet both sides of our family.” My two sisters and I were very well confused hearing her surprising news. Deep down inside, I already knew what she meant, and I was extremely terrified. I was about eight years at the time. Since both of my parents came to the U.S for a better life, they left the most important people in their lives behind in Mexico. I grew up hearing lots of Mexican myths and stories about their childhoods like La Llorona, a Mexican myth of a ghost woman who drowns and kills little kids and also El hombre Sin Cabeza the dangerous man without a head riding his big black horse in the middle of the night knocking doors and killing everyone that comes his way. I was always terrified of listening to these stories and it gave me an even greater fear since I knew I was going to Mexico. I knew that the only way my family and I could get to Mexico was on a plane. Which brings me to my biggest fear: I am afraid of heights! My mom knew about my fear, but she never thought of it when buying the plane tickets. I didn’t know how to react. I could only think negative like what if the plane fall’s in the middle of the ocean and we all sink and die! And what if the pilot doesn’t know how to drive and kills us on purpose! All these fears I had for just a simple plane ride to the scariest place on earth (In my opinion...
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...“The Raven”, by Edgar Allan Poe, was one of the scariest poems ever written in its time. Even though it doesn’t seem very scary to us today, it can still be considered as a very creepy story. The narrator is almost being psychologically tortured by this bird who just appeared out of nowhere. The worst part is that he is being tortured because the bird is saying he will never his wife Lenore again, even in heaven. The central idea of this text is that the narrator can’t cope with the demise of her wife, Lenore. You can see throughout the story by the tone that the Raven and the narrator throughout the poem. On the fourth line of the fifth stanza it says, “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, ‘Lenore!’ This I whispered,” this line definitely proved that the narrator still had hope that she was still alive, it’s sort of like he’s in the denial stage of grief; the narrator believes that Lenore is still alive and it basically says Lenore in a desperate tone because of the exclamation mark. The grief of the narrator is even expressed directly on the last three lines of the second stanza....
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...After a while, I finish my homework. Since it’s 10:30 p.m., I’m going to bed. When I wake up, I get ready to go to Nonno’s and Nonna’s for lunch. My nonna has an amazing meal prepared for us and I gobble it all down because it’s so good. After that, I go to the living room and get ready for my nonno to tell me a story. He sits down and gets himself all comfortable. When he’s satisfied with his position, he begins to speak. “Erica,” he starts, “since you’re old enough to handle it, I’m going to tell you a war story, only if it’s okay with you though.” “Yes, I would love to hear one of your war stories!” I exclaim. “Okay, let me begin. My best friend and I were in the same soldier group in the war. We were creeping through the forest when...
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...ICE STORM OF 1996 By Ashley Paul Interviewed My dad Dennis Paul When I interviewed my dad about the 1996 ice storm, I asked my dad what happened. What he said was horrible. For example, he said, “when I went to leave for work, the car was coated in ice and it was glistening in the light like snow in the sun. I couldn't get in.” I felt really sad when he said that because I know how important his job is to him. I love my dads job. It was a horrific story. I asked my dad what the scariest part is, and he said driving home. That pretty bad if the icy roads. As soon as he told me the power lines were really frozen, and they even ripped and exploded that's a pretty scary. I'm glad I wasn't born yet. Hopefully it won't ever happen in my lifetime because that would be scary. My dad must have been really scared and from what he told there were power lines in the road that could have been really dangers hopefully not a lot of people died....
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...Robert Wise’s The Haunting has been one of the most haunted house films ever produced.I've seen this film with my classmates during my english class. This film is a black and white picture. The picture was once the most fearful film in the early 60’s. This film takes place in New England, in a big haunted mansion. Dr. Markway, does research to prove the existence of ghosts, at the Hill House, a large mansion with a history of violent death. Luke, who stands to inherit the house, Theodora and Eleanor, with psychic abilities make her feel somehow there are spirits around the old mansion. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, and Rosalie Crutchley. The Haunting is a story about Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), a lonely woman...
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...led me to tears multiple times. He started his story by explaining that, as most Parisians, on the night of the 13th November, he was at home watching television and following the news as journalists themselves discovered the tragic events one by one. “The number of casualties were rising by the minute, it was awfully shocking” he said. He explained that being present in Paris at the time of the attacks made a substantial difference to him than if he had not been there. In fact, Daniel was in London during the Charlie Hebdo massacre and did not feel as compassionate towards the situation as the people in Paris did, including myself. Seeing...
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...with sex itself but rather the abuse of sex and the power it holds. My story is very similar to most abuse victim so i’ll spare you all the details, but I will tell you that I was sexually abused at the age of 1 and this left me broken from pretty much the start of my life. I never had a healthy relationship with sex. To me all I knew of sex was that is was something that was demanded and...
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...OVERCOMING MY BIGGEST LIFE HURDLE: BECOMING A SINGLE MOM Kiera Bronson Herzing University Life has a funny way of slowing you down when you’re cruising in the fast lane. I was living a carefree life; college was the only thing on my mind. I was fully involved in my schoolwork and I always had to make perfect grades. Being in a relationship, let alone having a child, was the furthest thing from my mind. My mother always said that even if it doesn’t look or feel good, it’ll always workout for my good. Becoming a mother was the scariest, confusing, and most important thing I've done in my life, but being a single mother was too much to handle. After my freshman year of college I decided I needed a change of scenery. I moved to Arlington, VA since my dad and boyfriend lived there. A couple of months into my sophomore year I got some news during a routine checkup that was going to change my life forever. I was pregnant and at 19 about to be someone’s mother. I didn’t know what to do. Without my mom being there I am one hundred percent sure that I would've lost my mind. After I found out everything was going great, we went to all the doctor’s appointments together. He was there every step of the way, it seemed like we were in it together forever, or so I thought. He became distant and I began to realize he wasn’t who he said he was Coming around everyday turned into every other day and all the phone calls turned into text messages. I was five months pregnant with our daughter...
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...Dripping black oil began to puddle around my feet as I stumbled out of my 2000 Ford Toyota 4Runner. The smell of burning metal and gasoline began to seep into the air. My entire right side was numb and I could barely feel my face. The strong metallic taste of blood began to fill my mouth, as I bent over to spit out the amount that had now pooled at the bottom. I struggled to remember how I got to this part of Interstate 270, when I started off on the East Side of Columbus. I slowly hobbled to the front of my car to survey the damage. Fighting to keep my footing, I noticed my hands were violently shaking. Never in my life had I flipped a car before, but during those rolls my heart skipped many beats as my SUV searched for steady ground before coming to a rest. Finally, stumbling to the front after grabbing ahold of the hanging bumper to stabilize my steps, I noticed the extreme amount of damage. My truck was totaled, no question. How could I put my life and those around me in jeopardy without so much as a second thought? Earlier that night, I hopped out of the shower eager to go out and celebrate the end of another work week. After ironing the clothes I picked out earlier that day, putting on some cologne, and admiring myself in the mirror, I darted out the door and threw the car in reverse. Drinking was always on the agenda, but I had the motto that the more I drank, the better driver I became. I decided to make a quick stop at a bar before proceeding onto a nightclub for the...
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...Where else could you see a rescue like this? It is one of the most dramatic in the film. I appreciate the fact that the filmmakers didn't have a massive budget, and yet they still got the ideal shots that gives the viewers the sense that they are there with a front row seat to the action. Even at the scariest moments, I couldn't tear my eyes away from the scenes I was witnessing. There were times I was certain that something bad was going to happen, but the good news is that at least at the time I saw it last year, not one animal was ever lost. This team has a perfect record, as far as I know. And I salute them for providing a service that is more necessary than one might...
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...• Listen again to the audio and identify each of the speaker’s emotions. 1. Patti ____________________________________________________________ 2. Georgia__________________________________________________________ 3. Rafael___________________________________________________________ 4. Emmett__________________________________________________________ • Get together with a partner and choose one of the speakers above. Share your notes and impressions and try to reconstruct their story as closely as possible. Ask your teacher to play the audio again...
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...Cole figure out that if he got all A’s in the first semester and applied to colleges then he could get in cause his GPA would rise to a 2.75. Cole’s friends all saw a different Cole that semester because he never would hang out with them anymore. He was always studying and doing homework. Everyone thought it was really weird because they weren’t used to seeing Cole this focused on his academics. Even on some weekend Cole wouldn’t go out just because he had a test on Monday the following week. Coles friends would always try to get him to come and party but he would say no most of the time. No one ever expected him to do this so his friends got mad at him all the time because he would always ditch them. As the semester went on Cole was doing very well and better than his teachers expected. He was doing well on the test and turning in all of his homework. The most important time during this semester is midterms because if you do bad then it really affects your grades. Cole had 3 midterms and he was going balls to the wall and studying every night. After Cole took his last midterm he was a little nervous to see what he got overall this semester in all of his classes. The week after he received his midterm report and got all A’s and one B which is awesome. Cole then applied to all the colleges of his choice and was waiting to hear back. He...
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...Earth. Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched from Florida on July 16, 1969. Armstrong and Aldrin ventured out onto the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. The two men spent 21.5 hours on the moon before taking off from the lunar surface to meet up with Collins in the command module and fly back to Earth. Main Story: The Future of Moon Exploration, Lunar Colonies and Humanity NASA astronauts returned to the surface of the moon on multiple missions, however, no human has touched down on the natural satellite's surface since 1972. Space.com's complete coverage of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing appears below: Video: Exclusive: Buzz Aldrin Remembers Moon's 'Magnificent Desolation' Exclusive: Buzz Aldrin Remembers Moments Before the Moon Apollo 11 Retrospective: 'One We Intend To Win' Apollo 11 45th Anniversary - NASA Administrator Remembers Space Station Salutes Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Infographics and Multimedia: Apollo Quiz: Test Your Moon Landing Memory NASA's Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures How the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Worked: Infographic Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Moonwalker, in Photos Story Coverage: Thursday, July 24 Apollo 11's Vintage Tech: The Most Amazing Moon Landing Innovations From lunar landers and computers to moon boots and more, NASA's Apollo 11 mission pioneered some amazing technologies to reach the lunar surface. Space.com takes a look at those vintage tech gems. Apollo 11 Flight Log...
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