Haunting Experiences

Goldstein, Diane E.; Grider, Sylvia Ann; Thomas, Jeannie B.

doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cgmqg

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“…Moreman (2018, p. 29) credited "the earliest haunted house story in Greek or Roman literature" to a 2,000-year-old play by Plautus entitled "Mostellaria" (ca 200-194 B.C.E). This fictitious story reveals Roman beliefs about such phenomena (Felton, 1999), which seemingly align well with modern presumptions (Goldstein et al, 2007;Hunter, 2018;Massullo, 2019). Haunt-type experiences can also be found across many different societies and eras (Carrington and Fodor, 1951;Owen, 1964;Roll, 1977;Gauld andCornell, 1979/2017;Finucane, 1996;Tuczay, 2004).…”

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confidence: 57%

“…As such, spectral themes frequently appear in the popular media and academic literature. All of this serves to promote ghosts and haunted houses as pervasive cultural narratives (Edwards, 2005;Goldstein et al, 2007;Booker, 2009;Lecouteux, 2012;Bader, 2017), which can become highly engaging memes (Hill et al, 2018(Hill et al, , 2019Drinkwater et al, 2019).…”

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Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses”

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This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on anomalous experiences attributed to "haunted house." This exercise served as a much-needed update to an anthology of noteworthy overviews on ghosts, haunts, and poltergeists (Houran and Lange, 2001b). We also considered whether new studies had incorporated certain recommendations made in this anthology. Our search revealed a relative paucity of studies (n = 66) on environmental factors that ostensibly stimulate haunt-type experiences. This literature was diverse and often lacked methodological consistency and adherence to the prior suggestions. However, critical consideration of the content revealed a recurring focus on six ambient variables: embedded (static) cues, lighting levels, air quality, temperature, infrasound, and electromagnetic fields. Their relation to the onset or structure of witness reports showed mostly null, though sometimes inconsistent or weak outcomes. However, such research as related to haunts is arguably in its infancy and new designs are needed to account better for environmental and architectural phenomenology. Future studies should therefore address four areas: (i) more consistent and precise measurements of discrete ambient variables; (ii) the potential role of "Gestalt influences" that involve holistic environmentperson interactions; (iii) individual differences in attentional or perceptual sensitivities of percipients to environmental variables; and (iv) the role of attitudinal and normative influences in the interpretation of environmental stimuli. Focused scrutiny on these issues should clarify the explanatory power of evolutionary-environmental models for these and related anomalous experiences.

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Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses”

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“…[Supernatural narratives] […] are typically told as though one were on the witness stand, detailed and careful, incorporating numerous strategies that outline the nature of the observations, the testing of alternative explanations, and often including an indication of reluctance to interpret what occurred as 'supernatural'. (GOLDSTEIN;THOMAS, 2007, p. 70) Markedly supernatural experience narratives, such as the case of Beowulf poem, tend to portray a deeply detailed, cautious, and sometimes even defensive structure (GOLDSTEIN; GRIDER; THOMAS, 2007). Therefore, Beowulf may be characterized as a supernatural experience narrative, because the characters interact with the supernatural environment and beings.…”

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The supernaturality in modern versions of Beowulf: a lexical study

Rocha¹

2020

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This paper aims to verify how supernatural characters and environments are described in modern versions of Beowulf and describe the root of the monsters' characterization. Four modern versions of the poem were used as corpus: A.D. Wackerbarth (1849), James M. Garnett (1882), Francis B. Gummere (1910) andJohn McNamara (2005). This research departs from the Lexical Field Theory, in which words can be gathered according to their common semantic meaning or to the absence of it (ABBADE, 2011;LIPKA, 1980). As a result, the lexical occurrences that describe the supernatural were divided into five fields: Religion, War, Name and Kinship, Creatures, and Hatred. There is a greater number of religious words, corroborating the idea that there is a contrast between paganism and Christianity in modern versions, just as there is in the original version of the poem "Beowulf" (GREENFIELD, 1966). Furthermore, the five proposed lexical fields correspond to the sacredness scale made by Júnior (2011), contributing to the idea that people in the Middle Ages saw the world with a supernatural perspective (JUNIOR, 2011).

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“…These tales also describe a set of sensory cues—such as the smell of perfume or the sound of footsteps—that indicate the presence of a spirit (Davies 2007). With a recent “spectral turn” (Goldstein, Grider, and Thomas 2007, 206) in popular culture, these representations are readily available to the public, especially in the form of reality-style paranormal investigation shows. These shows emotionally invest viewers in the hunt for ghosts (Koven 2007) and model for viewers the best methods to use when searching for spirits (Molle and Bader 2013).…”

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Manifesting Spirits: Paranormal Investigation and the Narrative Development of a Haunting

Eaton

2018

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Using a paranormal investigation of a reportedly haunted hotel as a model, I propose a five-phase narrative development process that integrates media representations of ghosts, place-based tales of hauntings, and accounts that emerge through processes of interactive interpretation. By attending to both preexisting and emergent supernatural stories, the model illustrates how idiocultures function as mediating structures between established narratives and accounts that result from shared experiences. The narrative account of a haunting is thus a product of interpretive processes in which established ghost stories serve as resources for the collective co-construction of an account that both resonates with external expectations and supports idiocultural authority structures. Ultimately, idiocultural factors have greater influence upon the final narrative than folklore, media, or place-based supernatural tales.

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Haunting Experiences

Cited by 26 publications

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Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses”

Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses”

The supernaturality in modern versions of Beowulf: a lexical study

Manifesting Spirits: Paranormal Investigation and the Narrative Development of a Haunting

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