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continually recurring to the mind

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having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect

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Tales laden with trolls, headless horsemen and all manner of hauntings are included in the database, with plenty of them from the Huddersfield area.
Regular accounts are told of 'the perfumed lady' smelt in the upper circle, and another known as 'the grey lady' haunting the area around the Swan Theatre.
The only change to the maze will be the end of the haunting, Jensen said.
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He is the author of over a dozen books on the paranormal (published in six languages), including the best sellers: "The World's Most Haunted Places,'' "Weird Massachusetts,'' "Our Haunted Lives'' and "Who's Haunting the White House?''
"There are 160 places giving information about the haunting at each one.
Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination.
Her third album The Haunted Man shines with infectious melodies, dramatic ballads, rich with instrumentation and passionate, haunting vocals, all of which could give Welch and her Machine a run for their money.
The explosion of interest in the field of study that brings together the Gothic, the uncanny, the haunted, and the haunting, together with a postcolonial reassessive method, suggests that perhaps the ghosts and monsters that haunt the nation/ subject (from without and within) are finally being heard.
In the last decade haunting has surfaced as a means of exploring the ways in which the past can invade contemporary socialities.
According to the Fitzpatricks, the chain-smoking Stormont minister, who died more than 60 years ago, is haunting their house because his spirit objects to Catholics living in his former home.
Calvin Cox of Heart Pounders Haunting a company that designs haunted houses in schools, camps and homes, gave kidsworld some great tips for you on how to turn your own classroom into a haunted house.
She said: "There are many myths and legends surrounding the castles and historic buildings of Wales and there are numerous ghost tours and haunting tours available.
Surveying and historicizing modern culture, Colin Davis suggests in Haunted Subjects that conventionally such spirits follow the 'unfinished business' model of haunting. They return because something has gone awry in the world of the living and this return (be it to reveal a secret or right a wrong) corrects that disturbance.