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Alexander Diaz

Draft 1

Reading Excerpt

411-01 Field Work

Echos of the Past

    “I am an entertainer. These people pay for a show and that is what I, as an entertainer, needs to do” These words by Mark Cline gave a clear focus on what our project needs to be about. Mark Cline told us that the main focus of what he does is to entertain people, and this brought focus to our goals. We decided that the goal was not to convince people of whether ghosts exist or not, it was to bring them into a place of questioning and knowledge. Our main project was shifted from just listing out what a site may be and who died there to entertaining the person who visits such a place. People want to go on this website to be entertained, to have this shiver of fear creep up their spine as they read about the ghostly occurrences that have happened or continue to happen to this day. Mark Cline being our primary source was the first step towards opening the doors to the specific details of stories we have heard in our secondary source, My Neighbors Ghost, by Katie Letcher. Katie Letcher’s book does a great job in giving the details and the backgrounds to different ghost stories around Lexington. But Mark Cline put the icing on the cake by giving us details about what happened in these locations and if they still go on until this day. Mark Cline, in a way, was the reinforcement to Katies book, the real life source that experiences these ghost tales every day. But now that we have our locations and stories down, we must figure out a way in which to write about these locations that will entertain the reader. We do not wish to just inform but make them feel like something really is there. We want the reader to have a memorable experience. We must appeal to their sense, their emotions, their consciousness that makes them doubt reality from fiction. This will be the difficult part in our project. Writing in such a way that we can connect with the reader and their senses. As Mark Cline said, we must create the illusion that something is there when it is not, and even harder, do it through text. Every detail of the location must be accurate as if we were right there describing the scenery next to them. The next challenge in our project would be location identification. RHS has markers all over the city depicting different characters and their biographies online. The challenge we will have is getting markers up that will tell the reader what exactly they are looking at. This is a problem because, for one, we do not know if business owners or land owners will like us putting markers up that says a place is haunted. Even if we did have the markers up how would a person know where to go to find the description of the place? Would QR codes work? Or just a simple link to the site due? So our main challenges will be putting the reader into the element and entertaining them, seeking the approval of markers in each location and having a direct line to the site that has all the information on it.

    The first location we had decided on for our project was lawyers row. Lawyers row is host tomany things but what it is really known for is the story of the black ghost dog that roams its premises certain nights looking for his long lost master. The story goes something like this: lawyer’s row was a house section for the students who studied law at W&L. One student in particular would come home after class and bring out his violin which he played mostly everyday. The smooth strumming of his violin eventually attracted the attention of a little black dog that would sit next to him on his appartment steps and listen to him play the violin. The dog and the student became very close and whenever the student came out the dog would be waiting there for him, eager to follow his new found master. After some years with this dog, the student eventually graduated, leaving the little dog behind. Day after day the dog came back waiting for his master who never returned back to lawyers row. Due to the elements, or maybe even a broken heart, the little black dog died. Ever since then, reports have been contributed by people who have passed lawyers row of a little black dog running around the premise or even the feeling of a dog brushing past their legs. Although there has been a rumor that this dog no longer haunts lawyers row. Mark Clyne explained that this dog might have passed over into the afterlife after a violin instructor played his violin in the same spot the student did in 2001. He said that the dog has not recently been seen after this man, in a way, reenacted his old masters habit, giving the dog some peace of mind. Either way, the story still lives and the tale gives a new light to lawyers row for all to see.

The next tale we wished to tell was one that struck a little too close to home and definitely gave chills to anyone who knows the stories of this place. Of course what I am talking about is the infamous room 401 located inside the old barracks of VMI on the top floor where new recruits stay their first year. This has a dark past because it is located right below the old honor court room. This room is where the honor court would give a cadet who has breached their laws a decision: leave the institute in shame or preserve one’s honor and take our own life. They did not say this of course, instead they merely brought the cadet up into the room. They left a chair, some rope and a knife in the room. Knock on the door and you can leave, or get rolled as they called it, or take your own life either by hanging yourself or stabbing yourself in the gut and bleeding out. The institute is famous for its honor system and its past dealings with honor. But all who live in room 401 say that maybe some people who killed themselves never left. There have been reports of scratching on the walls and dark figures with red glowing eyes appearing at night at the foot of beds, all making people thoroughly freaked out and driving some to even leave in fear for their lives. We interviewed the current inhabitants of this room to get a little insight on how it felt to live in such a place. The story we were given sent chills down our back. They told us that living in that room was a constant state of being watched. It was like something lingered there, analyzing their every move, frustrated at their mere presence. One girl told us that the entire room woke up one night at the same time, around 3 o’clock, which was weird to them. When one of the girls looked at her phone there had been a text message sent saying “GET OUT” which she had not written. Since then, the girls of this room have been counting the days until they can rid themselves of this room.

For our last ghost story, that we will use in our project, we picked the story of the Lee house. The Lee house has much history behind it and is located on the far side of W&L right beside the sorority houses. There have been many tales that have been told there of weird things happening in that house. Some people have told that they have seen Lee himself walking the premise. Others have told stories of fire picks sliding across the floor when they were dog sitting one night. But the story we want to focus on is one of the most well known stories, known by students and locals alike. This story is the tale of Lees’ horse, named Traveller. The tale goes that Lees’ horse Traveller will sometimes come home to his stable, under the Lee house, and kick on the stable doors if it is not left open for him.

The purpose of this project is pretty simple. The entire reason for doing this project is really to open up doors for locals and tourists alike in order for them to come to Lexington and see or read of some locations that may be hidden from plain view. The locations we have chosen are somewhat hidden away from main street making it hard to know they are there when main street itself is so popular. Lawyers row is set off to the side  some buildings of main street, and is poorly maintained. If one were to pass it you would think that it is just another run down building in Lexington. The Lee house, being a little more famous, is still someone’s house that they live in. Be able to visit and take a tour is somewhat hard and being in the shadow of W&L makes it almost invisible to the public eye. Room 401 is obviously restricted to the public because it is inside the barracks at VMI so no one can really enter the room and experience the tales unless they live in it themselves. This makes the room very exclusive and only known to the students that live their and the ghost tales that spread around the school. All of these locations are fairly unknown to newcomers and are not well known amongst the many people that pass through Lexington every day. Our plan, in doing ghost stories, is not just to create another site with tales of ghosts and horror. It is to use these stories of ghosts as a segway into informing the people of the many hidden locations around Lexington that one can visit. These stories not only allow the location to have a certain air about them, but it would lso give the background on the location and the history of why this location is famous on its own, without the ghost story to add some flare to it.

Our plan on doing this is to basically piggy back on the RHS website design and mimic what they do in terms of locations and biographies. The Rockbridge Historical Society has created a wonderful experience called Righteous and Rascals where you can literally go on their site and look at the different biographies of numerous characters that have passed through Lexington at some point while finding their plaques laid out on the ground across the city. This allows people to simply find a plaque, or go hunting around for them, bring up their site and learn about the many interesting people that have come through the city from criminals, to artists, to native american chiefs. Our project wanted to follow in suite with this and create the same experience but instead focus on the history of the location and the ghost story behind it. The project will be set upon a wordpress site and the way it is set up now, people can scroll through it like a blog and see the three locations we did, and see the reason for doing what we do. Each location not only has a picture of the site, so that the person visiting knows they are at the right locations, but also has a paragraph of the background of the location and the ghost story that haunts that place. What we want to do with this project is, like said before, is bring to light the different locations that are somewhat hidden away from the public eye, but the other objective we agreed upon is that we also want to entertain the audience with our stories. To me rememberable we must evoke the emotion and the illusion each of these locations can easily bring. We will do this through the writing on the wordpress site to really immerse the visitors of these sites into the story. We want them to believe not in the ghost but in the illusion of the ghost. This will allow our locations to be memorable and be greater known to the outside world. This is because tales of ghosts are still very relevant in today’s society. Mark Clyne said that there was once upwards to over eighty shows on ghosts alone. Even today we have modern shows of ghost hunters going to different locations with their modern equipment looking for the unseen. And let us not get started on the numerous ghost movies there are out there right now. It is an appealing perspective to our project that I think would attract a lot of eyes onto these very interesting locations.

Alexander Diaz

Transcript

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24th of March 2017 Mark Cline Interview

This is Mark CLine and I’m giving these boys permission to give any of the verb Im saying tonight

Q1: When did you start getting interested in the paranormal?

A: Oh uh it’s been an interest of mine in anything odd or unusual ever since I was a child i’ve been these days called the barn of the blue ridge because i’ve had such an interest in the odd and the unusual because i create a lot of it. A lot of it for me is illusion you know I do uh I started off with learning how to do magic tricks and illusions and then took it to a more of a darker level just for more of the entertainment part of it like the weejee board, never got seriously involved in it but it did fascinate me and anything like that associated with magic or the paranormal.

Q2: The area, your enchanted castle, was built in some manor house of some kind?

A: The actual studio was built upon in natural bridge but I had another business called the haunted monster museum and that was built in an old manor up in the property of natural bridge and worked to deal with them in the early 2000s to work to create with them this haunted monster museum. It was owned by a sea captain at one point, and it was a seaman’s prayer written on a mantle piece on the wall, they claimed it was haunted but i worked on it into odd hours in the night and never saw anything out of the unusual. Some people are more susceptible to things, like with my ghost tour, i think a lot of it is the power of suggestion when it gets dark and u know ur gonna do a ghost tour and ur excited about it and ur more open to see things and i’m an entertainer so it’s my job to put it in peoples head just like a magician would do, that’s what these people are paying for, have i ever seen anything? No. Have i had an experience? yes. But being an illusionist i’m always looking for logical explanations. In fact this is what I always tell people in my tour. Always look for the logical explanations first and then if you can absolutely find nothing else that adds up then it might be something supernatural.

Q3: When did you start doing the ghost tours?

A: This will be my 21st season, since 1996

Q4: Was there anything that spurred you to do that?

A: back then ghost tours were relatively new, there weren’t a lot of them, but there were starting to really take off and I heard of a few of them and i went to go see the one in williamsburg and i learned different things from that tour especially what not to do, i’m an entertainer I don’t need guides, i wanted entertainers, guides can be found anywhere, so I wanted entertainers from my tour so that’s what I based my tour on. Other ghosts tours were starting to pop up so I was kind of learning the ropes and inviting it as a new thing as we went along and I found out that to make it interesting and viable you have to throw in a lot of humor. Humor, you don’t take it too seriously don’t try to convince people that they are ghosts, let them decide it for themselves. Ive mixed in history, illusions. Mines a well rounded package,m but at the end of my tour, i sort of put the question in people’s heads, is there something out there, there could be something out there and let’s hope we never find a definitive answer because man’s nature is to be curious and if we had the answer to this then it would be like finding out how the magic trick was done. Plus if we ever did find out if there was real things like ghosts, religion as we know it would change. Life after death, everything would be totally thrown out the windowed and changed. The vatican would flip upside down.

Q5: You said earlier that u had ur own experience, would u care to share anything about that?

A: Yea, uh a friend of mine that i build attractions for and wi9th down at virginia beach travel around to see other attractions, we went to gettysburg one winter, i had a meeting with some people about doing a dinosaur park with some people and while we were there around mid february, might be about 18 years ago now. He owns the nightmare mansion down in virginia beach, so we are used to the unusual and the haunting and fooling and scaring people and making people believe certain things. We are sort of on guard all the time against this kind of thing. We got a room out there in a place called the farnsworth house and this house was on baltimore street. A very historical old house, and we were the only ones there. The guy that owned the place said it was haunted. THey held seances down in the basement. But they were staged just like i used to do. To make a long story longer, my partner, i’m sorry my business partner is in the other bed laying down and i’m there before the sun rises i’m starting to hear a voice and i wake up to a voice of a child., Now nobody else is in this place, and i’m thinking maybe a kid wodnered in here but i’m thinking nobody else is here and this voice is right in front of me and it’s completely dark and he’s looking for his mommy, and i’m not sure if its  boy or a girl but i think it’s a boy and he’s calling out mommy, and i’m reaching out trying to touch a child and i don’t really touch anybody so i’m thinking oh my god i’m hearing it right in front of me but i just woke up so maybe i’m in that land of half asleep half dreaming half awake, abut then i hear it a second time very vividly. This is no dream so i’m reaching out trying to grab this kid. and i’m yelling jim jim did u hear that but i didn’t hear it after that. I only heard it twice. Logic is kicking in and i’m thinking okay these people told us this place was haunted and these ghost tours are starting to take off and people want to hear things maybe they have something under the bed a recorder or something. Less is more u don’t overdue it. THat’s how i do seances so I’m thinking you know I definitely heard a voice but i’m going back to my logic saying well maybe they had something rigged, that’s the best explanation i can come up with. i didn’t think they would do it, they may have not done it, but they could have and that might have been what i heard. I’m doing my ghost tour about a year or two later, and i tell these people i stayed there and they tell me oh yea you know a little boy got run over by a carriage in front of the place and i go oh really? So they’re telling me this and about a year later some other people from gettysburg come by and i tell them i stayed at that house and they say oh a little boy got run over by a wagon in the 1800s. Wagon carriage whatever, i’m starting to think, maybe there was a voice of a child that lingered because when i think about the supernatural or ghosts, i’m thinking about the energy that’s left behind not necessarily a ghost of the person, i’m thinking about the energy because there’s energy all around us because energy cannot be made or destroyed, you know this right? from physics right? so energy is there and energy has, we can’t even begin to understand the powers there. My mother called me yesterday and told me that my next door neighbor that i used to play with when i was a little boy fifty something years ago had died. He was a year younger than me. And i went really? I said for the past two or three days i’ve been thinking about him for no reason. No reason for me to think about this boy, and i’m thinking about what we sang and what we did. THis happens real often with me, its usually with celebrities, i think about different people and one time i was thinking about bill monroe, the famous bluegrass singer, the godfather of bluegrass, I walked over to a picture that he autographed and threw it on my desk and looked at it then put it back. A few hours later i found out he died. My logic behind this is that your brain is nothing but a big mass of matter that is electrically charged by neurons, that travels and sends signals everywhere. Thoughts can go beyond our brain and then maybe some direct current comes back. Everything is about vibration, everything. So there maybe some logic behind why people see ghosts or why they hear ghosts. Or why they were just thinking about people. It’s a strong feelings, like a smell, grandad died twenty years ago but i smell his pipe tobacco in the next room. The brain can trigger sometimes these smells and we from lack of better explanation, we identify these smells as ghosts.

Q6: So what you’re saying is instead of a ghost we are identifying or our brain is making a connection with whatever is out there

A; THat’s what i believe. has it ever been proven? They are doing research on it all the time. THe modern seance where people would connect to the dead starting in hydesville new york  back in 1952. Two young girls called the fox sisters were able to impress their parents by communicating with someone that died. There was a wrap on the table, one wrap for yes and two wraps for no. They would ask the spirit questions. The entire town came to see these girls speak to the dead. It wasn’t the devil worshipers who came, it was the christians. BEcause they believed in life after death. This was all of a sudden a modern way to connect with our loved ones. What they didn’t know was that these girls had a talent for cracking their toe knuckles under the table. they could manipulate people. The power of suggestion. Because people wanted to speak to their loved ones and believe. I started doing some of these seances, And i do these recreations of what u see back in the 1800s. After these girls other medians started coming out and it became a huge thing. Abraham lincoln hand seances in the white house. These people were making thousands of dollars over the years getting extremely rich over the years taking advantages of people’s weaknesses. When i was doing these scenes i would recreate the experience the way that they did it back in the 1800s and people would come to my seances and think that there was a ghost in the room. Before they would come in my parlor I would say Now i’m going to recreate this but once we go into the parlor i’m going to act like it’s all happening because this is what ur paying for so once we go in this is happening. So i go in there and i shut the door and people still believed that there were these things that I was actually conjuring these spirits. It was slight of hand, darkness,, the power of suggestion and even though i gave a disclaimer they believed. But it was easy to do all of this. Houdini tried to debunk and did debunk fake mediums. His mother had passed away and he was trying to connect to his mom and he went to these medians and exposed them and he did that until he died.

Q7: You’ve never had any weird experience with the paranormal? Weegie boards or anything like that?

A: Well i mean the bible forbids going to mediums and the witches and using dark magic. It’s good for a man to believe in stuff. In a higher power, something bigger than himself. We’ve always done that ever since a caveman walked out and heard thunder and lightning.

QQ: Well it’s our way with coping with death, convincing ourselves that there’s something more than nothing past death.

A: Well I think it’s more metaphorical way, like is heaven above us? I like to think of myself above pettiness, above wrongdoing, above hate, so that puts me in a place above that but it’s not a physical place but i’m still above these lower things. It’s all interpretation i guess.

Q8: The locations in lexington, have u heard anything about any of the locations about the southern inn or lawyers row or macado’s.

A: WHat i did when i planned to do the ghost tour was i went and got that book and based my tour off what connected to each other to make a good tour route. Nothing too out of the way. But i looked at all the stories that were around and found stories that weren’t in the book and then filled in the blanks. Bob taylor actually wrote about the ghosts in lexington, also katie letcher. Both dead. I bought that book and put together the tour. If i did stories on every place that’s haunted it would be overwhelming, an all night tour.  Every old place has a story to tell and every old place is haunted, not by ghosts of dead people but by the experiences and energy that is still there, the experiences, the war, families that left, or died there, the pain the sadness, the intense energies that linger.

QQ: Death lingers in a place like that, the energy lingers. You can feel something like that, the air was heavy and it hung over it.

OUTLINE OF REVISED PLAN: Include names of at least 2 informants, affiliation, why they were chosen, and list of questions/ topics prepared.

Mark Cline and Sue Ann Huger, they were chosen because of their experiences with the sights we have chosen and their particular experience with paranormal activity.

Questions for Mark Cline Above.

Sue Ann will be moreso for her experiences with her restaurant.

Such as: How long has she worked at the Southern Inn?

When was the last rotation of new workers in the SOuthern Inn?

What are the details of the fire that happened here?

What is your belief in the paranormal?

Has there been ny weird experiences here?

Any stories of the past about this place?

• Why did you choose these particular people for formal interviews? Are they an expert, a local citizen? How do they fit into the puzzle of your writing project? We chose these two people because they were both attached to the paranormal in some way. Mark being the leader of the ghost tours in lexington and Sua Ann being the owner of a famously haunted restaurant. Mark is an expert while Sue Ann is just a local citizen. They fit into my puzzle for the overall project because they give primary sources to sites that we plan on putting into our online portfolio attached to the RHS website.
• How did you prepare?  (intentions, communications, list of questions) We prepared by bringing in a list of questions, coming in with the intent of getting solid site locations, and poking around for an idea of if the paranormal was a prominent thing in these people’s lives. We came with an open mind to any answer and were ready to fully dive into the experiences of the Lexington locals.
• Any challenges? THe only challenge we really face is first having people upon up to us about their experiences and getting actual times to fit into their schedules.
• Will you need to follow-up the initial interview with questions by email? Probably not, the interview goes pretty deep and we  will most likely have everything we need to do a background text on our haunted sites.

ANALYSIS: Finally, describe your experience with 1 formal interview informant that you interviewed for 20 min, as well as a short analysis of the interview experience. Consider the following questions to guide you:

• How did the interviewee help further your understanding of your project?  What was new, surprising, disturbing? Think about trends, patterns and issues you’ve read about in secondary source search or class discussions.
• What did you notice about their language, and their community perspective on your topic?  Share a few examples of responses you found especially significant or interesting, and how they will inform your writing project.  

I have to say interviewing with Mark was definitely an experience. The first thing I noticed was the meeting place itself. It was an old barbershop that seemed to not have been used for a while. He said later on that he used the place for seances which explained the creepy vibe I was getting from the place. The man himself was the most interesting part though. He was a man of value, a man who was very steadfast in his own beliefs. He is so implanted in the ghost telling of Lexington yet doesn’t believe in them himself. He kept reiterating how much of an entertainer he was. He valued this trait and explained how he is always in need of people who were entertainers. To me this seems like he values creativity and people who are upbeat, ready to entertain people. We were definitely prepared for the meeting. Our questions made him talk a lot about himself, what he does, and even how he does it. Our tag team was mostly my partner would ask the questions and keep him interacting while I examined the area, his tone of voice, his microexpressions. It was interesting to see how subtle his change from real person to the persona he put on was. It was almost unnoticeable. I think halfway through he caught on what I was doing because he always looked at me from time to time with this sort of almost cokciness in his eyes. He knew he was good at what he does and,  after this meeting, so did I. He helped us out alot with our project. He gave us valuable information on a couple of sites and even brought us to the locations explaining in person the history behind the place, giving little details we might not have found anywhere else. It was a little disturbing visiting the areas because the way he told the story just added to the aura of the place. The creepy vibe was always through the roof.What I realized was that the people who come here looking for these things do not need to be convinced of ghosts, you leave that for them to decide.  What they want is a show, a show they want to believe and not have anyone ruin for them. I realized Lexington held a special aura about it that not a lot of people know about, because it seems like if a ghost is around every corner.

After it was over, did you feel prepared? If not, explain what differed between your plan and actual interview.  

Alexander Diaz

Progress Report

1. The research questions we are basically going for are questions about the hauntings that go on in that location. We understand that there will not always be an exact report on what thing might be lurking but a basic background on the location itself will lend enough information on other avenues of reports.  We have already interviews Jennifer Young who has given us many places to think about and we will decide on three specific ones.
2. We have done our homework by both going online and researching the stories that lay round lexingtons many old houses and creepy outer locations but also talk with Seth at special collections about different old newspaper reports and books that also tell about famou haunting in Lexington.
3. The interviews will obviously be taken at the place or in people’s houses. If we can get it at the location that will be great because it will allow us to get a good feel for the location and a good description for our later writings. We will use a nice Nikon camera and our phones for recording.
4. We do not have a set list of questions because questions will vary between the different locations and people we interview. But generally it will be about the background of the location and any paranormal experiences they might have. Maybe even go into their own background like how many years they have lived there or what they themselves know about the location.

Alexander Diaz

ERH-411

Source Synthesis

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For this source synthesis, I have used two sites that give different perspectives on the telling of ghost stories. The first site gives multiple examples of stories that come from all around rockbridge county. The site is called the Ghosts of Rockbridge and was made by W&L college students for a media project not too long ago. This projected needed detailed facts to go along with their stories and not just first hand explanations. Through deep historical findings and interviews with people, this site soon became my top choice with its reliance on dates and numbers to support an overall shaky story. As we know, ghost stories are just that, they are stories. It is hard to back up something you cannot see nor explain. But this site keeps it believable using both abstract and concrete ideas. Another cool feature about this site is its separation between the categories of ghost stories. Some stories are called ghost stories because they are researched and have many factual elements to it. Another category poses the question of if ghosts even exists. They use a large pool of responses with different genders, religions, birth months, etc. Then it is all laid out in tables and graphs explaining what people believe and if the belief in ghosts is actual plausible. Finally they even have podcasts of some interviews or stories they have done. Overall a very good source for concrete stories and analytical projections. Our next source is basically a blog post telling a few ghost stories in lexington. Now I picked this one because it gave a completely different perspective to the source before. This source was straight story telling, no facts or numbers. It was just an eerie story of ghosts popping up along people’s drives or walks. I think this is important because the whole point of this project is for believability. Facts are great but they sometimes take away from the story. What this blog does well is give the story straight out, with every creepy detail along the way. A combination of both of these sources can lead to a great vision for our end product, which is our own section of the RHS where we tell the background of these ghostly places. Now as an attraction it needs to do just that, attract. But it also needs to be factually sound for it to survive on a historical society’s website.

Alexander Diaz

Draft 1

Reading Excerpt

411-01 Field Work

Echos of the Past

“I am an entertainer. These people pay for a show and that is what I, as an entertainer, needs to do” These words by Mark Cline gave a clear focus on what our project needs to be about. Mark Cline told us that the main focus of what he does is to entertain people, and this brought focus to our goals. We decided that the goal was not to convince people of whether ghosts exist or not, it was to bring them into a place of questioning and knowledge. Our main project was shifted from just listing out what a site may be and who died there to entertaining the person who visits such a place. People want to go on this website to be entertained, to have this shiver of fear creep up their spine as they read about the ghostly occurrences that have happened or continue to happen to this day. Mark Cline being our primary source was the first step towards opening the doors to the specific details of stories we have heard in our secondary source, My Neighbors Ghost, by Katie Letcher. Katie Letcher’s book does a great job in giving the details and the backgrounds to different ghost stories around Lexington. But Mark Cline put the icing on the cake by giving us details about what happened in these locations and if they still go on until this day. Mark Cline, in a way, was the reinforcement to Katies book, the real life source that experiences these ghost tales every day. But now that we have our locations and stories down, we must figure out a way in which to write about these locations that will entertain the reader. We do not wish to just inform but make them feel like something really is there. We want the reader to have a memorable experience. We must appeal to their sense, their emotions, their consciousness that makes them doubt reality from fiction. This will be the difficult part in our project. Writing in such a way that we can connect with the reader and their senses. As Mark Cline said, we must create the illusion that something is there when it is not, and even harder, do it through text. Every detail of the location must be accurate as if we were right there describing the scenery next to them. The next challenge in our project would be location identification. RHS has markers all over the city depicting different characters and their biographies online. The challenge we will have is getting markers up that will tell the reader what exactly they are looking at. This is a problem because, for one, we do not know if business owners or land owners will like us putting markers up that says a place is haunted. Even if we did have the markers up how would a person know where to go to find the description of the place? Would QR codes work? Or just a simple link to the site due? So our main challenges will be putting the reader into the element and entertaining them, seeking the approval of markers in each location and having a direct line to the site that has all the information on it.