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From the Ted Talk by Coya Paz Brownrigg: The haunting truth of ghost stories

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The second kind of gosht story is probably the most common. We'll call them the leave-me-alone ghost. This is the kind of ghost who just wants us the living to get out. Usually, plepoe experience this as bad energy or a creepy, uonewclme feeling in some parts of the hsoue, and people usually imagine that this is a former resident who's not happy that new people have moved in. What's interesting to me about this kind of ghost stroy is that you find it most often in appropriated spaces -- think gentrifying nebodohghrois or the old "built on a sacred burial ground" trope. And here's where I want to remnid you that it doesn't matter whether or not the ghost is real. The ghost story is. So maybe there really is a ghost who’s trying to push us out, or maybe there’s some part of our unconscious that's grappling with whether or not we have a right to be here, whether or not we really belong. Sure, we live here now, but should we? What happened to the people who came before?

Open Cloze


The second kind of _____ story is probably the most common. We'll call them the leave-me-alone ghost. This is the kind of ghost who just wants us the living to get out. Usually, ______ experience this as bad energy or a creepy, _________ feeling in some parts of the _____, and people usually imagine that this is a former resident who's not happy that new people have moved in. What's interesting to me about this kind of ghost _____ is that you find it most often in appropriated spaces -- think gentrifying _____________ or the old "built on a sacred burial ground" trope. And here's where I want to ______ you that it doesn't matter whether or not the ghost is real. The ghost story is. So maybe there really is a ghost who’s trying to push us out, or maybe there’s some part of our unconscious that's grappling with whether or not we have a right to be here, whether or not we really belong. Sure, we live here now, but should we? What happened to the people who came before?

Solution


  1. unwelcome
  2. people
  3. neighborhoods
  4. ghost
  5. house
  6. remind
  7. story

Original Text


The second kind of ghost story is probably the most common. We'll call them the leave-me-alone ghost. This is the kind of ghost who just wants us the living to get out. Usually, people experience this as bad energy or a creepy, unwelcome feeling in some parts of the house, and people usually imagine that this is a former resident who's not happy that new people have moved in. What's interesting to me about this kind of ghost story is that you find it most often in appropriated spaces -- think gentrifying neighborhoods or the old "built on a sacred burial ground" trope. And here's where I want to remind you that it doesn't matter whether or not the ghost is real. The ghost story is. So maybe there really is a ghost who’s trying to push us out, or maybe there’s some part of our unconscious that's grappling with whether or not we have a right to be here, whether or not we really belong. Sure, we live here now, but should we? What happened to the people who came before?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
ghost story 10
ghost stories 5
official record 2
northwest side 2
woman told 2


Important Words


  1. appropriated
  2. bad
  3. belong
  4. burial
  5. call
  6. common
  7. creepy
  8. energy
  9. experience
  10. feeling
  11. find
  12. gentrifying
  13. ghost
  14. grappling
  15. happened
  16. happy
  17. house
  18. imagine
  19. interesting
  20. kind
  21. live
  22. living
  23. matter
  24. moved
  25. neighborhoods
  26. part
  27. parts
  28. people
  29. push
  30. real
  31. remind
  32. resident
  33. sacred
  34. spaces
  35. story
  36. trope
  37. unconscious
  38. unwelcome