... believe, because it makes them happy, even if those beliefs exist against logic or opposing evidence.8 In Detroit, "ghost-busting is back big time," with "at least five "ghost hunting" clubs" springing up in the metro area.9 The Great Lakes Ghost Hunters Society and the Ghost Hunters ... But as all of these stories are coming together, the United States is coming unglued. Next, America enters the Pre-Civil War period, a controversial time with equally controversial writers, but there remains the same old craving of the mysterious, if not a magnified one. William Cullen Bryant wrote his ...

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• Grade Level: High School