April 26: Chapter 9 Activity

A place in history that should be recognized for its mysterious accounts (ghosts O.o ) is Mary Roff's home in the mid-1800's. Her story basically involved an insanity of some kind which was formally described as a state of possession where spirits alone acted through her body as some kind of vessel. Through her life they many diagnosed it as a mental disease describing the early stages in trances, speaking in different language or gibberish slurred words, voices that made her do things that she shouldn't. Eventually her case progressed in worse symptoms putting Mary in a mental institution claiming that these voices became overbearing insisting she rid herself of blood in her body which put her to a demise as she ended her last days at the age of nineteen with a sharp cut of a razor. Mary's father, Asa Roff started believed that she was possessed when he himself was a sane man, but with the memories of Mary they moved from the house. Years later a thirteen year old girl started showing the same signs in Mary Roff's possession her name was Lurancy Vennum. Eventually with the new going around the town of Watseka Asa Roff took her in as the family was also going to put her in a mental institute. They say that Lurancy could have been possessed by Mary Roff so the girl started noticing and knowing things about the Roff family, memories that were not hers. For the few months that she stayed with the Roff's it was as if she were Mary herself. When the day came to leave, Lurancy cried for these people whom she had no relevance or prior relationship to, but some believe that while living with the Roff's she pretending and assumed the role of Mary Roff. This in happening is the greatest recollection of possession documenting in history in Watseka, Indiana.

This is a good setting for a mystery thriller novel because it would be something I would typically write about. I like the simple ideas of demonic possessions, witchcraft, or supernatural behavior such as temporary insanity. If I were to write a mystery thriller it would have many of these different ideas. Characters should be developed and add just the bridge between life and death that would make anyone go crazy. It's like that movie "House on Haunted Hill" about the abandoned insane asylum with many reformed doctors and patients still roam and how the guests all had to stay to gain some sort of profit, but at the same time be there for a reason in which they learn from this devastating, evil experience. Possession in any book seemed like it would build up this suspense for the characters or have these clues that lead to certain things. Just kind of imagine a house with reformed accounts of possession where there was so much supernatural occurrence that characters were psycho with the "who killed who" kind of idea . . . an ideal location in other words. (-_-" I am kind of crazy myself . . . )