If I could only have kept memory from running here and there in quest of evidence pro and con the house being haunted, I should have fared better: but I could not do this.
Do you know," I said, "that this house bears the reputation of being haunted?
Away from all the other rooms of the building, it was absolutely isolated; and had long borne the reputation of being hauntedby a dog, which was said to appear only before some catastrophe.
The number of places reported to me as being haunted by cats is almost incredible--in one street in Whitechapel there are no less than four.
The house has or had the reputation of being haunted; but that was long ago in the days when it stood neglected and uninhabited.
But more gigantic still is the well at Bovey, another Tudor house, near Beer, which bears the reputation of being haunted.
It had the reputation of being haunted, and was held in awe.
I myself do not believe in ghosts, and I have never seen anything strange here or elsewhere; and if I had known the house had the reputation of being haunted, I would never have rented it.
It would be interesting to ascertain how many houses in Ireland are traditionally said to be built on such unpleasant sites, and if they all bear the reputation of being haunted.
On inquiring one day from a friend, I was told that it had the reputation of being haunted.
If we know that a gateway, or road, or field has the reputation of being haunted, we can in nearly every case make a detour, and so avoid the unpleasant locality.
The spirits of suicides wander, and hence cross-roads in various parts of the country are oftentimes avoided after dark, on account of being haunted by headless and other uncanny apparitions.
But, 'ten or twelve years after his death, some fresh alarm of Madam Pigott arose, and a party went in haste to beg a neighbouring rector to come and lay the ghost; and to this day Chetwynd Hall has the reputation of being haunted.
He recollected the report of the room's being haunted; but he was no believer in ghosts.
At the same time, if it will be any satisfaction to you, I will observe, for the honor of my paternal mansion, that there's scarcely a chamber in it but is well worthy of being haunted.
Appledore Island, on the coast of New Hampshire, once had the name of being haunted by the uneasy ghost of one of Captain Kidd's piratical crew.
There are also places, as well as houses, which have the reputation of being haunted, sometimes through the commission of a horrible crime in that particular locality, sometimes through the survival of some obscure local tradition.
There is a certain well-known locality in Essex County, Massachusetts, which has long borne the evil reputation of being haunted, owing to the tradition that a cruel murder was committed there.
What gives to Myst Court the name of being haunted," said his father, "is simply this.
We hoped that, the house having the name of being haunted, no one would have come to trouble us here.
It is merely that closed-up chamber which gives to the house the name of being haunted.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being haunted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
