Backyard baseball games have long been haunted by ghost runners, who disrupt the festivities by taunting the pitcher with banshee wails to the tune of Gary Glitter songs. Better know these sport-sabotaging specters with today's Groupon to The Haunted Cottage in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Choose between the following options:
- For $10, you get a grand tour, a workshop, and a ghost hunt (up to a $20 value). Children younger than 5 are free.
- For $40, you get an overnight ghost hunt (an $80 value).
The Haunted Cottage unveils the history and hauntings of Harpers Ferry with tours that delve into the area's apparitions and the origins of modern paranormal research. As one of the nation's premier training facilities for paranormal investigation, the Cottage tactfully equips ghost hunters with the knowledge and the spools of flypaper necessary for snaring specters. Before exploring electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and test-driving electromagnetic field (EMF) meters, hunters will study up on the early days of talcum-powder-assisted ghost hunting in the on-site National Paranormal History Museum. After the two-hour tour, workshop, and ghost hunt, guests can peruse the paranormal library, housing more than 300 books chock-full of spooky tables of contents and dog-eared pages stained with Ecto-Cooler.
On the eight-hour overnight ghost hunt, brave guests will spend a night investigating the cottage while piecing together bits of haunted history. In addition to taking EMF readings and temperature tabulations, hunters will sit in on video vigils of the house's slave quarters, bedrooms, and cellar and perform EVP experiments to record apparitions' moanings, mutterings, and croonings of game-show themes . Just before dawn, ghost hunters can gather over complementary coffee to discuss their research findings.
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The Groupon Guide to: Shame
Like all emotions, shame sneaks into the pit of your stomach when you least expect it. Sometimes, however, biological or environmental triggers may cause you to feel shame even when you've got nothing to be ashamed of. Here's a guide to feeling shame appropriately:
The Situation: You've been caught cheating on an exam.
Shameworthy?: No, unless the exam proctor explicitly forbade cheating by tattooing "No Cheating" on your forearm before the exam, or if the test questions were arranged to form an acrostic that spelled "DON'T CHEAT." If not, then cheating is not just allowed, it's encouraged, so that the test resembles real life.
The Situation: You're fired from work for stealing.
Shameworthy?: Absolutely not! Only by stealing can you help your company update its shrinkage and disciplinary policies. March into your boss's office and demand an apology, a raise, and 15 minutes of unsupervised personal time in the CEO's private zoo.
The Situation: After eating from the Tree of Knowledge, you realize you're naked.
Shameworthy?: Heck no. The handful of states that ban public nudity do so only because the 1970 census declared those particular residents too ugly to be naked. Occasionally, public nudity is required, as on Election Day, when voters must enter voting booths nude to prove they're carrying only one ballot.
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