Counting Spooky Stories: teacher key

Ghosts, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. A London society began studying haunting reports in 1882, and scientists since have traced creaks, faces and eerie feelings to houses, brains and sound. A report says what a person felt, and evidence asks what else could cause it.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. When was the Society for Psychical Research founded?
   • 1882 (answer)
   • 1862
   • 1958
2. What did NASA say about the Mars hill?
   • It was built by someone
   • It looks like a face only in low-resolution pictures with very specific lighting (answer)
   • It looks the same in every photo
3. Who turned Henry Dircks's idea into a stage effect in 1862?
   • Vic Tandy
   • Henry Sidgwick
   • John Henry Pepper (answer)
4. Why does a poll not answer what caused a chill in a bedroom?
   • It counts what people believe, not what caused a feeling (answer)
   • It only asked scientists
   • It was taken in winter
5. What did Vic Tandy trace the eerie feelings to?
   • A cold draft
   • A faulty extractor fan that made very low sound (answer)
   • A stage trick
6. What is infrasound?
   • Sound with a pitch above 20,000 hertz
   • Sound with a pitch below 20 hertz (answer)
   • Sound made only by storms

Words

• pareidolia: seeing faces
• infrasound: very low sound
• society: group of scholars
• evidence: checkable proof