haunted

• The mound may well have been a haunted, a sacred spot ever since the ashes of the dead and their costly weapons and ornaments were committed to its keeping far back in the Neolithic age. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• It is haunted, they say; but I don't believe in that sort of ghosts. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• They say it's haunted, and for the moment, when I saw you, I was frightened What! —  In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
• The Hall abounded in concealed staircases and iron hiding-places, connected with a variety of marvellous traditions of the civil wars; besides a walled-up suite of chambers, haunted, as becomes a walled-up suite of chambers; and justice-rooms and tapestried-rooms, to which the long abandonment of the house, and the heated imaginations of the few menials left in charge of its desolate vastness, attributed romances likely enough to have provoked the laughter of a matter-of-fact man like the owner of Lexley Park. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• She informed her that report had long been current that the castle was haunted, and as she had often heard the same disturbance during the night, she was confirmed in the belief that it was so Fostina could scarcely credit this intelligence, but made no farther inquiries upon the subject The day passed heavily away, and Fostina observed that her friends were unusually silent. —  Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer

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