House

The past never leaves us; there's always atmosphere to consider; you can wound air as cleanly as you can would flesh. I this way the Dream House was a haunted house. You were the sudden, inadvertent occupant of a place where bad things had happened.

~ Carmen Maria Machado

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Based on my research (i.e., what I read on etymonline), "haunt" comes from the Old French hanter "to frequent, visit regularly; have to do with, be familiar with; indulge in, cultivate. Apparently there is a secondary meaning from both Middle English and Old French that meant "to have sexual intercourse with."

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I hope I'm not ever haunted by a Middle English or Old French ghost.