Great Haunting

> *An epidemic of sleep paralysis in the Chawosauria that lasted during the 20th century*
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## Great Haunting

### Supreme Leaders

Johnathan Albert Bowes-Lyons Santiago Alexandria

### Leaders

* Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson
* Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy
* Garfield Lucas Webster
* Theodore McClellan
* Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X
* Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII
* Timothy Max Roosevelt

### Events

* Chawo-Wolfsberg War
* World War I
* Revolutions of 1917-1923
* 1918 Flu Pandemic (Including in Chawosauria)
* First Chawo-Bolshevik War
* Second Chawo-Bolshevik War
* Chawosauria in World War II
* Chawosauria in the Cold War

### Location

Chawosauria

In the Chawosaurian world, from its history, the **Great Haunting** is a collective term for a series of epidemics of sleep paralysis, psychological trauma, schizophrenia, and PTSD, and allegedly actual ghost hauntings, suffered among Chawosaurians during or since the early 20th century until the midst of World War II. Specific dates and facts are not known how and when this epidemic became a problem and the fear of spirits among Chawosaurians who experienced sleep paralysis after the sleep paralysis epidemic led to the Ghostly Wave of 1941-1979 and subsequent First Ghostly War. Chawosaurian historians, intellectuals, parapsychologists, demonologists, scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and skeptics, disagree on the origins of the Chawosaurian sleep paralysis epidemic. It was 1993 when it was realized that this really was an epidemic of sleep paralysis and nobody in Chawosauria believe this is a usual phenomenon, but paranormalists are not convinced.

Due to quasi European colonization, the Chawosaurian Government was trying to convert a non-religious Chawosaurian population to Christianity through *Christianization*, but of course that wasn't going anywhere because Chawosaurians have been resisting their Christian leaders often violently, but when these sleep paralysis cases caught the attention of Chawosauria's Christian leaders, they tried to use this to their advantage to convince the Chawosaurian general public that this sleep paralysis epidemic is the result of them not being Christian, but the message badly backfires when Chawosaurians begin to gain suspicion of their own Christian leaders and they begin to suspect their Christian authorities were performing witchcraft on the Chawosaurian public as a tactic to convert the Chawosaurian public, this conspiracy theory led to the violent storming of Christian churches all over Chawosauria, and church clergymen being kidnapped and murdered by a new left-wing nationalist and anti-Christian paramilitary group called the Chawosaurian Nationalist Disciples & Knights. The Christian leaders of Chawosauria backed off from their message and secretly called on the scientific community to find a logical explanation of these sleep paralysis cases instead.

Historians, intellectuals, scientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists blame the sleep paralysis epidemic on the post-war depression suffered by Chawosaurians due to Chawosauria's humiliating defeat in the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, which led to the fall of the Chawalliankalitan Empire and the establishment of quasi European colonialism over Chawosaurian politics that lasted until the end of World War II and the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, which saw the collapse of British political party rule over Chawosaurian politics. Chawosaurian psychologists raised the possibility that depression would increase the risk of sleep paralysis, stating that they believed that being depressed would impact Chawosaurians' sleeping wellbeing because having poor sleeping hygiene does result to sleep paralysis.

However, parapsychologists, demonologists, and others who believed in the supernatural, cited that before the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, Chawosauria was a very Pagan nation, magic and witchcraft were commonplace in Ancient Chawosauria, and occultism was already gaining influence before and after the war, even gaining influence over and interest from Chawosaurian politicians.

Despite Chawosauria is now a non-religious society, occultism, satanism, black magic, and neopaganism have became wildly popular among Chawosaurians, showing the impact of the sleep paralysis epidemic but also because of the pride Chawosaurians feel about their pagan past, leading to a strong desire among Chawosaurians to retain their pagan heritage against what they see as "growing Christian fascism" and "radical right-wing extremism".

The Great Haunting is rarely mentioned in Chawosauria. But it is widely agreed that the Great Haunting and Chawosaurians' ability to see ghosts and spirits are caused by stress and sadness, thus creating a popular phrase and saying in Chawosauria, it is "be happy or be haunted!" meant to encourage Chawosaurians to stay away from stress. However, it is still believed that the Great Haunting continues today, because large majorities of Chawosaurians can still ghosts, often unpleasantly, which manipulates their social behaviors, such as sleeping with moderate light or during the daytime sometimes with beautiful or uplifting music playing, most Chawosaurians like to avoid dark or pitch-black walls, and avoid anything involving death, which partly explains the backlash to the Chawo-Uralic War.

The cultural significance of the Great Haunting is immense. Halloween is a universally beloved holiday in Chawosauria, the Great Haunting is made Chawosaurians more closer to Paganism and Wicca than ever,

## Other names

* Chawosaurian Dark Ages
* Curse of Chawosauria
* Demonic Plague
* The Great Schizophrenia

## Background

The Chawalliankalitan Empire was the ancient and indigenous nation-state of Chawosaurians. The ancestral homeland of Chawosaurians are the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the arctic, the exact location of the Chawalliankalitan Empire where they had the closest contacts with both Indigenous peoples from the Americas and the post-Roman Empire civilizations of Europe. The Chawalliankalitans (ancient Chawosaurians) had countless wars with Vikings and pirates, and were threatened by the rise of European expansionism after Christopher Columbus' arrival to the new world in 1492.

The Chawalliankalitans have lived in fear of a European war of conquest until it was realized in the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, the Wolfsberg Empire and British remnants fought a long war with Chawalliankalita, though the Chawalliankalitans put up an unexpectedly stiff resistance, Chawalliankalitans grew tired and allowed their empire to fall.

## Chawosaurian Dark Ages

Sleep paralysis is a state in which a person is awake and aware of his/her surroundings, but cannot move. Sleep paralysis can be caused by trauma, an inadequate sleep time, sleep disruption, and among other social frustrations.

Chawosaurians have lived through trauma, which have caused the entire Chawosaurian population to be cursed with a pandemic of sleep paralysis. But sleep paralysis is not a virus, but it can traced down generations of family trees, which explained why the Great Haunting took a long time.

### Cases before 1895

First cases of sleep paralysis were reported during the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, but awareness of such a sleep disorder was severely limited.

### Cases from 1901 to 1917

Sleep paralysis cases escalated as more and more Chawosaurians begin to report symptoms that would be known as sleep paralysis, but Chawosaurians reported sights of spirits and demons constantly haunting them per night and they couldn't move in bed. This led to hysteria in the Chawosaurian world and the Chawosaurian Imperial Government struggled to respond.

### Cases from 1917 to 1929

The Great Haunting persisted into the 1920s,

## Legacy

The Great Haunting has left a lasting legacy in today's Chawosauria, in fact due to family history, it has become the most remembered historical era in Chawosaurian history.

### Impact on Chawosaurian Culture

#### Halloween

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The Great Haunting left a strong and positive impact on Halloween. To Chawosaurians, Halloween represents the Great Haunting and it made Chawosaurians significantly more closer to Halloween than any other holiday that even Christmas can never reach. Halloween is a holiday known widely to culturalize terror into something fun, where people who celebrate it dress up in scary costumes to have fun, and a popular Halloween tradition, known as trick-or-treating, where children (and sometimes adults) go door to door in a neighborhood all dressed up in costumes and say "trick-or-treat" to ask for candy.

Chawosaurians see Halloween as a day to remember Chawosaurian victims of the Great Haunting and to put a positive spin on the Great Haunting to overshadow the true nature of the Great Haunting to make it less traumatic, especially older Cold War Chawosaurians. For Chawosaurian survivors of the Great Haunting, Halloween was a day of coping by having fun on Halloween to suppress the horrid memories of suffering from sleep paralysis when most of the Chawosaurian public was also going through it.

Ghosts are associated with Halloween, which is attributed mainly to Chawosaurian closeness with Halloween.

### Impact on Chawosaurian Psychology

Chawosaurian mentality have been scared by the Great Haunting, depression had become a real societal problem for the Chawosaurian world during and after the Great Haunting, Suicide had become commonplace during and after the Great Haunting, 40% of the entire Chawosaurian population have taken their own lives every year since the Great Haunting, and it remains a problem today in 2024, showing how impactful the Great Haunting is.

#### Suicide

Suicide is a major problem in Chawosauria, and it has alot to do with the impact of the Great Haunting. 40% of Chawosaurians take their own lives per year, and in 2023, 39% of the Chawosaurian population has died from suicide.