Once you have a hypothesis, you must gather the evidence the author uses to support that hypothesis. The evidence is everything the author uses to prove that his or her claim is true. Sometimes an individual sentence is a piece of evidence. Sometimes a string of paragraphs or a section of the article is a piece of evidence. Let's look at the article by Harry Price, "Borley Rectory Was the Most Haunted House in England." Here is some of Price's evidence:

1. A respectable London newspaper reported on the rectory's haunting.
2. Price asserts that Borley Rectory is "the most haunted house in England.
3. The house's haunted past is well documented.
4. Many people have reported seeing a ghostly horsedrawn coach "careering through the grounds" and many other apparitions.
5. Mr. Robinson, one of the house's residents at the time this article was...