Jen went into that house that everyone says is haunted last night. She had consumed a few beers and had just watched a scary movie. It was really dark and there was lots of lightning outside, and she swears she saw something spooky in the master bedroom once when the lightning struck. I'm telling you that house is haunted.
A) inappropriate appeal to authority; the cited source is not an authority on the subject at hand.
B) inappropriate appeal to authority; the cited source is biased
C) inappropriate appeal to authority; the accuracy of the source's observation is questionable
D) inappropriate appeal to authority; the source is known to be unreliable
E) no fallacy
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