Imagine you hear the sound of chains dragging heavily down the long hallway of your parent’s home after they have left for work. The chains clank as they become tangled coming over the threshold from The Beyond. As you stand terrified, barely breathing, a translucent image begins to take shape – you instantly recognize the manifestation as your grandfather who has passed over. His specter roams the house, one room at a time, through the living room and each bedroom. He seems to be unaware of your presence, as though he is unaware of your existence. Has he come back to reassure himself that the family he's left behind is secure?
On your sixteenth birthday you hold the clammy fingertips of your classmates at a slumber party séance, having waited until midnight to summon the power of The Ouija. Your friends gasp as the candles that throw shadows across the room flicker and the lens into The Other World begins to sweep across the board.
In the vault-like quiet that follows midnight you watching as the doorknob of your bedroom door turns, almost imperceptivity. It creaks ever so slightly, rattling in its casing. You know that it is not a human presence that has come a'callin' – a human would most certainly would have been caught by the alarm system.
You don’t think these occurrences could ever happen? Think again. Because they do happen; and they have happened to me. I remember each incident vividly.
This is a collection of contemporary ghost stories that recount my own experiences with The Unexplained supernatural occurrences in my life.
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I was raised by opposite - and opposing - forces. My father was an engineer, a Meyers-Briggs INTJ; my mother was a brunette, voluptuous Gypsy, an ESFP. My mother's family wooed and welcomed the supernatural; my father was Catholic - and most certainly didn't. Their struggle for control resulted in a very tumultuous life, energy swirled around me, and my siblings, until well after our parents' deaths. This collection of seven stories of supernatural scenes - from seances to spirit sightings - capture the terrors I experienced as a child and the acceptance of the occult as an adult.