Dorah L. Williams

Dorah L. Williams tells this story in incredibly simple and straightforward language. She doesn't ask the reader to believe it or to disbelieve it...she just tells what her family experienced in their small-town Canadian home. The Williams family's "adventure' began a few years ago when the family moved into an old Victorian house in a small town in Ontario, Canada. Readers of the paranormal will recognize symptoms of a haunting early in the book...the family’s mysterious attraction to the place, the sudden appearance of small coins everywhere, broken clocks, screaming fire alarms, strange smells, flickering lights, cold spots, and a household pet that refuses to go up the stairs. I'm totally with the poor pet on that one. She writes of these events cautiously, like someone that is almost desperate for someone to believe her. Soon the events go from enchanting to bordering on Satanic, and the tension and the terror skyrocket. Musical snow globes start playing by themselves, candles light with no one near them, and ghostly, unfamiliar faces start to appear in photographs. I could hardly believe this, but it seems that the family, for the most part, gets along with the spirits, that is until some artifacts are dug up in the back yard. That’s when several ghosts, still wearing the Victorian clothing they wore when they died, materialize at night and try to make contact with the occupants. With the help of a psychic and a smudging ritual, the family finally manages to make peace with their astral house guests, who thank Williams for attempting to communicate with them. They give her a gift of a rosebush that never stops producing blooming roses, even in the dead of a Canadian winter. Some reviewers have stated that they wish that the author would tell the exact location of her home so that they can visit and see if they can say with equal credibility that they have seen these dead people also. Do I believe it? it really doesn't matter one way or the other. What matters is that Darah Willimas 100% believes it... so who can say? My Irish Grandmother believed in spirits and their ability to return, so I grew up hearing the stories she told. Needless to say, it scared us to death as kids. Do I want to visit this house? ABSOLUTELY... NO WAY! I wondered, as I read, if the author realizes...and the answer is probably "yes", that if there is any reality to it...that these "people" are not their friends, but they are something that could be extremely dangerous to all the family and anyone that enters the house? Thank you, Ms. Williams, your book gave me the creeps...and I gave it 5-stars...one for each goosebump!… (más)

Overall, this was a good read, and I did like it. I'll get to the frustrating part later on.

Williams and her family moved into a house, and it was haunted. This book has a lot going for it. One of the biggest thing this book has going for it is that she doesn't stretch the truth, just to make the book scary, like other paranormal books. There's no demons, hooded figures, hell hounds, or demon dogs to drag people to hell. None of that. She just tells what happened to her and her family. Some of the experiences could be a little chilling. TV's, radios, lamps, lights, and smoke alarms go off in the middle of the night.

They see a man, woman, and two children, one teenage girl, and angels in their house. Some of the experiences are pretty funny, I loved the one with the bottle of beer. That just goes to show what happens when you don't believe in the ghosts that are in your house. If you want to find out what happened, you have to read the book.

Here's the frustrating parts of the book. Williams does a lot of research on the paranormal. She never mentions EVP's. If I was her, I'd want to do many EVP sessions in order to reach the ghosts in the house to see if I can help them. She doesn't do this.

Another part that bothered me is that we're told about something, but we as the reader don't have any closure to what we're told about. Here's an example. When Williams' husband is sleeping she sees the ghost of a teenage girl about a foot away just watching him. The ghost sees that Williams is watching her, and the ghost glares at her, and that's all we find out. We never find out the name of the ghost, or what she wanted. The reader is left hanging.

Williams went to a psychic to get some answers. I found this part strange. The psychic tells Williams that the ghosts want to know if she likes the flowers they put for her (that was an interesting part of the book). Can't the ghosts tell the psychic their names? I just found it strange that the ghosts want to know if she likes the flowers, but not the psychic their names.

I also was confused on why Williams felt scared. Many times, she said she felt as peace with the ghosts, but then all of a sudden she's scared. The ghosts have been nothing but nice to her, and not threaten her at all, but yet at different times she says how scared she is. I can' understand being spooked, but she said how comfortable she feels with them, and likes them..... but then for no reason, she's scared?

Like I said, I did have some problem with the book, but over all I liked it. This goes to show you that every haunted house is full of evil. There were just ghosts that didn't want to move on, and liked Williams' family.

If you read this book, you won't be sorry. I wasn't, it was an interesting read!… (más)