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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very disappointing. As a Louisiana resident who has visited The Myrtles on several occasions and stayed the night there three times, I was hoping to find more historical information about the plantation. Despite claims that she did extensive research on The Myrtles, very little of this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13535110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow I have let a friend talk me into visiting The Myrtles soon and it sounds like it may be scary. The stories in this book were very scary to imagine, but after looking more information up on the internet...I wonder how many are actually true. There's a lot of differing opinions on events that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48833748">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I have actually been to the Myrtles Plantation, I had certain expectations for this book and found myself a little disappointed.  It is more about one woman's struggle/descent into madness/relationship problems more than the hauntings and one of my friends pointed out that the use of dialect w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39259644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was torn between giving this book a 2 or 3 star rating.  While I really enjoyed the story and the history, there are some parts of this story that are just too unbelievable.  I know that the Myrtles has been documented as haunted and I believe that it is - but some of these events are just a littl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55388630">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best ghost stories I have read in a while!<br/>It had always been one of Frances' dreams to own and run an inn. While on vacation with her boyfriend she finds out that the myrtles is on the market! There's only one thing that would stop Frances from owning the plantation of her d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63613669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having only seen certain things about this place on shows that showcase hauntings around the country, all I can say is that this book opened my eyes to how much MORE goes on there.  SPOOKY!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very quick and entertaining read! Now I want to go stay the night there! I'm usually not very big on non-fiction but it read like a novel so I was drawn in from the beginning!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this is a non-fiction book it reads like a novel.  It begins with VooDoo and runs the gamut through love story, historical story and into the ghostly.  Very well written, Frances Kermeen takes you with her through the years and all the events that happened around her.  Her style is down-hom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30263938">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Broken clocks tick...beds rise in the air...paintings fly across the room...locked doors fling open...crystal chandeliers shake...heavy footsteps and eerie piano music sound in the dead of night-and that's just for starters. Welcome to the Myrtles Long recognized as America's most haunted house both by parapsychologists and the media, The Myrtles is a twenty-eight-room Louisiana bed-and-breakfast once owned by Frances Kermeen. In this spine-tingling chronicle, Frances tells the story of how she was drawn to this former plantation mansion, its bone-chilling history, and the incredible encounters of the ghostly kind she had that forever changed her beliefs about the supernatural-and just may change yours. Along with the sometimes terrifying, sometimes benevolent hauntings, her years at The Myrtles also brought death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, the tragic loss of friends, a catastrophic betrayal, and other personal challenges. They would all converge with the paranormal phenomena around her into one cataclysmic event...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was very good.  If you like true stories of the paranormal, I would suggest this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[not a bad story, although the ghost parts seem to be really intense.  Would love to visit this plantation.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolute nonsense presented as fact, badly written and full of inconsistencies. A waste of 20p]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Broken clocks tick...beds rise in the air...paintings fly across the room...locked doors fling open...crystal chandeliers shake...heavy footsteps and eerie piano music sound in the dead of night-and that's just for starters. Welcome to the Myrtles Long recognized as America's most haunted house both by parapsychologists and the media, The Myrtles is a twenty-eight-room Louisiana bed-and-breakfast once owned by Frances Kermeen. In this spine-tingling chronicle, Frances tells the story of how she was drawn to this former plantation mansion, its bone-chilling history, and the incredible encounters of the ghostly kind she had that forever changed her beliefs about the supernatural-and just may change yours. Along with the sometimes terrifying, sometimes benevolent hauntings, her years at The Myrtles also brought death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, the tragic loss of friends, a catastrophic betrayal, and other personal challenges. They would all converge with the paranormal phenomena around her into one cataclysmic event...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as scarey as I was told.  Only one part freaked me out &amp; that's because I was sleepy &amp; it was late &amp; I live alone.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, this was an entertaining read. While the book started out strong, I found the narrative tiresome towards the end and got impatient with the author. The book just got too silly, melodramatic and unbelievable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've ever read. The true happenings are so scary, and if you're planning to visit the house like I did, it's good to read this book beforehand so you can get a better idea of the history.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the scariest books i have read about ghosts and voo doo. The bonus is that it actually exists and really happened!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a non-fiction ghost story. If you ever go to Louisiana, psych yourself out with this book. ]]></body>
    
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