Gearing up for the release of Stalked by the Zozo Demon,&...
Gearing up for the release of Stalked by the Zozo Demon, which comes out next Friday, September 29. This book was co-authored with my friend and partner in crime, LiveSciFi founder and lead investigator Tim Wood, and I'm ridiculously excited.
Why?
Well, here's the back jacket copy. You tell me.
During the summer of 2017, LiveSciFi paranormal investigator Tim Wood and author Celina Summers conducted a real-life experiment where Wood contacted the demon known as Zozo every night for a month. Wood believed Zozo was a demon; Summers believed Zozo was a myth. The Zozo experiment was to be the first paranormal experiment live streamed to thousands of witnesses. Its purpose? To determine the validity of the Zozo entity once and for all.
But the experiment didn’t end. Demonic influence pursued both researchers through their subsequent investigations…and their daily lives. As the activity heated up, the questions grew more difficult to answer. Was there really an entity named Zozo? Or was Zozo a smokescreen for something more sinister? At the end of the day, they had to confront the most terrifying question of all: were they stalking the Zozo demon? Or was Zozo stalking them?
The Zozo experiment is not your normal paranormal.
Okay. Let's talk Zozo experiment. I probably put about fifty versions of DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME in the book and still don't think it was enough. What we did? This experiment?
Not too smart.
Ergo, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Tim's an expert at Ouija communication and I'm an expert at being the team IN-sensitive. But between us we have decades of experience in the paranormal field, and what we do shouldn't be tried by anyone who doesn't have all that.
Trust me. Just don't.
That being said, the way we went around conducting the experiment was very smart. Tim was the subject of the initial month-long experiment. I was the control. We changed the parameters for every session and I documented the results Tim got. Every single session we did in the original one month experiment was live streamed on YouTube. No slick editing or creepy voiceovers or background music. Those videos are 100% accurate and depict exactly what happened.
And we captured evidence during every single session.
On top of that, I transcribed every single session word for word--hundreds of hours of work, I might add--and so the events depicted in the book are related exactly as they happened. Don't believe me? That's cool. You can head right on over to LiveSciFi's YouTube channel and validate the videos yourself. (pssst--you'd find out quickly that the transcripts are word for word. Just sayin'.)
I got to dissect a voodoo doll, by the way. That was both cool and not cool.
The experiment continued--not by our choice--through the two subsequent LSF investigations, and the whole thing took a dark, sinister turn that is actually really disturbing and shocking. I went into this project with a seriously healthy skepticism about Zozo. I thought the "entity" was bullshit, frankly--a mass hysteria generated and perpetuated by the internet, a Slenderman without the backstory.
But I came out of the experiment convinced of something else entirely...and so did Tim. When you read about the experiences we both had while the experiment was ongoing, you'll see a growing malevolent trend--a malicious presence that was making itself felt wherever Tim and I were. Especially during the five days we were in the same place.
So I'm really excited to share this story and see what other people think about it. I was fortunate; I was not the focus of the early energies during that one-month marathon of nightly sessions. Tim is the one who had to deal with the most repercussions, the most paranormal backlash. But there's a funny thing about the paranormal. Once you open that door, it never shuts again.
So take a look at Stalked by the Zozo Demon when it comes out this week. Take a listen to our interview on Beyond the Darkness, where Tim and I talk about our experiences and expound upon our theories.Which, by the way, was a totally cool thing to do. I really enjoyed that. Advance buzz on the book is overwhelmingly positive. And for God's sake, help us out and leave a review. Let me know what you thought of it, okay? Reviews help authors out more than anything else, so even if you just rate it star-wise, you're giving us a boost.
What...wait? Oh, you want an excerpt? Well there's already an excerpt up here, but since you asked nicely--here's another one, just for you. Enjoy!
There’s another sound, and Tim looked down. “Dude, there is a fucking spider right next to my foot.” Another thing I’ve noticed about paranormal investigators. They may be fearless when it comes to spirits, but bugs, bats, birds, spiders, snakes—all the creepy crawlies you can expect to find in…oh, say, a deserted haunted location—are not things they like or tolerate. Tim was no different. He’s been jumping away from spiders since the experiment began. I’m not particularly fond of the football sized cockroaches I ran into during an investigation in Key West, FL in 1991 either. Football sized. Not an exaggeration. And scorpions. Blech.But, Tim being Tim, he saw an opportunity to introduce some smartass into the session. This was the side of Tim that viewers respond so well to. He’s not doing spooky voiceovers with background music. He’s not trying to sell the viewers anything, not trying to persuade them that the paranormal is real. Instead, he’s using all his charisma and guy-next-door charm to engage with his viewers and letting them see what he’s experiencing. He literally seems to be sitting a few feet away, hanging out with his buddies in some creepy haunted basement. Tim looked up and gave the camera a wicked grin. “I’m going to try to put it on the board.” Back in Ohio, I was shaking my head and laughing. Moving carefully because of the broken vertebra in his back, Tim put the Ouija board on the floor and cautiously maneuvered the spider onto it. Only then did he say, “This isn’t a spider. It’s a weird type of bug.”I’ll be honest. I couldn’t see the bug. I was laughing harder.He turned on the voice recorder, Ouija board and bug now on his lap, and said, “All right, Zozo.”Tim picked up the bug and for the first time, I could see it. I nearly fell off the couch. The bug was almost microscopic. It fit on the tip of his finger. “All right Zozo, if you don’t talk to me right now I’m going to kill this bug, right on the Ouija board.”He positioned the tip of the planchette right over the bug, right under the G on the board. “Talk to me, right now or I’m going to kill this bug. I’m going to squash it right in the middle of the board.”He waited.“Or I’m just going to burn it.” I stopped laughing. When Tim starts to talk about burning things, there’s usually something else in the room.“Did you put this bug on the circle? Next to my foot?” He pulled out a lighter. “Did you put it there?”The chat room was rolling. “Tim is a savage!” one regular enthused. The viewers love it when Tim gets in this mood. He’s not just fulfilling their paranormal preferences, but entertaining them on multiple levels. And they love him for it.“Zozo, stop being a little bitch,” Tim said loudly. “What am I about to do to your little friend here?”The whole scenario was both funny and a little bizarre. What was it about that tiny bug that’s got Tim so riled up? A circle of salt wasn’t going to keep insects out. Slugs and snails, yes. Insects that were basically the size of a pinhead, no.“Couldn’t you have sent something a little more menacing?”That was my question too. If an entity wants to scare me, it would take something more than an ant or a ladybug.“Okay I’m going to kill it. Ready? Five, four, three, two, one.” The countdown. Repeating it to the Zozo entity was both a challenge and a slap in the face. Tim was mocking one of Zozo’s calling cards and taking it for himself.The lighter flared up on top of the almost invisible dot on the board and poof! No more bug. He took a minute to try and remove the charred smear that now adorned the board. But then Tim laughed and the feel of the session turned suddenly creepy. “That was fucking weird—I just can’t stop laughing dude. I feel like…I feel like I’m fucking possessed right now.”He scraped the dead, smashed, burned bug off the board and played back the recorder. But then he put the recorder down on the second, inner circle of salt around the doll, breaking it, and then broke its protection entirely by opening a section. The entire bug episode generated no EVPs on the recorder.
But now the dynamics have been changed. Tim has challenged the entity and broken the circle of protection between him and the fetish. The atmosphere shifted into something darker, more menacing, and the experiment took on a whole new feeling.
Why?
Well, here's the back jacket copy. You tell me.
During the summer of 2017, LiveSciFi paranormal investigator Tim Wood and author Celina Summers conducted a real-life experiment where Wood contacted the demon known as Zozo every night for a month. Wood believed Zozo was a demon; Summers believed Zozo was a myth. The Zozo experiment was to be the first paranormal experiment live streamed to thousands of witnesses. Its purpose? To determine the validity of the Zozo entity once and for all.
But the experiment didn’t end. Demonic influence pursued both researchers through their subsequent investigations…and their daily lives. As the activity heated up, the questions grew more difficult to answer. Was there really an entity named Zozo? Or was Zozo a smokescreen for something more sinister? At the end of the day, they had to confront the most terrifying question of all: were they stalking the Zozo demon? Or was Zozo stalking them?
The Zozo experiment is not your normal paranormal.
Okay. Let's talk Zozo experiment. I probably put about fifty versions of DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME in the book and still don't think it was enough. What we did? This experiment?
Not too smart.
Ergo, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Tim's an expert at Ouija communication and I'm an expert at being the team IN-sensitive. But between us we have decades of experience in the paranormal field, and what we do shouldn't be tried by anyone who doesn't have all that.
Trust me. Just don't.
That being said, the way we went around conducting the experiment was very smart. Tim was the subject of the initial month-long experiment. I was the control. We changed the parameters for every session and I documented the results Tim got. Every single session we did in the original one month experiment was live streamed on YouTube. No slick editing or creepy voiceovers or background music. Those videos are 100% accurate and depict exactly what happened.
And we captured evidence during every single session.
On top of that, I transcribed every single session word for word--hundreds of hours of work, I might add--and so the events depicted in the book are related exactly as they happened. Don't believe me? That's cool. You can head right on over to LiveSciFi's YouTube channel and validate the videos yourself. (pssst--you'd find out quickly that the transcripts are word for word. Just sayin'.)
I got to dissect a voodoo doll, by the way. That was both cool and not cool.
The experiment continued--not by our choice--through the two subsequent LSF investigations, and the whole thing took a dark, sinister turn that is actually really disturbing and shocking. I went into this project with a seriously healthy skepticism about Zozo. I thought the "entity" was bullshit, frankly--a mass hysteria generated and perpetuated by the internet, a Slenderman without the backstory.
But I came out of the experiment convinced of something else entirely...and so did Tim. When you read about the experiences we both had while the experiment was ongoing, you'll see a growing malevolent trend--a malicious presence that was making itself felt wherever Tim and I were. Especially during the five days we were in the same place.
So I'm really excited to share this story and see what other people think about it. I was fortunate; I was not the focus of the early energies during that one-month marathon of nightly sessions. Tim is the one who had to deal with the most repercussions, the most paranormal backlash. But there's a funny thing about the paranormal. Once you open that door, it never shuts again.
So take a look at Stalked by the Zozo Demon when it comes out this week. Take a listen to our interview on Beyond the Darkness, where Tim and I talk about our experiences and expound upon our theories.Which, by the way, was a totally cool thing to do. I really enjoyed that. Advance buzz on the book is overwhelmingly positive. And for God's sake, help us out and leave a review. Let me know what you thought of it, okay? Reviews help authors out more than anything else, so even if you just rate it star-wise, you're giving us a boost.
What...wait? Oh, you want an excerpt? Well there's already an excerpt up here, but since you asked nicely--here's another one, just for you. Enjoy!
There’s another sound, and Tim looked down. “Dude, there is a fucking spider right next to my foot.” Another thing I’ve noticed about paranormal investigators. They may be fearless when it comes to spirits, but bugs, bats, birds, spiders, snakes—all the creepy crawlies you can expect to find in…oh, say, a deserted haunted location—are not things they like or tolerate. Tim was no different. He’s been jumping away from spiders since the experiment began. I’m not particularly fond of the football sized cockroaches I ran into during an investigation in Key West, FL in 1991 either. Football sized. Not an exaggeration. And scorpions. Blech.But, Tim being Tim, he saw an opportunity to introduce some smartass into the session. This was the side of Tim that viewers respond so well to. He’s not doing spooky voiceovers with background music. He’s not trying to sell the viewers anything, not trying to persuade them that the paranormal is real. Instead, he’s using all his charisma and guy-next-door charm to engage with his viewers and letting them see what he’s experiencing. He literally seems to be sitting a few feet away, hanging out with his buddies in some creepy haunted basement. Tim looked up and gave the camera a wicked grin. “I’m going to try to put it on the board.” Back in Ohio, I was shaking my head and laughing. Moving carefully because of the broken vertebra in his back, Tim put the Ouija board on the floor and cautiously maneuvered the spider onto it. Only then did he say, “This isn’t a spider. It’s a weird type of bug.”I’ll be honest. I couldn’t see the bug. I was laughing harder.He turned on the voice recorder, Ouija board and bug now on his lap, and said, “All right, Zozo.”Tim picked up the bug and for the first time, I could see it. I nearly fell off the couch. The bug was almost microscopic. It fit on the tip of his finger. “All right Zozo, if you don’t talk to me right now I’m going to kill this bug, right on the Ouija board.”He positioned the tip of the planchette right over the bug, right under the G on the board. “Talk to me, right now or I’m going to kill this bug. I’m going to squash it right in the middle of the board.”He waited.“Or I’m just going to burn it.” I stopped laughing. When Tim starts to talk about burning things, there’s usually something else in the room.“Did you put this bug on the circle? Next to my foot?” He pulled out a lighter. “Did you put it there?”The chat room was rolling. “Tim is a savage!” one regular enthused. The viewers love it when Tim gets in this mood. He’s not just fulfilling their paranormal preferences, but entertaining them on multiple levels. And they love him for it.“Zozo, stop being a little bitch,” Tim said loudly. “What am I about to do to your little friend here?”The whole scenario was both funny and a little bizarre. What was it about that tiny bug that’s got Tim so riled up? A circle of salt wasn’t going to keep insects out. Slugs and snails, yes. Insects that were basically the size of a pinhead, no.“Couldn’t you have sent something a little more menacing?”That was my question too. If an entity wants to scare me, it would take something more than an ant or a ladybug.“Okay I’m going to kill it. Ready? Five, four, three, two, one.” The countdown. Repeating it to the Zozo entity was both a challenge and a slap in the face. Tim was mocking one of Zozo’s calling cards and taking it for himself.The lighter flared up on top of the almost invisible dot on the board and poof! No more bug. He took a minute to try and remove the charred smear that now adorned the board. But then Tim laughed and the feel of the session turned suddenly creepy. “That was fucking weird—I just can’t stop laughing dude. I feel like…I feel like I’m fucking possessed right now.”He scraped the dead, smashed, burned bug off the board and played back the recorder. But then he put the recorder down on the second, inner circle of salt around the doll, breaking it, and then broke its protection entirely by opening a section. The entire bug episode generated no EVPs on the recorder.
But now the dynamics have been changed. Tim has challenged the entity and broken the circle of protection between him and the fetish. The atmosphere shifted into something darker, more menacing, and the experiment took on a whole new feeling.
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