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Family Ghosts: The Jackson Family Haunting
Hardship and adventure seemed to be in their DNA. Their Scots-Irish roots had led them to a one room cabin in the country outside of Durham, North Carolina where they huddled around a wood stove for heat in the winter and spent summers outdoors playing in the creek to stay cool. The chance to buy the old farmhouse on the hill seemed like a small step closer to doing just a little bit better in life for the Jackson family. What they did not know was that they would share the home with former residents that were not ready to give the house up. Foot-steps, banging doors and phantom odors gave way to full body apparitions and demonic visitors. The house seemed to lift the blinders from the eyes of the family and allowed them to experience other worldly encounters wherever they went.Their shared experiences would bond them forever, and the little white farmhouse would be a beacon for them - reminding them of the love, pain, laughter and tears they shared there. The terrifying paranormal experiences were woven into the family threads and tied their stories together forever.
188 pages, Paperback
Published February 4, 2021
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June 23, 2021
Family and Ghost
A very sweet book. Growing up in South Carolina myself I enjoyed reading the Jackson history. Not as spooky as I wished it to be but still a fun read. Thank you to the author for sharing his family and their ghost. I would love to hear more from the new family that live in the farmhouse now.
A very sweet book. Growing up in South Carolina myself I enjoyed reading the Jackson history. Not as spooky as I wished it to be but still a fun read. Thank you to the author for sharing his family and their ghost. I would love to hear more from the new family that live in the farmhouse now.
July 25, 2021
Haunted Familly Home
A wonderful, warm remembrances of growing up in a ghost house through the family generations. It reads very true and feels authentic!
A wonderful, warm remembrances of growing up in a ghost house through the family generations. It reads very true and feels authentic!
August 31, 2021
Great read
The stories were fascinating and scary as well. Recommend to those who enjoy ghost encounters as you will not be disappointed.
The stories were fascinating and scary as well. Recommend to those who enjoy ghost encounters as you will not be disappointed.
July 3, 2024
Family Ghosts: The Jackson Family Haunting by William and Rick Jackson. This is the story of a close knit and nice family across generations, that occasionally deal with paranormal happenings.
It seems that the members of the family have a certain sensibility to the supernatural which maybe, is what enables them to hear footsteps, doors slamming, and feel smells of things that aren’t there. The events happen mainly in the family home but they also have experiences elsewhere.
It wasn’t really that spooky, but it was believable.
It felt to me that it’s an account of sweet anecdotes of a multigenerational family sprinkled with the occasional sound of incidents no one can explain. There’s just one event that’s truly scary in my opinion. (Of course, this is just reading about it, if I had been the one to actually experience them it’d be a whole other story and the entire story would have been terrifying 😅)
They have all experienced weird things but nothing intense enough to make them want to move; in fact, one of the sons actually buys the home from his parents, to move his family there!
All in all, it was a well written and entertaining read.
It seems that the members of the family have a certain sensibility to the supernatural which maybe, is what enables them to hear footsteps, doors slamming, and feel smells of things that aren’t there. The events happen mainly in the family home but they also have experiences elsewhere.
It wasn’t really that spooky, but it was believable.
It felt to me that it’s an account of sweet anecdotes of a multigenerational family sprinkled with the occasional sound of incidents no one can explain. There’s just one event that’s truly scary in my opinion. (Of course, this is just reading about it, if I had been the one to actually experience them it’d be a whole other story and the entire story would have been terrifying 😅)
They have all experienced weird things but nothing intense enough to make them want to move; in fact, one of the sons actually buys the home from his parents, to move his family there!
All in all, it was a well written and entertaining read.
March 9, 2023
Scary experiences
I myself grew up in a haunted house and it's followed me to where I'm currently at. It's interesting to read about other people going through the same thing but it's definitely shocking to hear that this families' hauntings go back to the early1900's. It's a good read but it does end pretty abruptly; hence the 4 stars. I also would have liked to hear from Tracy's point of view. What did she experience when she was growing up in that room all by herself? Also, has Bud contacted a medium to help rid the house of the dirty farmer?
I myself grew up in a haunted house and it's followed me to where I'm currently at. It's interesting to read about other people going through the same thing but it's definitely shocking to hear that this families' hauntings go back to the early1900's. It's a good read but it does end pretty abruptly; hence the 4 stars. I also would have liked to hear from Tracy's point of view. What did she experience when she was growing up in that room all by herself? Also, has Bud contacted a medium to help rid the house of the dirty farmer?
December 9, 2023
family ghosts
The style in which this story is written is more like a very long informal letter one would write to family or a friend. It mostly just rambles on about normal events of the family with “ghost” sightings thrown in randomly. For example, one guy saw a ghost of a woman on a bull every night he got off at a bus stop. No one in the family who had “sightings “ ever bothered to try to research who those people had been during their lives or why they were seeing them. Rather than being scary, it was mostly mundane.
The style in which this story is written is more like a very long informal letter one would write to family or a friend. It mostly just rambles on about normal events of the family with “ghost” sightings thrown in randomly. For example, one guy saw a ghost of a woman on a bull every night he got off at a bus stop. No one in the family who had “sightings “ ever bothered to try to research who those people had been during their lives or why they were seeing them. Rather than being scary, it was mostly mundane.
July 25, 2024
Es un buen relato de hechos verídicos
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