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[Anatomy of A Haunting: The Nightmare on Baxter Road] by Lee Strong
5 Stars
From The Book:
Imagine that you’ve inherited a house of spirits. Now imagine that the house wants you dead.
For Jon and Carlie Summers, the nightmare begins when they move into an inherited home in rural Iowa. Leaving behind their busy lives in Chicago, Jon and Carlie are dragged into a horrifying spiral of violent dreams, illnesses, and possessions. Uncovering a vast evil hidden for decades in crates of buried journals, Jon and Carlie are forced to relive the sinister history of the house and its legacy of abuse, denial, and obsession.
Anatomy of a Haunting is a terrifying true story about one house and its inhabitants who have been pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Through interviews and exhaustive research into the 150-year-old McPherson house, author Lee Strong delves into the history of the haunting and paints a nightmarish picture of one couple’s descent into supernatural madness.
My Views:
I am a sucker for a good ghost story or a haunted house tale. This one was supposedly non-fiction so it was all the better. Do ghost exist? I don't really know. My science degree says "no"...impossible... but my head just laughs and says 'maybe". I'm not at all sure and in spite of my enthusiasm for the stories, that I really want to know. The author believes it and I'm sure that Carlie Summers believes it as it seems did most of the small Iowa town located close to Des Moines. What the book will do that I'm absolutely sure of is give you cold chills and make you sit with your back against a wall to read it. Don't look over you shoulder under any circumstances. I have always wondered why when/if someone encounters a situation such as the Summers did...why in Heaven's name don't they just get out???? This book provided hours of enjoyment but failed to answer my question.
