Jennifer Kabay

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Jennifer Kabay lives with artist husband, Christopher Barnett in the Texas Hill Country. Their haunted home was featured on A&E Bio's My Ghost Story.

Books, Beatles, and England are her favorite things. She draws inspiration from “Mandy” by Julie Edwards, “A Little Princess” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, and anything by Roald Dahl.

Read her ghost stories at www.jkabay.com or follow on Instagram @jenniferkabay.
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What Happened at a Spiritualist Church.

A psychic locked eyes with me from across the room.

I wiggled in my seat.

A ‘spiritual groups near me’ search lead me here, to the Liverpool Spiritualist Church. If you’re new here, I investigate spiritual and paranormal phenomena then document. It’s my goal at all times to dispel misinformation around these subjects and share with authenticity.

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I’ve read a few by this author. This, about some squatters in a home with dark history, reads like a true crime documentary with an unreliable narrator. I like the atmospheric broodyness, but it took WAY too long for something to happen. I remembe
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A young girl, seeped in trauma wakes in a psych ward after some serious self harm. I’m not someone easily triggered by literature but pretty much all the triggers in this one. It’s compulsively readable, somewhat relatable because, well, life. Bu
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England, 1537. A power-hungry, ginger narcissist psycho is trying to make himself king of the planet. And while he’s busy murdering wives, catholics, and declaring himself head of the church, a commissioner gets decapitated whilst investigating m
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