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 were they stalking the Zozo demon? Or was Zozo stalking them?
The Zozo experiment is not your normal paranormal.
Celina Summers is a speculative fiction author who mashes all kinds of genres into one giant fantasy goo. Her first fantasy series, The Asphodel Cycle, was honored with multiple awards--including top ten finishes for all four books in the P&E Readers' Poll as well as a prestigious Golden Rose nomination. Her Asphodel world combines a strong classical mythology foundation, traditional fantasy characters and settings, and strong female protagonists--elements to be found in all her work. The Black Dream series is also set in Asphodel, as is her new series Blood Feud.
Celina's other published works include the Mythos sensual romance series about Greco-Roman goddesses; Metamorphosis, a collection of her short stories; and the Covenant series, vampire historical fiction co-authored with Canadian author Rob Graham. Celina was the editor of the speculative fiction e-zine Penumbra, and worked as an editor and managing editor in e-publishing for well over a decade. She now writes full-time, but moonlights and edits a select clientele of writers including NYT and USA Today bestsellers in multiple genres. She also is a sportswriter and political analyst writing for multiple media outlets.
It’s cursed so that you have to read it all in one sitting. Iris a captivating read that is eye opening to Tim’s viewers, at least to me anyway. In the streams it was hard to grasp the severity of his situation with this experiment, this book allowed me to connect what visually happened and what all went on in Celina’s and Tim’s head in a way. And was interesting to read what got the both of them into Paranormal Investigation. It also expressed the ideas I had on zozo itself which makes the ideas proposed in the end more concrete to me. If you are a viewer of Tim’s, an avid reader of Celina this is worth a read.
I just love a book that draws you into the words that are written,and this book certainly does that. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that's interested in this subject
I will have to admit this book had me scared you can call it over active imagination or what ever you want but I was scared wonderfully written this is a must read for horror fans
𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 A lot of people claim to be a expert about the demonic entity known as Zozo, after they encounter it but they originally had no idea who they are or what the capable of. Using Sage incense doesn't get rid of demons but a incense they don't like the scent of would be successful to cleanse yourself of a demon, but it's more difficult to get rid of a demon when it is attached to you, influencing, controlling or possessing you partially or fully. I personally think that Tim Wood is very reckless, even for a sceptical paranormal investigator he constantly puts himself at spiritual risk, by opening himself up to the spiritual realm and not protecting himself or his energy. It makes him vulnerable to the energy, presence and influence of the demonic entity Zozo, on more than one occasion Tim is being influenced by Zozo, he is going into a trance, partially possessed by the demonic entity hence why he doesn't always remember what has happened to him during his YouTube Livestreams. He is inviting the demonic entity to continuously communicate with him, when he is alone, which is dangerous. I don't recommend anyone using a Ouija board, or other spiritual communication methods alone. Don't do it unless you have experience, you know what your doing, how to protect yourself, your energy, how to banish whatever you communicated with or know how to close the portal that was opened when you use the communication method to communicate with spirits, entities, etc.. I've never understood why sceptics want to investigate the paranormal, most of the time they are narrow-minded, sceptical, disrespectful non-believers. Provocation of spirits, entities, demons is not always the best way to communicate with them, they don't have to prove their existence, energy, presence, power, abilities or what they are truly capable of if they don't want to especially if you disrespect them. They are more likely to harm you in various ways due to you doubting their existence, disrespecting or mocking them. Leading up to chapter 12, Tim has been vulnerable, he hasn't protected himself or his energy so he has been vulnerable the whole time he has been doing his Ouija Board experiment. It's not surprising that since he didn't close the Ouija Board session that now the demonic entity has literally jumped onto him to attached itself to him. He is already being heavily influenced by the demon, possessed by it, controlled, animated by it, hence why he feels like he has blacked out, lost time and has no memory of what happened for a certain amount of time. 𝐎𝐝𝐢𝐧 is known as the (𝐀𝐥𝐥-𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫) not just 𝐎𝐝𝐢𝐧, he is known by many names but specifically as Wotan in the Germanic aspect There is more than one type of effigy that is created/used to represent someone for the purpose of cursing someone, a curse is lot more hardcore and intense than a simple jinx/hex that is for minor annoyance. A curse has a more long term affect, your bloodline, children, ancestors could be cursed. However if the curse is justified will affect the outcome of the curse and it could backfire or affect you instead, if it's not justified then you will feel the effect of the curse, experience bad luck, issues with your health. Other effigies or types of curses are a poppet or hex bag, hair, fingernails, blood, a photograph are used to represent someone and the poppet is a small piece of cloth with the ingredients and it's tie with a elastic band, string, rope. The Sallie Demon house has always been interesting to me even though there was never a child named Sallie that lived in the house and no child with that name ever lived in the house. The creepy basement, the atmosphere it has from reading about it, and due to the Occult/Satanic history is creepy, it has a dark, sinister vibe. I've always been interested in the Hinsdale house as well. I still think it is very dangerous for Tim to keep using a Ouija Board and not protecting himself, protecting his energy, it's obvious from reading about his creepy encounters with demons, that he is being controlled, influenced, possessed by demons. They want him to be isolated, vulnerable, alone so they can easily influence, control, attach themselves to him and possess him, they create a creepy atmosphere that makes Tim feel inexplicable dread, fear or anxiety and feed on their fear. This is evident when he felt something touching him, he felt like it wanted to control or possess him. It's interesting that there is a connection between Zozo & Lucifer to Venus and Greco-Roman Mythology. More information about the history of Hinsdale and the Sallie Demon House would be interesting. I don't agree with Celina Summers about her disrespectful, dismissive tone due to her believing anyone that is a Satanist, Occultist or witch that practices witchcraft and works with demons spiritually/magically because that's what resonates with them that they are automatically disqualified from working/being a part of the paranormal field Not all aspects of the paranormal only involves human spirits, it also involves, shapeshifters, beings, elementals, demons, devils, Deities, not everything that exists in the spiritual realm is positive, not everything is negative either, some are neutral and indifferent to humans (Angels would be a good example) Investigating the paranormal will also involve witchcraft/the occult, Native American beliefs, spirits of the land, places that are haunted & they have occult history. So in my opinion it is absolutely necessary to have a team of people that are spiritual, a Shaman/healer, empath, psychic, medium, some sceptics, a witch, Occultist, Satanist or Demonologist in the paranormal investigative team. The British paranormal investigative team (Most Haunted) has a Demonologist (Fred Batt) in their investigative team. So I totally disagree with the author Celina Summers about that, you don't know or respect what the land was originally used for, you don't respect people's alternative beliefs and spiritual practices either. I don't agree with the disrespectful term "ghost hunter" and the blaise attitude, behaviour, mentality most ghost hunters have towards the paranormal or witchcraft/occult, they don't take it seriously, or treat it with respect. They pay the price with the consequences of their actions, what they say/do to provoke spirits, entities, devils, demons and various other beings including Deities. Then they wonder why something is attached to them, why they are haunted, or their house is haunted or why have bad luck, poor health. You put yourself at risk on purpose just to gain paranormal activity, evidence of the paranormal, but in a way that it is disrespectful, to gain attention, money, fame. It disgusts me, show respect to spirits, the spiritual realm, because there are powerful beings that beyond you understanding that can and will harm you if they feel it is justified. Most of the things that happened to Tim Wood he brought on himself, due to not protecting himself, or protecting his energy, he never asked any Deity like God, Angels or anything else to protect him, he never did a opening/closing ritual every time he used the Ouija Board, he never banished negative energy so it couldn't linger and attach itself to him and over time influence, control, possess him. He allowed the demon Zozo & other demons, entities to linger, to influence, control and possess him which is really dangerous and can be mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually or psychically harmful. It's wilfully ignorant on purpose, why wouldn't he look up the rules or correct & spiritually safe way of using a Ouija Board, why did he always use it by himself? Sometimes reading this book has infuriated me, due to the wilful ignorance, atypical boastful arrogance of Tim Wood that's he's not scared of anything & that nothing can physically harm him, which is evidently wrong and stupid. Anyone that reads the Zozo Phenomena or Stalked by the Zozo Demon should take into consideration that both books are about how 𝐍𝐎𝐓 to use a Ouija Board and why due to what they experienced & the lingering unwanted consequences of Darren Evans & Tim Wood using the Ouija Board. In either book, at no pint is the concept of spiritual entrapment ever explained, so for anyone inexperienced with using divination tools, but a Ouija Board specifically, this type of information is vital. A opening/closing ritual for using a Ouija Board should be included, a ritual for cleansing your aura/energy and banishing negative energy should also be included. Both Darren Evans & Tim Wood seem like they only started using a Ouija Board and wrote books about their experiences for attention, money, infamy, they don't really care about the paranormal, they don't respect the spiritual realm since they were originally non-believers That's just my opinion though, based on both authors are atypically boastful, arrogant Americans that knowingly putting themselves at spiritual risk and didn't care about the consequences, or unwanted side effects of what they were doing, especially when they were disrespectful and provoked spirits, entities, demons. Why are you so surprised that a demonic entity or demon manifested itself and communicated with you via the Ouija Board when you keep using a Ouija Board by yourself? Or you keep using a Ouija Board because you becoming obsessed with using it despite being warned not to use it for various reasons. A lot of people don't seem to understand that you are accessing your subconscious mind/psyche, if you have psychic abilities they are being used, your energy, either by yourself or with others your energy is combined is being used. So whatever you intention, mentality, attitude, perception, opinion is about or towards the paranormal will determine if your Ouija Board session is a positive, negative or neutral experience. Your subconsciously manifesting your intention, what you fear, what you secretly desire, your manifesting a particular outcome with whatever intention you have whether it is positive, negative or neutral. People should pay attention to that, be mindful of who you engage with that involves the paranormal, witchcraft/occult since not everyone has good intentions, this is very important. I personally think that all paranormal investigative teams should have a Shaman, healer, a empath, psychic, medium, a witch, Satanist, Demonologist, Occultist, a historian, a paranormal researcher, some sceptics. They should prove the haunting is real, if it is residual energy, a intelligent haunting or the result of occult rituals being performed to summon, conjure spirits, entities or demons and that contributes to the haunting. They should help spirits to move on and banish anything negative that is spiritually harmful instead of "hunting ghosts" 😤🙄 Baal and Beelzebub (the lord of the flies are separate demons the are not the same. Satan & Baphomet are also separate demons and not the same demon as well.
I chose this book because it highlights the dangers involved in this type of investigation. It also presents the information in a friendly conversational style which makes it a joy to read. The book supports the live ghost hunts and investigations as presented on the livescifi channel on Youtube by Tim Woods, and this also adds and supports the book, itself. Highly recommended.
Tim Wood did an experiment with over a month's worth of sessions on the Ouija Board and using EVPs to communicate with the entity calling itself Zozo. Celina does the research and documents the experiments. Often creepy, the sessions are dark and take their toll in the quest to find answers to what is going on with Zozo and ouija boards, An interesting read. I have to say though, that Mr. Wood really takes unnecessary risks IMHO. I like that this is serious and not sensational as it could have gone
I was drawn to this book because it is very different from the books that I normally read. I’ve always had a fascination with the paranormal and occult, so for me I was really interested to see how the experiment worked out and the conclusions that it would bring.
The style of writing is light considering the material, which is a good thing as if it was too heavy it would have struggled to keep my interest. It is told from the author’s point of view and through her you get a good idea of the personality of the investigator. The subject of the Zozo demon is controversial. From reading the book, and my own experiences and knowledge, I believe that they certainly summoned something of a sinister nature and that it enjoyed playing games with them.
The book slowly builds on tension. The presence of the demon increases as the experiment continues. Both the investigator and author begin to feel its impact even outside of the sessions. There was no conclusive conclusion as to what it was that they were communicating with, but this is not a criticism as due to the subject matter I believe there are things that we will never fully explain. Stalked by the Zozo Demon does do a great job of trying to shed some light on the entity and provides its own conclusions and theories. I think it would make an excellent film too!
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A few things you can learn from this book: 1. The author is very very infatuated with paranormal investigator Tim Woods. She paints him as a saint incapable of doing wrong. 2. People on the paranormal investigation circuit are extremely catty. The author takes numerous shots at the largely more successful investigation groups out there an at times comes off a bit bitter an jealous that her personal favorite isn't as popular as they are... 3. She has no problem insinuating that the murder suicide of Debt and Mark Constantino waa cause by supernatural entities and that a voice recorder which was given to Wood is a some kind of paranormal magnet. Which is kinda disgusting.... 4. I'm not sure Mrs. Summers knows what skepticism really is from reading this book she refers to herself as a skeptic but demonstrates herself to be the opposite at every turn.
Its all a shame because she is a very talented storyteller. With a light conversational style has very endearing. Approach this one as fiction and you'll have a good time reading it.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this unsettling and informative book.
The main body of the book is the author and Tim Wood in particular investigating the Zozo demon and it's association with the Ouija board. The book also portrays the dangers of the use of the Ouija board and how summoning Zozo can have devastating results.
However they also challenge who Zozo is and come to a fascinating and starting conclusion which I wont reveal here.
The book also features investigation and more information of the "Sallie House" and dispels several myths and gives us more insight in to the identity of the real entity there and how the house became so haunted. There are additionally You Tube clips you can watch of Tim Wood's Zozo experiment.
The book will challenge skeptics as evidence is quite revealing but if you are an avid reader as I am of this subject you will enjoy this. Its very good.
Love the combination of a skeptics eye with an investigators need get the truth. A great read for skeptics and those who want to learn the reality of evil that exists. I like the research aspect by how the author does not take everything at face value. Love the historical and classic annotations that gives the book legitimacy and credibility. The book has a back and forth between time and location but it works well. Still the question remains as to why the sexual innuendo this entity seems to enjoy. Can't wait until the next book. Good job.
This is The Zoziac speaking. Sorry this book is such a pile of shit, but these two are so dopey that, most of the time, they don't even know where they are. Olean and Hinsdale are nowhere near the Adirondacks.
It's so hard to get good biographers these days. Pennywise had style. These two didn't give me any.
Author(s) write very well and weave a remarkable tapestry of their paranormal experiences. And experiments. If tempted to play with fire, read this first.