Hauntings, aliens, and other unexplained phenomena are encountered in strange new ways in this unique investigation into paranormal contact. As Hall and co-author, Petonito reveal, when your cell-phone rings out, the caller may not be human...Nick Redfern, author of The Slenderman Mysteries
I have always loved a good, well told, ghost story. During my childhood, my friends and I spent hours in the local cemetery hoping to encounter something supernatural...we got lots of mosquito bites but not one single ghost ever appeared.
I have found that almost everyone likes, or at least is interested, in the details of a good ghost story. The difference here we have to remember... is these two authors present to us these events as having some semblance of the truth ...at least to the people they had gathered the information from. I would be the last, and the most unqualified to say they aren't true...but the authors only had other people's accounts, didn't appeared to have asked many questions about what they were told, and many of the people giving the accounts were under a great deal of distress at the time they "experienced" these things.
In spite of the interesting subject matter, too often the reader has to guess what point the authors are trying to make. I'm sure it wasn't, but the research appears to have been rather thin, and the authors rarely questioned whether the anomalies might simply be technical glitches...or they forget that grieving people simply WANT to receive a sign from a departed loved one and a blank text message or a phone call with static isn't necessarily the sign they wanted, no matter how much the grieving person wants to believe.
The stories will produce chills aplenty, and they are entertaining, but I wouldn't put 100% faith in them being true. But...who really knows?