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Decent read of someone's experience with ghost
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House of Spirits and Whispers: The True Story of a Haunted House
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We had been instructed to enter by the back door. That's the part of the house where the old man had lived. It was where he still lived. Turns out he was watching us that day too, silent and heavy as the air, bound to the earth and his former home. In 1994, Annie Wilder and her children moved into a 100-year-old house in a historic Mississippi River town. Beautiful but spooky, the house had been on the market for six months with no offers. It felt like-and proved to be-a very haunted house. Essentially the story of a remarkable old Victorian house that seems to be a threshold to the spirit world and the astral realm, House of Spirits and Whispers has a backstory of the Wilder family's relationship with the ghost of the home's previous owner, an old man named Leon. Covering a decade's worth of ghostly activity and supernatural events, from whispering radiators to visits and appearances from all manner of spirits and entities, this unusual story is the true account of Annie Wilder's experiences living in a haunted house.
192 pages, Paperback
First published September 1,2005
This edition
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192 pages, Paperback
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September 8, 2005 by Llewellyn Publications
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9780738707778
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0738707775
- Language
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English
About the author
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Annie Wilder is writer and proud mother of grown children who admit to seeing some strange things in their childhood home. Wilders first book House of Spirits and Whispers is a true account of her experiences living with ghosts for more than a decade. She regularly hosts haunted tea parties in her spirit-filled Victorian house nestled in a sleepy Mississippi River town in Minnesota. Her haunted house has been featured in several television and print news stories, investigated by teams of ghost hunters, and visited by a number of prominent psychics including Linda Drake and Echo Bodine.
Her new book, Spirits Out of Time, is an enchanting memoir spanning five generations of true family stories of spirits and strange experiences.
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I tried. I swear I tried. But it is sooooo freaking meandering, I'm giving up. Just tell me the story! Stop wandering back around and around.
I tried. I swear I tried. But it is sooooo freaking meandering, I'm giving up. Just tell me the story! Stop wandering back around and around.
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When I first started reading "ghost stories", I read them for the scary story. That evolved into wanting to hear about the history of the home / haunted place. Now I find I enjoy the description of the architecture. I appreciate the layouts of the home, but photos of the old buildings would be lovely (an intrusion, I know, but still...)
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This book gave a different perspective on ghosts. It actually talks about some friendly ghosts that live in this woman's house and how they all have a unique bond with humans. Some parts are creepy, but its fascinating to see that things like this have actually happened.
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The author of this book is clearly very open-minded. She went into the house feeling aware of energy and such, which comes across in her story. The details and descriptions seemed to automatically attribute noises and happenings to ghosts. It was somewhat interesting, but too focused on the family's life and history rather than the house. This book reminded me of At Grave's End by Elaine Mercado.
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This book mainly had a lot of the same ol same ol. No pictures, although I did go online and find Annie's website easily and saw pictures of the house..instead of reading the book, I would just recommend you check out her facebook page and youtube videos. She explains the same story and you get to check the house out. She also has some EVP's and other videos on there.
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Pretty good, real-life account of one woman's experience living in a haunted house. This book causes me to have many questions, which is good considering book club gets to talk with the author.
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Annie Wilder is a very sensitive person. Almost from the moment she moves into her house, strange things start to happen. More than just creaking doors, Annie experiences full blown apparitions, strange noises in her furnace pipes, and has out-of-body encounters with turn of the century woman in period clothing. Far from being freaked out by it all, though she is at times, Annie learns how to live with the spirits and takes pride in her haunted house.
From a young age, Annie accepted her other worldly perceptions saying: ".. a strong intuitive ability runs in my family. My mom can see and hear spirits, and both her mother and mother's mother, who were Irish, was psychic, too." pg 3. It seems to me that if you grow up with these sorts of things happening around you, it isn't too hard to carry them on into your adult life.
Not that things go entirely smoothly. When Annie realizes that something completely out of the ordinary is going on in her new digs, she freaks out a little bit.: "I needed to regain some sense of perspective and power. A weird dichotomy was developing in my relationship with my house. I loved my house in the daytime but felt terrified and powerless in it at night." pg 27
Ghosts are a large part of her experience, but not the whole enchilada. "The house seemed super conducive to astral activity; besides seeing and hearing spirits, I started seeing lights." pg 53. Lest you think that Annie is having a break with reality, some of her relatives stay in the house and see the same thing when she's not even there. I wonder if she's ever considered running a bed and breakfast.
She also has a scientifically-minded boyfriend who has strange things happen to him too: "It also meant a lot to me that Rex, with his objective, left-brain way of perceiving the world, was seeing and hearing some of the same extraordinary things that I was, and couldn't explain them with regular science. He brought up the bumblebee as an example of something that defies the known laws of physics. Because of the size and mass of their bodies compared to the size of their wings, bumblebees should not be able to fly. But they do." pgs 99-100. I didn't know that.
Recommended for people who are interested in paranormal experiences, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena, Annie Wilder introduces you to her house of spirits and whispers and it never gets too out of hand or scary. Some further recommended reading: True Tales of Ghostly Encounters or Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah.
From a young age, Annie accepted her other worldly perceptions saying: ".. a strong intuitive ability runs in my family. My mom can see and hear spirits, and both her mother and mother's mother, who were Irish, was psychic, too." pg 3. It seems to me that if you grow up with these sorts of things happening around you, it isn't too hard to carry them on into your adult life.
Not that things go entirely smoothly. When Annie realizes that something completely out of the ordinary is going on in her new digs, she freaks out a little bit.: "I needed to regain some sense of perspective and power. A weird dichotomy was developing in my relationship with my house. I loved my house in the daytime but felt terrified and powerless in it at night." pg 27
Ghosts are a large part of her experience, but not the whole enchilada. "The house seemed super conducive to astral activity; besides seeing and hearing spirits, I started seeing lights." pg 53. Lest you think that Annie is having a break with reality, some of her relatives stay in the house and see the same thing when she's not even there. I wonder if she's ever considered running a bed and breakfast.
She also has a scientifically-minded boyfriend who has strange things happen to him too: "It also meant a lot to me that Rex, with his objective, left-brain way of perceiving the world, was seeing and hearing some of the same extraordinary things that I was, and couldn't explain them with regular science. He brought up the bumblebee as an example of something that defies the known laws of physics. Because of the size and mass of their bodies compared to the size of their wings, bumblebees should not be able to fly. But they do." pgs 99-100. I didn't know that.
Recommended for people who are interested in paranormal experiences, ghosts, and other unexplained phenomena, Annie Wilder introduces you to her house of spirits and whispers and it never gets too out of hand or scary. Some further recommended reading: True Tales of Ghostly Encounters or Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah.
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