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Title: An Unbidden Visitor
Author: Dianne Ascroft
Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-17
Publisher: Dianne Ascroft
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A short story inspired by Northern Ireland's famous Cooneen ghost.
A tale of family, friends, and fear....
And the unnatural force that threatens to ruin everything....
March 1913: Struggling to make ends meet, widow Bridget Murphy finds life in rural Ireland difficult, raising six children while farming her small acreage. With the help of neighbors and friends, Bridget is able to cope with the many arduous tasks and chores required of her.
When an unnatural and terrifying force invades their house, threatening their family, Bridget is surprised to see so many backs turning on her. Fearing for themselves, those she once counted on for help and support will not risk their safety for her. Father Smyth, their priest, is the only one who stands alongside their family in the battle against the uninvited and fearsome poltergeist. But, prayers alone won't run the farm. Will Bridget find a way to save her home and her family before there's nowhere left to turn?
Members Reviews:
An Irish Haunting
14 March, 1913. County Fermanagh, Ireland.
Widow Murphy is scared.
An uninvited something haunts the farm where she, son James, and her five daughters eke out a living. It starts with scratching sounds in the hayloft above the cottage. A rat? It moves closer â knocks in the dead of night on the childrenâs bedpost. The spooky raps move to the ceiling, become a hammering. An unseen force presses itself against young Noraâs chest. She cries out, the girls flee downstairs to huddle near the fire. In shades of Peter Blattyâs âExorcist,â the distraught mother summons a priest. Father Smyth hurries over, says Mass to settle down the widow and her neighbors, then forcefully commands it âwhatever âitâ is â to depart âin the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost!â
It refuses.
As Ray Bradbury famously put it, âSomething wicked this way comes.â In Dianne Ascroftâs softly menacing short novel âAn Unbidden Visitor,â the wicked turns out to be a classic poltergeist.
I spent three years researching my first book on scientific anomalies, âBest Evidence.â I still recall how surprised I was at the accumulated, credible evidence for ânoisy ghostsâ (from the German poltergeist). Parapsychologists are split on what a poltergeist is. The late Dr. William Roll leaned towards psychokinesis as an explanation. He noticed how often an emotionally repressed or troubled teen â typically a young girl â appeared to be the focus of the poltergeist events. His hypothesis? Internal rage explodes into physical manifestations (in Ascroftâs novel, young Annie is the focus). More daring researchers cede to Occam âs razor, accepting discarnates as an equally logical, more intellectually honest, fit for the facts.
Great Britain is famous for its poltergeists. Englandâs venerable Society for Psychic Research boasts several celebrated, credible investigators â I was particularly impressed by the work of Guy Lyon Playfair, who painstakingly documented the notorious Enfield poltergeist case. Author Ascroft closely bases her own novel on Northern Irelandâs real-life âCooneen Ghostâ case.
In her retelling of the event, Ascroft avoids Hollywood theatrics, focusing primarily on the personal and psychological damage the paranormal encounter wreaks on the family. Friends stop visiting â fearful the creepy phenomenon will follow them home.
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Title: An Unbidden Visitor
Author: Dianne Ascroft
Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-17
Publisher: Dianne Ascroft
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A short story inspired by Northern Ireland's famous Cooneen ghost.
A tale of family, friends, and fear....
And the unnatural force that threatens to ruin everything....
March 1913: Struggling to make ends meet, widow Bridget Murphy finds life in rural Ireland difficult, raising six children while farming her small acreage. With the help of neighbors and friends, Bridget is able to cope with the many arduous tasks and chores required of her.
When an unnatural and terrifying force invades their house, threatening their family, Bridget is surprised to see so many backs turning on her. Fearing for themselves, those she once counted on for help and support will not risk their safety for her. Father Smyth, their priest, is the only one who stands alongside their family in the battle against the uninvited and fearsome poltergeist. But, prayers alone won't run the farm. Will Bridget find a way to save her home and her family before there's nowhere left to turn?
Members Reviews:
An Irish Haunting
14 March, 1913. County Fermanagh, Ireland.
Widow Murphy is scared.
An uninvited something haunts the farm where she, son James, and her five daughters eke out a living. It starts with scratching sounds in the hayloft above the cottage. A rat? It moves closer â knocks in the dead of night on the childrenâs bedpost. The spooky raps move to the ceiling, become a hammering. An unseen force presses itself against young Noraâs chest. She cries out, the girls flee downstairs to huddle near the fire. In shades of Peter Blattyâs âExorcist,â the distraught mother summons a priest. Father Smyth hurries over, says Mass to settle down the widow and her neighbors, then forcefully commands it âwhatever âitâ is â to depart âin the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost!â
It refuses.
As Ray Bradbury famously put it, âSomething wicked this way comes.â In Dianne Ascroftâs softly menacing short novel âAn Unbidden Visitor,â the wicked turns out to be a classic poltergeist.
I spent three years researching my first book on scientific anomalies, âBest Evidence.â I still recall how surprised I was at the accumulated, credible evidence for ânoisy ghostsâ (from the German poltergeist). Parapsychologists are split on what a poltergeist is. The late Dr. William Roll leaned towards psychokinesis as an explanation. He noticed how often an emotionally repressed or troubled teen â typically a young girl â appeared to be the focus of the poltergeist events. His hypothesis? Internal rage explodes into physical manifestations (in Ascroftâs novel, young Annie is the focus). More daring researchers cede to Occam âs razor, accepting discarnates as an equally logical, more intellectually honest, fit for the facts.
Great Britain is famous for its poltergeists. Englandâs venerable Society for Psychic Research boasts several celebrated, credible investigators â I was particularly impressed by the work of Guy Lyon Playfair, who painstakingly documented the notorious Enfield poltergeist case. Author Ascroft closely bases her own novel on Northern Irelandâs real-life âCooneen Ghostâ case.
In her retelling of the event, Ascroft avoids Hollywood theatrics, focusing primarily on the personal and psychological damage the paranormal encounter wreaks on the family. Friends stop visiting â fearful the creepy phenomenon will follow them home.