The Ghosts on 87th Lane: A True Story
by M.L. Woelm
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Author: M.L. WoelmEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-08
ISBN: 0738710318
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
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Book Review: The Ghosts on 87th Lane
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked this book. I liked how the author told her story and granted in a few places it may have seemed redundant to some people but, paranormal events do not happen on command. I can understand how as a young housewife and mother being forced to move to a home that she really didn't have any choice about and how frustrated she would get over these seemingly attempts to drive her crazy. We have to remember the era that she began having her paranormal experiences. You just didn't talk about these kinds of things before the more enlightened 90's and 2000's came along. The author didn't write this book to be a novel in the normal sense. She was writing her memoires in a journalistic style not as a novel. For a first printed effort I think she did wonderfully well. It is not easy to have that first book published.
I completely empthasize with her frustration that she cannot get her family to believe in what she is hearing. As a child I had a number of "imaginary playmates" myself and know how it feels to have your parents or other adults ridicule you and try to convince you there isn't anything there. I, too, went thru many nights sitting alone in my upstairs bedroom scared to death of the room next door. I slept with a Christmas candle in my room as a night light until we moved into the newer brick rancher in February of 1971 and I was fourteen years old. I knew there was something wrong in that room when my cat, who was a superior mouser, would not go into that room to catch a juicy morsel. He would wait patiently by the curtain that separated those two rooms knowing that eventually, the mouse would come in my bedroom and he would grab it. Pets aren't stupid, they know when there is something not right about a space.
I felt so sorry for this poor author having to go thru all that agony of her family not believing in her. It is so easy for people to discount the paranormal even if they have experienced episodes themselves. I find this act even more reprehensible. They could at least say I've seen or heard things I don't understand rather than just out and out denying that the paranormal doesn't exist. People in this more enlightened age are lucker than this poor lady was in finding all kinds of support and investigative groups that would be willing to help her find out what was in her home. I believe that with each experience, it just opened her mind even more to paranormal possibilities and gave disencarnant spirits something to latch onto in their what I term flybys. She may have outwardly not wanted them there but inside she did which is why she kept having experiences even after supposedly "sealing" her home. If you don't "seal" yourself, you can't "seal" your surroundings. You can't just say oh I only want to be receptive to nice paranormal entities. We don't get that choice. You have to take the good with the bad and I like how the author realizes this in her later entries. She begins to understand that she is the one that is calling the spirits to herself and she begins to take more control over the situations. Once she realizes this, she becomes less frightened of the noises and even begins to experience actual apparitions. I think this book is a good read. The author didn't write it to be a novel in the normal sense. She was writing her memoires in a journalistic style not as a novel. For a first printed effort I think she did wonderfully well. It is not easy to have that first book published.
Summary of The Ghosts on 87th Lane: A True Story
Once upon a time, my house was haunted. It still is. I began recording my experiences, hoping to one day share them. I kept waiting for the incidents to stop, so I'd have a logical conclusion to my book. So far, that hasn't happened. It may never happen. I'd like to get my story told before I become a ghost myself.The True Story of a Haunting
Beginning in 1968 and spanning four decades, this true story chronicles the hair-raising experiences that nearly drove an ordinary housewife and mother to the breaking point.
Not every haunted house is an old Victorian mansion, as the author and her family discovered when they bought a modest house in the suburbs. Even a post-war starter home can be a dwelling place for earthbound spirits?especially if it holds a tragic secret from the past. Eerie feelings of being watched, disembodied sobs, mysterious scratches appearing on her throat, and a child's voice crying, "Mommy!" convinced M. L. Woelm that she was sharing her home with ghosts. This is her story.
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