I just wrote down what honestly happened to us. It was never my intention to try to make anyone a believer. I am aware of how unbelievable it all may seem to some readers, and I completely understand that. I can say that every word I wrote was true, events happening as remembered not only by me, but my daughters, husband, friends, neighbors and relatives. My husband and I view anything and everything on the subject, still searching, I think, for further explanations of what exactly happened to us.

What those years left me with was an all abiding interest in anything paranormal. Both of my daughters remember their childhood with fondness and fascination and even a quite a bit of nostalgia. My girls are grown, and I am now a grandma, but memories of that house still linger and make me uncomfortable. The events that happened in that house remain, to this day, baffling and disconcerting to me. Just came across your article and wanted to thank you for focusing on my book, Grave’s End. That said, it is a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and the lack of shock tactics made the whole thing an excellent read. The ignorance of the paranormal world, the reluctance to do any research along with informing the reader that she would do anything to stop the disturbance but then didn’t really want the house to be ‘cleaned’ left me with too much disbelief to really believe the whole thing to be true.

If it was so bad surely that would be the first thing you would want to do, she was prepared to sell the house to get away from it but not to remove the entities inside it, that seems just a little bit rediculous to me. I also question her refusal to let her tutor investigate the disturbance and then her reluctance to let the psychic investigators This, coupled with her lack of research on the house (the first thing I would want to know is the history of my house), research that is left until what can only be called the 11th hour, I just feel that something doesn’t sit right. This complete ignorance seems a bit too much you, cannot live in this day and age with picking up a bit of information on the paranormal even if you don’t believe it. I am willing to bet that even if you don’t know the first thing about something you can usually dredge up a few facts simply through the things you have seen on TV and Film and the things you have read in books, the author couldn’t produce anything and seemed surprised every time something new was revealed. She portrays herself as completely ignorant of all facts, theories and information in the paranormal world and seems very hesitant to actually go and do some research. Just finished reading this book and I am not sure that I am convinced.īeing asked to believe that (what seems to be) a perfectly rational and well educated person knows nothing about the situation she finds herself in (even though she claims to have watched her psychic investigations television programmes) is a bit far fetched.

Grave's End by Elaine Mercado