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Show Me One Soul: A True Haunting

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I was totally disappointed in this book. I'm a hometown fan. I love most everything about Baltimore. And this book makes us look stupid. Not the content. It's a ghost story. And some of the images are really funny - my favorite was the wiccans cleansing the house. But the presentation of the material is so poor that it makes it hard to attach any seriousness to the tale. Noble House has spellcheck and grammar check on it's computers, don't they? English is not a second language to Nancy Stallings, is it? The family priest set up an "alter" rather than an "altar". Nancy "shuttered" rather than "shuddered". The evil ghost viewed the family as "pray" rather than "prey". And the medium helping these poor folks out admitted to having visited the "Marilyn" Institute once rather than the "Maryland" Institute. The new ghostbusters have presented talks to "Mensia" groups rather than "Mensa" groups. "So mote it be" became "so move it be" as the parapsychologist tried to remove the ghost. I especially liked the term "ancient witchcraft" being applied to Wicca. Wicca was created in the 1950's by it's founder Gerald Gardner. I was also created in the 1950's and am hardly "ancient". I'd have had no trouble with this presented as fiction, but if you want to call it fact, go to the trouble of checking facts and proofreading.

This book was ok, but the author skipped around so much that you did not know if it was the present or the future that she was referring to. I would check it out at the library instead of spending the money on it.

I thought this book was very well writen.I found that once I started reading ,I could not put the book down.I believe this to be the interesting and believeable book on this subject yet.If your a NON-BELIEVER [like myself] you have to read " SHOW ME ONE SOUL" and you will start believeing,atleast I did.

I thought this book was very interesting I first saw this story on A haunting on the discovery channel.
Nancy tells us about living in this house for ten years. and how her and her family got through it until they could move spooky stuff!
a good read if you like ghost stories.

This book, since it is a real life experience, is a real eye opener. For those who have any doubt, in hauntings by entities of a bygone era, will be believers after reading Nancy's book. Written in an easy to read manner. After reading this book I will be sure to ask "Is this house haunted?" when purchasing a house.

This could easily have been a five star read. I absolutely love reading about people living in haunted houses, but I hate it when they try to analyze the phenomena. There is no explaining "ghosts", and really no point in trying if you're not a qualified scientist.
Much of the writing in this book is repetitive which made this book a bit of a pain for me to finish. I really wish I could tell you how many times the author talked about coincidences, the number three, and how they are oh so psychically aware since living in their Evergreen home.
This book didn't even scare me until I got to the very end where the author was theorising what the source of paranormal phenomena is.If your looking for a good ghost story I would suggest you look for it in a different book.

I look over the items I have purchased sometimes...$400 plus for this one??? This is very good despite the grammatical errors but that price is unreal. I could use the cash so call me for my read once copy, ha...no seriously it is good but don't pay that much, ok? It is not as good as A DARK PLACE and I didn't pay nearly that much for it. Not exactly a review I know but I am concerned about the price.

A friend recommended this book to me. I love books about "true" hauntings, but I was really disappointed with this one. The narrative is truly confusing, with much skipping around,seques that have nothing to do with the story, and misuse of words, which at times, make reading quite hilarious. (I'm not obsesssive enough to list them here).

This would be a great book if someone who could write would do so. As it stands, it is strictly an amateur effort.