Spirits Of Texas And New England

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 164 pages
• Published by: Fine Tooth Press L.L.C. August 31, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0975338870
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0975338872
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 8.8 ounces

Product Description
In Spirits of Texas and New England, Oscar De Los Santos, Ph.D. chronicles over one hundred authentic cases of paranormal phenomena in and around Texas and New England homes, neighborhoods, ranches, roadways, schools, apartments, and condo complexes.

Texas and New England are two of the most haunted regions in the United States. The author has spent a lifetime living in both locations and collecting these true encounters with the unknown. Some of these tales are inspiring, while others are disturbing. A few may best be described as horrifying.

Within these pages, scores of individuals share their firsthand supernatural experiences, including the author himself. The book’s intimate personable tone will engage both the novice paranormal enthusiast and the seasoned investigator. In many instances, De Los Santos lets witnesses tell their own stories via extensive interviews.

Spirits of Texas and New England is far more than just a compilation of well-known ghost stories. Most of these tales are presented in print for the first time.

Additionally, De Los Santos looks at numerous UFO sightings, reports of strange creatures, out-of-body experiences, ESP, numerology, mystical visions, precognition, synchronicity, and other encounters that challenge our views of reality and the natural world.

Throughout the book, the author tries to get at the why of his subject. Why are certain locations haunted? Why do some individuals repeatedly experience psychic phenomena? Why are certain locations known as haunted regions? Why are some homes the sites of repeated paranormal infestation? What is the connection between some haunted areas and unidentified flying objects?

From the Inside Flap
A Voice from Beyond the Grave

The phone’s ring shattered the silence of the April night. It was late – a little after two a.m., as a matter of fact – when the call came through, but I was still awake. I’ve always been a night owl. It was in the early 1980s and I was still living at home while I worked on my undergraduate studies at the state university in Corpus Christi, Texas. That night, I had wrapped up my latest batch of homework about a half hour before the phone started ringing. Still wired and unable to sleep, I cracked open one of the endless string of science fiction novels I zipped through when my school reading was finished for the night.

Then the phone rang.

The sound was jarring. To this day, I remember the ice water jetting through my veins as I bolted off the couch and raced to the extension in the kitchen. There’s something about a phone call in the middle of the night that sets most of us instantly on edge. It’s more than just the startling nature of the sound. It’s the lightning-quick suspicion that such an intrusive call can only bring terrible news. Sometimes we’re lucky and it’s just a wrong number. Other times, the news is anything but pleasant. Such was the case that long-ago night.

I picked up the phone extension shortly after the second ring. By then, my mother had picked up another receiver in her bedroom. I listened to a world of whirling winds and static. Somewhere behind the maelstrom, a voice asked for "Petra? Petra?"

The voice – distinctly aged and female – continued to plead for my mother to respond. And she did: "Yes, mother? Mother? I’m here."

"Petra!" the voice cried out again.

And then, perhaps because I heard the urgency in the caller’s tone and the anxiety in my mother’s response, I spoke into my receiver. "Hello?"

The wind in the telephone shrilled, rose to a crescendo, then a sharp click killed the connection.

I met my mother in the hallway. She was hugging herself and she looked stunned. "That was Mother," she said.

I nodded. It had indeed been her mother, my grandmother. "Yes. That was definitely Abuela."

To have my grandmother calling us in the middle of the night would have been disturbing under any circumstances, but this call was far more sinister.

My grandmother had been dead for over half a year.

Why had she called? I’ll never know for sure, but I suspect it had something to do with the death of one of my mother’s brothers a few short weeks later. Perhaps my grandmother called to prepare my mother for the shock, since she was especially close to my uncle.

This book is a true labor of love. It focuses on my personal encounters with the supernatural. It also delves into the stories told to me by relatives, friends and acquaintances over the years. Most of the stories focus on South Texas, but other parts of the state are covered from time to time – as is Connecticut, my home for the past decade.

If you are intrigued by supernatural phenomena, you should find this text quite interesting and informative. If you are a skeptic, then I hope my stories make you reconsider your position on the paranormal. At the very least, I hope that Spirits of Texas and New England makes you ponder the possibility that the supernatural is alive and well in this realm of existence – and beyond.

Reader Reviews
This book had me gripped from the first paragraph. It is very interesting and well written. I am very interested in the paranormal and this book is a wonderful find for me. I highly recommend this book to everyone. You will find it very hard to put the book down once you start reading.