Willows Weep: The Beginning

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Willows Weep: The Beginning by Dave Spinks

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I met the author (I want to say it was at The Mothman Festival but it could have been one of the other paranormal cons I go to). Anyhow, Mr. Spinks is well known in the paranormal investigation realm and this book is about his investigation and current ownership of a particularly dark haunted location. His plans (as of this book) is to open Willows Weep to investigators as a sort of research lab.

The beginning of the book is the history of the house and its former owners and then the rest of it is about his and many other people's investigations, many of them seeming to corroborate each other. I don't want to go into all that happened there but I will hit a few things, some of which were a bit confusing to me (especially as someone who has been involved in paranormal investigations since the 80s)

I wanted to know more about what the former owner's plans had been for this house especially in the light of the history of the home. It has an unusual design and it also has an odd space under the home with a 'child's arm bone.' What bothered me here is why put it back and how do we know it belonged to a child and was there any investigation done?

The other bizarre (to me) thing was there was a suicide in the home and the man bled out in a chair and that chair is still there because the man's son sold the house lock stock and barrel to the former owner Mr. Spinks bought the place from. So what was her plan for it that she left a blood soaked recliner in this house?

One of the upshots of all of these investigations was the house might be a portal and there could be something demonic. I've never been here so I can hardly say but that was a topic of conversation at the last talk I was at how suddenly those two things are super popular as explanations. Have I ever encountered something I've felt wasn't a human haunting? Yes but in 40 years of doing this I can count those experiences on one hand. I'm not saying it's not but I am saying there is more investigation needed which is good since that seems to be the plan for Willows Weep



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