Product Description

In 1995, a young girl living with her abusive mother commits suicide. Shortly afterwards, her spirit returns to the house, only to find her mother gone and strangers moving in. She also finds the older spirits who dwell there, beginning a powerful battle for control of the house -- and trapping its new residents in the middle. Overshadows chronicles the events of this terrifying multiple haunting, but more importantly, it shares the incredible discoveries made during the course of a six-year investigation. This book will challenge and disprove classic theories, and create upheaval in the circle of life-after-death research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1038941 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Richard Palmisano has investigated the paranormal for most of life. He is by trade a security specialist and criminal investigator with 21 years in the field. He is currently a Crown employee. Overshadows is his first book.

Customer Reviews

overshadows
The author certainly throws up some interesting ideas about the after-life in this book, and I recommend it for that reason. What lets it down though is the lack of any structure to the book. I can understand that he doesn't wish to give too much away as to the precise location of the house in question, but we could have drastically done with some kind of floor-plan, as it becomes extremely confusing as to which part of the building certain things are happening in.

A vast amount of the book is taken up with transcripts of seances, and whilst these are interesting, we are given no timelines at all. Likewise we are given no reason whatsoever as to why the author became involved, he just suddenly seems to magically appear amongst the proceedings. There is also far too much in the way of assumption, even to the point where he assumes he knows what the ghosts are thinking and what they intend! When a spirit fails to give a direct response to a question for instance, Palmisano says that the spirit is quite clearly too terrified to give a strong response. How the blazes does he know this???

All in all it's a fragmented and insubstantial read, which is a great shame as he genuinely does have some interesting ideas. A better structure would have benifitted it enormously.