Description
The Rough Close Murder happened on 27 February 1886. One brother, John Daniel, shot dead his other brother William in a heated rage. William was a drunken bully. They lived at Dale House Farm, Rough Close, Stoke-on-Trent. This is a true style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">I was told this story by someone who actually lived in the same house, and had experienced ghostly movements of furniture etc. I decided to write this book with another, fictitious, family moving in, some time style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">While doing some electrical work on the house, the husband, Dave, receives an awful electric shock and, following that, his personality starts to change. He becomes aggressive, starts drinking heavily, speaking in an old Potteries dialect, and finally doesn't acknowledge his wife. Sue, his wife thinks this might be some sort of mental health problem, but checking with Dave's work, she finds that he is his normal joke-telling soul at work, and not affected by drink. Very strange - so not a mental health style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Sue then starts looking into paranormal experts and alights on Julie Angel, a physic style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Julie visits the house and, after cleansing the house and meeting Dave. she realises that Dave has been taken over by the spirit of William Daniel, and agrees to perform an exorcism. What follows is an edge-of-the-seat style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">I have intermingled the chapters with true extracts from newspapers of 1886 about the murder and the style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Julie Angel actually exists and works as a psychic medium and has helped me to develop this exorcism, as she would perform one. Julie actually stated that my original draft of the book was spot on - it was "As though you have been following me around for the past 22 years." Julie advised me of the chants and cleansing herbs she uses and about her spirit
Language : English