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A Slightly Haunted Life: One Somewhat Skeptical Florida Man's Brushes with Spooks, Skunk Apes, UFOs and Night Terrors (eBook, ePUB)

In 1963, at age eight, Mark S. Murley awoke to find a cat in his bedroom, staring directly at him. Worth noting: The family didn't own a cat. When the feline fled the room by "melting" through a closed window, young Murley's life took a permanent turn for the Uncanny. A procession of curious encounters followed over the next five decades ranging from head-scratching to outright terrifying. Some of these events had rational explanations … but quite a few did not. In his first book, the author talks about his half-century challenge to come to terms with the procession of oddities that he and some close friends and kinfolk were experiencing. Murley presents over 50 stories, many in which he was personally involved, including: The Memphis Stairwell Spook; The Crone; The Trailer Ghost; The Kinsey Vault Incident; The Floating Thing; The Ghostly Lights House; Nine Tiny Graves; Cousin Jan's Ouija Board; Mom! Dad! There's a Gorilla in Our Back Yard!; The Weird, Close Giant "V" Flyover; Early Morning Sprint from the Floating Dish House; and many more. You'll also meet some of Murley's friends who waded neck-deep into the Inexplicable, including: - Zach Johnston, whose entire family had a front-row seat to the exhumation of their recently buried dog by a Skunk Ape. - Steve Walton, whose errant bullet brought down a Tennessee vulture that was quickly removed by Something that heaved up from and disappeared back into the murky Hatchie River. - Dan and his poignant tale of "Rosalyn and the Forgotten Flower," involving a woman who died in 1926 but could not rest until Dan and his friend Scott finally determined how to fulfill her ghostly request. - Wes Hardaway, who, along with the author, faced the chilling Trailer Ghost head-on. - The colorful Zeke Richardson, who head-shakingly maintained until his final days that he witnessed a waist-level fly-by of a miniature Japanese Zero, complete with a tiny waving pilot. You'll also hear from the author's late mother, who passed in 2019 at age 102, who contributed several tales from her early rural Florida years. This includes the mind-bending but spiritually uplifting "Angels Over DeBary" and the discomfiting "Man in the Coffin Apparition," which the author calls "hands down the most disturbing ghost story I've ever heard." Adds Murley: "The tale so unnerved me that, after Mom told it to me for the first time, I wished she hadn't!" Other than a few anecdotal side trips to Iowa, California, and Tennessee, A Slightly Haunted Life is pure Sunshine State. Who knew that Murley's hometown of 60 years - tiny, rural Geneva, Florida, particularly in the 1960s and '70s - would become Ground Zero for so many odd happenings? Local lore is well represented by entire chapters on the mysterious Oviedo Lights, spooky-weird Cassadaga (aka the Psychic Capital of the World), and the inscrutable Chapman Road Ghost Kids. And all are previously unpublished stories. As Murley says in the Introduction: "Story freshness is a big advantage to documenting my own experiences and those of a few close friends and relatives. Unless the folks who were present during some of these adventures pen their own versions, it's unlikely that you'll be familiar with any. No twenty-seventh retelling of Two-Toed Tom will be found in these pages!" Written in an analytical but conversational style with plenty of humor sprinkled throughout, you'll find A Slightly Haunted Life (about 389 e-pages) to be unlike any unexplained phenomena book you've ever read.

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