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A Lifetime of Paranormal Experiences

By: Anna Maria Manalo

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the tradition of bestselling Cuban author Isabel Allende’s, “The House of The Spirits” and the investigative writing of Budd Hopkins, bestselling author of “Intruders”, comes a book about ghosts, entities, and cryptids in the most remote and unexpected places around the globe.

The first half follows an Asian family beset by hauntings and nonhuman entities in the small town of San Juan in the post-colonial Spanish country of the Philippines. Little has been written about paranormal phenomena, extraterrestrial visitations, and other anomalies in the Philippines, so this book will offer the reader never before detailed encounters.

The second part of the book takes the reader on the author’s travels to other countries and local historic towns, where she encounters tourists and locals who recount paranormal phenomena. These include a college student who is confronted by a “Djinn” in Marrakesh, Morocco; to southern France, where a couple encounters “deer” that “stand peering through their kitchen window on two legs”, to a demonic visitation off a dying woman and finally a Thai couple whose infant is abducted by a creature called a “Tiyanak.”

In the cultural backdrop of Asia, Europe, North Africa and local sites in the US, this book is sure to pin the reader onto their seat and reset their view on reality.

Past and present coming together

I thought this was very interesting how it was written. The first half of the book telling about the past, and then some of the people showing up in the second half of the book many years later after they have gotten older. Reading Anna Maria ‘s books have put the hook in me to continue to go on with more reading. Based on true stories, that’s what had me intrigued the most! Definitely held my interest!