Carly

“The night-wanderers”
The version I have of this book was published in (1993) so it has a different cover to the version of the books that are listed on Goodreads.
It has a blue and black cover, a image of a Vampire like Dracula holding a woman on the cover of the book.
I just started reading the introduction for the book & there seems to be a lot of minor speling errors which is becoming annoying.
Hopefully the whole isn't like this, people need to learn to proof-read their work for minor spelling errors!

I just bought a copy of this book & I look forward to reading/reviewing it.

People always underestimate how powerful, potentially harmful a Devil, Demon, Entity, Elemental can be.
They are powerful and they can influence, harm you, possess you, influence your thoughts, dreams, desires, give you nightmares, cause sleep paralysis, bite/scratch, rape you while you sleep..
They have psychic abilities, they can read your mind and see into your soul, they know your deepest, darkest secrets including anything you secretly desire but wouls be too ashamed to ever admit it to anyone.
Such is the power of Devils, Demons, Entities.
I have encountered Demons & I know from experience that they are real, powerful and potentially harmful.
However Demons can also be helpful if you are repressed as a person in multiple ways, they can help with empowerment, feeling confident and helping you feel confident in expressing yourself in a sexual way if your shy, not confident in that way/sexually repressed.
There are advantages & disadvantages to working with Demons spiritually/magically if your a Witch, Occultist etc
I like that the author included people that are a known Occultists people like Cornelius Agrippa, John Dee, or Aliester Crowley.
They were known Occultists that practiced Black Magick, John Dee practiced Enochian Magick.
Enochian is the language of Angels & Demons, but people demonized it and thought that John Dee was a controversial person for practicing Enochian Magick.
There hasn't been any Demonology book I have read so far that mentions well-known Occultists, Witches/Warlocks that practice witchcraft and they work with demons spiritually & magically.
The author mentions Nuctemeron & steganographic demons a lot and I have no idea what either thing is or what it means.
Googling them didn't really clarify it any further so it is frustrating & confusing because I don't know what it is or what it means

The Celtic, Pagan & Druid origins of Samhain (A.K.A Halloween or All-Hallows Eve)
Samhain the festival of fire, the feast of the dead, the end of the harvest, a time to give thanks to their Deities, to honour the Deities they believed in, respected & worshipped and a time to respect & honour the dead.
All Soul's Day was a Christian holiday celebrated after Samhain/Halloween they would pray for people that they believed were in purgatory.
To open a doorway to the Otherworld and welcome in the spirits of the ancestors, Deities and the dead loved ones, the spirits were guided back home a candles was placed in the windowsill to help guide spirits back to their home and they were welcomed, they were give a warm welcome
(the hearth was lit), food to eat.
There is a difference between Samhain (The Celtic, Pagan or Druid celebration or festival of fire the harvest festival, and as a memento mori remembrance, honour and respect of the dead, their ancestors) & Halloween (it is the trivial, superficial, diluted version of Samhain and in my opinion the original meaning, customs, beliefs of Samhain has been forgotten, or it is not respected by everyone)
To Celtic people believed in honouring their ancestors and the dead & they also protected themselves from evil or evil spirits that could be potentially harmful during or after Samhain.
Samhain is the new year for Witches, the dark half of the rest of the year, the harvest festival, the end of the harvest season.
Samhain is associated with divination
(To gain knowledge of the future via meditation/going into a trance)
Necromancy-
(Death magick-a type of witchcraft that involves summoning spirits, divination of the future, working with the essence, spirit or embodiment of death, including animal spirits, familiars, servitors, human spirits) animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice for the Deities they believe in, respect & worship.
People originally worn masks on Samhain so they wouldn't be confused for the dead, it would scare away the spirits that were free to roam the earth because the veil between the living & the realm of the dead was very thin and it allowed the dead to return.
A Scottish tradition known as “Guising” people disguising themselves, so they would blend in with any wandering spirits and remain safe from harm.
After performing tricks or songs, guisers were given gifts to help ward off evil.
This is why we wear a mask, or a costume/disguise to protect yourself and ward off evil, or harmful spirits on Samhain/Halloween.
Samhain is usually celebrated from October 31st- 1st of November.
(One to three days celebration, depending on which calendar you use and if you were Celtic, Pagan, a Druid or Christian)
The Origin of Samhain has always existed in ancient, England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales it wasn't originally started by America like they seem to think they created everything when they didn't.
Irish immigrants fled Ireland in the 1840's to escape the potato famine they chose to go to America.
Irish immigrants brought the customs, beliefs of Samhain with them when they immigrated to America in the 19th century.
Scottish & Irish immigrants were in America at the time & they brought with them their spiritual beliefs, customs and Samhain traditions.
Jack-O-Lanterns (carved pumpkins that were hollowed out and a candle was placed inside it, originally it was carved turnips. (the turnips were used due to people being poor at the time)
America adopted the idea of celebrating Halloween in the 19th century but they seem to forget that most modern celebrations of Halloween are based on Celtic, Pagan & Druid traditions & spiritual beliefs/practices.
Celebrating your birthday, making a wish and blowing out a candle is Pagan, a lot of things that are part of modern Christianity is Pagan/borrowed from Paganism so Christianity is a man-made & made up religion that's not 100% original. (Just my opinion)
I like the way America celebrates Halloween but I think they should respect the origin of Samhain since celebrating Halloween is based on ancient festival Samhain.
The original traditions of Samhain have become very trivial, superficial which is sad, the modern celebration of Halloween is separate from the original spiritual beliefs, customs & traditions & the original meaning of Samhain or relevance of Samhain.
Why can't people just respect the original Celtic, Pagan, Druids beliefs, spiritual practices & customs, traditions even if you don't believe in it in the modern world.
Witchcraft is real, people respect, honour, their ancestors, carry on their traditions, they respect & honour the dead, give thanks for their prosperous harvest & welcome in the new year.
One thing that is very prevalent in this book is Christianity, the dismissive, hateful, disrespectful way they thought of and treated anyone that at the time was a Celtic, Pagan or Druid.
The way the Christians deliberately tried to discredit, disrespect & demonize the spiritual beliefs/spiritual practices of the Celts, Pagans & Druids disgusts me.
What right have the Christians to try to take away the beliefs/spiritual practices of the Celts, Pagans & Druids, to vilify their beliefs & practices or to make their own version of a festival, celebration based on their beliefs?
If the Christians hated the Celtic, Pagans or Druids so much, then why is most of Christianity in the modern world “borrowed” from Paganism?
If you demonize their beliefs/spiritual practices, are hateful, fearful because you don't understand or even attempt to understand due to willful ignorance & have no tolerance of them as a tribe of people, then why would you want to adopt some of their spiritual practices & beliefs?
This doesn't make any sense to me, Christians historically hated/feared, vilified, demonized anyone they described & labelled as a “heathen” “heretic” “witch” “savage”etc..
People always hate & fear what they don't understand, but due to being willfully ignorant they don't even want to try to learn & understand a alternative belief, religion or spiritual practice that is separate or different to Christianity.
Just because the Celtic, Pagans & Druids believed in a different pantheon of Gods & Goddesses that doesn't make any of these tribes of people evil, or bad in any way, it's just a alternative belief system, and Christians will always, inaccurately, unfairly judge other people, including the Native Americans, Witches or anyone that was Psychic, a Seer, Mystic, Oracle etc..
This historical hatred, intolerance, unjustified fear or misunderstanding of particular tribes/clans of people has lead to the modern hatred of Christianity and it's the main reason a minority of people are either not religious at all, or they believe in alternative Gods/Goddesses & thy are a witch.
Christianity is and always will be a problematic religion, is is misogynistic, narcissistic and toxic towards women, intolerant of woman historically unless they are literally a slave and in the modern world.
The intolerance, hate, fearmongering in a attempt to convert people to believe in a God that they didn't believe in disgusts me.
Cultural & ethnic genocide or forcing tribes/clans of “heathens” “savages” to convert & believe in the God you believe just because you believe in them is disgusting, people had freewill historically, and people have freewill now to decide what resonates with them spiritually.
They have the right and freewill to decide what resonates with them spiritually and which pantheon of Gods & Goddesses they want to believe in, that resonates with them and no can tell you otherwise that you are wrong for following your own path spiritually.
I really hate the Christian hatred, fearmongering, intolerance of anyone that is not a Christian that blindly follows the religion, blindly believes in God when Christianity is a man-made religion.
Fearmongering anyone that is either a atheist non-believer or not religious, or anyone that believes in alternatives Gods & Goddesses is not ever going to work, because people have freewill, you have no right to take that away from anyone, you have no right to take away anyone beliefs, spiritual practices, customs or to demonize them as a person, as a tribe/clan or just because you don't understand them & naturally hate & fear what you don't understand so you automatically reject it as being false or not trustworthy.
If you always trust you intuition you can't be wrong.
So be proud of your ancestry, family bloodline, heritage, your origins historically, spiritually, be proud to be Celtic, Pagan, Druid, heathen, witch, psychic, medium, empath, Shaman, Healer etc..

Not everything is American in it's origin, design, or creation, but Americans seem to like to take credit for anything that was created by other people, it's very arrogant, boastful & disrespectful.
Give credit where credit is due and respect other people traditions, cultures, our spiritual practices, beliefs or customs that are unique to various places in the world.
So far this book has been interesting to read despite not knowing how to pronounce the names of some of the Deities, places in Ireland or spiritual beliefs that the ancient Irish people believed in, I have to Google how to pronounce specific things from the book.
I'm British so we don't have as many traditional spiritual beliefs, customs & practices for Samhain, but I already knew what the Samhain festival, celebration is before reading this book.
Some customs, beliefs for Samhain still exist in England, but it depends what you believe, a lot of countries have their own version of celebrating Samhain, or a similar festival annually.
Now that I have read this book, I wish I could find a book about the ancient-modern European belief, customs or spiritual practices for Samhain or similar festivals like the Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the dead) 3 day celebrated festival in Mexico in honour & respect to their dead relatives, ancestors. Various cultures throughout different eras of time, respect & honour the dead or their ancestors.
Hopefully my review of this book will help people to understand what Samhain is, what it is about, why is is celebrated & should be respected, the Celtic, Pagan, or Druid origins of Samhain.

This book is about real life murders that might have a connection to the occult involving the following: satanism, ritualistic murder, demonic possession, mental illness, psychosis which is the result if drugs, delusions/hallucinations etc...
There can be various explanations for crimes that relate to the occult and not all of them have anything to do with the occult, it is just assumed sometimes that it is related to witchcraft because it is unexplained and the person(s) responsible for the murder(s) has no reason or motive to explain what drove them to kill, or it is unbelievable and makes them sounds insane or delusional.
I am a little bit disappointed that there weren't many real cases that involved the occult,because there is at least one that I know that involved one of my favourite death metal bands from Norway, Mayhem. Some of the band members were real satanists and burnt churches, one of the band members committed suicide and another one was murdered.
One disturbing fact about this book, is that a lot of these murders took place in 1986-1987 when I was born in 1987 so it's creepy that this was going on in the world when I was born.
Not all of the incidents happened when I was born however, but some of them did, which is weird, disturbing and very sad as well, for the victims and their remaining family members.

Amateur Exorcist- This story is about a German man, that believed the devil showed himself to him and then possessed his friend, so he felt compelled to kill him, to get rid of the devil.
However later on he tries to sell his soul to the devil, he is clearly mentally disturbed and a paranoid/delusional schizophrenic. He was locked up in a mental institution for the rest of his life.

The mummy and the vanishing bathroom- A French student, unknowingly finds a woman's corpse by accident, due to being curious about their apartment door being left open.
If Olivier Belmont, didn't decide to go out in the evening for a walk then, her corpse and the discovery of the missing bathroom and the tenant of the apartment would not have been found. Primo Dolphi owned the apartment, but Collete Beulet was living there with the man she was having an affair with Joel Bastien, he accidently murdered Primo Dolphi but the both decided to make the walled up and hidden bathroom his tomb.

Dance with the devil- A German man whose surname Teufel means devil in German, came to a small village and met a local girl named Gertrude and after two years they were married and living in an isolated cottage in the forest.
A police detective named Schlzer went to check on the married couple only to find Gertrude dead and in a immodest pose, her husband was gone. He had attended a masked ball with Gertrude a few hours before she was killed, he was dressed like the devil and his costume was missing after Gertrude was murdered and he disappeared. He admitted to murdering his wife, a girl laughed at him due to the costume he was wearing so he punishec his wife, by strangling her. He claimed that was the devil, but no one believed him, he was locked up in an institution for the crminally insane, no one in the village Retz ever knew or found out where Karl Teufel came from.

One Enchanted morning-
This story is about a female witch that coerces a black man to frighten her husband, but things don't go according to plan. Pognon sneaked into the apartment of the woman's husband and tried to attack him and use a syringe on him, but he fought back so he gave up and fled.
The next attempt is deadly and the suspect is surprised he killed the person he was shooting at.
The bullets had a “777” symbol on it, the witch used a ritual to imbue them with magical energy to kill her husband, by pognon was the one to kill him.

Exorcism made easy- This story is about two dead priests that committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide from the car exhaust, no one knew if they just friends, gay or why they committed suicide.
The rest of the story is about a sect (also known as a cult) that recruited people, but one woman in particular said she was lonely the cult members interrupted that to mean that she was possessed, so their needed to exorcise her demons from her body via the whole cult beating her slowly to death over a 5 year period. This woman had a pet parrot, that witnessed what happened and kept repeating what she was saying “Help! Help me!” For some reason this parrot did not have wings so I think they did that the parrot on purpose but I am not sure why. So far these stories are about a lot of people with varying degrees of psychosis of mental illness.
I have not heard or read about these strange real life crimes which is weird, since most of the time a strange crime occurs there is a report about it on the news or in the newspapers, but these incidents did occur almost 30 years ago.

Mentally Disadvantaged Vampire- This story is about an innocent teenaged girl that went missing while there was a fair (gypsies that run/own theme park rides and stalls)
The last place she was seen was at the balloon and dart throwing stall, search and rescue dog trails ended there. Unfortunately a terrified young boy found the missing girl Slyvie dead, she was viciously raped and bitten several times. Since she was a virgin, there was dried blood on her thighs, she was asphyxiated so after being tied up and gagged, she was sexually assaulted/bitten and died due to suffocation.
There was a lot of speculation about who was responsible for this crime, but eventually they got the suspect due to collecting fingerprints. One of the most disturbing aspects of this crime is the missing girl was found not that far away from where she was last seen, she also survived for 6 hours in pain, so if the police widen their search for Slyvie then they would have found her and she would be alive today and would have been provided with help and the justice she deserved.
There is nothing I hate more than men that abuse women, children and animals, it disgusts me.

Lust beyond the grave- This story is about a murderer in Vienna, he muredered elderly women, so his grandad could sleep with them in the afterlife. The murderer heard his grandad tell him to kill the women, but he sleep in the bed of one of the victim's (next to the victim) because he was tired! A lot of these horrible incidents relate to people that are mentally ill, or maybe possession, but I was expecting some people to use rituals as part of their beliefs so then it would related to the occult. The title of this book is misleading, since there is another book called “satanic murders” which is about real satanists that have murdered others.

Black Mass- This story is about “devil worshippers” that used one of the cult members wives as bait to coerce/lure a young innocent female child away from her family. Since they are “devil worshippers” (satanists are different to devil worshippers) they ritualistically tortured her, raped her and then strangle her to death. The people responsible for this horrific crime then went out to dinner, but afterwards disposed of the girl. They said “human sacrifice was part of their religion” and they should have “true freedom of worship” in Belgium.

The power of the pendulum- This story is about a man that killed a woman, and cashed her cheques that were her wages, because he was in debt. A local psychic told the father of the murder victim where she would be found and they were unfortunately right.

Lucifer's Outlaws- This story or incident is about a delusional “Charles Manson” wannabe, that was responsible for group orgies and perverse sexual and ritualistic practices. I compare him to Charles Manson because people were called him “the guru” and they were in awe of him, he had a sexual hold over women, and he was in charge of their orgies (which included men with women, women with women etc)
For some unknown reason he mentioned the hell's angels and his association with them, but they had never heard of them and they didn't give Mick Bardell (the guru) orders to kill anyone, even though that's what he said they did. It was a bloody and vicious fantasy in his head that had no attachment to reality.

Interview with a murder victim- This incident/story is about a young woman that was riding her bicycle home, but she was pulled off her bicycle and bludgeoned on her head with a rock 13 times and raped. The man responsible for this was just released from an institution and was a supposedly “cured psychopath” but he had a history of violence towards women. This was a crime of opportunity since he waited for the woman to pass by then he attacked her, but he was impotent so no semen was obtained, this obviously made it difficult for the German detectives/sargeants to investigate who was responsible, but eventually he was reprimanded and spent the rest of his life in the same institution.

Egg Power- This story/incident involved a male witch doctor scamming women and charging them for it. One women that was drugged and raped and another was murdered and found in a bin. All the women that saw the witch doctor saw him for the same reason, their husbands were cheating on them and they wanted his help to regain the affection of their husbands but it never worked so some customers were dissatisfied and made a compliant.

Practical Hypnosis- A young woman hypnotised her lover to murder he devoutly religious husband as part of a supposed experiment. This incident has nothing to do with the occult, it's just cold-blooded murder.
The woman's lover was highly susceptible to hypnosis, but you can't force anyone to murder another anyone if they are morally opposed to it. So on a particular evening, when the children were at a sleepover at their friend's house and her husband would cone home late, her lover waited in the bushes and violently attacked her lover in by hitting him in the back of the head with a hatchet. His skull was split open and he was lying in a pool of his own blood, it mad me feel sick when it was described that the man's skull fell apart in his neighbours hands when he was trying to help him, to check if he was still alive. Somehow, he was still alive at least until the ambulance arrived, but by the time he arrived at the hospital he was dead. In my opinion, his wife only decided to get rid of her husband via her lover murdering him, because she wasn't satisfied sexually so that's why she had the affair in first place, then came up with her murderous plan, on a whim.

The heart of the mater- This incident involves a man that suffered from auditory hallucinations due to him being a paranoid schizophrenic. The voices he heard told him to “kill his mother,” or that being “ a double murderer was better” He hit her over the head with a rolling pin, a hammer then cut open her chest so he could attempt to remove her pacemaker. The voices told him about her pacemaker, that he should remove so it would result in his mother's death. There is connection to the occult, just cold-blooded murder fuelled by a paranoid, hallucination.

Never get your fortune told- This story/incident is about a wealthy man that disappeared 20 years ago, never to be seen again because he was murdered by three of his family members. The family members all shared equal guilt in his murder, they had previously mentioned that “they thoroughly disliked” their father, so I think the motive for his murder was greed and resentment, because the man that was murdered was careful with his money. Sante Boseggia was Italian, and they are always secretive about how much money they earn and they secretive about what they do with their money.
He seemed like he was a private person and didn't like if people were prying into his life or how much money he had.

Black Magic- A wealthy man hired an incompetent man that supposedly had knowledge of the occult, which turned out to not be true because he was looking up information about witchcraft at the local library! The man that hired the murderer only wanted his wife to be killed because she wanted a divorce and could get half of his possessions and his money.
The incompetent hired killer, asked the neighbours where the intended victim lived, everytime he showed up to kill her, she wasn't there, so the man that hired him gave him a key and he went into her house and waited for her to come home. He attacked her when she was getting ready to go to sleep, he made it look like a “staged sex-crime” even though he didn't sexually assault the man's wife.

Dr. Hyde, I Presume- A man who probably suffered from split personality disorder and tuberculosis, murdered his wife just because he didn't want to be with her anymore. He was abusive to animals and he had a violent, darkside to his personality, he tried to create an alibi, by hypnotising a “patient” he was trying to help cure them of their smoking addiction.

Saviour-A married couple decided to take part in a murder-suicide pact in the hope that it would save their children from evil that besieged a small local area in France.
There were various sightings or occurrences of strange events that were witnessed by a lot of people, but it was never fully explained.

The Demons Did It- A serial rapist, is kidnapping and raping teenaged girls.
He was a married pious man but he was mentally ill, he heard voices that told him to kill.
“The demons did it”

Tailor to tart- A Italian man that was a struggling tailor, became a drag queen and part-time prostitute after performing a satanic ritual, because he believed it gave him the power to become a woman even though he was a man. He murdered the person that was only trying to help him make ends meet, by drugging them and then beating them to death with a walking stick, cutting up their corpse into smaller lumps of flesh and dumping them wrapped up in rubbish bags in a noticeable area for someone to find.
I am glad I have finished reading this book, because some parts of it was difficult and disgusting to read, especially the cases involves children that were raped, tortured and murdered, it's disgusting and made me feel sick while reading this book.

This book was interesting and disturbing to read but I don't agree with the preachy prejudiced/biased opinion of the author regarding people that are troubled teenagers or young people from a poor or abusive background.
Not all teenagers from a poor background are “white trash” or more likely to become a murderer, serial killer or general petty crime related criminal. I am also offended by his opinion about people that are a goth,that self-harms, or is interested in the gothic culture, heavy metal or horror films or if they take drugs, drink alcohol or have tattoos and piercing.
At least educate yourself about different types of communities that young people choose to be apart of. Educate yourself about their alternative beliefs, spiritual practices.
It is very easy to vilify anything or anyone and their lifestyles of beliefs if you don't understand them, but it doesn't necessarily mean there is something wrong with them either just because they choose to rebel against perverted family members/priests or some religious people.
They rebel against being oppressed, controlled by being over protective narcissistic/abusive parents that don't allow their children to learn from their mistakes.
Teachers, school counsellors should be given more power to report suspicious or troubling behaviour of students especially if they are more likely to be violent towards themselves or others. If they are being bullied, abused at home, engaging in self-destructive behaviour, self-harming or abusing substances they should at least be able to raise alarm about it to other teachers and contact the parents if they are concerned.
However some people might self-harm for no reason, they might treat a teacher trying to help them as interfering in their life which is understandable.
Some children and teenagers can be subtly evil and learn to mask their emotions by observing others so then they would know what the appropriate emotional response would be.
They can display a disturbingly ordinary calm and passive demeanor when discussing horrific and very graphic details of murders they are either interested in or they themselves have committed. Most research should be done, to discover the best way of helping these young people understand that the way they express emotions or lack thereof is abnormal, their interests reflect their detachment to empathy or alienation, isolation and being shunned by their peers due to them thinking they are weird and don't want to be associated with them.

There are various crimes mentioned in this book which all share similar backgrounds of the people involved in crimes and who else might be involved. Aleister Crowley, David Berkowitz, The Chicargo Rippers, Richard Ramirez (the Night Stalker), Tracey Wigginton & Lisa Ptaschinski, Count Grischnackh (Varg Vikernes from the band Burzum), Hendrik Möbus, Nico Claux (the vampire of paris), The Kentucky vampire clan, Natasha Cornett, Manuela & Daniel Ruda, Allan Menzies and Luke Mitchell. All of these people if not most of them come from an abusive background which may have resulted in mental illness or PTSD due to abuse or they may have been disturbed already and abuse exasperated it further and made it worse.
Most of them came from an unstable background, their parents are divorced/one parent household or they were abusive and neglectful and gave mixed messages between their parents and grandparents due to their religious faith and preaching to their grandchildren when the parents don't agree. Rod Ferrel was raped by his grandfather that was a member in a cult this later greatly affected him emotionally, he had the emotional intelligence of a 3 year old.
Another issue now with young people is entertainment media, young people prefer to spend a lot of time immersed in a virtual or fantasy based world and some people based they lifestyle to involve their interests such as goths, nerds which is fine.
However when you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality then you have a problem. A lot more people are developing a problem with this, which is concerning.
Parental neglect has become acceptable and increasingly necessary for monetary survival.
The tv screen has been left to foster children, while their parents (most of the time a one parent household to worry about more pressing matters such as money, paying bills. Children or teenagers now find it hard to tear themselves from a tv, there is a definite link between the amount of time babies and young children spent watching tv and the likelihood of them developing (ADHD) Attention deficiency hyperactivity disorder.
The type of content a lot of young impressionable people liked was/is very graphically violent but there is no scientific cause for anyone of any age that views violent content such as violent videogames, horror films, violent books or satanic imagery used in music ir books that they would commit a crime.
A lot of the people mentioned in the book lacked a loving and affectionate relationship with one or both parents, encouragement, or support, self-respect, modesty or decency. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with being a goth or alternative minded or alternatively dressed person (metalhead that wears black and “corpse paint” if it reflects your interests such as the occult, vampirism, horror films, gothic culture, tattoos, piercings, BDSM (including “bite parties” and blood-drinking) A few of the people mentioned in the book were goths that drank blood, were obsessed with vampires and eternal life and would take part in rituals, or spent their time in graveyards (morbid to some but fun to others) they wanted to escape their oppressive parents or abuse so they hung around with like-minded people that understood and accepted them for who they are and didn't expect them to change, although things didn't end well and various crimes were committed due to their belief that they are “modern day vampires”
There are various types of modern day vampires: sanguinarian and psychic, tantric vampires.
Most of the “vampires” mentioned in the book are sanguinarian vampires that drink blood from “donors” at “bite parties” bloodletting is part of the BDSM culture (this involves cutting a person and drinking the blood before, during or after sex) It is known as “blood-play”
It's hard not to feel drawn to the vampire culture if you are interested in the occult, satanism, gothic or BDSM sado-masichistic communities or heavy metal.
It is something for young people to bond over, blood-drinking is a very personal and sexual act so it is easy to see why people then believe they are a “real vampire” after being “crossed over” but it is still unknown what their motive was for murder, some people are or choose to be evil and that dictates how they conduct their lives.

People like Varg Vikernes I like his as a musician but I don't agree with nazi propaganda or any ring-wing groups/nazi record labels mass producing “white only” music for racists.
However I do agree with Euronymous and his “anti-Christian” beliefs but i'm not a nazi/nazi sympathiser, holocaust denier, satanism or communist but I do believe that christians are hypocrites that protect rapists and they took away the religion or beliefs from the native americans and vikings and forced them to convert to their faith.
This is the main reason Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) hated Christianity and burnt a few churches in Norway.
Euronymous (he was pro-communism) & Varg Vikernes did not see eye to eye on everything because Euronymous was a communist and Varg Vikernes believed in the Odinism/he was a Odinist & believed in Norse mythology, but he was also a neo-nazi.
Nazi extremism was integrated into heavy metal, death metal and the gothic culture successfully, it is disturbing how even though the use of nazi swastika's have been banned from being used in Germany since WW2 but people can still join or create nazi/fascist groups or organizations.
Why haven't they been banned as well?
The insidious far reaching tendrils of the fascist ideology has now become the acceptable political neo-nazi regime to join.
I'm disgusted by it and I don't follow any political, or fascist group or organization, or fascist ideology I don't understand how many countries that were our allies during
WW1 and WW2 are not accepting of fascist groups, nazi marches, nazi music or racially motivated crimes. The neo-nazi would now feel welcome in America or possibly Norway.
I think the fact that now all the evidence related to the crimes the murderers were convicted of was not properly investigated or the evidence was contaminated due to negligence.
The fact that Nico Claux was not believed when he said about roaming around the Pere Lachaise or passey Cemeteries in Paris, France or that he had a “tool kit” to open and rob graves disturbs me. The worst thing that he did was to remove human remains (bones & ashes to “decorate” his home with his macabre trophies)
While working as a morgue/stretcher assistant he removed the flesh of corpses to take home and eat, he also stored bags of blood that he liked to drink.
He was a cannibal, but he also had neophiliac needs as well.
The most shocking crimes would have to be the murder of Frank Hackert by Manuela and Daniel Ruda, the Kentucky vampire clan that murdered the parents of Heather Wendorf, the murder of almost all members of the Lillid family sadly the youngest member of the family survived, but he has only one eye and he is paralysed.
There are some crimes that I wish there was about about such as the following: The Beasts of Satan, Miranda Barbour (the craigslist killer), the Kentucky vampire clan (I just want to know more about the people in the vampire clan), lesser known vampiric/occult related crimes Matthew Hardman (he believed he was a vampire, he killed a 90 year old elderly woman by stabbing her death, removing her heart, then drinking her blood. He begged a female German exchange student to bite him or allow her to bite her so he could become a vampire), there have been various satanic cults in various parts of the world, such as Russia and America, Britain.

I have enjoyed reading this book due to liking anything that is dark, macabre, creepy, disturbing, weird or unexplained, it inspires my dark and vivid imagination.
It's interesting to read about murderers that are a Cannibal, Vampire or or Werewolf that I haven't always heard of.
This book is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart, and there is a entry about specific animals beings eaten as well, so if you can handle the gruesome & gut wrenching graphic detail in this type of book, either don't read it or listen to a audiobook version of it, so you can at least pause it if you get overwhelmed, or feel physically sick like I did while reading this book.

My favourites are:
“Ethne the Dread”
“The Rough Grey Dog-man”
“The Monster of East Lothian”
“Sawney Beane” (Alexander “Sawney” Beane)
“Bluebeard” A.K.A (Gilles de Rais)
“The Werewolf of Dole”
“The Blood countess” or “The Bloody Countess” (Elizabeth Bathory)
“The Witches' Pie”
“The Edinburgh Body-Snatcher”
“The Demon Barber of Paris”
“The Custom of the sea”
“The Bread & Butter Brides”
“The Düsseldorf Monster”
(Peter Kürten A.K.A “The Düsseldorf Vampire”)
” The Vampire Killer” (“The Acid Bath Murderer”) John George Haigh
“The Psycho-Killer” A.K.A “The Butcher of Plainfield” Ed Gein
“The Cannibal of Bois De Bolougne” (Issei Sagawa)
“The man that made zombies” (Zombified sex slaves)
“The Milwaukee Cannibal” Jeffrey Dahmer
“The Ripper of Rostov” Andrei Chikatilo
“Satan's Disciples”
“The Internet Cannibal” (Armin Meiwes used the Dark Web to access the “Cannibal Café”)
“The real Hannibal Lector?”

I'm surprised that there hasn't been any entry so far about a cannibal or Vampire murderer that specifically drank the blood of babies, infants or animals blood.
Or the symbolic aspect of Christianity that is Vampiric & Cannibalistic.
Gilles de Rais was a cannibal, Vampire, that was a Occultist/Satanist & he practiced black magick, he committed Vampirism & Cannibalism as part of a ritual, to summon demons.
He used Alchemy to attempt to create gold to gain more wealth for himself.
Except possibly Elizabeth Bathory he is the only other
cannibal-vampire/Occultist/Satanist that was a cannibal & vampire for a spiritual reason & purpose.
The spiritual aspect of Vampirism, Cannibalism or Lycanthropy is not often mentioned but it is interesting to me at least to read about.
I'm not sure why Elizabeth Bathory never attempted to gain immortality because it seems like she would have wanted to live forever if it was possible.
Some of the entries about cannibals in the book are disturbing and disgusting to read about, Gilles de Rais, Elizabeth Bathory, Ethne the Dread and the cannibal troops the “Babe-eaters” & “Bloodybones” as they were referred to.
So if you don't like reading about people historically & ritualistically sacrificing babies, children, animals drinking their blood or eating them then maybe this book isn't for you.
It made me feel sick & disgusted sometimes, but I have a dark and vivid imagination so it inspires my dark & vivid imagination

This book has a lot of information about demons which I think everyone should read even if they don't believe that demons are real, not believing in them doesn't protect you from their influence.
They influence all humans everyday even if your not aware of it.
There is so much information it takes awhile to read it, and totally absorb the information, but the information is priceless, valuable.
It would be helpful if there was a description to explain the difference between a Devil & a Demon, they are not the same type of entity but both are a demonic entity
(the fallen angels are celestial beings including Lucifer) demons are interdimensional, demonic entities/beings that are not human.
They were never born like a human was born, they were made from smokeless fire, or they were originally just a consciousness without a form, then they were made into demons.
A list of diagram that shows the Hierarchy of demons would also be helpful.
I know that most Demonologists historically were a Christian, so Medieval Demonologists wrote their Witch-hunter books to vilify and demonize witches, but I don't understand the Christian Bible quotes in the books due to not being a Christian.
I know basic information from the Christian Bible though like a group of pigs that were possessed by demons jumped over a cliff and killed themselves.
Is this the reason why a a demon possessing a person refers to the person that is possessed as swine or a sow? A sacrificial lamb lead to the slaughter.
There are various cultures that believe in demons from ancient civilizations to the modern day, so a book that is about European beliefs in Devils, Demons, Vampiric/Demonic entities, Gods, spirits, beings that people believed in, different chapters from a specific country, culture and Era of time to explain their beliefs throughout a timeline of history would be helpful for me at least.
Many countries believe in their version or equivalent of a devil, demon, demonic entity/being or spirit that is evil, spiritually harmful.
I personally don't particularly care for the Christian viewpoint or belief in Demons that the book is centred around, but the Christian belief in demons is only one aspect of Demonology & Demonic magick/Solomonic or Ceremonial Magick that matters.
People that were pious, innocent and devoutly religious believed they had the right to summon/invoke demons, to bind them and force them to do their bidding which is very dangerous and potentially harmful spiritually, mentally, emotionally or physically.
Most modern Satanists & Occultists that practice black magick disagree or maybe they are offended by the idea of invoking demons to bind them on purpose and force them to do your bidding instead of the demon having free will to come and go as they please.
Even Occultists underestimate how powerful, potentially harmful demons can be, especially if you disrespect or offend them.
They could possess & kill you, take your soul if they want to, with or without your consent.
People should be careful with what they are doing spiritually or magically.
Don't ever invoke something you don't know how to banish, always protect your energy, your sacred space, home etc..
It helps to know about the Christian belief in demons but Christianity is not the origin for the belief or existence of demons and demonology or demonic magick.
Ancient civilizations such as the Mesopotamians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Akkadians, Greek people believed in, worshipped or feared demons, demonic entities, beings, spirits.
Various cultures throughout many Eras believed in demons.
Unfortunately there isn't a definitive book that says about the European ancient civilizations up to the modern day that believed in devils & demons, their beliefs, customs, or spiritual practices related to their beliefs.
Not everything is related to Christianity, a lot of beliefs, customs, or practices related to demons are Pagan, Celtic or European in origin.

My review is for the paperback edition of this book, but that version of the book is not listed on Goodreads for some reason.
I personally think that is insulting & sexiest to think or say that women ae not capable of being sexually deviant, a sadist, rapist, murderer, serial killer, because women are just as deviant, sadistic, cruel, predatory as men are.
So the notion that women that are a serial killer being rare is bullshit in my option, because there ae plenty of real life historical, or modern serial killers that are female.

This book was okay, It was probably my least favourite, however I did like the evil character that is a serial killer Dirk Temple and the woman that is psychic/a shaman.
This book is based in Thailand, it is about a Journalist named Stephen Lelloit and his wants to make a documentary or tv show about the sex industry in Thailand but it is a little exploitative of the women that he talks to.
His grandmother Linda Dusit who is the Shaman, can astral project herself into the spiritual/astral realm while there she senses an evil presence which is Dirk Temple.
Dirk Temple who is my favourite character because he is depraved and psychotic, he goes on a killing spree so he can metamorphose into a godlike being and then rule over human beings to collect their souls.
However things don't exactly work out for him so eventually he is punished. One of his murder victims and her brother are finally set free.

My review is for a first edition paperback version of the book that is signed by the author.
Warning: there are incidents explained in the book that involves animal cruelty, animals being hurt, sacrificed in a ritualistic way so don't read the book if you're not okay with that.
In my opinion it doesn't help that any newspaper that existed in the 1960's & 1970's that was reporting the news of any incident involving the occult was sensationalised to gain more attention. This has contributed to locals teenagers in the Clophill village & surrounding areas that are aware of the incidents involving the occult & they are fascinated, obsessed with witchcraft to want to go to the St. Mary's church ruins. However not everyone has good intentions though and they don't respect the dead/the privacy of family members that are buried in the cemetary.

I wish this book had chapters, so then a chapter could be for a specific country that the ghost stories that are associated with that country (including urban legends and folklore) instead of a random order of ghost stories. I really like the ghost stories from Europe about historical ghosts, and sightings of apparitions because I love history and I believe that different types of spirits entities, beings exist.
Unfortunately some stories are very dull and boring to read, whereas others are interesting and disturbing but intriguing to read.
It would be nice if there were images of the buildings when they were built or from the eras people were living or temporarily staying at the building to get an idea of why it was haunted.
It would be nice to read more books that are similar to this, since European ghost stories are not mentioned much so I look forward to reading more books about European history, mythology/folklore, legends, lore, ghost stories or about European places are haunted.
One of the saddest stories in the book was about Clark Gable and his wife Carol Lombard, his must of felt guilty after having a vision of his wife's death and having a argument with her, the last time he spoke to her was when they argued, which he never got over and died of a broken heart.
I would of preferred stories of encounters people have had with spirits written by believers, not sure what the point of sceptics writing about their paranormal encounters are if they don't even believe that the spirit realm/the paranormal is real or even possible in their opinion.
Some of the titles of the stories were misleading for example the story about a haunted house in ocean avenue, I assumed it might be about the Amityville hauntings before the second family lived in the house after the Butch Defeo murders.
I also assumed that the story about the Hudson river/Hudson Valley (which is known to be haunted) might be about the Irish legend of the Dullahan (a spectral, headless horseman that is a omen of death/a soul collector)
I'm not sure if the Germans believed in a Hessian (German soldier) headless horseman.
Overall this book was interesting and fun to read but a lot of stories stood out more than others, if the book was a bit more organised at least into category of county or similar types of paranormal encounters then it might have been more enjoyable to read but some stories I didn't care about at all.

My favourite stories are: The castle at 658 Wayne streetThe Romanian temple built with the aid of a spiritThe ghosts of the AlamoThe ghosts of ascension islandAttacked by a bodiless handBaltarzarini's ghostThe bellman helps outLove from beyond the graveGhosts, goblins & apparitions of the California gold countrySummoning the chevalierA ghost with a bad conscienceGhost of the crystal rose InnCuernavaca's house of terrorThe death of a popeLegend of the devil monksThe price of disobedienceThe strange case of Elenore ZugunA ghost at Relais De L'empereurFrontier phantomsFootsteps to nowhereGhostly fishermanThe ghost that smokedGhostly lovers: Love that pierces the veil of timeThe ghosts and the dragons of ScotlandThe ghosts of GermanyHaunted HollywoodHaunted in JapanSleeping in a house of horrorsIceland's farm poltergeistLost souls of the Isle of ShoalsJapanese spiritsLa Llorona (The real legend of “The Wailing woman”)The haunted Lemp houseThe possession of Magdalene GrombachI marched with German soldiersMischievous skeletonThe elusive Mr EdisonMurder by a ghostMy dead aunt is aliveHaunted New OrleansThe haunting on ocean avenuePablo and the pugot (poltergeist)

This book is about the infamous legend of Goatman's Bridge A.K.A (Old Alton Bridge) in Denton, Texas in America.
The bridge & forest is haunted, Satanists summon demons, for a evil purpose.
Occultists & Satanists doing Satanic rituals, practicing black magick, sacrificing animals, as a offerings for demons.
It's believed to be the cause for the presence of the Satyr, demonic entity/being people have encountered on the bridge or in the forest near the Old Alton Bridge.
The Goatman is a Satyr (half-man, half-goat) demonic entity, various people have encountered/seen the Goatman, including the author.
There's speculation about if Oscar Washburn was a real African-American person that was lynched by the KKK klansmen.
The Ghost Adventures episode about the Goatman's Bridge, they captured a creepy entity on camera, creepy glowing eyes are seen in the darkness, near where there's a portal.
A entity punched the wife of one of the Ghost Adventures crew members in the face, it was influencing her emotionally/influencing her & making her feel
angry/influencing/controlling/possessing her & making her want to be violent.
Whatever you believe about the Goatman's Bridge, forest, people are going out into the forest late at night to summon demons, entities, elementals, making a offering, sacrifice or altar to them for a evil purpose.
Be careful going to places associated with demons, Occultists, Satanists, black magick practitioners, have unknown intentions.
Don't interfere with people's beliefs, spiritual/occult practices, mock/judge/shame them for it because you don't understand, follow or resonate with their spiritual path, it's not for everyone for various reasons.
A ley line that exists & runs through the Goatman's Bridge & forest.
A ley line is a natural source of energy/power in the earth, various ley lines exist in the world.
The author & people at Goatman's Bridge during a ghost tour genuinely saw & encountered the Satyr Goatman, demonic entity/being.
It's protective of the bridge, land, forest, it's a being/entity of nature & associated with the Greek God Dionysus or the God Pan.
Elementals are spirits/beings/entities of nature, aren't human, can be demonic, but they're guardians/protectors of nature itself.
Bigfoot is a elemental, & protects forests, woods, nature.
Elementals can be summoned with witchcraft, anyone that's summoned a elemental.
Elementals can be destructive, harmful, since it was summoned for a evil purpose, whoever summoned the elemental doesn't have good intentions towards humanity .
Wiccans obey the “Three-Fold Law” what you send out will return to you x3 (Positive or negative energy, intention, will, sent out into the universe will be returned to you)
The author described different types of witchcraft people practice.
People don't understand witchcraft represents Gaia (mother nature) the elements (earth, air, fire, water, spirit or it's sometimes known as ether) & cycles of nature
(birth, death, rebirth, renewal) So all the Sabbats, Equinoxes, Solstices', Celebrations are related to the elements & cycles of nature.
It's creepy some people have been attacked during the Goatman's Bridge ghost tours.
I don't think provoking the spirit named “Steve” is a good idea, especially due to their hatred, indifference/intolerance towards women.
I believe the spirit “Steve” or the Goatman attacked Ashley, she saw the glowing eyes of a entity when she went into the woods alone & challenged/provoked the Goatman/the spirit named Steve.
The creepy sighting of the entity the Ghost Adventures team caught on camera is the Goatman & the portal is near where the glowing eyes were seen.
It's otherworldly, a entity, a demonic Satyr being/entity, it's not human.
Spiritual & demonic attachments can be gradual, over time & can lead to possession.
Possession can be temporary, partial possession or full-blown possession, a spirit, entity or demon can possess a person, animal, inanimate object.
They attach themselves to your aura/energy & drain your energy, influence you which can lead to possession & it's why it follows you home, why it's attached to you/why you are haunted not your house being haunted.
They like your aura/energy, sensitivity to their energy/presence/influence of their energy.
Spirits, entities, demons feel drawn to people due to their energy, psychic awareness, psychic abilities, sensitivity to different types of energy.

The chapters about Satanic worship, people practicing black magick, Satanic witchcraft, sacrificing animals, making altars, summoning demons, offering their blood/animal blood as a offering/blood sacrifice, to demons & elementals is really interesting.
People should be careful to not always assume that the spirit of a child is a actual child's spirit, because demons can/will appear as something familiar to deceive you & lure you into a false sense of security.
The sightings of people in hooded robes, during the Ghost Adventures crew paranormal investigation, or throughout the forest near the Goatman's bridge, unexplained photographs of unknown beings/entities are really creepy.
The author is sensitive to energy, had visions, spirits have showed her in her mind while communicating with spirits, or being in the forest during the Goatman's Bridge ghost tours.
The author has the potential to be a medium. She is sensitive to different types of energy, respectful of spirits, entities, demons, evil spirits, elementals/Native American spirits at the Goatman's Bridge/the forest.
There are ancient spirits of the land, that protect the forest, including Bigfoot, they are guardians/protectors of the Goatman's Bridge, forest & the land.
The Goatman Satyr demonic entity/being is real, here are spirits, evil spirits, demons, entities, elementals, Native American spirits, Bigfoot are there in the Forest & on Goatman's Bridge.
Unknown intentions of the Occultists & Satanists, witches that go to the Goatman's Bridge & forest to perform rituals, summoning demons, elementals & offering/animal/blood sacrifice to summon & invite in evil, to open a portal to summon/invite in evil is creepy.
This was a fun, interesting & creepy book to read, I wasn't disappointed.
I've seen the Ghost Adventures episode about the Goatman's Bridge, the bridge the forest, definitely has a creepy, otherworldly vibe/energy about it, there is a portal or vortex there.
The Goatman's Bridge definitely has a similar vibe to the Aokigahara forest (also known as the suicide forest) in Japan, something is luring people to either location, it's influencing people, to commit suicide, or to engage in the occult, to sacrifice animals, people, to commit horrific crimes.
People historically left their elderly relatives in the forest, they couldn't afford to look after them, so they abandoned in the Aokigahara forest to fend for themselves, they died there.
Something similar is happening at the Aokigahara forest in Japan, Yokai (Japanese Ogre/Demons) & Yurei (Japanese human spirits) are luring people to the forest, influencing people to act on their self-destructive impulse/compulsion to harm themselves or commit suicide.
The same thing is happening at the Goatman's Bridge, it would explain why some people have gone to the Goatman's Bridge & inexplicably committed suicide.

This book is about a French soldier that is writing a letter to a local SS officer.
The letter is split up into chapters to make it easier to read.
I don't particularly like the person Paul-Jean Husson who is writing to the SS officer, he is a fascist, and a pervert, his son Olivier is married to a German-Jewish woman named Ilse but he doesn't find out till later that she is Jewish.
He hates the Jewish people, and believes that they are turning France in 1940-1945 into a “cesspool” due to foreign people in his country his “motherland” and something must be done about the “Jewish problem or the Jewish question” as it was referred to in the book.
I do not share this opinion and I haven't read much about this era in time yet, but I don't understand why they condemned the Jewish people just due to their race and nationality or because they didn't like the way they worshiped god, because they are christian.
Paul-Jean is lusting after and in love with his son's wife, who is only 19 and he is old enough to be her father which is disgusting, but eventually he manipulates the situation so they are intimate and she becomes pregnant with his child and was considering getting rid of it because it is suspicious why she is pregnant again after, having two of Olivier's children Hermione and Aristide so she thought it was a “silly or stupid mistake” and wouldn't speak to him afterwards because she was ashamed and didn't want Olivier to find out.
Since she was a German she married Olivier and he insisted on her becoming a French citizen so no one would suspect anything and Paul-Jean asked people that he knew to hide her documents so they wouldn't look any further in her background and find out that her religion was Jewish.
However even though the “naturalization process” whatever that is I don't really understand what it is and what the Germans did to “naturalize the Jews”
She was still questioned by the authorities and sent to a concentration camp where she died.
I think due to her thinking that it was a mistake that Paul-Jean Husson told the authorities that she was a Jew and that's why she was sent to Auschwitz and died, because that is exactly what happened to her, while still pregnant she was murdered by the Nazis!
He said “he still loved her and he also said that he hated the Jews” Ilse was Jewish so she was already doomed to die sadly.

This book is about a man named William Ramsey, that was possessed by a Demonic entity or spirit of a wolf since the age of 9.
Lycanthropy is the transformation & shapeshifting of a man or woman into the form of a wolf, a werewolf specifically.
Clinical Lycanthropy is a delusional belief/mental illness that involves a man or woman believing they will physically shapeshift into the form of a wolf or werewolf which is impossible hence why it is considered to be a delusional belief, or mental illness.
However i've always believed that werewolves, bipedal dogmen/cryptids are real or that you can shapeshift into the form of a wolf or werewolf spiritually or astrally, so in the astral realm you would be a werewolf.
No can physically shapeshift into the form of a wolf, werewolf or other animals, you can only shapeshift spiritually or astrally, although the Native American Shamans shapeshifted into animals and believed in werewolves.
There is also werewolf magick, that is very primal, animalistic form of magick and involves nature.
The man in the book is possessed by a demon, which makes the man become a werewolf, and adopt the animalistic, primal, predatory hunter instincts of a werewolf in it's rawest form.
I wish there was a book about the Ed & Lorraine Warren case about the woman that was possessed by a demon, it made the woman become vampiric, she attacked people in a cemetery and drank their blood.
The description of the nurse hearing the weird footsteps, the unexplained scraping sound, while outside in the fog, smoking a cigarette is really creepy.
Preternatural strength, unexplained outbursts of extreme rage, anger or extreme violence is a sign of Demonic possession.
I'm curious if the man was ever cursed by a witch, they sent a demon to possess him and then he was becoming a Demonic werewolf a “wolfman”
The man exhibited the animalistic, primal rage of a wolf or werewolf which is very strange for a human being to act like that unless they are possessed or cursed by a witch that practices black magick, or Satanic witchcraft specifically.
There is a werewolf ritual in a book Anton LaVey wrote, not exactly sure why it was a ritual he created since he was a atheistic Satanist, that didn't believe Satan was real.
He wouldn't have believed in spirituality, werewolf mythology/folklore, werewolf lore or cryptozoology, so why is there a werewolf ritual?
In my opinion Ed Warren can seem judgemental of William David Ramsey, he might have just be a simple, ordinary man, but extraordinary, creepy and unexplained, paranormal, occult related things happen to so-called ordinary people all the time.

Demons are known for causing nightmares, altering the perception of the person they are oppressing, influencing and possessing & altering their perception of other people.
They are likely to be attached to the energy/aura of a person that is repressed, suppresses their emotions or desires, anyone that is vulnerable or sensitive to energy, susceptible to it & the demon is feeding on their fear, anger, rage, and influencing them emotionally, mentally.
Demons influence people in multiple ways, they create discord, strife, arguments that lead to violence, murder/death to separate, the intended person they want to possess, so they are isolated, alone, vulnerable to the influence of the demon, easier to manipulate, control & possess.
However demons have to be invited, the same applies to Vampires so how did William become possessed in the first place? This is a conundrum but intriguing nonetheless.
Another explanation for why demons might be in a person's life is if they have experienced a lot of pain, trauma, bullying, abuse, physical, emotional, sexual abuse/sexual trauma, suffering in some way, shape or form.
Physical violence/physical abuse, sexual abuse/sexual trauma, anything that a person feels ashamed about and they try to repress or suppress it attracts demons.
They feed on the pain, suffering, trauma, including sexual trauma of humans, it gives them a entry into a person's life automatically because they already experienced a lot of pain, trauma, abuse, suffering, they are more likely to be vulnerable, easier to coerce, control, manipulate, to lie to.
William is attempting to repress/suppress a painful or traumatic memory that he doesn't want to remember, the demon would know what this is when it possessed him as a child.
Every time he feels the influence of the demon, he feels cold, he has visions of wolves, of himself as a wolf, in a animalistic form.
He isn't mentally ill, he is Demonically possessed and a exorcism instead of going to a mental hospital is the only thing that would help him since it is a spiritual problem not a mental health issue.
Demonic possession is gradual, it happens overtime and becomes progressively worse.
A possessed person is not aware they are possessed at the time they are possessed so if they are fully possessed they would have no memory of being possessed.
It's normal for a possessed person to have outbursts of extreme anger/rage, what is described as “murderous rage”, they want to inspire people to act on their impulses, secret desires, which is why a Demonically possessed person would commit murder, and other violent crimes.
It's different when a person is partially possessed, I have been partially possessed in the past, I remember it happening so it gives me a weird vibe, a weird feeling.
I know from experiencing partial possession that demons are real, powerful, they can be potentially spiritually harmful to anyone naive, or anyone that underestimates how powerful theses ancient, primordial, interdimensional demonic entities/beings are.

There is a lot of trivial, insignificant information that is not relevant to William Ramsey, or how/why he has been possessed since he was 9 years old, which is boring and tedious to read.
What does two policemen having a premonition/preemptive intuitive, bad feeling, bad vibe about their own deaths have to do with the main subject of the book?
I fail to see what relevance it has to William Ramsey being possessed by a demon.
The section of the book that explains more about Ed & Lorraine Warren is really interesting, I already who they are, but i've always wanted to read their books or visit their Museum of haunted, Occult related objects & to see the now infamous possessed Raggedy Anne doll named Annabelle (which is possessed & animated by a demon that pretended to be the spirit of a child to lure people into a false sense of security, to gain their trust by appearing as something ordinary or familiar to them)
Demons trick people in multiple ways, they are intelligent ancient, Demonic entities/beings that are not human, they were never born in the same way a human being was born.)
They exist in multiple dimensions, realms at the same time hence why they are interdimensional entities/beings.
As a British person it warms my heart to know that Ed & Lorraine Warren considered England to be their second home :)
It's really sad to me at least that both Ed & Lorraine have both died R.I.P Ed & Lorraine Warren, your knowledge/experience is very helpful, interesting, inspiring to a lot of people.

I like the black & white photos of actors that portrayed werewolves in films, The Wolfman (1941) Universal Monsters film is one of my favourite werewolf films.
William Ramsey is becoming more and more out of control, violent and this is due to the demon influencing, possessing and controlling him, since he has little to no memory of his sporadic violent behaviour, this is a sign of possession, extreme, volatile violence, preternatural strength, no memory of the outbursts of rage, unexplained bursts of energy.
The demon over time is gaining more control, influence over William Ramsey until it fully possess him, but he is partially possessed, he still has some control, over his thoughts, feelings, behaviour and state of mind until the Demon takes control and violently hurts people, in a animalistic, primal rage.
I can see why some people skeptical & don't always believe that Ed & Lorraine Warren are genuine or trustworthy, since there are conflicting or controversial things about Ed & Lorraine Warren, but I think they were genuine people, that helped a lot of people.
People should read the Ed & Lorraine Warren books, investigate the cases they were involved in and form their own opinion about the cases they investigated.
Believe what you want to believe, or don't believe, it's your choice, you have free will.
I genuinely believe that William Ramsey was possessed by a Demonic entity or spirit of a wolf, that made him become a werewolf in human form, it's evident in his behaviour, state of mind, lack of memory, preternatural strength, murderous, primal/animalistic rage, animalistic, savage, violent behaviour, like a predatory animal, like a wolf.

“Murders and prostitution makes a reporter's' life worthwhile”
The author talks about murders & prostitution like it's something reporters benefit/make profit from which is absolutely disgusting.
Reporters are fucking, disgusting vultures that have no respect or empathy for humanity at all!
All they care about is sensationalizing a story, embellishing it and blowing it out of proportion, to take things out of context to make it seem more interesting than it is.
It's no different to the Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian London, people love blood, gory, they want to know all the gory, disgusting details.
The Victorians of London were just as bloodthirsty as the people of Ancient Rome, in the Gladiatorial Arenas.
The minor, trivial details in the book, are boring/tedious to read, I can't wait till i've finished reading this book.
The book has been interesting to read, it shows how Demonic possession, is gradual/over time it get progressively worse, the demon will gain more control, influence over the possessed person.
The periods in which the possessed person is violent, inexplicably will increase, they will have less control, and little to no memory at all of their behaviour, because they are possessed
(if mental illness, psychotic behaviour related to a mental illness, personality disorder is not the cause for the person's behaviour)
There are stages of a person that is haunted or a house that is haunted that lead up to Demonic possession.
1-Manifestation, 2-Oppression 3-Influence, 4-Demonic possession.
It can manifest i multiple ways, usually in a negative, very violent way, animals can be harmed, so can children & adults.
Everyone is vulnerable to the oppression, influence of a demon.
One of the easiest methods that leads to Demonic possession is using a Ouija Board, practicing witchcraft, but not protecting your energy, you sacred space, disrespecting the dead, spirits, entities, and demons, mocking/provoking them, your asking for trouble if/when people do this.
Not believing in Satan or demons, doesn't protect you from them the same applies to evil spirits, entities, devils, demons, elementals etc..
Just because you don't see any physical evidence of their existence, it doesn't mean they are not real, they are real I know from what I have experienced.
I've had a lot of paranormal/occult related experiences, so I can say with 100% certainty that spirits, entities, demons are real.
They can be potentially harmful, people need to be careful, about what they say, do, spiritually/magically (magick-practicing witchcraft).
Be careful with your intentions, you can manifest your intentions into reality without doing any spell or ritual, I've done that in the past, I got exactly what I was wishing for, exactly the way I wished for it.
I didn't do any spell or ritual, but I manifested my intention into reality just by wishing for it.
Just be careful.
It's strange that the reporter Chuck Vogel was afflicted by seeing a pentagram on his forehead that no one else could see.
The dark, oppressive energy & evil vibe he felt/sensed when he entered the church after ignoring the warning of the priest, is a warning from demons, that he wasn't welcome there and should leave.
Demons don't always visually show themselves to humanity but when they do it's usually not for a good purpose.
He got proof of the existence of demons, and probably regrets it now.
I hope he learned his lesson, he shouldn't have tried to interfere with the exorcism of William Ramsey.
Not all exorcisms are successful, sometimes it results in the death of the possessed person sadly.
I've always been curious what happens to the soul of a possessed person, if they die during a exorcism.
It's nice that the Ed & Lorraine Warren helped William Ramsey with a exorcism, they recognised that William Ramsey was Demonically possessed, but then started to doubt the validity of the Demonic possession.
Demonic Possession is a spiritual problem, as long as mental health issues is ruled out then it is considered paranormal.
I'm happy that William Ramsey got the spiritual help that he needed and now him and his family are okay, they are happy.

This true crime book is about a infamous (The Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case) known as (the Reykjavik Confessions murder case in English) that happened in Reykjavik (the capital of Iceland)
It is a very well-known case in Iceland, but it may not be as well-known in Europe, but there is this book & a documentary about it called Into Thin Air, that explains the murder case.
There s also another book called Out of thin air by Anthony Adeane which is also about this infamous case in Iceland.
Most Nordic countries (Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands) don't have as much crime. murders but there have been notorious murderers from Norway
(Varg Vikernes murdered Euronymous from the Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem)
There is a book & film called The Lords of Chaos about the Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem.
There is the Neo-Nazi, racially motivated terrorist, he wrote a oline Neo-Nazi manifesto, then placed bombs in buildings and then for some reason he was a security guard, when teenagers went to a annual trip to Utoya Island in Russia, where Anders Breivik shoot the teenagers, there wasn't really anywhere to go, because they were on a Island.
There is a book and documentary about what happened. The book is called One of us by Åsne Seierstad.
The historical unsolved murder of a prostitute “The Atlas Vampire” which happened in Stockholm, Sweden in (1932).
All of these true crime cases are worth learning more about, if your interested in true crime obviously, the Mayhem and Anders Breivik murder cases are quite gruesome, violent and disturbing though. True Crime is not for everyone.

This book is written by Professor David Wilson, he is a Criminologist and a former prison guard/prison warden, he is a interesting person & I like documentaries he makes, books he writes.
So far in his book, he is disregarding some types of victim groups, people that are addicted to drugs & alcohol, or people that are into B.D.S.M and not very really experienced.
Unfortunately there are a lot of men in the B.D.S.M community that are a misogynist, sexual narcissist, emotional sadist, sexual sadist and they use their interest in B.D.S.M to disguise their real intentions which is to exploit, emotional/verbally manipulate, coerce, control and abuse women, children, animals in various ways.
I wish Criminologists would consider looking into this aspect of serial killers, domestic violence/abuse as a reason, or in the opinion of the misogynist, sexual sadist, sexual narcissist they are entitled or justified to abuse women, animals & children.
Obviously not all men are like this, but a lot of them are in the B.D.S.M community unfortunately and they target women like me, due to being a little bit naive, too trusting of men sometimes due to how charming, manipulative and coercive they are.
Not being experienced in-person with B.D.S.M, being shy, sexually repressed are all reasons why a predatory sexual sadist, sexual narcissist, or emotional sadist would target any man or woman that is a sensitive person, vulnerable in some way, easier to manipulative, coerce, control, abuse in various ways.

It's creepy to me that there were 4 active serial killers in England a year before I was born (in 1987) Ted Bundy was executed two years after I was born in 1989 as well.
Serial killers were active in various places in the era I was born in, so I feel like it was my destiny to be a true crime fan.
I don't have Hybristophilia, i'm not a Hybristophile I don't idolize, romanticise, sexualize or fetishize serial killers like some serial killer “fans/groupies do”
It's a sick, disturbing paraphilia, or to some people it's a fetish which is absolutely disgusting, since real people were tortured, mutilated, sexually assaulted and mercilessly murdered.
The victims of crime/serial killers that are living, or dead should be remembered, treated with respect, they didn't deserve what happened to them, or the way they were treated.
The surviving victims of crimes have the right to privacy, due to going through a traumatic experience, which they survived, but now they are forever scarred, mutilated, traumatized by what they have experienced.
It must be therapeutic but painful to talk about what they have experienced, it's sad that people have PTSD due to what they have endured/experienced due to encountering a serial killer.
Knowing someone that is a murderer is surreal, I know from my own experience that it doesn't feel real, even though it happened, I'll never forget my murderous paranoid, schizophrenic teacher that murdered his mother.
Something that in my opinion, that is not considered is that a minority of people that are either poor or unemployed could become a vigilante/serial killer as a act of revenge for being marginalised, living on the “fringes of society”
Being poor & unemployed is not by choice for a lot of people and it includes myself.
In my opinion a person that is poor, unemployed, that has been rejected by society, that isn't accepted/respected for who they are as a person, would be justifiably enraged, bitter, angry about the way they have been unfairly treated in a way that wasn't deserved or justified & for no apparent reason their whole life, just because they are poor.
I've never understood why the amount of money a person does or doesn't have relates to their
self-worth as a person or worthiness of being accepted/respected as a person, being worthy of being someone's friend or girlfriend just solely based on your appearance, how much money you have.
Why does money relate to a person's self-worth, what does that have to do with if a person or group of people will accept you/respect you as a person, or want to get to know you as a person & for being your genuine, authentic self?
People that are poor & unemployed are judged, shamed, ridiculed, vilified, demonized, they are always judged in a inaccurate, incorrect, unfair, not deserved or justified way, due to the opinion, perception, attitude society has in general of the poor and unemployed.
For clarification not everyone that is poor, unemployed is a sex worker, a criminal scumbag, that creates and peddles drugs to kids/people in general, they are involved in gang activity or committing crimes either. Not all poor, unemployed people are addicted to drugs and alcohol either. It's about time, that society changes the perception, attitude, mentality that they have towards the poor, unemployed, not all poor and unemployed people are “lazy and don't want to have a job” and anyone that states this is a narcissist, it disgusts me.
I'm poor, currently unfortunately unemployed but I've had several jobs, I don't have perfect health, i'm not a criminal I obey the law, i'm not addicted to drugs, alcohol, i'm not a sex worker either.
I'm not involved in any criminal activity, or gang related activity either.
I struggle to get a job due to poverty, lack of varied experience, & maybe due to lack of some qualifications, not all people that are poor, unemployed are the same and it's about time that society changes how they perceive the poor, the unemployed because we are the most at risk, of developing addictions (food addiction, drug/alcohol addiction, self-harm/self-mutilation, depression/anxiety, suicidal ideation, murder, domestic violence & abuse)
We are the most likely to be a victim of crime(s) such as sexual assault, murder, because people assume that we are not likely to be missed, or cared about by anyone, just due to our circumstances which is outside of the control of anyone that is poor, unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, i'm not poor, unemployed by choice, it's an existence more than a life, it's depressing, very difficult. A lot more respect, compassion, should be shown to the poor, unemployed, marginalised, ignored minority of people in society. You don't know the circumstances of individual people that are poor, unemployed so you have no right to judge people or to have the narcissistic expectation/entitlement to expect people that are poor/unemployed to justify their existence, the way they live their life, or what people have to do to survive, to make ends meet.
You have no right to unfairly, inaccurately, judge or shame anyone especially just because they are poor, unemployed.
Your opinion, perception, mentality and attitude towards the poor, unemployed is not deserved, justified, not wanted/needed, it's inaccurate/incorrect, accusatory, offensive, insulting, condescending and disgusting dueto the entitlement people feel due to having more money that people in the most deprived areas of England.
People feel superior & a sense of narcissistic, classist, condescending, entitlement to judge, poor shame, bully people for their circumstances, poverty, unemployment when for a lot of people their circumstances are outside of their control.
So unfortunately they are often ignored, hated, shamed, labelled/treated like they are a scumbag or criminal, when that only applies to a minority of people, it doesn't apply to everyone that is poor or unemployed.
People should be judged morally, ethically, psychologically, based on their their mentality, personality & how they treat people/animals or based on their opinion, perception of themselves & society in general, instead of judging, shaming, bullying people for their appearance, for being poor & unemployed. Judged, shamed, bullied for not being perfect, in every conceivable way, then your rejected, discarded, forgotten about.
People in general that are poor & unemployed are a lot more likely to become a vigilante/serial killer due to being marginalised, not accepted for being their genuine, authentic self, not being respected, taken seriously, being ignored, not seen or heard just because they are poor, unemployed, “a have not”
People are becoming desperate, due to inflation, the rise in the cost of food and especially during the pandemic lockdown, i'm surprised that weren't any murders, or crimes committed during the pandemic lockdown.
Now there are security tags on particular food to prevent theft, or sometimes people look the other way when someone is sadly desperate enough to steal food, for themselves or their family.

This book is heartwrenching to read due to people owning a pet and losing them but then seeing the spectral/astral form of theie pet gives them hope. One of the sadest stories to read was the ypung child that owned a pet cat that they don't know what hapened to, when the cat returned and rushed it's nose against her face it was very sad to read.
This book has made me cry a lot, because it reminds me of my previous pets a rabbit and a cat that became very sick and had to be put to sleep.
My favourite story was about the dog that appeared during the seance to drink a lot of water.
The story about the haunted lighthouse was creepy, and the fact that cat remains were found and put on display disturbs me.
The chapter about the Griffith park zoo made me feel disgusted and sick just reading it i'm psychic & a empath so reading about animals suffering, in pain or being harmed by a spirit, entity or human makes me feel sick. I never understood why a writer wants to write about a animal being harmed, or why animls being hurt, abused, experimented on or killed is shown in horror films, it's disgusting!
I never understood why people refer to a animal as a “beast” either they are a beautiful living animal/creature that has a soul and they deserve respect, love & affection from humans.
I am happy that some barbaric zoos and circuses do not exist anymore because it is absolutely disgusting the way they treated the animals like a prop to be used, pocked, prodded and gawked at..

“The haunted horses” is one of my favourites stories so far because it was bizarre. Abbadon is the name of a demon you can research in your own time, their name is in books about Demonology.
The being that took the horses is a imp (the lowest rank/hierachy of demons) a goblin or dwarf are completely different types of beings/supernatural creatures. I believe that the black stallions were possessed henxe why they calmed down after being blessed by the priest with holy water.
I wish the story of “Black Shuck” was included but it isn't a pet it is a hellhound that collects souls for the devil. It is bad luck to see it, and it means you or someone you know will die soon.

I don't like some of the aspects of the stories that involve hunting animals, because it makes me feel sick and it is disgusting.
“The Wolf Girl” story was interesting and I love wolves, but I didn't like the fact that people would wanted to harm the wolf pup.

“The wolf guardian angel” This story was unique, I have never heard if a guardian angel apoearing as a wolf to protect a person, but guardian angels can probably take a familiar form to humans.
Wolves, bears, eagles are significant to Native Americans they are a protective animal totem (a protective animal spirit) you can have or many animal spirit guides. Medicine men or women (Shamans) wore a animal pelt to take the form of that animal. They can help people in the astral realm, with spiritual sickness. It didn't say if the girl from the story that rescued the wolf pup is Native American but it still has significance spiritually.

“The witch and the blackbird” Unfortunately prejudice even historically is still a issue. It's really sad that men & women were villified, demonised, judged harshly and accused of being a witch without that ever being confirmed.
People are disrespectful to the dead, and then wonder why they are haunted by the spirit of the tormented person, leave the dead alone, respect the dead. The blackbird was the “familiar” of the witch (a protective guardian/servitor they were either a animal, spirit or a demon)
I think it is disgusting, unfair to judge the character of a person soley based on the way they look, it creates a inaccurate portrayal of the person based on the perception of other people, but perception doesn't always reflect reality. People have different beliefs to you, they are from a different culture, so don't be prejudice, before you get to know them.

“Reincarnated pets” People have owned a pet but they have become very unwell and had to be put to sleep is very sad, it has happened to my own pets (my rabbit Shadow and my previous cat Tiger)
I understand how heart-wrenching it is to put your beloved pet/friend to sleep so they won't suffer anymore. I believe that the animals in these particular stories are a reincarnation of Otto, Petie.
The cat acts exactly like their pet would normally behave, they had the exact same mannerisms as the preious pet, the same personality.

“Trotty and the headless ghost” There is something sinister about animals being able to sense danger, evil spirits, or just evil in general that is creepy. This story was unsusual and really creepy to read because there is no explaination for why/how the woman had her head decapitated and why she carries her own head in a basket.
The fact that their head is alive despite being decapitated from their body and screaming, cursing, rolling around on the the ground really creeps me out. How is that even possible? This spirit in particular spunds like a trickster, evil spirit because it tricked the man into helping them and then offered their head for his kindness.
“Here” “Take this in payment for your kindness”
This type of spirit in particular seems like the type of spirit that would attach itself to people and torment them with their decapitated head.

“The ghosts of Ballybrig” The Ballybrig Castle was haunted by a elemental due to nature being disturbed it also disturbed the elemental thst then haunted the Castle. Elementals are a nature related spirit/entity that are not human & they protect nature.
The dog named “Pickle” sensed the presence of the elemental and something threw a ball from a bush back to the dog but no one saw what it was exactly.
They were advised to fill in the quarry which they did, then the haunting stopped.

The tower of London is a well-known place and it is definitely haunted. There was originally a menagerie before the first London Zoo existed. A menagerie is collection of wild animals such as lions, tigers and other animals that are wild like monkeys. The spirit if a bear has been seen by many people and at the time by a sentry.
They were afraid because they thought it was a real bear and they attempted to stab the bear with a bayonet, but it went through the bear and into a wall behind them. The spirit of the bear vanished before his eyes. Queen Anne Boleyn and other spirits associsted with her nave also been seen as well. The Jewel Tower Menagerie closed in (1835) before the first London Zoo was opened and the animals were moved there.
The ghost chicken of Highgate Cemetary (London)
Two men in 1926 were discussing the best way to preserve meat, at the time there were local farms so they bought a chicken.
The chocken was killed and plucked of it's feathers and put in a sack full of snow and it was also buried in snow as well.
Since then people have seen the naked spirit of a chicken that dissappears when they try to catch it.

“Possessed” This chapter was interesting & creepy to read.
The verge large rabbit Ralph that was ravenous for food, does seem to be possessed by a “ghoul” (a graveyard being that exists, they consume the dead. Ghouls are associated with the Djinn in middle-Eastern countries)
Ravenous hunger is a sign of possession in a human or a animal.
The cat that was possessed and died, was controlled by a demon. possessed I truly believe they were possessed.
The story about the basset hound, and the spirit could either be a human spirit, or a entity that either possessed or controlled the dog and tried to influence them to attack their owner.
The fact the house is 200 years old and considered a “demon house”
Or a “hotbed of evil” and bloody handprints were on a baby's crib is very disturbing indeed. I think the cat Lincoln Aurelius is possessed by a demon & a demon kitty.
Demons, spirits or entities can that the form of a animal or possess anything animate, or inanimate and control it because ot is a empty vessel and easy for them to manipulate, possess, control.
The story of the possessed groundhog “screaming like a child in excruciating pain” I have no exlanation for and the story was creepy to read. I enjoyed reading this book even though sometimes it made me feel sad & miss my pets that have died, it was worth reading and interesting. I wish there was a book about animate or inanimate objects that were possessed, controlled/animated by a spirit, entity or demon, or animals that saw them and were possessed by them.

This book is about 10 murderous/serial killer couples, some may be familiar to you if you are British & interested in true crime.
Some of the murderous, serial killer couples mentioned in this book are infamous, well-known for all the wrong reasons.
The victims should always be remembered and treated with respect.
For anyone that's American you might be more familiar with the American serial killers that are mentioned in this book.
There should be a trigger warning for graphic details about what the serial killer couples did to their victims, it can be disgusting & disturbing to read about, so you have been warned.
I think in my opinion that there are a lot of external & internal factors that help to shape, mould a person into who they become as a person from a young age, they are very easily influenced by their environment, how the are treated, especially in terms of the opinion, perception & attitude their family members have.
The nature versus nurture argument is valid and would apply to these serial killer/murderous couples, that have some deep psychological, mental, emotional issues that maybe the result of growing up in a abusive household.
Abuse is various types of abuse though, neglect, rejection, hatred of a child that's unwanted, unloved & discarded by one or both the parents is part of it as well.
I'm not saying that being abused excuses or justifies what any of the murderous, serial killer couples did that are mentioned in this book, that's not my intention at all, but it would explain at least why they are who they are as a person.
Not all serial killers were abused and not all people that were abused grow up to kill people, but there will be signs of psychopathy, sadism, cruelty, narcissism & violent behaviour that manifests at a young age.
I didn't expect a lot of the murderous couples in the book to be the type of serial killers that are predatory, sexual sadists, sexual narcissists that would target women & children.
The deviancy, sexual depravity, sexual sadism is sick and disturbing, none of the victims deserved what happened to them.
A lot of the serial killer couples in this book were sexually motivated, a sexual sadist, sadistic, cruel, predatory, sexually deviant, depraved, rapists, murderers, some are a necrophile and cannibal as well. A common theme in a serial killer's life is having a severe head injury, which may have cause, a skull fracture, brain damage, it affected their brain negatively, it totally changed their personality so they become more volatile, violent, angry, aggressive.
This was a difficult book to read, i'm not particularly interested in serial killers that lure, kidnap, torture, rape and murder children, it makes me feel physically sick.
True crime will always be interesting to me, i'm happy that more unsolved crimes, murders, suspicious deaths are being solved, with the advancement of technology, help from the general public & internet sleuths/armchair detectives online are helping to bring people to justice and conclusively solve crimes, murders, serial killer cases that were never solved.

Frederick & Rosemary West:
This murderous, incestuous couple are infamous as serial killers, for all the sick things they did to young, innocent, vulnerable women and children, which included some of their own children.
I have watch documentaries about the couple, and a tv series called Appropriate Adult, there are also numerous books about them as a couple and individual books about them as well.
It's sick and disturbing what they did to innocent people, especially to their own children.

Susan & James Carson:
This American serial killer couple were in a cult known as the “Witch Killer Cult” and they murdered three people that they believed were witches.
They are known as the “ San Francisco Witch KIllers”
They both heavily abused drugs, which lead to them developing psychosis
(they are out of touch with reality, delusional and hallucinating due to the hallucinogenic drugs they were taking frequently) convicted for three murders between 1981 and 1983 in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The murderous couple murdered three people during their drug-fuelled insanity.
They share a psychotic disorder also known as (Folie à Deux) they are both sadistic, psychotic murderers and they both have the same ideology, feed each others delusions, beliefs, fantasies, ideas.
James A.K.A Michael “Bear” Carson is the dominant, controlling, manipulative, coercive person in the relationship, while Susan A.K.A Suzan is the compliant, submissive, easier to control, manipulate, coerce, deceive, or abuse in various ways, but she is a willing participant to the crimes they committed, because she fully believed what she was doing was right or justified in her mind/mindset, or way of thining.
She was just as influential & manipulative to Michael in the same way he was to her.
It's unusual to have a nocturnal wedding, during a full moon, and at Stonehenge I've not heard of that type of wedding before, but I like the sound of a nocturnal wedding, it's a unique idea at least.
They were convicted of the murders they committed, but are suspected of more murders in Europe since they travelled to various countries, including England.
They are unrepentant serial killers/murderers.

Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka:
Serial rapists/serial killer Canadian couple, they aren't the only Canadian serial killers though, Robert Pickton is a prevalent serial killer, that murdered women and fed their corpses to his pigs on his farm.There would be no trae of evidence left, no body to find.
This couple of rapists/serial killers are particularly heinous, sexual sadists, sexual narcissists, and they committed disgusting crimes.
I will never understand why any woman would think that a person like Paul Bernardo was attractive, other than if they are a Hybristophile or suffer from folie à deux.
Paul Bernardo is Canadian rapist (he is known as the Scarborough rapist) in Ontario, Canada and a serial killer alongside his willing accomplice, partner in crime Karla Homolka who was his girlfriend, then wife she was a willing participant in documenting the rape, murder of women, which included Karla's sister Tammy due to Karla not being a virgin when she married Paul Bernardo.
This was always a major issue to Paul Bernardo, since it must of reminded him of his mother's infidelity with a ex, so he hated his mother for that, for also being told that he is/was a bastard child and who he thought was his real biological father wasn't his real father.
He hates women, hence why he was the Scarborough rapist of vulnerable, innocent women.
It absolutely disgusts me that Karla Homolka was given a lenient sentence, due to agreeing to a plea bargain, and pressing charges against Paul Bernardo, who was verbally/emotionally abusive, controlling, possessing, owning Karla and dominating every aspect of her life, or who she was a person. However she was a willing participant in the crimes they committed together.
It really disgusts me, that Karla Homolka was released from prison & allowed to live a normal life, to get married and have three children.
I already know who this disgusting couple, due to watching a documentary and reading a book about them.

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole:
American serial killers that worked together to lure their victims, and horrifically murder them.
Henry Lee Lucas was known for being a pathological, and boastful liar, he liked the attention, infamy, and the shocked public to know of the horrible things he did to his victims.
It's disgusting to m that police departments encouraged, or coerced Henry Lee Lucas to confess to crimes that were unsolved, that he didn't commit just so they could close the case with insufficient, inaccurate or false information they gained from a false, coerced confession.
It's unreliable, and he was just boasting for attention and to make it seem like he killed a lot more people than he did.
In my opinion the methodology of how the victims of serial killers were killed is just as important as the number of victims.
I don't always understand why the media only focuses on the number of victims of a serial killer & not on the methodology, modus operandi, or behaviour of the serial killer, their attitude, opinion, perception or viewpoint, worldview they had of the world, and people in society in general.

Cindy Hendy & David Parker Ray:
Known as the “The Toy box” American serial killer that was helped by his daughter who was known as Jesse Ray to kidnap, rape, torture and murder women.
He had a lifetime dream of creating his own modified, mobile torture chamber/sex dungeon that he called his “toy box” This is why he is known as the “toy box” killer.
He is infamous for recording a horrific message that was played for his captive female victims to hear, so they would now all the sexually sadistic, torture that they would subject their victims to.
He recorded/documented the torture of his victims, the videotapes were found by the FBI.
The fact there is even a possibility that David Parker Ray may have made snuff films, to sell and make a profit from, deeply disturbs me.
It's creepy how long David Parker Ray, was kidnapping, torturing, raping his victims for a long period of time, before he was caught due to one of his victims luckily escaping and reporting what he did to her to the police.

Carol Bundy & Doug Clark:
“The Sunset Strip Killers” They preyed on women specifically, Carol bundy was a willing participant and she helped Doug Clark commit sick, disturbing, horrific, peadophilic crimes.
Both were a sexual sadist and they were eager to enact the bizarre, disturbing and sick fantasies they had.

Monique Olivier & Michel Fourniret:
“The Ogre of the Ardennes” This disgusting murderous couple was unpleasant to read about and it is especially disgusting that Michel Fourniret had the disturbing moniker of “the virgin hunter”
His wife was just as cold-hearted, evil nd predatory as her husband.
It's disturbing that Monique used the fact that she was pregnant, to lure innocent women, or children to help her, due to be pregnant, this is very predatory, cunning and manipulative.
They are one of the worse, sick murderous couples to read about in this book, it makes me feel physically sick to read about predatory murderers, serial killers that are predatory, murderers of children, women animals.

Gwendolyn Graham & Catherine May Wood:
American serial killers that were nursing assistants & a murderous lesbian couple they were convicted of killing five elderly patients at the Alpine Manor nursing home.
The women worked in Walker, Michigan, which is a suburb of Grand Rapids, the 5 murders & 5 attempted murders occured in 1987.

Alton Coleman & Debra Brown:
Serial KIller couple that went on a killing spree. Alton Coleman, is a serial rapist, that ha violent, perverse fantasies that became increasing more perverse, violent overtime, until he couldn't control his sexual urges, sexual appetite and he enacted his disturbing sexual urges, fantasies onto his unsuspecting victims, that were lured, kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered.
The victims were women & children.
Debra Brown, was a simple person, due to suffering from a head injury that caused her to be mentally impaired, easy to coerce, due to being prone to manipulation.
Due to suffering dependent personality disorder, it made her very impressionable, easy to coerce, manipulate, pressure, control, abuse and to take advantage of her, especially due to her extreme attachment to other people.
I don't understand why someone who is mentally impaired like her would be a willing accomplice to Alton Coleman, she had no criminal conviction, history of violence, she wasn't abused but she was just as sadistic, deviant and perverse like Alton Coleman is.

Myra Hindley & Ian Brady:
In my opinion, this couple and Fred & Rosemary West are the worst, most sexually depraved, deviant, sadistic murderous/serial killer couple that are infamous and the most well-known.
The Moors murderers, they lured, kidnapped, tortured, sexually abused/raped children, took photographs and recorded sound to document what they did for their perverse, sick pleasure.
The photographs were their sick trophies.
Ian Brady was interested in Nazi ideology, he identified with their fascist, totalitarian, racist beliefs.
Myra Hindley's was just as sadistic, deviant and depraved asIan Brady, she was a willing participant, in the crimes they committed.
Her brother-in-law David Smith was unfortunately the witness to the horrific, disturbing murder of Edward Evans with a axe or hatchet.
There is a book about this horrible, disturbing incident, which was originally called Witness but the name of the book was changed to Evil Revelations.
They believed he was a like-minded person and confessed to him about their crimes, he was very disturbed, & understandably terrified by this and immediately went to the police.
It's very disturbing to me, that they recorded the torture, rape, murder of a little girl and people had to listen to this horrific recording in court and it traumatized people forever it's sick, and evil.
Sadly Keith Bennett's body hasn't been discovered.
Based on the way Ian Brady's behaviour is described he seems like he suffers thintermittant, explosive disorder, when a person, has very volatile, violent, outbursts of anger that they can't control. I'm glad of these sick, perverted, sexual deviants, serial killer couples were caught, convicted of their crimes and some have died i prison or committed suicide.

If I could find a copy of this book I would read and review it.

My review will be for the hardcover version of this book, which is available on Amazon.
The Cecil Hotel, has a very dark, disturbing, macabre history which is now infamous and intriguing to a lot of people, more recently due to the murder or suicide of the Chinese-Canadian student Elisa Lam, while she was staying at the Hotel, the Night Stalker-(Richard Ramirez) & another serial killer
There are various books about The Night Stalker, some are about people that corresponded with him while he was incarcerated in prison leading up to his death on the 7th June 2013 due to B-cell lymphoma.
The Cecil Hotel has since had the name of the Hotel changed to (Stay on the Main) instead to disassociate themselves from any bad publicity, or negative attention, it is afterall still a Hotel.

The first two chapters of the book are in my opinion, a bit tedious to read, since not all the information is relevant to the creation of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles.
However it was interesting to read about the history of America in the 1920's (The Roaring Twenties) & 1930's (Depression Era)
I never knew there was a Cecil Hotel alongside the River Thames in London created in 1896, so it was interesting to read about it.
The original idea for the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles was for it to be a opulent, decadent, Hotel of sophistication, class and respect, I liked the description of the creation of the statue of the Greek Goddess Athena or the fact that the Cecil Hotel had Greek Statues in the Hotel.
Just from looking at the black and white photo of the entrance of the Cecil Hotel, it has a old fashioned, classical, Greek or Roman sophisticated style from a bygone era, that isn't really used as much in the modern world unless you are rich, or own a historical building.
It's clear to see that there has been a steady decline of the class of clientele (the poor, junkies, prostitutes), the reputation of the Cecil Hotel since the Depression Era and due to the fact that the Cecil Hotel is on Skid Row, which is one of the poorest areas of America historically & in modern times. The history of the Hotel, is dark, macabre, disturbing, historically & in modern times which has contributed & created the infamous, dark reputation & aura of the Cecil Hotel and it's probably why the name of the Cecil Hotel In Los Angeles was changed to (The Stay on the Main), to avoid negative publicity, macabre interest/dark tourism but some people like me are interested in true crime.
Afterall it is still a Hotel, so they want to maintain their reputation as a reputable, trustworthy Hotel.

The woman on the cover of the book is Elizabeth Short (A.K.A The Black Dahlia) which is a infamous unsolved murder case due to the way Elizabeth Short was murdered.
She was known as The Black Dahlia because she wore black & for dying her hair black, she was a aspiring actress, but sadly never got to live out her lifelong dream.
I believe she was lured, kidnapped by a coercive stranger, she was staying at the Cecil Hotel, and was seen there around the time she disappeared, and as murdered.
She was tortured, probably raped, strangled, exsanguinated (drained of all her blood), her face was mutilated, cut from her mouth to her ears, her body was cut in half and them discarded on a strangers front lawn, where she was later discovered.
Her murderer is a sexual sadist, he washed her body, hair, to remove any possible trace of evidence, so her body had a very pale pallor & mannequin like appearance, so people mistakenly thought that her mutilated, bisected corpse (her corpse was cut in half from the waist) was a discarded mannequin.
Her murderer, has the surgical skill & knowledge of a doctor.
Her brutal, disturbing murder has never been conclusively solved, but I think a prime suspect is,
George Hill Hodel Jr. he already had a inappropriate, incestuous, sexual relationship with his daughter that he was sexually abusing, he hates women, he was known to be violent.
Only a man that hates women, would have done that to Elizabeth Short.
Her death was unnecessary, brutal, violent, she suffered a lot, I hope that one day her unsolved murder will be conclusively solved.

Skid Row is a notoriously economically deprived area of America, in & around the Cecil Hotel, the poor and the homeless predominantly lie in this area, for a serial killer the poor, homeless or anyone that's a sex worker is a easy target.
Their murders are less likely to be noticed, or solved, the poor, homeless and sex worker are a marginalised minority of society that are mostly ignored, invisible, judged/shamed/hated for being poor and judged for the way they live their lives and try to makes ends meet.
People don't choose to be poor, homeless or a sex worker and it not their fault that they are struggling and most people wouldn't have the empathy, or compassion to be understanding of their circumstances and try to help them, instead on condemn them to a miserable existence.
They are sadly a victim of their circumstances, and for a lot of people there is no way out of it, there isn't a way to improve themselves or their lives, it is what it is, unfortunately.
It makes sense to me that there would be some types of opportunistic, predatory serial killers that would prey on and murder, the most vulnerable people in society, why the serial killers weren't caught for awhile, due to the types of victims, no one noticed that they were missing, no one reported their absence, or suspicious that they might be dead or may have been murdered.
This is what Anthony Sowell & The Grim Sleeper relied on, the fact that no one would notice or care if people that are poor, homeless or a sex worker were murdered.
If a victim of Anthony Sowell, didn't fall out of a window and ask for help, then his house of horrors would never have been discovered.
He was a serial killer in plain sight, but no one noticed him or the Grim Sleeper for a long time.
The poor, homeless, sex workers have always been considered undesirable people in society, this is why some serial killer are mission-oriented and feel like it is their duty, their right to rid society of these types of supposedly undesirable people.
The Yorkshire Ripper s a good example of that.

The Night Stalker & Jack Unterweger: Both of these predatory, serial killers killed women, they both stayed at the Cecil Hotel.
Richard Ramirez's mother working in an environment that had toxic fumes & radiation & his cousin Miguel, showing him photographs of women that he had tortured, raped and decapitated & murdering his wife in front of Richard when Richard was a young and impressionable teenager were both a very bad influence on Richard.
I think he did have the capacity to be caring of kind, but due to things he experienced in his lie it moulded him into who he became as a person and as a serial killer.
It's not surprising that his siblings were born with deformities when Richard & his family grew up in a economically deprived area, they weren't able to move due to poverty, so they were stuck living in an area that exposed them to radiation poisoning.
So far Richard Ramirez is the only serial killer that I have read about that used thumb cuffs, to incapacitate their victims which is unusual.
Throughout his killing spree/murderous rampage, Richard Ramirez was watching the news, or reading about his crimes in the newspaper so he learnt from every crime/murder he commited what to improve or to do differently, the next time he picked a potential victim(s) while he was prowling for victims. He entered homes that had a open or unlocked door, window, or removed the screen to gain access into a house via a window.
His footprints, AC/DC hat, bullet casings for his .22 calibre gun were found at the crime scenes, he always wore a specific brand and size of trainers/sneakers so eventually this was one of the reasons he was suspected of being The Night Stalker and caught by a vigilante mob/crowd of people, beaten up as vigilante justice due to the local people recognizing him and calling him “El Matador”-(The Assassin in Spanish) and he was arrested by the police.
He was the only person that bought the Avia athletic brand of shoes (trainers/sneaker) in size 11.5.
His shoes matched the footprints found outside of more of house where he broke in more than one house that was a crime scene.
Lillian the wife of the Japanese-American retired veteran recognized her attacker, the man that murdered her husband and she gave the police a specific description of Richard Ramirez.
In my opinion, I think that Richard Ramirez was always going to be a predatory, rapist, peadophile, serial killer, even without abuse he suffered, his head injuries, epilepsy, he was addicted to masturbating, he had specific kinks/fetishes that he was into.
He was a troubled person, from a young age, growing up in a abusive household, sleeping in a graveyard, where he felt at peace, to avoid his abusive dad and being influenced by his cousin Miguel that had no regard for human life, he hated women, so he tortured, raped, murdered & decapitated women and took photos.
He showed these disgusting, disturbing photos to Richard, when he was a impressionable teenager, that was easily influenced & he was impressed by them rather than feel disgusted by them, like any normal human being would feels if they saw photographs like that.
All of this contributed to Richard Ramirez becoming a who he was a person, as a serial killer, it moulded him into becoming a unrepentant, remorseless, predatory peadophile, rapist, thief, violent serial killer.
He tortured his victims & made them “swear to Satan” or to say “they love Satan”.
One thing I don't understand about Richard Ramirez, is that he never wore a mask, or something to cover his face, so it would have made it more difficult to identify him, his victims saw his face.
In some ways he seemed forensically aware, but he also made mistakes, became sloppy overtime or maybe he didn't care and left evidence at the crime scenes, such as the (11.5 Avia athletic shoe) footprints outside near a window he removed the screen from to enter houses, bullet casings and his AC/DC hat that he totally forgot about.
It's common for even meticulous serial killers to become lazy, sloppy or not care if they leave any traceable evidence at a crime scene, even if the corpse of a serial killers victim(s) doesn't exist anymore, they can still be convicted of their victims murders.
Microscopic evidence is vital, in any serial killer investigation case, DNA can't be faked, but DNA evidence can be placed at a crime scene to make it look like someone was involved or at a crime scene when they weren't.
Innocent people have sometimes been convicted of a crime they didn't do, some people on Death Row are innocent.
But this doesn't apply to the Night Stalker, he loved what he did, he was addicted to murder, to the public being shocked, or disgusted by what he did, he loved the attention he received for what he did.
His inflated pride & ego were his downfall, Satan may have protected him, but he would still be arrested, tried, convicted and sent to Death Row because he was a serial killer.
While in court he had the audacity to act up for attention from women, admirers', he had a lot of penpals, people he was friends with & corresponded with which included a lot of women but I never knew that he wrote a letter to the American actor Sean Penn.
Richard Ramirez created a lot of demonic/Satanic artwork that he sometimes signed The Night Stalker until he was forced to draw normal, non violent disturbing imagery, but his artwork has always has been and always will be popular.
He wasn't allowed to use the moniker The Night Stalker on his artwork, because it would make it seem like he was only creating the artwork, to profit from it from his fellow Satanists, admirers, fans, groupies.
Richard Ramirez got married to Doreen Lioy while he was incarcerated, not sure if her genuinely loved & cared about the woman he married, but the photographs I have seen online look like they love each other.
Richard Ramirez was a popular person as a serial killer even though he raped, tortured, murdered his victims.
Jack Unterweger is a Austrian journalist & predatory serial killer (known as the Vienna Woods killer) he murdered 9 women in total that were prostitutes, he hated women.
He wrote his own autobiography, but there isn't a version of it available in English unfortunately.
Jack Unterweger (a Austrian journalist/Serial Killer) & The Night Stalker were both staying at the Cecil Hotel.
Further reading for anyone that doesn't know who Johann “Jack” Unterweger is, would be Into Hades: The Double Life of a Serial KIller- written by John Leake.
From a young age Johann's Opa (Grandfather) was influential to him, even if he resented him, he was a impressionable child that was deprived of genuine love & affection that he craved and yearned for from his mother but never received that so he had a love-hate relationship with women.
He learned how to treat women, or specifically sex workers based on how his grandfather treated them, so he was the same.
He is sexual sadist, a narcissist, that is prone to outbursts of rage & anger.
I think he is a sexual narcissist as well, if/when he didn't get what he wanted from women, he was violent and murdered the women that rejected his sexual advances if they weren't interested & they didn't want to have sex with him.
I like the old, black & white photographs that are used in the book, it's interesting to see the old fashioned architecture, the way buildings looked when they were originally built.

Eliza Lam: Based on the description of her personality, her mindset, she was, a shy, introverted, anti-social loner & a bookworm.
She suffered from depression & Bipolar disorder, she did feel & experience suicidal ideation (suicidal thoughts & behaviour associated with that), but infrequently, some people that are Bipolar sometimes feel & experience suicidal ideation, but not constantly.
She expressed online on her tumblr blog that she wanted to kill herself, but it was a fleeting thought, she wasn't constantly thinking about committing suicide and her behaviour doesn't exhibit that of someone that was suicidal.
She said it herself, that was a coward and didn't have the guts, or the courage to commit suicide and she had no interest in harming herself, because wasn't a self-destructive masochist like a lot depressed, anxious people are.
So based on this, it makes absolutely no sense that she committed suicide at all.
She was a naive, woman that was a bit too trusting of strangers or people in general.
How did Elisa Lam gain access to the roof, when it was locked, alarmed and access to any fire escapes to lead to the roof was forbidden to any guest, or long-term resident of the Hotel.
If she was on the roof, it would have set off the alarm, on the first two floors of the Hotel and at the reception desk but the members of staff, said the alarm was working properly and there was no fault or issue with it.
I believe due to the bad reputation that the security staff had, that a security member and a general Hotel staff member are involved in Elisa Lam's death.
She had blood on her buttocks, which could have been the result of rape or consensual sex, it was & never has been determined if Elisa was raped, there was only, her antidepressant, antipsychotic medication found in her toxicology test results & she was dead before being placed in the water but had no signs of physical trauma other than blood on her buttocks.
She could have been drugged with chloroform on a tissue, rendered unconscious and then raped, murdered and placed in the water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel.
Her drowning was a dry drowning, she could have been still alive but unconscious when she was placed in the water but no water was found in her lungs, so she was dead before being placed in the water.
More than one person noticed her weird behaviour, but it could of been due to her taking less of her medication.
There are various angles of the CCTV footage, but not all of it was made available to the public.
She had no reason at all to go to the roof, or anywhere near the water tank on the roof, so I believe in my opinion, that Elisa Lam was manipulated, coerced under false pretences to follow or join a security staff member & a general Cecil Hotel member that had access to the rooftop area key & knew the alarm code hence why the alarm was never heard because it might have been disabled temporarily.
She could have been drugged with chloroform, raped while she was unconscious or incapacitated, then murdered & placed in the water tower.
The lid of the water tower is heavy, Elisa Lam wouldn't have been able to lift and remove it, but two men could have done that with ease, in a documentary at the Cecil Hotel, it was stated that several people would have had to loft the lid of the water tower to remove it.
While in the lift/elevator Elisa Lam was playing the Elevator Ritual, a paranormal ritual that if done correctly would take you to another realm, or another dimension.
In my opinion, if Elisa Lam really wanted to commit suicide she could have overdosed on her medication, jumped from a window etc, but she didn't.
This mysterious and unexplained death of Elisa Lam, still needs more thorough investigation, why wasn't any DNA tested for the rape kit?
Was Elisa Lam raped & murdered, then placed in the water tower to remove traces of evidence, DNA? Why were Elisa Lam's temporary hotel roommates weren't ever questioned?
Is there CCTV footage from the time Elisa Lam was in the Hotel room/moved to a new room?
I enjoyed reading this book, but I feel like the author sometimes waffled on about stuff that wasn't always relevant to the Cecil Hotel, but it as relevant to the 1920's & 1930's since the Cecil Hotel was built in 1924 but it made reading the book sometimes boring or tedious to read.
I'm happy that this book was written and I was able to purchase copy of it and to read it, since the Cecil Hotel has always been really interesting to me, due to it's dark, macabre, disturbing history as a low-rent affordable Hotel & the dak aura the Hotel has.

This audiobook has a misleading title, since the author barely ever mentions the legend or mythology of the Mothman cryptid.
The author constantly goes off on a tangent about aliens, a lot, or Native American spirits.
What does that have to do with the Mothman cryptid??
The film The Mothman Prophecies explains the legend of the mysterious Mothman cryptid, I already know the legend, it's really interesting.
The start of the book was about the Mothman, but the author, starts then going on a tangent about completely unrelated, pointless, boring irrelevant things.
For anyone that doesn't know The Mothman is a cryptid (Cryptozoology- The study of a unknown creature/being/person of unknown origin, or unknown species)
The Mothman has a moth/owl/bat or demonic type of appearance, red glowing eyes, it has a massive wingspan, it is a omen of death or tragedy, people usually see it before something bad happens.
In West Virginia, while people had encounters with the Mothman, they also received very strange phone calls, their encounters with the Mothman were creepy.
There isn't really a explanation for why the Mothman cryptid was in West Virginia in the 1960's but after people encountered the cryptid, a bridge completely collapsed and 46 people died
I thought the book was going to be about what the author experienced while investigating the Mothman, but it isn't.
What's the point of writing a book about the Mothman cryptid and barely ever mentioning them?
I wasted my money and time, even listening to this audiobook, what a wasted opportunity, i'm very disappointed, not impressed at all with this audiobook.
Don't bother buying the book, or the audiobook, The Mothman Prophecies film is much better, because it is actually accurate about The Mothman cryptid & what people actually experienced.
Don't bother listening to the audiobook of this the person reading the book is very monotonous, it's boring and most of the book is irrelevant information that's not even related to The Mothman cryptid

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I'm proud to own this green hardback, numbered, Limited Edition of this book