This is one of those books I finished out of my sheer inability to not finish books I've started. I wanted to read it in preparation for the new Conjuring movie, but it turns out that Ed and Lorraine Warren didn't even investigate this case!

Where to start? It was poorly written and paced; it read more like a list of these so-called poltergeist events and was riddled with typos and weird punctuation. Honestly, I feel like this could have been a good book if it was approached completely differently (and actually had an editor who was awake). The author claims to have a background in journalism and writes the story from the perspective of trying to find scientific evidence of poltergeists. It would have been way more compelling if he had dropped the scientific angle (because it all boils down to pseudoscience anyway) and just focused on the feelings. As soon as you try to try to explain anything in logical terms, it looses all semblance of spookiness. I guess the author would tell me that I'm missing the point; that the whole objective is to gather scientific evidence to prove that this otherworldly dimension exists. And I guess that's fine; but if that's the approach you're taking, don't pepper your book with statements that are purely conjecture and then call it "science." Don't use phrases like "Had he been caught in the slipstream of a passing flying saucer?" [actual quote] and expect me to take you seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good ghost story and I don't completely disbelieve in the paranormal. I just think that this particular story would have been much better served if the author had approached it as a work of fiction, rather than as a work of science.