| Ghosts of the McBride House: A True Haunting |  | Author: Cecilia Back
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
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ISBN: 0738715050
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What is it about the McBride House that serves as a beacon to the dead? Built in the oldest town in Oklahoma by physician George McBride in 1895, this Victorian home is rife with ghosts from the past. Ghostly parties at 2:00 a.m., spirits calling family members and houseguests by name, dolls that talk even after the batteries have been removed...The Back family has been subjected to impossibly bright lights, loud crashing noises, weird shrieks—even ominous odors such as decaying matter. Each ghost in the McBride House has a personality of its own, including one entity whose antics are downright terrifying. But instead of fleeing, the Back family remained and gradually got to know their "spirited" residents. This is their story.
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 THIS AUTHOR NEEDS TO GET A CONSCIENCE August 14, 2010
L. Ross
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
My worst complaint is that the owners of this house know that there are the spirits of two children, plus the spirit of a grieving mother who goes back and forth from their house to a building across the road...looking for her missing child. And yet the author has not the conscience nor the kindness to send them on to the light and end their limbo. It is just disgusting. For her own selfish reasons the two spirit children and the grieving mother ghost are allowed to just go on, lost. Oh, well, yes the author has gone on to make money writing the book !, makes money letting people stay overnight !...."enjoys" the fact she lives with ghosts ! BUT she ignores the fact that the spirits are suffering. Spirits are people, they have just lost their bodies. So can you imagine anyone EVER allowing two children to stay lost ??? To not help them go on to reunite with their families ?! For God's sake ? Or to not step in and stop the worry and endless searching of a ghost mother who long ago had a child go missing ? This author has no conscience and she disgusts me. She has two kids of her own, but can't muster the sympathy for the ghosts that live in her house.
She states that the reason she has not released the spirits is that they have "grown on her family" ! She might be "sad to see them leave". {Again, more selfishness...}. Then the excuse that sometimes doing spirit rescue sometimes makes things worse...so obviously any excuse will do. Maybe let Dr. McBride stay , since he so obviously wants to, and has stirred up plenty of trouble already, but how can the author fear setting two children and a grieving mother free ? Its a load of bull. What does she have to fear from that ? NOTHING. Except she would no longer be able to use them commercially. The author needs to do some serious soul-searching. {Like, quit being a leech on those spirits, you've used them enough already, do something spiritual and help them to the light}. The spirits were apparently separate from each other { the mother spirit was not the mother of the two ghost children, and McBride was not the father of the ghost children,nor the husband of the ghost mother...so setting most of them free would not be breaking up a family of spirits...}.
Something I found strange too is her idiotic statement near the end of the book that the spirits have "been with us through our triumphs and our tragedies". Well YEAH, they'd be forced to wouldn't they ? Since she never released the spirits, I guess they'd be there for just about everything that went down. The author is rather dumb.
Oddly enough all through this book she never once mentions that she has tried any direct communication whatsoever except to have one psychic or medium come there and give one reading on the place. How could anyone live there 25 years, in an actively haunted house, without ever trying to communicate with the spirits directly ? Maybe if you're frigidly stupid,? I'm sorry but how could anyone not explore trying to get a direct line of communication going in this situation ? The author and family withstood a lot of seriously scary incidents and yet decided to stay, they never moved out...so I can't believe they might have been "too scared" to try seances, or inviting more well-known mediums, or any of the other many ways they might have communicated with the spirits.
Why not find out more about the spirits,? and to help release them ? Its kind of hard to believe. Or, has the author actually been communicating with the spirits, but just decided to leave that out of the book ?
I found it hard to believe that she made so little effort to communicate. There are all kinds of ways, all kinds of resources, to investigate and many ways to make contact. Instead, from this book you just get the feeling that the family hung in there 25 years mainly getting pranked and sometimes scared badly. Period. It just seems so ridiculous. Who would not address the spirits directly, especially if they were doing things like locking you out of your own house, and moving a baby crib ?
And the ghosts never told anyone they enjoy sharing the authors life....in fact all through the book the ghosts do nothing that ever seems very friendly or warm towards anyone except the family pets ! and there's no real connection to the authors family. The spirits don't care about the authors daily life. In fact pranks and scares were about all that ever happened. So, where is the great relationship between the author and these spirit people ? It doesn't exist. In fact the spirits do not show a lot of respect. But the author wants to promote some idea of connectedness.
A few last comments...the author knew the nursery for her NEWBORN BABY was haunted,in fact the crib kept being moved over to a WINDOW by spirits no less, yet never moved her own baby out of that room. How many mothers would not move a newborn in and next to their own bed if paranormal activity was going on like that ? Are you kidding ? My newborns were always in their cribs in MY bedroom for the first 3 months of their lives and my house wasn't even haunted.
Another really stupid thing, she allowed two strangers to insist on staying overnight in the house. Because they wanted to. Author admitted to being scared of them because they were total strangers. And her son was in the house too at this time {more proof of great parenting}. But the moron let it happen anyway, and basically did not sleep all night because she was nervous...no I am not joking, she seriously did this. And the topper is, her husband took their daughter and spent the night elsewhere !!!! What a man ! He allows his idiot wife to let complete strangers spend the night...one of his children is also there in the house...and HE takes the youngest kid and runs. And the guy is a doctor {so you'd hope he wasn't that pathetic, but yes he was that pathetic}. His wife and one of his kids could have become victims.
One last thing,the author's cat was trained not to go up on the furniture ! OK, I could see kitchen counters being a no-no, { but my cats do whatever they want and I just use a lot of Lysol spray cleaner...as they are older now they really only go up on the counters in order to go further up to the top of the fridge...which every cat loves to do}...but why have a pet if it doesn't rate being on the furniture ? Are they forever supposed to look at you from the floor ? People like that shouldn't have pets. Cats are natural climbers,they are highly intelligent and curious. They love to be near their people too. To force them to stay off everything is not kind, but then again, that author is the same person who can't feel sympathy for lost souls but is happy enough to make a profit from them. Oh she claims at the end of the book that her family always stays aware of the spirits "plight". How GOOD of them. Yes indeed, stay aware of it but yet do NOTHING to help them.
Since the McBride house is often open to the public and strangers stay there overnight, I suggest something to you readers. Since the author is so self-centered and has no interest in helping the spirits, maybe you can help them. If anyone reading this ever stays at the McBride house, just do a simple spirit rescue. Read up on it. As far as I know, say a prayer of protection. Calm yourself. Address the spirits of the children and the woman, {I would let McBride know you were not speaking to him though}, and tell them that they have died and passed into the spirit world. Tell them all they need to do to reunite with their families is to go to the light. Ask God and the angels to send them on their way, and help them find the light. You can just do this without telling anyone you've done it. You can save the spirits from any further sadness or limbo. Because the author is too lame to do anything decent for the spirits, we might as well try.
 A little disappointed. July 27, 2010
Greg Jarvis (St. John's, Newfoundland Canada)
As a huge fan of this style of book, I eagerly awaited reading first-time author Cecilia Back's "Ghosts of the McBride House: A True Haunting". Unfortunately, this is not one of the better examples of first-hand paranormal experience books. Back's writing style can most generously be described as 'flat'; at times the book was a chore to get through. It's not that the tale isn't intriguing, it's just that the style of writing is so flat and uninvolving. Events are describing in such a monochromatic way that not only does the reader find everything a bit unbelievable, but it's even hard to muster up the inclination to care that much. A shame, considering all of the elements are in place for a crackling good yarn, but Back seems to lack the true storyteller's skill to keep the reader engaged and riveted, which is practically what these style of books live or die by. Hopefully her next one will be a step up, but for me, after finishing this in a couple of weeks (it usually takes me a few days to get through a book of this nature), then picking up Annie Wilder's second book 'Spirits Out of Time'; suffice to say Wilder's fluid, engaging narrative makes clear just what's lacking in 'Ghosts of the McBride House' - a vivid, engaging storyteller's voice.
 A fun read April 7, 2010
B. Sherman (California USA)
I really enjoyed this book. It is well written and because of that the story came alive for me. The author gives you a bit of background information, throughout the story, not only about the house and the spirits, but themselves. At times I would laugh out loud to some of the crazy and hilarious goings on and sad at times which made me tear up. Each spirit has a distinct personality and a love for life and those still enjoying it. It is amazing how far a spirit will go to get your attention!
Bought it and finished it in a day. January 7, 2010
Kiko (Mars)
I thought this book was really good and discreptive. (did i spell that right) it kept me interested throughout every chapter and was very enertaining. How for a change the ghosts wernt evil, even though they would occasionally do some disturbing stunts. That their main purpose wasnt to hurt the family and they learned to live with them. I enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.
 Not great, not terrible December 8, 2009
Randym
A quick, easy read. It's fun, but not particularly original or convincing. It's sort of like sitting next to a stranger on a plane, who is telling you about her haunted house. Interesting, but hard to say if she's telling the truth, exaggerating, or just plain nuts.
The book is competently written, but seems a little disjointed and disorganized. After a particularly scary event, you're left wondering, "Did they try find out if there might be a logical reason? Did they consider moving out? How could they leave their kids alone in the house when they were so scared?" But the book just skips to the next event. Also, it's hard to tell how old the kids are sometimes, especially since they speak like adults, even when they're toddlers...at least as Ms. Back recounts it. (I was curious, since some of the events may have been the kids playing pranks...if they were old enough. There's also the theory that poltergeist activity is linked to adolescents, so it would have been helpful to know the age of the kids.)
Not my favorite true ghost story, but you could do worse.
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