The Story


The year is 1620. As the Mayflower tacks about to avoid the dangerous shoals of Pollock Rip off the Cape Cod coast, a young girl mysteriously jumps to her death.

Almost four centuries later, the psychic imprints of that incident in 1620 — and a string of related incidents thereafter—begin to wreak havoc with the lives of two prominent Americans.

A corporate executive daysailing in Nantucket Sound is unexpectedly barraged by a violent storm at sea—which no other vessels even detect on their radar. A highly-respected college professor swears he can see the outline of two large figures hovering over the foot of his bed, one of them brandishing a knife.

Both men share two things in common.

They are scions of the privileged Pennfield clan—one of America’s great families, claiming an unbroken line back to the Mayflower.

And, unbeknownst to them, their strange bouts with the paranormal have just begun.

Soon, the Pennfields realize that these encounters are not isolated occurrences, but an orchestration of paranormal events haunting the entire family. Concerned, they enlist the aid of retired ex-construction-contractor- turned-ghost-hunter, Ed Swann. In his methodical manner, Swann uncovers a mystery that unravels the dark underside of the Pennfields’ cherished lineage—leading them all the way back to that incident on the Mayflower.

Based on years of research into psychic phenomena, Mean Spirits deals in a very realistic, thought-provoking way with apparitions, OBEs, sleep paralysis, synchronicity, poltergeist activivty/RSPK, and many other psychic phenomena.







Copyright Roger D. Chiocchi 2002
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