Review: Intriguing, Captivating
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
Part 1 of this book about a purported abduction of the Cranston kids by aliens is both sad and mystifying. Sad because as a result, the parents became sordidly confused and embittered over their loss to the point that they drifted apart and ended up divorced, with the father of the children finally ending his life and the mum living like a vegetable since. Also, the narration about old man Tyrell leaves me feeling that he could have concocted the alien abduction story as a cover-up; that he had something to do with the Cranston kids' disappearance. Part 2. The Kentucky Bend Visitation. This one is downright scary. Two retirees living on their farm are confronted one night by four aliens holding silver rods trained at the woman; her husband is immobilized; unable to come to the rescue. After the aliens leave, the man finds his wife immersed in the bathtub fully clothed; an unplugged toaster in her hands, that she dunks in the water that quickly electrocutes her. What makes this believable and frightening is the fact that a news reporter who goes to the farm house with the owner years later experiences the same "electrifying" sensation that has made the house a dead zone.  Even to this date, if true, no electric company could reconnect the power in this house. There are other abduction stories in this book tnat's well worth reading.