A detailed account of the months-long poltergeist-like haunting of the family of the Reverend Eliakim Phelps, while occupying a mansion in Stratford, Connecticut.
Derived only from a wide variety of contemporaneous sources: first-hand accounts, interviews, newspaper reports. A period piece of mid-nineteenth century America; an Edgar Poe influenced literary daguerreotype.
Not a sensationalized narrative but a documentary-style recreation of perplexing, frightening experiences -- and the determination to enlist numerous historical personages to solve the source of the persistently "strange doings" that drew the attention of thousands, eager to witness the "humbug", or truly supernatural events.
