It began with a frightened twelve-year-old trying to understand what was happening inside his family's Massachusetts home.
Unexplained footsteps. Shadows. Voices. And an encounter David Butterworth would remember for the rest of his life.
What began as fear soon became curiosity-and eventually a search for answers that would span more than twenty years.
In The House That Started Everything, David recounts the experiences that first drew him toward the paranormal, the mistakes he made while learning to investigate it, the mentors who challenged him, and the journey that ultimately led him to help found the East Coast Coalition of Paranormal Investigators.
But this isn't a book about proving that every unexplained experience is paranormal.
It's about learning to question what you think you know.
From childhood experiences and early investigations to private residential cases and evidence that still defies explanation, David traces his evolution from a young believer searching for ghosts to an investigator searching for something far more important:
the truth.
Because sometimes the answer is paranormal.
Sometimes it isn't.
And sometimes the most honest answer is simply:
I don't know.