The Intruders

By Pat Montandon

Book Overview

THE INTRUDERS is the harrowing story of a near fatal encounter with the forces of darkness and malevolence. Pat Montandon, well known West Coast TV talk show hostess, had no reason to believe in the power of the supernatural - either for good or for evil - when she moved into a spacious apartment in a town house overlooking San Francisco Bay, an apartment that appeared to offer sanctuary from her stressful career. Instead, as bizarre incident followed incident, climaxing in the tragic death by fire of her closest friend, she was forced to acknowledge that she was locked in a mortal struggle with dark and menacing forces. A true story, as riveting in its way as The Exorcist, this account will intrigue all those drawn by the continuing fascination of the occult.Charming, articulate Pat Montandon - one of San Francisco's best known party givers in a city where entertaining is a way of life - was caught up, along with her guests, in the color and gaiety of an "astrology party" when something went dangerously awry. A tarot reader, hired to entertain, took umbrage instead at what he considered Pat's slighting. as he and his uninvited entourage swept out of the party, the furious man shrieked a curse on hostess and house alike.Over the next two years Pat Montandon suffered an uncanny sequence of misfortunes - misfortunes she could account for only as emanating from some malevolent influence. Her apartment was repeatedly vandalized and fire ravaged, her car smashed several times, her career disrupted, her romances blighted. A biting chill pierced her apartment year round, despite repeated attempts to repair the heating system, and casement windows, locked from within, suddenly stood open.Psychic investigators who have studied the house as well as Pat Montandon's own aura, have found bizarre and inexplicable phenomena. An exorcism has been performed, and Pat Montandon is now successfully recuperating from her life and death duel with dark forces.THE INTRUDERS is an eerie true life account of the supernatural - a story told by a doubter who now can't not believe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470135329
• ISBN13: 9781470135324
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

BEST TRUE HAUNTING BOOK

I have read just about every "True Haunting" memoir available and this one is the best--rates number 1 on my list. It is truly creepy and disturbing. Not just a story of strange sounds in an old house. The author experienced many very disturbing events over the years of living in an old apartment in San Francisco. Pay no attention to the one star rating of this book. I have read it three times, and it truly disturbs me every time. Also it is very well written without the usual garbled syntax and and grammar that "haunt" these true haunting books. I think Ms. Montandon's book is a cut above because she is a professional writer who happened to experience the events in the book. Not someone who puts out a self-published piece of junk. Even though it is a tiny bit dated, I highly recommend this one--well worth the price because you will want to keep it and read it over and over.

It took me days to shake off this book's depressing atomosphere.

I've read countless true ghost stories over the years...I've got bookcases full of them. I normally can read one in bed, turn off the light, and go to sleep in the dark without giving it another thought. Not this one. It really affected me in a depressing way for some reason. Yet I couldn't put it down, I read the entire book in one sitting. And shortly after starting it, I realized that I had heard of this woman before. Several years ago, in a British book on ghost photos, I saw a photograph of her and a photograph of one of the ghosts in her house, which at the time freaked me out so much I never forgot it.

Really creepy memories...

I read this book about 25 years ago as a teenager. Being a native San Franciscan, it was even more scary being familiar with the places she talks about in the book. After all these years I still remember how fascinated, and at the same time scared witless, both my sister and I were while reading this fantastic book. I still vividly remember a scene in the book when her friend presumably "dies of fright" while house-sitting for her. Holy Cow.... This is a great book.

up there with the scariest non-fiction

This is one of those books that sticks in your mind for years. I went 17 years between my first and second reads and the second was as clutching and eery as the first. To my surprise, I found that I still couldn't read it in bed at night alone. It's a classic gripper!

Spooky

This is a great spooky tale, which is supposedly true. Pat Montandon recounts her life in the late 60's and the time she spent in a "hexed" apartment in San Francisco. This is no "based on true events" type Amityville Horror yarn, but a genuinely spooky tale with enough real evidence to make a believer out of anyone. Most of the goings on are not supernatural, and yet too frequent and strange to be mere coincidence. If you have insomnia, crack this one open and it will freak you out. You can easily get through it in one restless evening. They are making a movie out of this soon and I hope they do well by it.