The Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting, by Ben Williams and Jean Williams

The Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting, by Ben Williams, Jean Williams, and John Bruce Shoemaker. 1991 first edition hardcover. 239 pages, very nice condition. RARE.

In 1980 the Williamses, middle-aged parents of three married daughters, bought a lot and built a house in the Newport subdivision of Houston. Soon after they moved in, odd things began to happen, involving not only Ben and Jean Williams but most of those close to them. Besides what could be called poltergeist activity, there emerged more serious troubles. Every time they came to visit, the Williams daughters and their husbands, presumably happily married, would quarrel, and all three marriages ended in divorce. Five family members died. Their neighbors, without exception, encountered similar freak events.

This is the shocking true story of the terrifying events that rocked an entire Houston suburb, ultimately driving eight families from their brand-new homes. Odd things were happening all over: toilets and appliances worked by themselves; beloved pets turned savage and then died; shadowy figured appeared, strange markings carved on a tree's trunk; and plagues of insects and snakes swarmed over the property. Finally, one family made the grisly discovery that the subdivision had been built on a graveyard - The Black Hope Cemetery. For their part, Ben and Jean Williams stayed until 1987, then moved to Montana. Writing here with freelancer Shoemaker, they recreate the bizarre tale of their shared supernatural ordeal. Includes 8-page photo insert.