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The House on Nokomis
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- FormatePub
- ISBN8235441286
- EAN9798235441286
- Date de parution28/06/2026
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- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
"Some houses keep secrets. Others keep company."Full descriptionIn 1995, Wendell Hawkins moved his family into a quiet house in the Oak Park Estates neighborhood of Oak Cliff, Texas. He was twenty-seven years old, newly settled, and certain of the life he was building. He was not prepared for what the house had already been building - for years, in the dark, at the foot of his bed. What began as a subtle, almost gentle disturbance - the unmistakable weight of something climbing onto the mattress, the phantom breeze of a door that never opened - slowly revealed itself to be something far more present and deliberate.
A haze hovering above the shower. A shape moving through the den. And one terrifying night, something that rushed across the room and held him completely still, his vision smeared, his body pinned, while it covered him entirely. Through it all, Wendell did not run. He watched. He asked questions. He told his wife. And when his daughter came screaming out of the front door after seeing an old white man walk through the den and into the kitchen - a man no one else could see - he felt not terror, but the overwhelming, bone-deep relief of a man who has finally been believed.
The House on Nokomis is a true account of seven years lived alongside the unexplained. It is a story about curiosity in the face of the unknown, about the quiet courage of staying when every instinct says leave, and about the remarkable discovery that some of us are simply built to sense what others cannot. But Wendell's story does not end when the ghost departs. It follows him into a new career - as a police officer patrolling the streets of Dallas - where the sensitivity he carried out of that house would make itself known again: in the hallway of a school where a teacher still walked to her classroom, in a cafeteria where something banged on the gate of an empty building, and in a darkened parking lot where a shadow crossed his windshield and then disappeared into the night.
Some people spend their lives at a careful distance from the margins of the explainable. Wendell Hawkins has spent his standing at the edge - watching, waiting, and paying close attention to what looks back.
A haze hovering above the shower. A shape moving through the den. And one terrifying night, something that rushed across the room and held him completely still, his vision smeared, his body pinned, while it covered him entirely. Through it all, Wendell did not run. He watched. He asked questions. He told his wife. And when his daughter came screaming out of the front door after seeing an old white man walk through the den and into the kitchen - a man no one else could see - he felt not terror, but the overwhelming, bone-deep relief of a man who has finally been believed.
The House on Nokomis is a true account of seven years lived alongside the unexplained. It is a story about curiosity in the face of the unknown, about the quiet courage of staying when every instinct says leave, and about the remarkable discovery that some of us are simply built to sense what others cannot. But Wendell's story does not end when the ghost departs. It follows him into a new career - as a police officer patrolling the streets of Dallas - where the sensitivity he carried out of that house would make itself known again: in the hallway of a school where a teacher still walked to her classroom, in a cafeteria where something banged on the gate of an empty building, and in a darkened parking lot where a shadow crossed his windshield and then disappeared into the night.
Some people spend their lives at a careful distance from the margins of the explainable. Wendell Hawkins has spent his standing at the edge - watching, waiting, and paying close attention to what looks back.
