Supernatural Urban Legends
Guest Post by author Sherry Soule
Today author, Sherry Soule has some exciting news
to share with us! The next book in the epic Spellbound series, DESTINY DISRUPTED (Older YA paranormal romance) will be published in November 2014.
To help promote
these thrilling serial novels, Sherry is doing this guest post to share the
news with fellow booklovers.
Hi everyone, I’m Sherry Soule—waving from the
Bay Area. Thanks for letting me stop by today and chat about my books. It’s a
thrill to get to be a guest and meet fellow booklovers. I have put together a
few mysterious and intriguing urban legends about the Spellbound series that
surround the cursed town of Fallen Oaks, California…
Urban Legend #1
Some researchers believe that certain demon
races are actually the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim. (They are also considered to be Shadow People.) The origination
of the Nephilim began with the legend of an archangel named Raziel. Urban legend
states that Raziel escorted a sect of angels that were to instruct humans in
morality.
Unfortunately, these angels began to educate
man in sciences that God had deemed to be forbidden. These subjects
included astrology, divination, and magic. The tutelage went on for
centuries, until the angels began to pine for the human females.
After the fallen angels, or sometimes known as
the Fallen, had sexual relations with
the women, their unholy union resulted in the hybrid offspring called: Nephilim,
which are the direct
descendants of the antediluvian Fallen. Nephilim are also known as the Grigori or the Watchers.
It
has been insinuated that one of the main reasons for the great flood, was not
only to punish man, but to cleanse the earth of the Nephilim created from the
union of fallen angels and human women. The flood banished most of the Fallen
and their offspring into a Sheol.
So, do you
believe in the Nephilim? What do you think will happen if they are ever freed?
Urban Legend #2
One haunted house claim that continues to be an urban legend is the
infamous, Ravenhurst Manor in Fallen Oaks. Books and stories have been written
based on its hauntings and its reputation as one of California's most ghostly places.
Ravenhurst
Manor’s first owner was a woman and dark sorceress named, Rowan Broussard.
After her death, the estate was used as an all girl’s boarding school for many
years. The sixty room Gothic mansion was listed for sale with the resident
ghosts. Other odd things that occurred in in this house were: doors and windows
that opened or closed on their own, cold drafts, whispering voices, and some visitors
even claimed to see a dark shadowy figure roaming the halls.
However, Ravenhurst
is most famously linked to the disappearance of six children during the years
of 1964 through 1967. (After the school was closed, the estate became the
property of the town before it was sold to an wealthy, oil magnate.) After the
children’s' bodies were discovered buried within the walls of the house,
obviously from less than peaceful circumstances, the town buried them in Silent
Hollows Cemetery.
Did these Children buried on unconsecrated
ground, lead to the strange tragedy that would make this mansion so famous?
Urban Legend #3
Ah, let’s move on to the zombie apocalypse!
Another interesting urban legend states that on
September 28, 1941, during an eclipse, a zombie was spotted in Fallen Oaks. To
make matters worse, a fire at the local mill had swept through town. As day
turned to night, more zombies appeared. Many townsfolk mistook the undead for
dazed mill workers. After the residents received hugs from the zombies, they
were bitten by these paranormals, and soon the epidemic spread across the town
like wildfire.
To make matters worse, the roads and bridges
connecting Fallen Oaks to the rest of the Bay Area had burned in the fire. The
townsfolk had no way to escape. Scores of people become lost when they chose to
venture into the dark depth of Deadwood Grove rather than face the insatiable
zombie menace.
Within days, the Paranormal Research Group (PRG)
converged on Fallen Oaks in a variety of aircraft. They established a base on
the south side of the forest and went about the process of extermination. It
took two weeks to secure the town. A total of 500 people were plague-ridden, an
enormous number considering that there wasn’t a zombie vaccine available at
this time.
Whatever the case, Fallen Oaks’s zombie
outbreak affected just under 600 people, making it one of the worst cases in
U.S. history.
Are you prepared for a zombie apocalypse?
What if zombies start showing up again?
Thank you
so much for letting me chat up my YA series with all of you. It’s been an honor
to share the eerie urban legends associated with the Spellbound series. If you
haven’t seized your copy yet, please do so. Many thrilling and extraordinary
adventures await you!
Places you
can cyberstalk, Sherry Soule:
Official website: http://www.sherrysoule.blogspot.com
Official Spellbound
Series Blog: http://thespellboundseries.blogspot.com
Twitter:
@SherrySoule: http://twitter.com/SherrySoule
Hunting Demons is One Thing…Dating Them is
Another.
Life sucks
for Shiloh Trudell. And being a demon hunter who’s in love with a cocky
half-demon makes things even suckier.
Especially
when she discovers that Trent, her sinfully hot boyfriend, is hiding a few
dangerous secrets. Like the fact that he’s losing his humanity.
To
complicate matters, witches from the local coven are mysteriously turning up
dead, and as Shiloh searches for answers, she confronts her worst nightmare…Trent
is being blackmailed into becoming the next leader of the Underworld.
But Shiloh
is still convinced that she can save him, even after the impossibly gorgeous,
fallen angel Raze tells her that a relationship with Trent is forbidden now.
Warned to stay away from the only boy she’s ever loved, she can’t ignore the
sizzling attraction that ignites whenever they’re around one another.
Especially after a swoon-inducing night of stolen passion.
As
Shiloh’s world begins to unravel around her, it soon becomes obvious that her
destiny lies in one of two choices: vanquish Trent or join him in the
Underworld.
DESTINY DISRUPTED (book 5) ASIN: B00OJQHU5O
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