Eric Nuzum
At once hilarious and incredibly moving, ,Giving Up the Ghost, is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story like no other.,Â ,Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in his parentsâ€™ attic. It began as a weird premonition during his dreams, something that his quickly diminishing circle of friends chalked up as a way to get attention. It ended with Eric in a mental ward, having apparently destroyed his life before it truly began. The only thing that kept him from the brink: his friendship with a girl named Laura, a classmate who was equal parts devoted friend and enigmatic crush. With the kind of strange connection you can only forge when youâ€™re young, Laura walked Eric back to â€œnormalâ€â€”only to become a ghost herself in a tragic twist of fate.,Â ,Years later, a fully functioning member of society with a great job and family, Eric still canâ€™t stand to have any shut doors in his house for fear of whatâ€™s on the other side. In order to finally confront his phobia, he enlists some friends on a journey to Americaâ€™s most haunted places. But deep down he knows itâ€™s only when he digs up the ghosts of his past, especially Laura, that heâ€™ll find the peace heâ€™s looking for.
Autobiography,Memoir,Nonfiction,Biography,Paranormal,Ghosts,Music,Fantasy,Paranormal,Mental Health,Mental Illness,Biography Memoir,Health,Mental Health,Psychology
Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted