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In "The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm", Richard Estep and Robert Graves examine the case of suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister and the ghosts that still haunt his old property.

Word of Baumeister’s suspected serial murder spree spread fast in the wake of his death. So too did whispers of otherworldly activity at the Fox Hollow estate. Now, seasoned author and paranormal investigator Richard Estep (In Search of the Paranormal, Haunted Healthcare, The Devil’s Coming to Get Me) has partnered up with Fox Hollow’s current owner Robert Graves to unravel the dark history of Herb Baumeister and the paranormal activity that haunts the estate to this day. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm dives deep into the tragic past of Fox Hollow Farm, piecing together the criminal case of Herb Baumeister and examining the otherworldly energies that still linger in the air. Join Estep and Graves as they deliver detailed insights into the original Baumeister investigation and venture into Fox Hollow’s darkest corners in search of the supernatural forces that haunt the property. Included in the book are detailed descriptions of paranormal encounters, from a chilling EVP recording captured in the apartment above the garage to a terrifying run-in with a malevolent entity in the basement pool. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm is set for publication on September 8th—but we're offering our readers a sneak peek right now. In the excerpt below, Fox Hollow's present-day owner Robert Graves takes you on a tour of the strange activity he and his family have experienced at their home. It seems life was always a bit eerie at Fox Hollow Farm. But when Robert’s coworker Joe LeBlanc moved into Fox Hollow, the paranormal activity reached frightening—and dangerous—new levels. Read on for an excerpt of The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm, and then pre-order the book. My family and I had settled into the new house in no time at all. At first, there was no indication that anything might be wrong. Our boys enjoyed running around in the woods and swimming in the pool. Vicki and I began to realize just how much work was involved in maintaining a house the size of Fox Hollow Farm, but that was okay—it was what we had signed up for. Then, for no apparent reason, everything changed. Vicki was down in the swimming pool room, working on the household chores one morning. The boys had tracked in some dirt and gravel from outside, and so she was using the vacuum cleaner to clean it up. Immersed in the task at hand, she was taken by surprise when the vacuum suddenly switched itself off. Looking across the room, she could see that the plug was no longer in the socket. It was lying just a couple of inches away from the extension cord that it had been plugged into. Related: Serial Killer Next Door: Herb Baumeister and the Multiple Bodies Unearthed at Fox Hollow Farm Thinking that she had reached the maximum range on the power flex and inadvertently pulled it from the outlet, she went over to plug it back in again, then went back to her vacuuming. The vacuum died again. With an irritated sigh, Vicki plugged the cord back in again. This time, the plug was sitting more than a foot away from the ex- tension cable’s socket… and she could see that the power cable on the vacuum was still slack. There was no way that she had man- aged to pull it out of the socket. What in the world was going on? Vicki is a scientist by profession. Before she came to live at Fox Hollow Farm, she wasn’t one to talk about ghosts and spirits. But try as she might, she was unable to come up with a rational explanation for what had just happened. As so many people tend to do, she shrugged it off as being “just one of those things,” and went back to finishing the vacuuming. Moments later, the power cable flew from the outlet as though it had been given a forceful tug by some kind of invisible force. Vicki was looking right at it when it happened. To say that it startled her would be an understatement. She was being confronted with some kind of phenomenon that absolutely defied explanation. Related: 9 Haunted House Books That Will Leave You Sleeping with One Eye Open As if that weren’t enough, she sensed the presence of something unseen in the room with her. “It felt like someone was there,” she told me afterward, “and I got the strong sense that this invisible someone didn’t want me to be in there with them.” Unbeknownst to either of us, Vicki had just had her first encounter with the ghosts of Fox Hollow Farm. It would not be the last. *** Several months after moving into Fox Hollow Farm, I learned that a coworker named Joe LeBlanc was in need of a new place to live. Having a lot of extra space in the house, which happened to include an apartment situated above the garage, I suggested he take a look to see if it met his requirements. The rooms are roughly 1,200 square feet in size and consist of a bedroom, a kitchen, and an en suite bathroom. They can be accessed from inside the main part of the house itself but, in order to give everybody concerned a little more privacy, could also be entered from outdoors by means of a wooden staircase that ran up the side of the building. Joe ...

Unraveling the Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm