Joe Heino
Author of the ghost story
SEAMLESS Author of the ghost story
Story Background
As a child, my grandfather told a story about his twin brother. It was an interesting story, but also a scary one, particularly for an impressionable youngster as I was at the time.
As he told it, he and his twin were about 19 years old when, one day, his brother fell ill. His parents left him to tend to the remaining chores for the day and headed to the hospital with his brother. The farm that they lived on at the time is shown in the photograph below.
My grandfather waited long into the night for them to return. It was a little after two in the morning when he decided that he could no longer wait for them. He decided to go to bed. But before he did, he took one last look out the window of his parents' bedroom window. He saw a light in the distance, most likely the headlights of a truck. As the light drew closer, it was apparent that this was a single light, most likely a truck with a burned-out headlight. As the light drew closer, it lifted off the road and shot over the farm house.
The next day, my grandfather received a telephone call from his parents, to tell him the unthinkable. His brother had died the night before, precisely at the time the light had appeared to him. Coincidence? Probably not.
That event, and a related event that was experienced by my grandfather's older sister that same night (and several hundred miles to the south, in Chicago), was the inspiration for the book SEAMLESS. The book starts with this story and carefully explores the unsettling possibility of inter-dimensional contact.
In the story, the mysterious light seen by John Keller is "seamlessly" accompanied by a dark presence. What the presence is, and where it came from, are questions that will haunt members of the Keller family for decades. Those questions will be answered, but only after Keller's son and grandson embark on a desperate search to find the "key" as to why the presence entered their world and how they can rid themselves of it - forever.
I hope you enjoy reading SEAMLESS. But, I do caution you. Do so with the door locked and the lights on.
As he told it, he and his twin were about 19 years old when, one day, his brother fell ill. His parents left him to tend to the remaining chores for the day and headed to the hospital with his brother. The farm that they lived on at the time is shown in the photograph below.
My grandfather waited long into the night for them to return. It was a little after two in the morning when he decided that he could no longer wait for them. He decided to go to bed. But before he did, he took one last look out the window of his parents' bedroom window. He saw a light in the distance, most likely the headlights of a truck. As the light drew closer, it was apparent that this was a single light, most likely a truck with a burned-out headlight. As the light drew closer, it lifted off the road and shot over the farm house.
The next day, my grandfather received a telephone call from his parents, to tell him the unthinkable. His brother had died the night before, precisely at the time the light had appeared to him. Coincidence? Probably not.
That event, and a related event that was experienced by my grandfather's older sister that same night (and several hundred miles to the south, in Chicago), was the inspiration for the book SEAMLESS. The book starts with this story and carefully explores the unsettling possibility of inter-dimensional contact.
In the story, the mysterious light seen by John Keller is "seamlessly" accompanied by a dark presence. What the presence is, and where it came from, are questions that will haunt members of the Keller family for decades. Those questions will be answered, but only after Keller's son and grandson embark on a desperate search to find the "key" as to why the presence entered their world and how they can rid themselves of it - forever.
I hope you enjoy reading SEAMLESS. But, I do caution you. Do so with the door locked and the lights on.
