Interesting book: Gef The Talking Mongoose: The "Eighth Wonder of the World"

Today's book blog is about a strange paranormal book that I recently read called "Gef the Talking Mongoose." It's about a talking mongoose who appeared in 1931 on the Isle of Man, U.K. today's blog is about the book and my thoughts and how I tried to make sense of this! 

MY TAKE- This is a bizarre story about a mongoose who appeared and communicated in English to a family living on the Isle of Man in 1931.  The book is mostly a reprint from a book called "Haunting of Cashen's Gap," originally published in 1936. That reprint  section became tedious after the first 20 pages, because it listed things the mongoose did and said, talked about various people who encountered him, gave views of the family members about the mongoose, and ponderings about what or who the mongoose was.

INCORRECT DEFINITION -  The book keeps calling the mongoose a "poltergeist," which is Incorrect. Poltergeists are emotional energies from a living human that simulate a haunting. The mongoose is supposedly a person who lived and died. In the book, the family wrote down things said by "Gef" the Mongoose. One of the things Gef said was that he was a man who lived in the 1850s in India.  If that's true, then Gef would be an animal somehow possessed by an earthbound ghost. 

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? Since the dead man who claimed to be Gef came from India, it's possible that the living man came from India when it was occupied by the British and returned to the Isle of Man where he died. Then, as an earthbound ghost, wandered until he came across a young mongoose to attach to. It seems odd, though, because ghosts generally don't tend to "possess" people (or animals), but there's no other explanation. 

 
WHERE IS THE ISLE OF MAN? -The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland. It’s known for its rugged coastline, medieval castles and rural landscape, rising to a mountainous center.

ABOUT THE BOOK; 

Gef The Talking Mongoose: The "Eighth Wonder of the World" 

 by Tim R Swartz (Author), Timothy Green Beckley (Author), Hercules Inviticus (Author),

A GENUINE HISTORICAL MYSTERY –A MODERN DAY MONSTER STORY – A TRUE MIRACLE OF NATURE – OF COURSE ANIMALS CAN’T TALK, BUT THIS ONE DID – AND HE DID A LOT MORE!

GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD

He sang songs. * He mimicked other animals and sounds. * He could read minds. * He was able to move objects through the air although he was no where near them. * He chatted with visitors from around the world, sometimes using vulgar language. * But they could not see him, because he said he could become invisible whenever he wanted to.

All the time living in the walls of a remote farmhouse located on the windswept coast of the Isle of Mann.

To the Irvings, especially their teenage daughter, Gef was not a frightening creature but the family’s pet who could feast on biscuits, chocolate and bananas, and helped them keep the stoves lit. But to others he was considered a “monstrosity,” a freak of nature, an abomination of God.

Gef himself seemed confused about his identity. He once said he was from another dimension, that he was a spirit, but took that back by by intimating, “If I were a spirit how could I kill rabbits.?” When quizzed as to why he was so reclusive Gef said he was not a pleasant sight to behold. “I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet and if you saw me you’d faint, you’d be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!”

Overall he said he was not grievous, but warned humans not to irritate him as, “I am not sure what damage or harm I could do if roused. I could kill you all...”

In addition to original material, included is the full text of the 1936 book by psychic researcher Harry Price. Exceedingly rare, copies have been selling for upward of $1,000 among collectors.

For here are other strange stories – such as the talking stove, the Squonk, and the Bell Witch, as presented by Tim R. Swartz and today’s leading investigators of the strange and unknown. This is one of the top Fortean stories of all time. An occult masterpiece. An adventure into the unknown, and the supernormal.