In his book Dark Force, Bill Bean painfully describes in terrifying detail the events that tormented his family. As disturbing as some of the content in Dark Force is, there’s a very powerful message of hope and faith that has affected many readers in a positive way.
Review Dark Force : "Every now and then a book comes along that you just can’t put down. Dark Force is among those books. I have read many true- life stories, but not since reading Jay Anson’s, Amityville Horror has a story stayed in my mind. Hour after hour and day after day".
In his book Dark Force – Bill Bean painfully describes in terrifying detail the paranormal/supernatural events that tormented his family in their Glen Burnie, Maryland home. As disturbing as some of the content in Dark Force is, there’s a very powerful message of hope and faith that has affected many readers in a positive way.
John Singleton [Article in the Pasadena Voice]
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
The eeriest tale of an encounter with the supernatural exists slightly to the north in the community of Harundale.
The story of the Bean family was featured on the Discovery Channels ‘A Haunting’ series. The episode, which aired first in 2006, was entitled ‘The House of the Dead’ and is the most watched episode of the series. For Bill Bean, who was only 4 years old in 1970 when his family moved into the three-bedroom rancher at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, it’s still a painful memory.
“My childhood was essentially robbed by living in that house,” noted Bean, who now lives in Baltimore County. “There was a spirit of evil there that tore apart our family.”
Soon after the family moved in, the back bedroom door began opening and slamming shut over and over again. Bean shared a bedroom with his younger brother, Bobby. They would lie in bed at night and hear what sounded like heavy footsteps in the attic. Later, strange tapping noises from inside the walls would accompany the footsteps. One evening, after a few years in the home, Bean said an invisible force physically attacked him as he lay in bed. The fear and stress induced by the house caused Bill Bean’s sister to run away and his father to abandon the family. Left to face the spirit of evil with only his mother and younger brother, Bill Bean turned to faith and believes that GOD delivered him from evil. Visit his website www.billbean.net and get a copy of his book Dark Force. I highly recommend it!
Professional Reviews
TNW's Review by Tim Kelly
Every now and then a book comes along that you
just can’t put down. Bill Bean’s (William J. Bean, Jr.)
Dark Force book is one of them. After I finished the
last page, I read his harrowing experiences from start
to finish again.
It is painfully unimaginable what his mother, Patricia Bean, went through
during her struggles with demonic forces, her health issues and
supernatural attacks on her husband, William Bean, that pushed the family
to the brink. During the years from 1970 to 1980, Bill’s family became
splintered with his father driven away and his sister leaving at the age of 16
by finding an exit from the terror she endured at their house. This left only
his mother, his younger brother and himself to endure the physical and
mental attacks the entities had in store for them.
Many of you have probably seen Bill’s story on Discovery’s A Haunting. His
story segment is called “House of the Dead.” I can’t emphasize enough for
one to read his written story as compared to the one on A Haunting.
Dark Force is not a lengthy drawn-out story. It is rather a straight-in-your-
face recollection of his youth being torn apart by demons and what he and
his family encountered. This isn’t a story such as The Amityville Horror
where there is only the family and a local parish priest to verify the story;
rather those from his extended family to friends verified what had happened
in his childhood home outside of Baltimore, MD.
Through the power of faith in God his Uncle Cliff bestowed upon him, he
gained the strength to face the evil at a time when he was just entering his
teenage years. Bill Bean shows his God-fearing strength to call upon the
demons and fight them face-to-face.
I have read numerous true-life and fiction stories with the subject being of
the paranormal, but not since reading Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror
book or seeing Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist at the movie theater, has a
story stayed in my mind - hour after hour and day after day.
Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc Twisted Dreams Magazine
In 1970, Bill and his family had their dream come true…they moved to Glen Burnie, Maryland after purchasing a house located in a community called Harundale.
But as for good news…that is about as far as it goes. What the family could not have known…what they could not have imagined, was that the house was already occupied by demonic forces literally hell-bent on ripping them apart.
In Bill’s own words he states, "My family was literally torn apart by an evil force that co-existed among us in that house. The activity began as subtle noises and gradually escalated into violent physical attacks on us by the entities."
Bill makes it no secret that his faith in God is what rescued him from the evil that ripped his once idyllic world to shreds and after facing off the horror one day in 1979 that had engulfed him for so long, the family finally moved…but it was not without a price.
Bill’s mother became very sick while in the house, and began having strokes in her late thirties. Due to high blood pressure she succumbed to kidney failure as well.
What was left of Bill’s family moved in December 1980, resulting in two very sad tragedies that occurred only months after they left.
The passing of Bill’s grandmother Dora A. Harvey on August 3, 1981 left a void in his mother‘s life that she never got over and due to what she‘d already endured, she lost her will to live, and her health rapidly declined. She died on October 5, 1981.
Patricia D. Bean was dead…two months and two days after the passing of her own mother.
It is Bill’s belief that due to the abuse she sustained from the evil entity that swallowed their family in darkness, greatly contributed to her death and I can tell you…after watching this movie, I believe it too.House of The Dead nor the book Dark Force are for children or for those easily upset.
This book will take everything you think you know about the supernatural and turn it upside down.
If you call yourself a true believe in the paranormal…this is one book and movie in particular that you do not wish to miss…
John de Saram Retired UN Diplomat and International Lawyer
t was my wife - a very discerning and selective reader, so "committed to the truth" that novels are not on her list of "must- reads" - who having read the book by Bill Bean which has just been released said emphatically to me " This is a must- read, I was unable to put it down." A few days later, to my own great surprise, as my own "reading-interests" are even more restrictive than my wife’s , I found myself, as I began to glance through and then begin to seriously read the book, even more engaged by the amazing story that was unfolding. It tells of the extraordinarily vivid, unfortunately violent and unwelcome autobiographical experiences, of a young boy (Bill Bean) in a home in the vicinity of Baltimore in the nineteen-seventies; and, most intriguingly, of his experiences of a realm that lies beyond the living. As we know, the eternal human uncertainty is whether after the decease of our "physical selves", there lies "nothingness" or a continuity in some form, in "after-lives", of some aspects of our selves. A subject since the very beginnings of recorded human history appears to have preoccupied the human race, and lies , of course, at the heart of its great religions. And here is Bill Bean who tells us of his experiences of such "after-life" in startingly first-hand vividly descriptive terms. Of course, the essential preconditions for anyone who makes so bold as to tell us of an "after-life experience" and to be regarded with seriousness, are total honesty and total truthfulness. Yet these are preconditions that Bill Bean, who I know to be one of those few, one of those very few, individuals who cannot but speak the truth - obviously fulfils. And it is the telling of his experiences as a child and through the eyes of a child comes a direct and simple and compelling clarity. To turn to other aspects, I found the manner and flow of Bill Bean’s direct and seemingly simple and unentangled, almost at times Hemingwayesque, prose refreshing - inundated as we are with so much of what passes for good writing these days. And amidst his busy schedule, I hope that Bill Bean will find the time to continue his writings perhaps of semi-autobiographical short stories of the various stages of his life and thus to make contribution to the record of the ups and downs of life of an American family in his time. As a final note, I should add that I had noticed, on the few occasions I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Bean, that he is one of those blessed with a remarkably clear, strong and mellow, and well-articulating, "speaking-voice"; and nd it seemed to me that if he could be persuaded to give radio-listeners some " readings" from his book, I for one would find it very pleasantly absorbing at the end of a day.
John de Saram
Retired United Nations, Sri Lankan Diplomat and International Lawyer
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