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

I had read about this talking mongoose in several books when I was a child wanting to know about strange things and ghosts when all we had was public libraries to search. What i read then was presented as fact.I was happy to learn many details of the story I had not known, but the story left me with the idea that the authors were dismissing the story as poltergeist activity. I do not remember the authors of the 'strange but true' story collections of my childhood calling this story that. My memory may be faulty, but it seems more like the number of writers publishing books today on this, have decided as group that is more likely than being just an animal that talked. I got the book as kindle, and will go back and reread it when i am up to doing so. As it stands, i more admired the older authors who could tell about an event without having to come up with theories that spoiled the mystery for me.

I couldn't put this book down! I kept trying to figure out who or what Gef was and every time I thought I had it ... I didn't. I loved the recounting of this story with the interviews done at the time and the records kept by the family. it's not your run of the mill haunting or poltergeist encounter and you can't pigeon hole it because its one of a kind. The story is told bu a gifted writer interweaving correspondence with those involved in this 1931 to 1934 experience. This is the kind of story that keeps you awake at night trying to figure it all out, and it remains a mystery to this day ... and a real good one. This is a great book for anyone who likes a good mystery, Mr Swartz has an engaging writing style and the ability to put you right into the middle of the story he is relating. You feel and empathize with the family and even Gef as well as those trying to understand what is unfolding in the isolated farm house on that wind swept island. A great read, entertaining and informative and well worth reading more than once.

Great read! Gef the talking mongoose is one of the strangest stories in paranormal history and this book is the essential source for anyone interested in the subject. Highly recommend!

This is a terrible (and legally dubious) reprint of Price and Lambert's original 1930s book. The supplementary material is atrocious, poorly-researched bilge. The whole enterprise stinks of opportunism.

The majority of this book is basically a very poor quality, print-on-demand pirated version of Harry Price and R.S. Lambert’s The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap. The remaining 25% consists of material awash with poor spelling and grammatical errors that appears to have been taken from elsewhere.If R.S. Lambert’s family ever hear about this 'publication', they will doubtless be disappointed to see his own witty, elegant chapters (as a former editor of The Listener, Lambert was a fine prose stylist) sandwiched between mangled, incoherent verbiage. And in such a cheap and nasty paperback edition too!I haven't decided whether to return it for a full refund, which by rights I probably should, or to hold it back as emergency lavatory paper in the event of a hard Brexit.