“At the turn of the century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. The diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion–called Rose Red–an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman’s hidden emotional torment, and, most important, a record into the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the time–events that can only fully be understood now that the diary has come to life. Join Dr. Reardon as she prepares to enter the Rimbauers’ Seattle mansion Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history.
Dr. Joyce Reardon has been a professor at the university for 15 years, becoming the Paranormal Studies department chairman in 1999. She holds an undergraduate degree from Beaumont, graduate degrees from City College, and a doctorate in Paranormal Studies from Greenwich University. In 1998, she began researching the mysteries of Rose Red after discovering Ellen Rimbauer’s diary.” – FROM THE BEAUMONT UNIVERSITY WEBSITE
FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS…If ever there was a book that had me enthralled from cover to cover and constantly saying to myself “OMG…WTF” (yes…I’m sorry, my thoughts were quite that profane as I read it and for the sake of some of our viewers I’ve not spelt out the phrases), this was it. Trying to recall the movie I had watched depicted after Stephen King’s version I can’t quite place the two together. While I believe the movie was quite scary, reading the diary was far more dark and it wasn’t that graphic. Chills were felt as I read her (Ellen) diary and imagined the days with her through her life at Rose Red. The thought of one being trapped within their own home to lose all she loved due to a “house’s” jealousy feels so horrendous. And like a mother who could never leave her child she remained in even more pain waiting for her lost daughter to come back to her. I could hardly imagine the horror it must have been to watch things change before one’s eyes as the plants, stain glass window in the tower, and hallways seem to have done.
OK…if you don’t want to be spoiled…don’t read any further. If you do, it’s not my fault as I warned you…
I was so impressed (sounds so odd after reading the tragic events at Rose Red) that I had to read more into it from the Beaumont University Site mentioned in the book where they supposedly (key word here) included some of the deleted diary pages, pictures, and more details of Reardon’s research. If you’d like to read more then you’ll need to visit The Beaumont University’s Paranormal Studies Program pages. But in further reading and going through links looking for those mentioned “deleted entries”, I discovered that many links were going nowhere. I did however get through to the HistoryLink.org site. It’s here that I found out that it was all indeed a “hoax” for this fiction story. Haha at me for actually forgetting I picked up a book of FICTION!! What does that say about the book?! It got me so it was GOOD!! LOL Will it get you?! Hopefully I didn’t kill it too much for your imagination.
Apparently it got to a lot of readers with some getting downright mad. So it duped many. Remember I got “duped” too. Big whoop…in my eyes it means it was a good book!! My thoughts are that books of FICTION are supposed to be entertaining…what do you expect when you find the book in the HORROR section?! Hello… 
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