When The Footsteps Stop

What would you do if you saw or heard things no one else could explain? What if something attached itself to you? Who would you turn to? Would they believe you? Would you ever feel safe? And how do you make peace with a world that never quite makes sense?

That is the reality for Paul R. Ost.

This deeply personal memoir goes far beyond the proverbial bumps in the night. It follows a seemingly ordinary boy growing up in America's heartland, shadowed by unexplained paranormal phenomena. But the mystery doesn't fade with age;-it intensifies. As Ost comes of age and comes out during the height of the AIDS epidemic, two invisible struggles begin to overlap: the haunting he cannot escape, and a society that refuses to see him.

Told through journals, datebooks, personal memories, and corroborated stories from family and friends, 'When the Footsteps Stop' is a compelling, chilling account of a life shaped by both the unseen and the unspoken.

Join Ost and his nephew, Alexander J. Kirkland, as they seek answers to decades of unrelenting paranormal encounters.

They followed him through childhood, through crisis, and through every chapter of his life. But the question still lingers: what comes...

WHEN THE FOOTSTEPS STOP