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Title details for The Ghost That Ate Us by Daniel Kraus - Available

The Ghost That Ate Us

The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist

by Daniel Kraus
Kirby Heyborne
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The Ghost that Ate Us is a true crime style mockumentary that details the events leading up to a massacre at a fast food restaurant. Using the backdrop of Jonny, Iowa, a truck stop town in a flyer over state, Kraus explores the many ways forgotten Americans with little money and less prospects can hasten their own doom. At turns darkly absurd and tragically grim this story will have you Googling to make sure nothing like this ever really happened because it just might be crazy enough to be true
You remember the brutal crime, don’t you?
 
Maybe you read about it on Twitter. Maybe a friend sent you a news clip. Maybe you saw it on an episode of Spectral Journeys that night you were flipping through channels, unable to sleep.
 
Maybe after reading the true story, you won’t ever sleep again.
 
On June 1, 2017, six people were killed at a Burger City franchise off I-80 near Jonny, Iowa. It was the bizarre and gruesome conclusion to nine months of alleged paranormal activity at the fast-food joint—events popularly known as “the Burger City Poltergeist.” The story inspired Facebook memes, Twitter hashtags, Buzzfeed listicles, Saturday Night Live sketches, and more. But the case was never much more than a punchline…until bestselling writer Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, The Living Dead) decided to head to Iowa to dig up what really happened.
 
Presented here is the definitive story of “the most exhaustively documented haunting in history,” including—for the first time ever—interviews with every living survivor of the tragedy. The employees of Burger City were a family. They loved one another. At least, at the beginning. But love can make you do unspeakable things.
 

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  • Release date

    July 12, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593669006
      • File size: 405925 KB
      • Duration: 14:05:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from September 1, 2022

      Kraus's (cowriter with Guillermo del Toro of The Shape of Water and Trollhunters) hilarious, creative, and horrifying novel confronts many issues--addiction, brain drain, the encroachment of corporations on small businesses--that cause the death of small towns. On June 1, 2017, six people were murdered at the Burger City franchise in Jonny, Iowa, following a months-long investigation of paranormal activity ("the Burger City Poltergeist") at the restaurant. Kraus has thoroughly investigated the Burger City Poltergeist, providing the only account of the events as told by the survivors. Full of interviews, articles, and footnotes, this account attempts to uncover the reality of one of the most gruesome events in history. Kirby Heybourne provides excellent narration, adding a sense of mystery and intrigue to the story, reminiscent of true-crime documentaries. VERDICT A must-add for horror collections. Fans of Grady Hendrix novels and We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry will love this new mockumentary-style novel.--Elyssa Everling

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Kirby Heyborne takes on this oddly humorous, somewhat macabre tale of murder. The author describes his story of the 2017 massacre of six people in a fast food joint in Jonny, Iowa, as a "true-crime-style mockumentary." Heyborne's matter-of-fact tone sounds journalistic as he describes ghosts and the haunting of the Burger City drive-through, sucking listeners into this unbelievable tale. Heyborne reserves his few tonal shifts for the recitation of newspaper accounts and the interjection of footnotes. He handles the minute details of each employee and victim, as well as the killer, with the utmost seriousness, no matter how bizarre or gruesome. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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