Dark Force is a true life testimony of the trauma that the Bean Family endured from the eyes of a young Bill Bean. Written by Bill himself and including intimate Bean family photos, Dark Force is the story of how Bill and his family finally escaped and overcame an unspeakable terror. It is the Bean families story of trial and faith, and how that they faced horrors which according to many could not possibly be real, but yet they are too real, and continue to haunt Bill Bean to this day.

"Dark Force" transcends the normal Haunted house story and brings you in the perspective of true events through the firsthand accounts from the author. The Bean family, your typical nuclear family living in 1970 America; fulfill the American Dream by buying a home in the suburban town of Glen Burnie, Maryland. Bill Bean Sr. is proud of this home, and has aspirations to make it his own. Something else had its own plans for the family. His wife Patricia starts to experience strange feelings, and daughter Patti knows something is wrong with this house. Soon, what started as noises in the attic become physical attacks on family members, Patricia, Patti, and young Billy Jr. Even the dogs are not spared. The Bean family soon becomes oppressed by the emotional and physical attacks and they begin to break. Something sinister lurks in what was the perfect home. That something wants them dead. "Dark Force" follows the story of the Bean Family tragedy, through the despair and eventual triumph over evil. However, every victory has a price. The Bean family pays heavily. William Bean crafts an outstanding story, very descriptive and so emotional that he will have you glued from Introduction to ending. Never have I read a book that is so disturbing in such a way that makes you almost afraid to turn the next page. In the End, what it really shows is that by having faith in God, you can make it through the toughest times and ready to face your worst of fears. "Dark Force" is a must for anyone with an interest in the paranormal, a religious reader, or someone who just enjoys a good book. Its vast appeal makes it a must have for any collection. You must READ THIS BOOK.

-Sean Forker, Host/Producer, Beyond the Edge Radio

Dark Force is a book which at first glance comes across as a ghost story when in reality it is a story of the human spirit. William Bean takes us through a fright filled journey of truth and terror while at the same time allowing us to peer inside his soul and see the spark of the divine within.

This is a tale of a house filled with negative energy and a family forced to face not only evil entities but numerous personal tragedies as well. William's mother is a focal point in the story as her courage and determination are inspiring. You can sense the beauty of a mothers love when Bill speaks of her. Throughout her struggles she sought to create a nurturing environment for her children. Heroes are hard to come by these days and in Dark Force we are given a glimpse of life's greatest heroes - Mothers.

Dark Force is an authentic story of one family's battle with evil. It is an emotional journey of spirit that takes us through abuse, alcoholism, terror and death. Yet through it all there is an underlying spirit of hope. I was impressed with the sacred womb of love that existed between mother and child. William Bean has created something that like a tree from a seed will continue to grow and bear fruit. All who read this should realize that positive energy is always stronger than negative energy and that it is ones belief that is the key.

William J. Bean Jr. should be commended for having the courage to bear his soul for all the world to see. There are those who will criticize, those who will ridicule and those who will seek to diminish the impact of this book but they are the few. The truth is that this is a story that can help all those suffering from similar circumstance. With honesty and integrity William has explored his hearts purest depths and shown us that the boundless waters of spirit can take us from the darkness into the light.

Many will see the darkness in this book - I see the Light!

-Micheal Teal, Author/Poet

As there are many stories portraying the good there are perhaps just as many quite the opposite. In 'Dark Force' you will learn of a family who encountered such negative entities that it changed their lives forever. They came away with a positive message which I feel is crucial to these types of cases. It is ultimately our choice at the end of the day what to do with the negative around us. It is all subjective however; I firmly believe we are here to learn and must come away learning how to cope and move forward from such an experience. In turn, Bill and his terrifying story will engross you from its own fear; at the same time will enlighten you because of that same fear. There exists today a compilation of cases such as Bill's and this one truly pushes away the negativity pulling the reader out of the dark and literally into the light. We are all the same but our fated paths are a mix of predestined happenings, self control and awareness that further propels what direction our souls will go in. How we live our life can and does affect what 'Dark Force' surrounds us everyday. Learn from this case and take away from it the positives which are your key to survival in a situation such as the author's.

-Alexandra Holzer, Author and Paranormalist

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.

-Tim Kelly, TNW Paranomal Research and Investigations

I am not one who reads. I have very little time with a teenage son and the hours I work. I was approached by Mr. Bean and asked to review the book. I read the book in 2 days. I was left speechless, stunned and heart broken for the Bean family and the tragedy they survived. This story is very easy to read and well told. It summarizes the events that took place in a small house in Maryland with one family's battle with four evil entities. Their story will make you believe that pure evil does exist and it did in that small Maryland home. Only their strength in one another, their faith and their mother's determination kept the family from being completely destroyed. This is one family's sad story of a decade of horror and tragedy that will leave you speechless and shocked. This is a book that you must purchase because there is a very powerful message in the book to learn from. That message is one of tragedy being over come by one man and his sibling's final triumph through faith and belief in God. Pick up a copy today and do not read this book alone in the dark!

-Eric Altman, Co-Host, Beyond the Edge Radio

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…

-Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc, Twisted Dreams Magazine

It 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 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 startlingly 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 UN Diplomat and International Lawyer