Can Strong and Kamil work together to stop these evil doings? However, a dark part of his past from his African roots is brought to bear.

At first a suspect in the crimes, Kamil proves to be innocent. When Sean and Kamil's paths cross, events become more strange. When more young women in the community fall victim to a serial murder rapist, Strong is there to cover the story.

His loss of his sister to suicide after being raped has led him to alcoholism to bury his pain and guilt. Sean Strong is a newspaper reporter in the same town. But for now, the frightening prospect of a soul eating entity pervades a number of cultures as a folklore figure, found among African peoples, including the Hausa from Nigeria and Niger, and the tribes of the Mount Hagen area of Papua New Guinea.Kamil Brou's life will be forever changed after witnessing the murder of his best friend. This raises the question of whether a soul can travel someplace else, before writers of science fiction can take a further leap to ponder whether it can be removed - or even consumed. The self awareness “energy” representative of the soul persists elsewhere in this vision of a “multiverse'. A branch of science that argues for the existence of an infinite number of universes (within which, anything that can happen, will) it proposes that death does not exist in any real sense. The popularised figure of 21 grams emerged based on the results taken from his first subjectįast forward to the 21st century and the soul finds its way back onto the agenda by way of Dr. Although his work was later considered to be flawed, the legacy of MacDougall's experiments lives on in the 2003 film, which takes its name from this measurement. The popularised figure of 21 grams emerged based on the results taken from his first subject. He concluded that there was a notable drop in their weight on each occasion. In an attempt to prove it held measurable mass, he conducted a series of experiments by positioning a number of terminally ill patients on a bed fitted with finely balanced scales, and then monitoring them through to death. Duncan MacDougall aimed to go one step further. That's not to say there have not been radical attempts to uncover it. Mainstream scientific investigation into the soul has been limited, with a tendency to understand the concept as a product of the mind and therefore inseparable from neuroscience. Indeed, many cultures have attributed its presence in all living things, and not just human beings, in the form of animism. But just how far back does our fascination with this essence of humanity stretch - and what evidence is there for its existence?Ī belief in the soul as something separate to the body had its origins in pre-history before it took a central role in religion and philosophy. The murderous antagonist in my horror novel, Soul Lifter, is obsessed with the souls of his victims.

Soul Lifter by Martin Murphy