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Subjects of Interest:
Candle Face Chronicles
The Lost Souls
May 6, 2024
Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One] is now available on Amazon. My investigation into the origins of Candle Face, the menacing entity from my childhood, began in October 2023. Within a month, her victims were reaching out to me for assistance. You might wonder why they chose me. I suspect it’s due to my personal history with Candle Face and my writing skills, enabling me to transform their haunting experiences into stories that captivate and mobilize the public. Although my background in intelligence analysis, missing persons, and human trafficking laid a strong foundation, I sought the expertise of paranormal professionals to decipher the cryptic messages from these spirits. I’ve engaged with numerous paranormal investigators, psychics, and mediums nationwide. While some focus on less menacing activities like chasing orbs and posting grainy and blurry ghost images—often just illusions of pareidolia, it’s crucial to recognize the invaluable efforts of the paranormal community. Many of those deeply committed to the field work tirelessly, often facing significant personal risk, to bring clarity and resolution to those plagued by unexplained phenomena.
However, I’m faced with the daunting challenge of Candle Face, so I’m now turning to a broader audience: those who, despite their fears, are eager to turn the next page and investigate deeper into the paranormal.
Calling all enthusiasts of paranormal stories and mysteries! Don your Sherlock Holmes hats, secure your copy of Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One], and join me in the crucial fight to liberate these tormented souls from Candle Face’s clutches. Together, we can unravel these dark mysteries and restore peace.
While you can explore most of The Lost Souls [Book One] directly on our website at www.branchingplotbooks.com, purchasing the Kindle eBook or the upcoming paperback and hardcopy editions offers the tangible pleasure of owning a copy. For fellow readers, there’s nothing like the aroma of a book paired with a cup of coffee. More importantly, your purchase funds further research and travel to suspected murder and burial sites linked to Candle Face, enabling deeper investigations and the possibility of resolving these mysteries. Each purchase is a crucial contribution towards unveiling the truth behind Candle Face and bringing solace to the lost souls.
By acquiring the book, you’re not just getting a thrilling read; you’re actively joining a quest for truth and justice. Your purchase is more than a transaction; it's a crucial contribution towards continuing the exploration and ensuring no stone goes unturned. Your engagement and support make a profound difference in our journey to document and solve this mystery. Together, we can make history by freeing the lost souls held captive by Candle Face.
Readers have historically played a pivotal role in solving complex mysteries, both fictional and real. The collective insight of an engaged audience can be incredibly powerful. Historically, public assistance has helped unravel complicated cases, such as the capture of the Golden State Killer, propelled by renewed interest following true crime books and documentaries. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was influenced by the countless letters from fans theorizing about Sherlock Holmes.
In today’s digital age, online communities and social media platforms continue this tradition, often unearthing new perspectives that professional investigators may overlook. By engaging with Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One], your insights could lead to breakthroughs, drawing us closer to understanding the true story of Candle Face and potentially unearthing new evidence. Your active participation is key to unlocking these secrets and bringing peace to the souls trapped in Candle Face’s hell. Your involvement extends beyond reading; it contributes to a collective effort to solve one of the darkest mysteries of our time. Join us, and let’s make history together by freeing the lost souls held captive by Candle Face.
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Is Candle Face real?
This is a complex and deeply personal question. On the one hand, there's the possibility that Candle Face is a manifestation of my childhood trauma, a figure created by my mind to cope with fear and emotional turmoil. On the other hand, the consistent details, physical evidence, and shared experiences with others suggest that Candle Face may be a genuine supernatural entity. Whether Candle Face is real or a creation of my psyche, her impact on my life has been undeniably profound. Ultimately, the answer to this question is up to you.
How are you able to communicate with the dead? Are you a psychic or medium?
I don’t consider myself a psychic or medium, although many in the paranormal community believe I have some kind of gift, perhaps one that I haven’t fully tapped into yet. Unlike those who claim to communicate with any spirit, my ability seems limited to connecting with Candle Face’s victims and Candle Face herself. While I’m not sure how this works, the connection is strong and focused on these particular Lost Souls, allowing me to share their stories and seek justice for them.
Do you use AI to create your content?
From October 2023 to around March 2024, I personally wrote the short descriptions you see on Google and social media platforms when my web pages or journal entries are shared or found in search results. These descriptions are those brief, 160-character summaries that pop up beside the URL. It was challenging to condense complex ideas into such a small space.
By March 2024, I began letting Wix, my website host, handle this task for me. Their AI generates these summaries much faster and often with more precision than I could manage within that tight character limit. It was a practical decision to let the system take over this small aspect of my work, allowing me to focus more on my writing and investigations.
The web pages and journal entries themselves are entirely my own. My writing encompasses a wide range of topics, including the testimonies of the Lost Souls, my investigations into Candle Face/Isabel, my books like Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona and The Haunted Handbook, as well as other works and research. Everything I write is rooted in my decades of experience in writing (over ten books in 15 years) and my 30+ years of expertise in intelligence analysis, missing persons cases, and human trafficking investigations. The core content you read always comes from me.
By early March 2025, I decided to create a Shopify account to sell copies of Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona, The Haunted Handbook, and to look for caretakers for The Scrolls of Souls. It was a tremendous amount of work to manually transfer all 130 journal entries from Wix to Shopify and recreate the Google SEO titles and descriptions for each entry. Shopify’s blogging platform also required a summary for each journal entry. Summarizing my work was taking around 30 minutes per entry, which became overwhelming and unsustainable.
To streamline the process, I allowed AI to create the summaries for me by uploading each journal entry and letting the AI generate the SEO descriptions, summaries, and ALT text for images. Here's a clear breakdown of what is AI-generated:
- Some journal entry titles.
- Nearly all SEO journal descriptions (up to 160 characters).
- Nearly all summaries (which are only available in the backend and not visible to the public).
Everything else you read comes from me, whether it’s documenting testimonies from the Lost Souls, researching Candle Face/Isabel, or writing my books. The AI simply handles the tedious, mechanical parts of the process, leaving the writing, storytelling, and investigations entirely in my hands.
I review all AI-generated summaries and descriptions to ensure they accurately represent the essence of my writing. My decision to use AI for these backend tasks is about maintaining efficiency and allowing me to focus on what truly matters: writing, storytelling, investigations, and giving voice to the Lost Souls, protecting the Fugitives, investigating Candle Face/Isabel, and exploring new projects. Your experience as a reader is shaped by my work, not by AI.
Why did you end the podcast?
I decided to cancel the Candle Face Chronicles Podcast for two key reasons. First, while the Get Haunted Network is a fantastic community for paranormal entertainment, it wasn't the right fit for the serious and important nature of my work with Candle Face Chronicles. The network's lighthearted tone didn’t align with my mission.
Second, the friends and family of one of Candle Face's victims reached out and asked me to stop discussing their loved one on the podcast because it was causing them too much pain. Their request made me realize that my work, while well-intentioned, was unintentionally hurting those who are still living and grieving.
These reasons led me to end the podcast, but I remain committed to continuing my mission to uncover Candle Face’s origins and methods with a renewed focus on compassion and respect for the living.
Why did you stop using www.candleface.com and start using www.branchingplotbooks.com?
I have had the branchingplotbooks.com domain since 2012, but I transferred the domain to Shopify to use it as my storefront. I needed to do this because Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona can't be published or sold via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing because of its spiral binding requirement. The same goes for The Haunted Handbook.
I decided to sell them, along with most of my other books, on Shopify because it allows me to provide a more streamlined and reliable experience for my readers. It also enables me to have full control over my work and how it reaches my audience. Additionally, all my books are still available on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), except for Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona and The Haunted Handbook due to their unique binding requirements.
I also chose to use Shopify’s blogging platform, keeping all books, my journal, and the shopping experience located in one place.
I plan on keeping www.candleface.com up for the interim, but it will likely go down as well, or at least be redirected to www.branchingplotbooks.com. In the end, I want my work to be more streamlined and easier for the paranormal community and my readers to find my work, read and help the lost souls, protect the fugitives, and care for the Scrolls of Souls.
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