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It's hungry... and it hasn't eaten in ages... On a hundred acre parcel of land, in Franklin County, VA, right beside Devil's Claw Lake, the midway point between Smith Mountain Lake and Philpot Lake, Ingram Manor sits in the middle of the rolling valley of Foxwood Hill. Built in the 1800s on ancient, forbidden Native American land by Benjamin Ingram, for centuries, it has eaten not just the energy but the souls of those who have lived and died on the expansive acreage and those spirits are trapped in its hellish cage of decay and rot.

Vanishing is a memoir about survival—and the quieter, more dangerous act of disappearing while still alive. Told through a series of intimate, unsparing reflections, the audiobook traces a life shaped by instability, silence, and endurance. From childhood memories marked by fractured family dynamics and unspoken rules, through adulthood spent functioning instead of living, the author charts how survival slowly became a substitute for selfhood.