Chapter 9Giovanna Borelli On a hot July day of 2000, Giovanna was heading towards Genoa's port with her equipment, camera, and tape recorder, for a report on a house where strange presences have been noticed. Spirits, ghosts, angels, or just collective uneasiness? At not even thirty years of age, she was considered one of the most famous journalists in Italy for having specialized in spiritism and paranormal phenomena. For a couple of years now, she had been working for a well-known national monthly magazine, X Totem, with editorial staff in Genoa, which dealt exclusively with these subjects. The editor of the magazine was very satisfied with her work, as she was very skeptical of most of these phenomena and analyzed them scientifically, always managing to unmask tricks and scams. However

