 Radford asked Belanger about the contradictions, his responses was "'I don't offer these accounts up as proof of anything.I'm simply passing on what I've learned and heard along the way and I'm trying to do it in an entertaining way'".In the notes section of Radford's book, he states that he was told by Belanger that he (Radford) is the first to "call his attention to the contradictions and ambiguities in his account of Sarah Ann" calling Radford to write, "scientific investigation requires that information about hauntings and ghost reports be taken literally - not metaphorically, figuratively, or in any other way".