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The name of unexplained rappings, noises, and similar disturbances. The term poltergeist ( Polter Geist, or rattling ghost) is indicative of the character of these "beings." It is believed poltergeists rarely cause serious physical injury, but can cause much damage by breaking fragile objects and occasionally setting fire to pieces of furniture or clothing. Supposedly a person may be pulled out of bed or levitated.

Most psychic manifestations require darkness, but poltergeists act in daylight. However, the movement of objects usually happens when no one is looking. One frequently reported claim is that objects rose or fell through the air slowly. Otherwise objects are often seen in flight but seldom beginning to move.

In the late nineteenth century, to explain the crashing noises that occurred such as the sounds of breaking crockery later found intact, Adolphe d'Assier advanced a theory in his book Posthumous Humanity (1887). He suggested inanimate objects also possess a double, a phantasmal image and it is the duplicate that is flung by the poltergeist. D'Assier stated the sum of motion a moving body possesses is found by multiplying the mass of the moving body by its velocity and its live force at the moment of fall is equal to half the bulk by the square of velocity. D'Assier's theory was discarded.

Reportedly, Italian psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano collected statistics on hauntings and claimed that out of 532 cases, 374 were ghostly manifestations and 158 were poltergeists.

Historical Poltergeists

Supposedly the poltergeist is not indigenous to any one country or any particular period. Author Andrew Lang claimed several cases belonging to the Middle Ages and at least one dates back to 856 B.C.E. In different cultures around the world, the reported phenomena are similar regardless of the country of origin.

Believers claim the disturbances are particularly active in the neighborhood of one person, generally a child, a young woman, an epileptic, or a hysterical subject. According to the theory advanced by Spiritualists, the center of the disturbances is a natural medium, through whom the spirits desire to communicate with the world of living beings. In earlier times, such a person might be regarded as a witch, the victim of a sorcerer, or even an evil spirit. Some believe the poltergeist developed out of witchcraft and is a direct forerunner of modern Spiritualism, possibly a link between the two.

Amongst the earliest poltergeist cases recorded were those of the Drummer of Tedworth (1661) and the Epworth Phenomena (1716). Supposedly the case of the Drummer of Tedworth began in 1661. A vagrant drummer was taken before a justice of the peace and deprived of his drum. The instrument was found in the house of Mr. Mompesson. Later, disturbances broke out in the house. Loud knockings and thumpings and the beating of an invisible drum were heard. Articles flew around the rooms and the beds (particularly those of the children) were shaken. After the drummer was sentenced to leave the manifestations ceased, but reoccurred when he returned.

Contemporary opinion classified the case as witchcraft by the drummer. Modern psychical researchers such as Frank Podmore believe the "two little modest girls in the bed" were responsible for the knockings and scratchings of the poltergeist rather than the drummer.

In the Epworth case, the family of the Reverend Samuel Wesley (father of Methodist founder John Wesley) reportedly described levitations, loud noises, and rappings, together with apparitions such as rabbits and badgers. Podmore was of the opinion that Hetty, one of John's sisters, was in some way responsible for the disturbances. Hetty did not give an individual account of the manifestations.

Poltergeists Around the World

Supposedly in Germany, Justinus Kerner recorded a poltergeist case in his book The Seeress of Prevorst (1845) that occurred in 1806-07 in the Castle of Slawensik, Silesia.

In Italy, the newspaper La Stampa of Turin claimed on November 19, 1900, poltergeist occurrences in a wine and spirit shop. Cesare Lombroso investigated the case and wrote:

"I went into the cellar, at first in complete darkness, and heard a noise of broken glasses and bottles rolled at my feet. The bottles were ranged in six compartments one above another. In the middle was a rough table on which I had six lighted candles placed, supposing that the spirit phenomena would cease in the bright light. But, on the contrary, I saw three empty bottles, standing on the ground, roll as though pushed by a finger, and break near the table. To obviate any possible trick, I felt and carefully examined by the light of a candle all the full bottles which were on the racks, and assured myself that there was no cord or string which could explain their movements. After a few minutes first two, then four, then two other bottles on the second and third racks detached themselves and fell to the ground, not suddenly but as though carried by someone; and after their descent, rather than fall, six of them broke on the wet floor, already soaked with wine; only two remained whole. Then at the moment of leaving the cellar, just as I was going out, I heard another bottle break."

In America, reportedly in 1850, disturbances occurred in the house of the Reverend Eliakim Phelps at Stratford, Connecticut. Twelve-year-old Harry Phelps was put in a water cistern and suspended from a tree. Mrs. Phelps was often pinched and pricked, and once, from a vacant room, a bottle of ink was thrown at her white dress.

The story known as "The Great Amherst Mystery" (after the 1888 book by Walter Hubbell) occurred between 1878-79 at Amherst, Nova Scotia, in the Teed family. The phenomena centered around Esther Cox, a sister of Mrs. Teed. A cardboard box, moving beneath the bed of its own accord, was the first manifestation. The next night Cox's body began to swell to an abnormal size. Soon after, a noise, "like a peal of thunder" woke everyone in the house.

Supposedly the bedclothes flew off Cox's bed, night after night; an invisible hand wrote in the plaster: "Esther Cox, you are mine to kill." Cold water on the kitchen table bubbled and hissed like boiling water, yet its temperature remained unaffected; and a voice announced the house would be set on fire and for many days lighted matches were seen falling from the ceiling on the bed.

The spirit communicated by raps, and said he was an evil spirit bent on mischief and would torment Esther until she died. Things became so bad that Esther left. In the house of a friend, Mr. White, for a month everything was quiet. One day, while Esther was scrubbing the hall floor, the brush suddenly disappeared from under her hand. A few moments later, it fell from the ceiling. The spirit was heard to walk about the house, banged the doors, attempted to set the house on fire, stabbed Esther in the back with a knife, and piled up seven chairs in the parlor and pulled one out near the bottom allowing them to fall with a crash. This lasted for nearly a year.

Walter Hubbell, the actor, was supposedly a witness. In 1907, the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington interviewed some of the surviving witnesses at Amherst. The testimonies he gathered confirmed Hubbell's narrative.

The Staus Poltergeist

One case occurred in the home of the Joller family in Switzerland. In 1860-62, disturbances broke out in Staus, in the home of Mr. Joller, a lawyer. Knocks were first heard by a maid, who also claimed she was haunted by grey shapes and the sound of sobbing. In the autumn of 1861, she was dismissed and another maid hired.

In the summer of 1862 the disturbances began again. Joller's wife and his seven children claimed to have heard and seen many sights and sounds, though Joller remained skeptical. After a while he was convinced that neither trickery nor imagination would suffice as an explanation of the phenomena. Meanwhile the manifestations appeared before thousands who were attracted by stories of the phenomena circulating around town. The Land-Captain Zelger, the Director of Police Jaun, the President of the Court of Justice, and other people arrived to investigate the disturbances and some suggested a commission be appointed to examine the house.

Three of the police were to conduct a formal inquiry. They demanded the withdrawal of Joller and his family, and remained in the house for six days without witnessing anything abnormal. They drew up a report to this effect. However, after the Joller family returned to their home, the interruptions were renewed. Joller became the butt of ridicule and jokes and finally left his ancestral home.

Poltergeist Fires

Alexander Aksakof described several instances of poltergeist fires in his book Animisme et Spiritisme (1906). One occurred in 1870, at the country house of a Mr. Shcnapoff, near Orenburg, Russia and was investigated by various locals. It seems that Mrs. Shcnapoff was the medium in this case. When she was sent away from the house, the phenomena ceased. On one occasion a bluish phosphorescent spark was seen flying through the air, bursting a cotton dress into flames in her bedroom. Another time the dress she was wearing caught fire. In extinguishing it her husband was severely burned, yet she suffered no injury.

Sporadically, events were claimed to have occurred to justify the Russian belief in the "domovoy," the Slavic house elf who performs various domestic duties during the night and watches over the sleeping household. The Shcnapoff case is similar to the Morell Theobald case where the poltergeist obligingly lit the kitchen fires. An even more domesticated poltergeist was recorded by J. A. Gridley in his book Astounding Facts from the Spirit World (1854). He wrote that on one occasion the breakfast table was laid by spirit agency.

Stone Throwing

The medieval Annales Fuldenses includes a chronicle of stone throwing approximately 858 C.E. in the town of Bingen on the Rhine. It was believed stones were thrown by a malignant spirit, and they struck dwelling walls.

Joseph Glanvill in his study Sadducismus Triumphatus (1681), recorded the witch trial of Mary London. She was a servant girl who, in addition to vomiting pins, had stones flung at her. The stones vanished after falling on the ground.

Poltergeists in the 1900s

In the early period of the Society for Psychical Research, London, opinions about poltergeist phenomena were dominated by the skeptical theories of Frank Podmore, but an alternative view was presented by Sir William Barrett in 1911. Amongst reported cases, Barrett investigated one at Derrygonnelly, in Ireland, where he claimed the phenomena had intelligence. Four times he got answers to numbers that he mentally asked.

In 1926, a Romanian peasant girl, was brought to London by psychical researcher Harry Price to London, and studied at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research for more than three weeks. The girl exhibited stigmata. Poltergeists stuck pins and needles into her body. Objects wandered around the room when she was in it. Reportedly no fraud was detected.

Hereward Carrington investigated the Windsor Poltergeist case involving a haunted town. Many of the Windsor residents conspired to play a prank on an old judge to mock his belief in Spiritualism. Carrington's account of the hoax was published in his book Personal Experiences in Spiritualism (1918, pp. 112-24). As is the case with many believers confronted with evidence of having been defrauded the judge refused to accept Carrington's explanation and insisted the manifestations were genuine.

One of the most interesting things about poltergeist phenomena is that in modern times, when there has been a marked decline in the physical phenomena of mediumship (most of which was fraudulently produced by tricks that will no longer work), poltergeists (not the product of fraud) continue to be reported, and many have been accessible to parapsychologists with modern monitoring equipment.

In Germany, the Institut fr Grenzgebiete der Psychologie (Institute for Border Areas of Psychology) under the direction of Dr. Hans Bender has studied 35 cases of poltergeists since World War II. Of these, the Rosenheim Case, 1967-68, attracted the most attention. In a lawyer's office in Rosenheim, Bavaria electric lamp bulbs exploded, neon tubes continually went out, fuses blew, photostatic copying machines did not work, telephones rang or conversations were cut off unaccountably, and sharp bangs were reported. The focus of these events seemed to be Annemarie Sch., a nineteen-year-old employee. The disturbances ceased when she left the office, although witnesses claimed further events took place in her new office.

In Britain in 1977, the Enfield Poltergeist attracted wide attention. The poltergeist effects reportedly appeared in-house in the North London suburb of Enfield and focused its activity around the Hodgson family, Peggy Hodgson and her four children. Events recorded included inexplicable movements of objects, often flying through the air, levitation and transportation of one of the children, and noisy knockings. The case was investigated by members of the Society for Psychical Research, and author Guy Lyon Playfair who published a book on the phenomena.

In the United States, parapsychologist William G. Roll of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, made poltergeists one of his specializations following his initial investigation of the Seaford Poltergeist of Long Island in 1958, when disturbances took place in the family of Mr. and Mrs. James Herrmann and their two children. Bottles were uncapped and the contents spilled, and toys were broken, in addition to the usual noises and movement of objects. Roll's monograph, The Poltergeist (1976), summarized the parapsychological aspects of the subject.

Sources:

Barrett, Sir William. "Poltergeists, Old and New." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 25, no. 64 (August 1911).

Bell, Charles Bailey. A Mysterious Spirit. N.p., 1934.

Bell, Charles Bailey, and Harriet Parks Miller. Bell Witch of Tennessee. Reprint, Nashville, Tenn.: C. Elder, 1972.

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Bender, Hans. "Modern Poltergeist ResearchA Plea for an Unprejudiced Approach." In New Directions in Parapsychology, edited by John Beloff. London: Paul Elek (Scientific Books), 1974. Reprint, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975.

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Carrington, Hereward, and Nandor Fodor. Haunted People; Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951. Reprinted as The Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries. London: Rider, 1953.

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Lang, Andrew. Cock Lane and Common-Sense. London: Longmans Green, 1896.

Owen, A. R. G. Can We Explain the Poltergeist? New York: Helix Press, 1964.

Playfair, Guy Lyon. This House is Haunted; An Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist London: Souvenir Press, 1980.

Price, Harry. "Same Account of the Poltergeist Phenomena of Eleonore Zgun." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (August 1926).

Richat, Charles. Thirty Years of Psychical Research. New York: Macmillan, 1923. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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Thurston, Herbert. Ghosts and Poltergeists. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1954.

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The name of unexplained rappings, noises, and similar disturbances. The term poltergeist ( Polter Geist, or rattling ghost) is indicative of the character of these "beings." It is believed poltergeists rarely cause serious physical injury, but can cause much damage by breaking fragile objects and occasionally setting fire to pieces of furniture or clothing.

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In this image you can see objects that are flying through the air or getting thrown across the room. The chair looks like it is falling or being pushed over from an unseen force, and some object is falling off a shelf from a top cabinet. As you can see all these things are happening all around the same times and the invisible being seems to be very aggressive. For a reason of belief, I think this image could connect with agenticity. I think that people are trying to think how this is happening and assign meaning or intention of an invisible being that is able to use force and move or throw things around a room so violently, in this case that invisible being is poltergeists that is doing all these things. I think the motivation of this source is to show people and make them believe that this is true and is happing in some places and just wants other to be aware.

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In this video things on a side table seem to get thrown or dragged off in a row and there is a floating shadowed orb in front of the side table. This shadow then disappears and the closet door opens by itself, some more things get dragged off the table and the seems to be a voice in the background. For a red flag, I think this image could connect with red herring. I think this video was faked, it seems set up and everything that was knocked down was in a single file and went down one by one. If you look really closely you can see clear strings attached to the objects that had fallen off the table and are shined on from the table lamp. The dark shadow that appeared looks very edited and unnatural, and could have been put there to try and cover up the evidence of the stings. I think this video could have been made to get more views, the more views or likes you get on a YouTube video you could receive money from them, the tile of the video leads you to believe there is a real poltergeist sighting on video but to come across something that was set up by a person, “false advisement”.

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In folklore and the paranormal, a poltergeist is the apparent manifestation of an invisible but noisy, disruptive or destructive entity. Most accounts of poltergeist manifestations involve noises and destruction that have no apparent cause.

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In this image, it seems that there are ghosts that decide to come out and wreak havoc in the empty office, opening filling cabinets and throwing papers from them and across the room a desk in an office. At one point the office door was shown opening in a video and was slammed shut by an invisible force. For a reason of belief, I think this image could connect with Agenticity. I think that people give meaning and or intention to this situation by an invisible being; that is able to open and slam a door, open file cabinets and able to throw papers around with such force. I think the motivation of this source is to show people and make them believe that this is true and is happing in some places and just wants other to be aware.

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This video is exhibiting some very convincing evidence that there is a poltergeist present in this home. Some of the evidence that’s shown in this video are: electrical interference when the radio goes static, the door being opened and shut, and the animals are acting strange which is a really good example of having some sort of presence in the house. This can be related to the reason of belief agenticity. Since these activities indicate some form of poltergeist I believe that this is the best reason for belief to describe it because it’s an invisible being that we assign meaning to.

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This is my third video capture of poltergeist activity in my home. Check out my first two videos here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njybUEW4Ls0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03M4mRR7Bk This footage is truly incredible. My dogs are notably disturbed in this video.

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On this website it is listing off ways that you can tell if you have a poltergeist in your home. Some examples are when you find that objects are disappearing and reappearing later on or in different places, when the sounds of knocking and footsteps appear, and strange scents and odours appear. These don’t always mean that there is a poltergeist that is present. There can be a lot of logical explanations for these but in some rare cases these can be the acts of a poltergeist. I believe that this could be an example of the reason of belief the un explained. In most cases there isn’t a real explanation for the occurrences. If there is something that is levitating in the air, there isn’t a logical explanation therefore it would fit under un explained.

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Determining the difference between poltergeist activity and ghosts or haunting activity can be difficult. While ghost and haunting activity is the result of spirit energy, poltergeist activity - also known as "recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis" or RSPK - is the result of psychic energy generated (usually unconsciously) by a person, referred to as an agent.

But how do you know there might be poltergeist activity in your home? Most often, you'll know it if you have it because it is out of the ordinary and pretty obvious: sounds, movements, and odors of unknown origin.

Below are seven of the most common types of poltergeist activity. Let me be clear, however: Because you experience - or think you experience - one or more of the activities listed below does not automatically mean that it definitely is poltergeist activity. There could be more mundane, every day causes for the activity. For example, smells of unknown origin could be wafting in from an open window; lightings flickering on and off could be faulty wiring.

You should always seek logical explanations before jumping to the conclusion that it is poltergeist activity. True poltergeist activity, although it is a well-documented phenomenon with many real cases, is relatively rare. A professional investigator might be able to help you to determine the cause of what you are experiencing.

7 Signs of Poltergeist Activity

You put your set of keys or your cell phone down in the place you always put it. You turn around a minute later and it's gone. You and your family search high and low for it, but it cannot be found. Later - sometimes days later or longer - the object mysteriously reappears in the very place you always put it.

Or, more bizarrely, you later find it in a ridiculous place, like high on a bookshelf, in a shoebox in the closet or some other spot where you'd never put it in a million years. Read more about this particular phenomenon in the article Disappearing Object Phenomenon.

2 - OBJECTS LEVITATING OR THROWN

You're sitting there watching TV, totally engrossed in a dramatic movie, when suddenly the bowl of popcorn you've been munching from rises from the coffee table, floats through the air a few feet, then drops to the floor. Or... you're having a loud argument with your teenage daughter, and as she storms out of the room, books and knick-knacks come hurtling off of the bookcase, as if reacting to the young girl's anger.

The movement of physical objects like this can be quite dramatic and can be as slight as a box of Tic Tacs sliding a few inches across a table top or as amazing as a heavy refrigerator levitating off the kitchen floor.

3 - SCENTS AND ODORS

No one in your house smokes, yet on occasion, the distinct smell of cigarette or cigar smoke can be detected in the bathroom. Or as you're dressing for bed, suddenly the overpowering scent of lilacs fills the room.

As stated above, all kinds of smells can enter your house from the outside, even from a passing car, so such scents might not necessarily mean poltergeist.

Such scents and odors can also be a sign of ghost activity as they might be associated with a spirit or with a residual haunting.

4 - ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE

Johnny is having a tough time in school, and sometimes when he enters the living room with that scowl on his face, the overhead light and lamps flicker. Or it's 3 o'clock in the morning and you're shocked out of sleep by the stereo in the den turning on full blast and it doesn't have a remote control that could have set if off accidentally, either from inside or outside the house.

5 - POWER FROM NOWHERE

That antique clock on the fireplace mantle hasn't worked in years, but it's a family heirloom and you like how it looks there, so you've kept it. Quite suddenly, it begins to chime and the second-hand resumes moving, even though the clock hasn't been wound in ten years.

Maybe it's 9:15 p.m. and the little kids are sound asleep in bed when suddenly Billy's little choo-choo train begins to chug across the living room floor. You think that's odd, but you switch it off and put it back down. A few minutes later, the little train starts up again. Thinking there's something wrong with the switch, you open the battery compartment to remove the batteries... but there are no batteries in it!

6 - KNOCKS, RAPPINGS, FOOTSTEPS, AND OTHER NOISES

You're in your office trying to balance the checkbook, but you find it hard to concentrate when your husband is in the other room banging on the wall for some reason. You go to investigate, but then remember your husband is out bowling - he isn't even home. No one else is. So where's that knocking coming from? Or the family is the kitchen table deep into a heated game of Monopoly. Suddenly, all the chatter stops when everyone's attention is drawn to the sound of footsteps coming up the basement stairs. Dad checks it out, but of course, there is no one there.

7 - PHYSICAL ATTACKS

Twelve-year-old Alyssa can't stand how her parents are always fighting. The constant yelling and screaming are driving her crazy. She sits on the floor in the corner of her room, crying with her face in her hands. She winces from a sudden pain on her back. When she checks it in a mirror, she finds fresh scratches. Or the poltergeist activity - from unexplained bangs to flying coffee pots - has been escalating at the Ferman household, and young Becky seems to be the center of it all.

It got at its worst when visiting Uncle Donald received sharp slaps across the face, seemingly from an unseen hand.

Physical attacks such as these have been documented in such cases as The Bell Witch and the Amherst poltergeist, but they are exceedingly rare and occur only in the most severe cases.

HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE A POLTERGEIST?

An experienced paranormal investigator or parapsychologist might be able to help you determine if what is taking place in your home is poltergeist activity or a haunting - which can sometimes exhibit similar effects - or whether there is a logical, non-paranormal explanation.

In the case of a poltergeist, the investigator will look for other factors. Since poltergeist activity is a psychic effect rather than a spirit-based one, the investigator should try to determine who the agent is - the person who is generating the telekinetic activity.

Various kinds of stresses can be the cause of this activity, including emotional, physical, psychological, and even hormonal stresses, and so the investigator should try to examine the personal and family dynamics and very well might need to seek the help of therapists or counselors.

However, most cases of poltergeist activity or short-lived, lasting only days or a few weeks. It is rare indeed that they stretch out for months or more. Most of the time they just fade away on their own.

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Determining the difference between poltergeist activity and ghosts or haunting activity can be difficult. While ghost and haunting activity is the result of spirit energy, poltergeist activity - also known as "recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis" or RSPK - is the result of psychic energy generated (usually unconsciously) by a person, referred to as an agent.

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This image shows a bunch of kitchen chairs that are stacked up. It’s supposedly caused by a poltergeist however there isn’t any proof that this was by said poltergeist. A big flaw in this image is that we don’t have any real evidence that this was a poltergeist activity. There could be a huge possibility that this was just someone stacking these chairs and saying that it was even when it wasn’t. A red flag that could connect to this image would be red herring. This piece of evidence is pretty irrelevant with no supporting proof.

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In this article they explain a couple of cases in which people have experienced the presence of a poltergeist being. They also explain what kind of paranormal activities that is happening in each event and also some of the things that could explain the real reasoning on why this is happening. I think that a reason of belief that occurs on this website could be agenticity. There could be logical explanations why these things keep happening but people tend to atomically assign it to invisible things. For example, paper could be thrown around and people will instantly think it’s a poltergeist, however it could have simply been the wind.

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Poltergeist, in German, literally means "noisy ghost." This paranormal phenomenon has appeared in folklore, movies and - if some cases are true - even reality. And while they may not be demons, or even spirits at all, poltergeists are the type of supernatural manifestation you'd probably want to avoid.

Signs of a Poltergeist

Poltergeists are violent, and more often than not the activity surrounding them focuses on a single individual. In most cases, this activity is similar to your traditional signs of a haunted house, but the aggressiveness is what sets poltergeists apart. Here's a list of the most common signs that you may be experiencing one:

electrical disturbances, or electrical objects working on their own

rapping or banging on walls, or other unexplained noises

objects moving or being thrown around by themselves

objects mysteriously disappearing and reappearing

strange or unusual smells

occasional levitation

physical attacks

What brings a poltergeist to haunt someone? That's an interesting question. It's generally accepted that poltergeists aren't your normal "spirits," but rather psychic manifestations of stress or anxiety, often that of a teenager. In other words, when exploring a paranormal explanation, poltergeist activity is often attributed to psychokinesis, or the ability to affect physical objects with one's mind.

In fact, one of the earliest stories of poltergeists I ever read was "The Trouble" in Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (page 69 if you happen to have the old box set like I do).

In this story, based on a true event that reportedly happened in a New York City suburb in 1958, a family, the Lombardos, is tormented by objects that seem to move on their own.

Caps pop off bottles, porcelain statues rise into the air, bowls and flowers and globes jump from place to place. They had detectives and, eventually, parapsychologists come to investigate, but they never did find out what caused the bizarre activity, even after exploring the possibility that someone was playing a trick.

However, the final theory by the parapsychologists was that it was possibly due to psychokinesis, arising from the family's teenage son, Tom.

"The only explanation they could not rule out," writes Schwartz, "was the possibility that a teenage poltergeist had been at work, moving objects with mental power. They did not have enough evidence to prove it, but it was the only answer they had."

Rational Explanations

It's entirely possible that poltergeists are not paranormal in nature, but rather explainable natural phenomena. In some cases, so-called poltergeists may actually be individuals (read: humans) acting out for whatever reason. Other possible natural explanations (most of which you can read about here) include:

infrasound

air currents

vibrations caused by underground water currents

sonic booms by aircraft passing overhead

electromagnetic disturbances

seismic activity

ball lightning

Famous Poltergeist Cases

Whether you believe poltergeists are psychokinesis or simply natural phenomena, there have been many strange cases over the years. Here are just a few of the most famous ones (though not all may have actually been poltergeists):

The Enfield Poltergeist: In 1977, a family living in a rented home in Enfield, England experienced moving furniture and unexplainable tapping on the walls. This activity escalated into demonic noises and one of the children, 11-year-old Janet Hodgson, allegedly levitating. She also appeared possessed by an entity calling himself Bill Wilkins, however, indicating that this may not have been a poltergeist, but rather a demonic possession.

Rosenheim Poltergeist: In 1967, parapsychologist Hans Bender investigated claims that poltergeist activity - exploding light fixtures, moving furniture, and electrical malfunctions - had occurred at a law office in Rosenheim, Bavaria. This he attributed to the "telekinetic powers" of the office's secretary, 19-year-old Annemarie Schaberl.

The Great Amherst Mystery: In 1878-1879 at Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, Walter Hubbell recorded the details of poltergeist activity surrounding 18-year-old Esther Cox. The activity manifested in a variety of unsettling ways - the usual banging, as well as scratching noises, but Esther also suffered seizures, swelling, and at one point the words "Esther Cox, you are mine to kill" were found written mysteriously on the wall near her bed. The activity, which seemed to follow her and her alone, continued to escalate, with Esther claiming to see a "ghost," which appeared to physically attack her on multiple occasions. However, ultimately, the activity came to an end.

Poltergeist (2015)

Given all of the above information, it's kind of obvious that Steven Spielberg's 1982 film Poltergeist doesn't have too much to do with, well, poltergeists. Nonetheless! A remake of the film is set to release later this year, starring Zaphod Beeblebrox, James Moriarty, and Rosemarie DeWitt. That's the trailer up there. Check it out. (Sam Raimi!?)

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Poltergeist, in German, literally means "noisy ghost." This paranormal phenomenon has appeared in folklore, movies and - if some cases are true - even reality. And while they may not be demons, or even spirits at all, poltergeists are the type of supernatural manifestation you'd probably want to avoid.

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In this video these men claim that there is a presence of a poltergeist in the house. They go through the video footage while another man documents the whole thing. There is some electrical interference in one room. In the end of the video the whole kitchen in destroyed by said poltergeist. There is signs of many flaws in this video; to myself it seems like they are just acting and it’s all staged, for example they don’t have more than one camera set up in the kitchen so we weren’t able to see the actual footage of it happening. Some red flags that could represent this video would be proof of verbosity. I think that there is too much happening at once. Usually the poltergeist acts in smaller activities. There are lights flickering on and off, an orb that could have been edited in, and the destroyed kitchen seems like it would be too much at the moment.

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Violent Poltergeist Caught on Tape Destroying Kitchen. Poltergeist Diaries P15

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