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English actor Charles Schaughnessy documents a case of a poltergeist he had an encounter with as a child.

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The case refers to the belief of the perception/observation. He saw things 40 years ago as a child in the dark that he couldn't explain. My critical thinking allows me to process this and offer an alternative solution. It has been a long time and human memories change quite a bit. The skeptic flaw that I see here is appeal to authority. Just because this guy is a famous actor doesn't mean that I should just outright believe his old story.

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Celebrity Ghost Stories: Charles Schaughnessy - Angry Poltergeist | Biography

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This website documents the case of a man who would have small things in his house happen like things being unscrewed, things turning off, etc. He believes that it may be his dead father communicating with him.

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This case refers to the belief of emotional connection. He wants to have a connection with his father and is confusing things that happen with his dad communicating with him. My critical thinking allows me identify that alternative solution, which outweigh the other theory that his dad is a ghost communicating with him. The red flag that I see here is confusion with correlation and causation. Just because he is forgetful doesn't mean that his dead father is talking with him. I'm a skeptic in this case as there is very little proof to show that its his actual father doing this.

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Welcome to the seventy-second installment of the Haunted Montreal Blog!

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This month we examine a poltergeist in Côte Saint-Luc based on a first person account by a man named Jeff. After a decade of living in his apartment, in October 2019 the poltergeist suddenly appeared and started its shenanigans.

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In June 2021, Jeff contacted Haunted Montreal regarding poltergeist activity in his apartment. He provided many examples of things moving on their own, turning on and off and generally behaving strangely, despite the fact that they are inanimate objects.

Jeff wrote: "I am prepared to sign a sworn statement stating that all of the events described have actually happened."

Jeff moved into his Côte Saint-Luc apartment in 2009, which is located near Cavendish Mall.

However, he did not experience any paranormal activity until a decade later. In 2019, it would appear that a poltergeist either moved in or woke up from a long period of inactivity.

A poltergeist, also known as a "noisy ghost", tends to play tricks such as moving things around, turning lights on and off, adjusting the heat of stove burners and other bizarre activities.

Since the paranormal activity began, strange events have been happening in the apartment, with each event spaced about a month or two apart.

According to Jeff, it all started with a rubber band that started teleporting:

"A rubber band wrapped around the kitchen garbage pail (to hold the garbage bag) disappeared from the pail and reappeared around the corner on the dining room carpet. This happened a couple of times. On another occasion, that same rubber band disappeared from the pail and reappeared wrapped around the middle of an empty oat-milk container placed next to the pail for recycling. On another day, the same thing happened with a tissue box placed next to the pail."

Jeff continued with more examples of paranormal activity in his kitchen:

"While I was doing the dishes after lunch, I felt something fall on my feet. I looked down and saw that it was a small towel. The thing is, this particular individually identifiable towel had been stored in a kitchen cabinet behind a closed door, a few feet away from me. It seems to have teleported from there to just above my feet, where it fell."

Another time, Jeff was frying some cheese blintzes on a low heat. Just before he was about to take them off the stove, he noticed that they looked underdone, so he decided to turn the burner control knob to a higher setting. As he was about to do so, he noticed that the control knob had been turned to the "off" setting. It seemed to him that the poltergeist had turned off the burner because he didn't.

It seems that the poltergeist also likes to play with the dish rack. Once, Jeff had placed a drinking glass upside-down on the dish rack to dry, but when Jeff glanced at it a few minutes later it was right-side up.

In another case, a round-tipped metal knife from the kitchen drawer appeared in the dish rack, lying flat. Also, a small pot and a dessert bowl that had been put away the night before reappeared on the dish rack by themselves the following morning.

There was also the time Jeff had finished a container of Mrs. Dash salt substitute. He unscrewed the top, rinsed out the container and lid, and put both next to the kitchen garbage pail, side by side, for recycling.

Then, Jeff went shopping.

When he came back, the lid had been screwed back onto the container.

Finally, a disposable aluminum candle holder moved fifteen feet by itself from the kitchen pantry, where it was stored, to the top of the middle stem of a candelabra in the dining room.

In the dining room, a picture fell off the wall with the hanging loop unbroken and the nail in the wall intact. The dining room radio (not a clock radio) has been known to turn itself on, and once during suppertime, the lamp in the ceiling turned on by itself.

The paranormal activity also happens in the bathroom. In one case, a toilet paper holder popped out of its receptacle by itself, untouched, while Jeff watched. Another day, Jeff bought a new plug for the bathroom sink and cut off the chain completely from the plug's ring, since he didn't need it. The next morning, a single loop of the chain had reappeared on the plug's ring.

On another occasion, the bathroom medicine cabinet door slid open by itself while Jeff's back was turned - he heard a sliding sound before turning around to see it open.

Jeff provided many more examples of paranormal activity all over his apartment, from the living room and dining room to even near his garbage chute. He continues to update Haunted Montreal as to the latest happenings.

When asked who or what Jeff thinks it haunting his home, he mentioned receiving a gum bone graft with real bone a month or so before the poltergeist activity began in the Fall of 2019. Jeff speculates that perhaps the deceased person from whom the bone was taken is haunting him.

Another theory is that it could be his deceased father, who passed away in 2013 and whose picture Jeff looks at every morning to remember him.

Jeff said: "Poltergeist activity raises fundamental questions about reality," asking "what does it all mean?"

Jeff believes that that the Universe is not physical, but mental; that reality consists only of our consciousness, and we are having a collective dream. He feels that poltergeist activity could not occur in a physical universe, but it could occur in a mental universe where "we are dreaming the whole thing up".

As such, Jeff has no plans for an exorcism of the poltergeist that is plaguing his home. Indeed, he finds the poltergeist experience fascinating.

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The Poltergeist of Côte Saint-Luc - Haunted Montreal Blog

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Welcome to the seventy-second installment of the Haunted Montreal Blog! With over 450 documented ghost stories, Montreal is easily the most haunted city in Canada, if not all of North America. Haunted Montreal dedicates itself to researching these paranormal tales, and the Haunted Montreal Blog unveils a newly researched Montreal ghost story on the 13th of every month!

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This article looks at what a poltergeist is and the history of how two sisters could communicate with the dead. They could get ghosts to move things during seances.

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I feel that the belief behind this case is the emotional connection belief and ideological connection. People wanted to talk with the dead and believed that there was an afterlife. These sisters provided this connection for these people. If I use critical thinking I can evaluate why the sister would do this. The obvious answer on why the would call on poltergeist is money. This leaves me with the idea that they scammed people by throwing voices, using accomplices and strings. People should have seen through their red flag of ideological support. It seems they preyed on people that believed. I was skeptic because of the abuse of peoples emotions.

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A poltergeist is perhaps the best-known - and most feared - type of ghost. It is a spirit that is said to harass and torment its victims. This harassment typically includes minor but mysterious and disturbing events such as loud sounds, moving furniture, sheets and covers being pulled off beds, small objects inexplicably falling off shelves, stones rising off the ground and being hurled at people, and so on.

Of course, discussing different categories of ghosts is like discussing different breeds of dragons or races of leprechauns: it's all made up, so there are as many types as you can dream of. Nevertheless, people all over the world believe in ghosts and spirits, and a 2005 Gallup poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses - and nearly half believe in ghosts.

No one knows for certain what ghosts are, or if they even exist; some believe that they are spirits of the dead who for whatever reason get "lost" on their way to the afterworld; others think that ghosts are the souls of people whose deaths were violent or premature.

History of poltergeists

In his book "Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead & Cultural Transformation," historian R.C. Finucane notes that the word poltergeist "takes its name from two German words, meaning 'to create a disturbance' (or more specifically to rumble, roll, or bluster), and 'spirit.' Though examples can be found in earlier centuries, this form of spiritual harassment only becomes commonplace in the post-Reformation era [around the 1600s]."

The interpretation of mysterious disturbances as being caused by a ghost specifically is a fairly recent development; a few centuries ago such events might have been attributed to witchcraft or even Satan. Horror films about ghosts and evil spirits including "Poltergeist," "The Amityville Horror," and "The Exorcist" have influenced how modern people think of violent ghostly phenomena.

Poltergeists and pranking

Poltergeist activity centers on people and is often associated with the presence of children, leading many to suspect that childhood attention-seeking pranks are involved. Indeed, many poltergeist reports were proven to have been faked by children and teenagers - and one well-known case of alleged poltergeist activity in the mid-1800s even led to the creation of an American religion.

It happened in Western New York in the early 1840s when a young peddler arrived at the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Bell to sell his house wares. He was invited into the home by the Bells' housekeeper and stayed for some days. The maid was shortly dismissed from service but abruptly rehired a week later. The peddler was gone, but many of his items were now in use in the Bells' kitchen. The maid thought little of it until she began experiencing poltergeist phenomenon, only to find out from the peddler's ghost that he had been murdered in her absence.

At least that was the story told by two young sisters named Maggie and Katie Fox, who claimed to communicate with the peddler's ghost through taps and knocks. The Fox sisters became famous across the country for their ability to communicate with spirits of the dead, drawing enthusiastic crowds for decades. Years later, however, the sisters admitted it had all been a hoax; there was no murdered peddler, and the spirit communications had been faked. Still, the sisters had inadvertently founded a religion called Spiritualism, which is still practiced today.

Rapping and knocking communication from spirits has its origins in fakery and hoaxing, and decades later many psychic mediums continued the practice, pretending that knocks in darkened séance rooms came from the spirit world. For example, an Italian psychic medium named Eusapia Palladino, active in the late 1800s, claimed she experienced poltergeist activity including table rapping and sheets pulled off her bed. Palladino made a successful career out of faking spirit voices, knocks, and "flying objects" (made to move with hidden wires in darkened rooms) during séances for paying customers.

Do poltergeists exist outside of folklore and historical hoaxes? If ghosts and spirits truly do move objects and cause the unexplained phenomena attributed to them, it is surprising that not a single film or video exists of such amazing incidents. Surveillance cameras and cell phones are everywhere, yet no one has ever captured a clock flying off a shelf on its own or cabinet doors violently banging open and closed in an empty kitchen. Modern reports of these "noisy spirits" are closer to urban legends than documented proof.

Though there's no scientific evidence for poltergeists or any other types of ghosts, they continue to intrigue, entertain and scare us - just as they have for centuries.

Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and author of six books including "Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries" and "The Martians Have Landed: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes." His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com.

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A poltergeist is perhaps the best-known - and most feared - type of ghost. It is a spirit that is said to harass and torment its victims. This harassment typically includes minor but mysterious and disturbing events such as loud sounds, moving furniture, sheets and covers being pulled off beds, small objects inexplicably falling off shelves, stones rising off the ground and being hurled at people, and so on.

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In this video we see a camera recording  kitchen. We see a can that is moving on its own which could indicate a poltergeist.

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I believe that this case refers to the belief of perception/observation. We can't see everything in this video and assume its a ghost. If I apply critical thinking I immediately put aside my bias of ghost being real. A red flag here is confusion of correlation with causation. People will think that if something moves on its own, that it has to be a poltergeist. There's more behind this. A quick evaluation of evidence tells me a random YouTube video where a can is moving is most likely fake. The skeptic flaw is that anyone can fake a video like this.

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Real ghost poltergeist caught on CCTV footage?

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In this video we see a family talk about a poltergeist that was haunting them. They document what it did, their feelings and how they tried to get rid of it.

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This case refers to the unexplained. This family cant explain the reason that things are flying around their house. I believe that applying critical thinking and skepticism is important here is extremely important here because we need to identify the facts, beliefs and biases here. People tend to fear what they don't see, which refers to emotional connection. This means that these people may not have been thinking right when they saw weird things. Our mind plays tricks. I'm a skeptic in this situation, as I see the flaw of a family drumming up attention so they could be on TV.

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"We have a Poltergeist in our house!" | Paranormal Witness | Real Fear

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1. The thing that I learned most about the topic is there is almost zero proof that there has ever been a real case of a poltergeist. I was also surprised to learn cases seem to be dwindling with more science and ways to get attention in todays world.
2. This topic is interesting to because of the Herman case(which the movie Poltergeist was based on). It was the first case I ever read about as a kid. It made me extremely interested in paranormal and finding if things were as they seem.
3. The research I found most interesting case the Enfield poltergeist case. It was interesting to me as it laid out many beliefs to made on both sides. It was highly publicized with many people debating it for well over 50 years!
4. The thing that I will most likely remember from this research is that poltergeist mainly focus on peoples beliefs of emotional connection, ideologies and unexplained. Do other paranormal cases like sasquatch, aliens and UFOs cater to certain beliefs?
5. The most harmful is ideological support. the problem with this red flag is that it can often lead to people getting hurt or dying because there belief wont let them get help. The lest harmful is mystical energy. I think its partly a scam but I also view it as harmless.
6. My most important lesson to pass on to family and friends is critical thinking. When you're going to look at an idea you need go through this process to make a better solution. Take a look at it from both sides to understand it better. It allows for open ideas and open discussion.

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This picture shows an image that a poltergeist left.

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The belief that could be behind this picture is patternicity. My critical thinking stops me to question if people get confused on what they see. When we look at this picture we can look at two options. Its either a ghost or frost in a weird shape on the window. I think it offers the red flag of confirmation bias. People want to think its a ghost just because its shaped as one. They ignore the obvious scientific facts that its most likely front forming a shape. This makes me a skeptic as people want to believe in what they think is real.

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This an image from the movie Poltergeist. This picture shows a girl being able to connect with ancient ghosts.

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The picture weighs on the beliefs of ideology. This ideology is that there is an afterlife. In this afterlife they try to connect with us when they are mood or angry by moving things or causing a disturbance. My critical thinking gives me two beliefs. That there is no afterlife and people play pranks; or that there is an afterlife and they do connect with us. I'm unsure about which option to pick but I do lean one way. People use ideological support as a red flag when they look at pictures like this. My partial skepticism on this is that there is no real physical proof behind these encounters.

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The website documents 3 cases but the case of Poltergeist Danny stood out. When the Fishmans bought an bed, it supposedly brought out a poltergeist, named Danny, that tormented their son. No one could explain why things moved that notes were left. A parapsychologist believed that the Fishmans son had psychic energy that may have been attributed to it.

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I believed that the factor here is the unexplained belief. No one could explain the things that were happening, aside from the parapsychologist. My critical thinking made me analyze this parapsychologist. This was a word I hade never heard before and my evaluation led me to proof that it was a pseudoscience. He would use the red flags of mystical energy to explain his beliefs and that you should believe him, which is appeal to authority. There are so much skeptic flaws in the case that were bungled up because of the "scientist". It left me wanting more evidence.

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Chairs move about by themselves. Walls shake from loud, unexplained banging. Water drips from a ceiling. Hairbrushes disappear for days, only to reappear in their place on the dresser. These are some of the classic symptoms of a poltergeist haunting. From the German for "noisy ghost," a poltergeist refers to phenomena usually credited to mischievous spirits or ghosts and are characterized by psychokinesis or other physical manifestations. Although ghosts may sometimes be involved, most poltergeist incidents are a kind of psychic phenomena, usually centered around a living "agent."

Cases have been cited almost since the beginning of recorded history. Three famous cases have taken place in the 20th century, gaining notoriety, perhaps, because they have been extensively investigated, reported, and in some cases even photographed and videotaped.

In the 1970s, in Thornton Heath, England, a family was tormented by poltergeist phenomena that started one August night when they were woken in the middle of the night by a blaring bedside radio that had somehow turned itself on - tuned to a foreign-language station. This was the beginning of a string of events that lasted nearly four years.

A lampshade repeatedly was knocked to the floor by unaided hands. During the Christmas season of 1972, an ornament was hurled across the room, smashing into the husband's forehead. "As he flopped into an armchair," reports Haunted Croydon, "the Christmas tree began to shake violently. Come the New Year and there were footsteps in the bedroom when there was no one there, and one night the couple's son awoke to find a man in old fashioned dress staring threateningly at him. The family's fear grew when, as they entertained friends one night, there was a loud knocking at the front door, the living room door was then flung open and all the house's lights came on."

Having the house blessed failed to rid the house of the phenomena. "Objects flew through the air, loud noises were heard and the family would sometimes hear a noise which suggested some large piece of furniture... had crashed to the floor. When they went to investigate, nothing would be disturbed."

A medium who was consulted told the family that the house was haunted by a farmer of the name Chatterton, who considered the family trespassers on his property. An investigation bore out the fact that Chatterton had indeed lived in the house in the mid-18th century. "Chatterton's wife now joined in causing mayhem, and often the tenant's wife would be followed up the stairs at night by an elderly gray-haired woman wearing a pinafore and with her hair tied back in a bun. If looked at, she would disappear back into the shadows. The family even reported seeing the farmer appear on their television screens, wearing a black jacket with wide, pointed lapels, high-necked shirt, and black cravat."

After the family moved out of the house, the poltergeist activity ceased, and none have been reported by subsequent residents.

Another English ghost - this one in Enfield in North London - made headlines in 1977. The strange activity seemed to center around the daughter of Peggy Harper, a divorcee in her mid-40s. Again, it started on an August night. "Late at night," An Urban Ghost Story relates, "Janet, aged 11 and her brother Pete, aged 10, complained that their beds were 'jolting up and down and going all funny.' As soon as Mrs. Harper got to the room, the movements had stopped - as far as she was concerned her kids were making it all up."

But things got progressively more bizarre from there. Shuffling noises and knocks on the wall were followed by a heavy chest of drawers sliding by itself across the floor. Mrs. Harper promptly got her children out of the house and sought the assistance of a neighbor. "The neighbors searched the house and garden but found no one. Soon they also heard the knocks on the walls which continued at spaced out intervals. At 11 p.m. they called the police, who heard the knocks, one officer even saw a chair inexplicably move across the floor, and later signed a written statement to confirm the events."

Several people were witness to the events that occurred in the following days: Lego bricks and marbles were thrown around the house and were often hot to the touch. In September of that year, Maurice Grosse of the Society for Psychical Research came to investigate. "Grosse claims that he experienced the strange happenings - first a marble was thrown at him from an unseen hand, he saw doors open and close by themselves, and claimed to feel a sudden breeze that seemed to move up from his feet to his head."

Grosse was later joined in the investigation by writer Guy Lyon Playfair, and together they studied the case for two years. "The knocking on walls and floors became an almost nightly occurrence, furniture slid across the floor and was thrown down the stairs, drawers were wrenched out of dressing tables. Toys and other objects would fly across the room, bedclothes would be pulled off, water was found in mysterious puddles on the floors, there were outbreaks of fire followed by their inexplicable extinguishing."

The case became decidedly unnerving when the spirits revealed themselves - through Janet. Speaking in a deep, gravely voice, the spirit announced that his name was Bill and had died in the house - a fact that has been verified. The voices and the phenomenon have been recorded on tape and film, and Playfair has written a book about the case called This House is Haunted.

Despite the documentation, however, much controversy surrounds the case. Skeptics claim that the case is nothing more than the work of a very clever and mischievous girl - Janet. The poltergeist activity always stopped when she was watched closely, and when she was taken to a hospital for several days to be tested for physical or mental abnormality, the phenomena ceased in the house. Some researchers believe that Janet taught herself to speak in the strange male voice and that photos of her levitating in her bedroom merely caught her jumping off her bed. Was this poltergeist case just the result of an attention-seeking 11-year-old?

In 1998, Jane Fishman, a reporter for the Savannah Morning News, began a series of articles about a possibly haunted antique bed in the home of Al Cobb of Savannah, Georgia. Cobb bought the vintage late-1800s bed at an auction as a Christmas present for his 14-year-old son, Jason - a purchase he later regretted.

"Three nights later," Fishman reported, "Jason told his parents he felt as if someone had planted elbows on his pillow and was watching him and breathing cold air down the back of his neck. He felt sick. The next night he noticed the photo of his deceased grandparents on his wicker nightstand flipped down. So he righted it. The next day, the photo was facing down again.

Later that morning, after leaving his room for breakfast, he returned and found in the middle of his bed two Beanie Babies - the zebra and the tiger - next to a conch shell, a dinosaur made of shells and a plaster toucan bird. That got his parents' - and his twin brother, Lee's - attention. Trying to make sense of the irrational, Al called out, 'Do we have a Casper here? Tell me your name and how old you are.' Then he left some lined composition paper and crayons and, with his family, walked out of the room. In 15 minutes they returned and found written vertically in large block childlike letters, 'Danny, 7.'"

With his family out of the house, Al Cobb decided to continue trying to communicate with the spirit of Danny. With the same kind of notes, Danny indicated that his mother had died in that bed in 1899 and that he wanted to stay with the bed. He also made it clear that he didn't want anyone else sleeping in it. "The same day they found a note reading, 'No one sleep in bed,' Jason, who had moved out of the room, decided to stretch out and pretend to take a nap. That, says Al, was a mistake. 'I doubled back in the room to pick up my clothes,' remembers Jason, 'when this terra cotta head that had been hanging on the wall came flying through the room, just missing me before it smashed on the closet door.'"

"No one really knows," Fishman writes in her second installment, "who - or what - is leaving the copious notes, moving the furniture, opening the kitchen drawers, setting the dining room table, flipping over the chairs, lighting the candles, arranging the posters to spell out a person's name, Jill, then hanging the finished product on a bedroom wall. Jason also spoke of other spirits: 'Uncle Sam,' who had come to reclaim his daughter he said was buried under the house; 'Gracie,' a young girl whose sculpture sits in Bonaventure Cemetery; and 'Jill,' a young woman who left a number of handwritten messages, among them one inviting the Cobbs to a party in their living room."

Parapsychologist Andrew Nichols, head of the Florida Society for Parapsychological Research, investigated the case. "What happened at the Cobbs," he told Fishman, "more specifically to Jason - would have happened without 'Danny,' or the bed. It was the electromagnetic energy of the wall - that Jason started sleeping next to when they moved the bed there - that charged a psychic ability that the boy already had."

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3 Famous Poltergeist Cases That Will Creep You Out

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Chairs move about by themselves. Walls shake from loud, unexplained banging. Water drips from a ceiling. Hairbrushes disappear for days, only to reappear in their place on the dresser. These are some of the classic symptoms of a poltergeist haunting.

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This pictures shows the Enfield Haunting case where a poltergeist is supposedly throwing this woman around!

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I think the belief here would be perception/observation. People can look at this picture and believe that a poltergeist is abusing her. My critical thinking makes me think that it can be viewed in two ways. Either she is being thrown around or it even looks like she is jumping of her own free will. The red flag I see here is confusion with correlation and causation. People will look at this photo and with the information behind it and believe its a poltergeist. Just because she's in the air with a terrorized look doesn't mean she is jumping. My skeptic views make me think they are doing this for publicity. Its an act to garner attention.