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great evening and thanks so much for checking out the show.
Is it's really exciting to be doing the podcast now
and it's great to have this opportunity to meet more
of the listeners. I really love the opportunity to come
out and talk about all things paranormal. To me, it's
an incredibly powerful passion something I've been doing for three
years now and it's a real honor to talk about
these things because I think, you know, not only having
a show, of course, but I truly am completely passionate
about this subject matter because, as I've stated before, I
think that the paranormal is the breadcrumbs to demonstration of
a dynamic and fluid reality that surrounds us. So I
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of my favorite parts of the show is when you
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we can certainly share those on the earth at least
have those discussions because the more that people share, the
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So it's not it's not as though I'm an expert,
because I I don't believe there are experts in the
paranormal field. It's just not a subject matter that lends
itself to study. So but I have so many questions
in my head, and of course, you know, I research
and I look, and I explore, and I research and
research and research. But there comes a point where you know,
you kind of hit a wall. But then somebody will
write in a story that includes some really cool observation
that I'd never heard before, and it really connects a
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And sometimes that's exactly what I need, is just another
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I thought we'd talk about poltergeists. Now, this is a
subject that's been around for.
Speaker 2: Basically ever.
Speaker 5: You know, in polter geist means it's I think it's
a German word that means noisy ghost or noisy noisy spirit,
and so automatically by the name, you know, it denotes
a very active haunt There seems to be a little
bit of a dichotomy in the whole explanation of the
phenomena though, in that there are some camps that believe
that they are indeed separate entities that may, for whatever reasons,
come into a place or attached to a person and
you know, raise havoc. They are very active hauntings. They
include you know, objects moving and lots of physical phenomena.
And there's the other camps that believe that a Poultergeist
is a manifestation of a living person, whether that be
through traumatic experience or high stress or you know, whatever
kind of psychological triggers that may have activated this outward
manifestation of spiritual energy. I find that really interesting. And
perhaps you know that there is correlation between poultrgeist generally
being attached or being active around a specific person, and
generally it seems that that tends to be a pubescent
or pre pubescent girl. I don't know, you know, what
to think about that. Personally, I listen to all the sides,
and I don't really have a real solid opinion on
the phenomenon because of course, you know, I haven't experienced
this myself. I can only refer to the things that
I have researched and run into in that research. So
I suppose anything is possible. And you know, you know,
nobody can know for sure, because so far, nobody's interview
to poltergeist that I know of.
Speaker 2: I imagine you.
Speaker 5: Know, many have tried, but you know, maybe they just
don't like to be interviewed. But whatever the case, these
manifestations are incredibly powerful, they are incredibly active, and usually
they're pretty short lived. Poltergeist type of a manifestation can
run its course in a few days, a few weeks,
few months, but rarely ever into the year range. Generally
it's a few months, a month to a few months,
and whatever it is has has basically dissipated for whatever reason. Now,
if it's an actual entity, maybe it's moved on, maybe
it's gotten tired or bored or you know, or whatever,
and has decided to go somewhere else. Now, if it's
a manifestation from a person, then maybe whatever stressors or
triggers that we're giving this entity a reality have worked
themselves out. Then maybe they've maybe that intense of a
manifestation just can't last for that long, perhaps because of
the energy required to do it. And I don't know,
but I'm just covering the basis because you know, you
can't really talk about a phenomena if you don't really
understand the phenomena. So, but I think that there's there's
an incredible amount of alleged reports of Poultergeist activity. Now,
my other side of this is that I really think
the term poulter Geist really gets incredibly overused. Many people
like to identify any kind of activity in a haunting,
as far as physical activity, as being perhaps a poltergeist.
You see that, you see that all the time in
the paranormal circles. That it's just a convenient label, and
I don't think that it's an accurate label in most cases.
I think that you know, it kind of it kind
of follows the same the same kind of phenomena as demons,
in that if anything negative happens it's a demon, you know,
and I don't think that that's accurate at all. You know,
for hauntings, if they are indeed a separate entity, then
perhaps they have a reason for doing what they're doing.
Maybe they're just upset with you. And if it's a
negative kind of thing, it doesn't denote a demon. And
excuse me how to take a drink there, But that
still holds true then again for the poultry geist phenomena.
So if you have a haunting and a chair moves,
well that is a physical phenomena, but does that really
qualify it as a poultry guse haunting? And I don't
think it does. I think that physical manifestations and hauntings
are not necessarily.
Speaker 2: Unusual.
Speaker 5: They are you know, very profound events, and they certainly,
you know, cause people a lot of pause because you know,
when your furniture is moving, that's just not a normal thing.
And so it's as the reason that people would you know,
be absolutely freaked out and you know, want to give
it a profound label. But there's no indication that those
things are actually poultrygeist type of experiences. So, you know,
whatever it is that they are, poultrygeist hauntings are actually
pretty rare.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 5: I don't think that they're nearly as common as the
labels get thrown around. I think that they they happen,
you know, they happen probably one percent of the time
of all hauntings that are reported, and generally.
Speaker 2: If they're reported at all. You know, I'm speaking in.
Speaker 5: In generalities, I guess, because I can't know for sure.
But you know, we just don't often see reports come
through about poultrygeist unless they are again just the misuse
of the label poultergeist. And maybe some of them are
indeed poltergeist hauntings, but I tend to believe that they're
probably not. In most cases, I just believe that they're
just you know, an upset spirit.
Speaker 2: So for instance, you move into a.
Speaker 5: House and you decide, you know, I don't really like
that chicken wallpaper, that farmland wallpaper doesn't really fit my
decorating style, and so I'm going to tear out the wallpaper.
And while we're at it, why don't we take out
this wall and you know, so you start redecorating, you
start renovating a home. Well, in most cases hauntings or
spirits were probably you know, in most cases they were
human beings at one time, and so they are in
that location because they probably have some sort of what's
the word I'm looking for, emotional attachment to that place
or that location that was maybe their home, and they
may have built the home, they may have had tons
of memories in that home, and so they stay there
because it's fond or they at least are often there
because it's a fun place for them to be. It
brings back memories of a happier time or whatever. So
they may be very attached to the farmyard wallpaper, and
when you tear it down, that to them, being as
they were once human and still have an emotional interest
in the property, may take great offense at that. So
that is why perhaps in cases where hauntings ramp up
during renovations, it's because it's an intelligent haunt that sees
what you're doing and it goes, hey, my kid and
I hung that wallpaper, you bastard, you know, and suddenly
your furniture's moving and your keys are lost, and you know,
dishes are flying out of the cupboard and stuff. But
even though the activity may be ramped up a little more,
that doesn't necessarily mean it's a poulter geist, because by definition,
poltergeist are never a human entity. They may be a
human projection as stated before, but they may not be
human at all. They might be something else, and so
the same rules wouldn't apply in those cases. I don't think.
I think that it's most probably some form of manifestation
in that regard.
Speaker 2: So poltergeist hauntings, as we stated, are really pretty rare.
Speaker 5: They don't come up very often. But I thought I'd
take a few moments to discuss a few theories that
are going on of what these things may be. So
there's a few theories of poltergeise out there, and these
are you know, after you know if they're if they're
actually professionally researched or investigated normally, there's some some researchers
believe there's natural explanations, and in reading this article from
psychicscience dot org, they say number one is natural explanations.
In some cases, phenomena may be explained as a misinterpretation
of natural events. For example, noises in the walls or
cavities of a house may be caused by birds or rodents.
Noises and vibrations may be due to wind, underground water courses,
airlocks in plumbing, or earth tremors. Puddles and flooding may
be the result of leakages or condensation. Estimates suggest, however,
that natural artifacts account for only a small percentage of
reported poltergeist phenomena, less than two percent, So some of
it can maybe be explained away with really mundane explanation.
And I know that a lot of people really want
to latch onto the idea of of ghosts and spirits
and things like that, but sometimes that just doesn't fit,
and sometimes it's it can be explained as just a
naturally occurring event of some form or another. So you know,
I don't think those kind of things can be dismissed
outright without at least a pretty reasonable amount of investigation.
So the next one that they talk about is spiritual explanations,
and it says traditional systems of belief usually assume that
poultrygeist phenomena are caused by mischievous or malevolent spirits, ghosts,
or demons. In some cases, these spiritual entities are believed
to possess the victim the poultrygeist agent, and poultrygeist outbreaks
are therefore met with fear and with attempts at magical
or religious remedies involving ritual prayer or exorcism. It goes
on to say, with the advent of the spiritual movement
in the eighteen forties, poltergeist manifestations came to be understood
as attempts by departed souls to communicate with the living,
perhaps the aim of resolving unfinished business or to seek
release from an earth bound state. The spiritualist approach to poltergeist,
therefore generally involves establishing a channel of communication with the
departed soul by holding a mediumistic seance. In these seances,
the poltergeist or spirit may apparently reveal its identity using
a system of coded wraps, or through voice phenomena, or
in writing, or by using a weigi aboard. Interestingly, people
who later became spiritual mediums are often the focus of
poltergeists activity in childhood. Now, that's an interesting correlation there,
and perhaps that does lend some credit ability to the
idea that it's a manifestation of a person, a person
that may be incredibly spiritually gifted or at least moderately
spiritually gifted, that that may be an early manifestation of
those abilities.
Speaker 2: It also.
Speaker 5: Stands to reason that they would probably be very short
lived then, and a lot of these abilities may manifest
in puberty. Now, another explanation that they go into here
is psychokinetic explanations. Psychokinesis or p K refers to the
parent ability of some individuals to paranormally affect physical processes
using mental powers. Because poultrygeist phenomena tend to focus around
the poultrygeist agent, it is suggested that they are caused
by spontaneous eruptions of the agent's latent psychokinetic powers. As
poultrygeis outbreaks are usually associated with high levels of emotional stress,
it is also presumed that this may amplify the agent's
psychokinetic energies until they eventually explode in the form of
poultrgeist activity. It has been suggested that certain environments factors
may amplify the psychokinetic energies of some sensitive individuals, leading
to Poultrgeist manifestations. In particular, research indicates an association with
electromagnetic fields, the proximity of high voltage power lines, and
the geomagnetic disturbances such as caused by solar activity. Now,
I think that's pretty interesting. The fourth on the list
here is. Psychological or psychiatric factors seem to play an
important role in made the majorit of poltrgeist cases, often
contributing to the stress experienced by the agents. Most poultrygeist
agents are young children or teenagers who may be struggling
to cope with an onset of puberty, with family tensions
or other interpersonal difficulties, or with physical, verbal, or sexual abuse.
In many cases, the poltergeist outbreak is preceded by an
identifiable emotional or interpersonal crisis. In some cases, the Poultrgezt
agent may be diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder, hysterical conversion,
or disassociaciative that was a mouthful disassociative condition. Multiple personalities
has also been suggested as a factor in certain cases. Psychological, psychiatric,
or psychosocial rather factors clearly play an important role in
Poltrgezt manifestations. They may help and to explain what triggers
and maintains an outbreak, and they may also suggest a
basis for motivation for trickery, but they cannot account for
the genuinely paranormal activity. If any elements of a poltergeist
case are presumed to be paranormal. A purely psychological or
psychiatric interpretation must be supplemented by the perspective that recognizes
the paranormality of the phenomena. I love reading these scientific
journal kind of things because it's like, oh my god,
could you put more syllables in that word? But I
think I got through it okay, all things considered. So
you know, that's a lot of mouthfuls of potential explanation,
and again they are just theories.
Speaker 2: They don't know.
Speaker 5: It's not known why is for sure causing these things,
but all of these factors can come to play, and
perhaps it's a combination of factors, like say, for instance,
if it is indeed another spirit, it may attached to
the person who has the most latent psychokinetic power and
utilize that ability through oppression or possession to some degree
to manifest into the world. You know that certainly maybe
a reasonable explanation and maybe a tie into several of
these factors into what could be going on. But again
it's speculative on my part. I can't be sure, but
I think it's incredibly interesting. So there's a lot more
in this paper about well not a lot more, but
there's some more about investigating and evaluating poltergezs cases. I'm
not going to read that for you because I think
it would be incredibly dry and boring, but I think
it's interesting all the same. There's a lot of really cool,
famous cases of poltergeiste activity that are out there, and
after we go to our break in just a few minutes,
I will get into those on the other side after
the break.
Speaker 2: But you know, I know several of these you guys
would have heard of. They are are pretty.
Speaker 5: Well known in the in the the paranormal community and
so and they've been the focus of several different productions.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to those in a little bit. Though.
Speaker 5: What else I wanted to go over is basically a
definition of what a poltergeist is. And maybe I should
have started with this, but this is coming from ThoughtCo
dot com, And as I said before, I mean, we
went into it a little bit on the front end.
But those are my thoughts, my words, based upon what
I'd read, and I figured it'd be good to pull
up an article here and give you some probably more
organized thoughts than what I'm capable of.
Speaker 2: So all right, here we go.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll get into Yeah, I think we should be
able to get through this before the break. Maybe we'll
just do our break now and then I'll get into
this in those famous cases on the other side. But again,
you know, the polder Gaste activity I think is really rare.
I don't think it comes up a whole lot, but
when it does, it should be pretty easy to differentiate
from a normal haunting just due to the activity involved.
They are incredibly active haunts and meaning that they have
very physical manifestations to them. A normal haunt can just
be cold spots, it could be you know, the footsteps
in the hall, it could be embodied voices, and it
could be you know, apparitions, but it may or may
not involve a lot of physical manifestation as far as
things moving, things going around. Usually it's more of a
presence in a traditional haunt. Now Poultergeist type of haunting
is much more physical. And everybody or most everybody has
seen the movie Poltergeist, and it was a fantastic, fantastic movie,
in fact, one of my favorites. But in that movie
was demonstrated some way over the top physical manifestations that
were dramatized in the movie. But it does give you
at least an idea of what we would normally expect
to see in the cases that involve actual poltergeist activity.
So even though it's very sensationalized and it's, you know,
a Hollywood version, so you got to take that with
a grain of salt, But these kind of things are
reported in actual cases, maybe not quite as dramatically, but
not real far from that either. In some cases, like
the stacking chairs and stuff that happens in the kitchen,
that kind of activity has been reported many times. And
I think there's if your furniture is stacking itself, you
might have a poultergeist. If you just got a cup
moving or something, you probably just haunted, you know. So
I don't know if that helps clear it up any
but I think it's pretty good food for thoughts. So
we're going to take our break right now, ladies and gentlemen,
So don't go away, and we'll get into some of
the famous haunts. Famous haunts. Did I say famous or famous?
I meant to say famous haunts dealing with poultergeist And
we'll talk about what is a poltergeist right on the
other side, So don't go away, everybody, all right, and
we are back. I am still Brent Thomas. You are
still listening to the Paranormal Portal podcast, and we are
still underway discussing the amazing phenomena referred to as poultergeist again.
Poultergeist is a term that's derived from German words which
mean noisy ghost. And if you're getting a poltergeist, you
definitely got a noisy ghost. They are quite anxious and
a lot a lot of activity going on with those.
But let's get into this. So before the break, I
was telling you about an article that I pulled up
from thoughtcode dot com that talks about what is a poltergeist.
So I want to read a few excerpts from this
for you, just to give you an idea of how
they define what a poultrygeist is. So the first one
is RSPK recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis. Says Role called it recurrent
spontaneous psychokinesis or RSPK, and found that the paranormal activity
could almost always be traced to a person clinically labeled
an agent. So the person that's attached to is called
an agent. As we heard in that last article that
we read before the break. This agent, although a victim
of the puzzling and sometimes frightening activity is unaware that
he or she as actually the cause of it, but
some mechanism that still is not understood, or by some mechanism, rather,
the activity arises out of the unconscious or some subconscious
of the individual in response to emotional stress or trauma.
So little is really known about the human brain and mind,
But somehow the psychological stress suffered by this agent produce
effects in the surrounding physical world, pounding on the walls
of a house, a book flying off a shelf, glowing
orbs zipping around a room, heavy furniture sliding across the floor,
perhaps even audible voices. In some rare cases, the manifestations
can turn violent, producing scratches on the skin, shoves and slaps.
So so powerful is the unconscious mind under stress? You know,
I kind of disagree with that. I think they're lumping
a whole lot of things into one one heading here,
because I don't think that disembodied voices and scratches are
necessarily a sign of a poultergeist. They can be, as
they can physically attack people, but generally I would probably
relate those kind of things to more of a negative haunt,
whether it be demon or something something else just maliciously attacking.
But I don't think that scratches and disembodied voices necessarily
a qualify as at least not exclusively qualify as a poltergeist.
Now there's bound to be overlap as well. I mean,
it's not either one or the other. It may take
a while to determine what kind of haunting is going on,
because you know, the poultergeist can have physical scratching, as
can demonic oppression or presence, and as can a negative haunt.
So all three of those could be determined to be
candidates for the type of haunting based upon just that phenomenas.
But it's all the other factors that you have to
take into consideration to come to the conclusion. So one
possible and famous historical case is that of the Bell
Witch from the early nineteenth century. This was the case
of a severe poltergeist phenomena that's centered around young Betsy Bell.
The activity then attributed to a witch through things around
the Bell home, move furniture, punched and slapped the children.
According to eyewitnesses, Betsy Bell appears to have been the
agent of this instant. Now that may or may not be.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's see the bell, which one to me sounds more
sounds more demonic. But again, I'm not an expert. I'm
just an enthusiast, So they may be right, I may
be wrong. But uh, it's kind of curious that they
identified that. But now it says how common are poultergeists.
Poultergeist agents are very often adolescents, but not always. It
seems true that some adolescents under the combined stress of
growing up in hormonal changes occurring during puberty can produce
poltergeist activity, but adults under stress can be agents as well,
especially perhaps if they have unresolved stresses from childhood. It
is unknown how common Poultergeist activity is. Certainly remarkable cases
in which household agents are tossed about there with relative
are are tossed about are relatively rare. Sorry, but those
are the cases that get the attention and are documented
simply because they are remarkable, especially if the activity persists
over many days.
Speaker 2: Weeks, or months.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of other cases that occur only once
or on rare occasions. So the next part of this
article talks about documented cases of Poltergeist.
Speaker 2: But that's what we're going to get to next. You know, it's.
Speaker 5: I think they do a pretty good job here, but
a lot of times these articles kind of lump a
lot of information into convenient headings and may not be
the best resources to actually identify the phenomena and kind
of nail it down what it is. But again, I
just have to divert to my understanding of it, because
that's what makes it to me is that, you know,
they are very active, they're very powerful, but normally they're
very short lived. So now, ladies and gentlemen actually on
the what was it The Dead Files a few times
throughout the course of watching that show, and I like
that show. I think that Amy Ellen and Steve Deschave
do a great job. I think she's a very talented
physical medium. And it's really if the show is not
really really heavily edited, which it very well may be,
I just don't know for sure, but if it's to
be taken at its presented value, then she's really pretty
dead on. And she has identified several times that there
are in certain cases some of the negative things going on.
There are people at the heart of it that live
in the house which to me suggests a Poultery guist
kind of thing. And she's said as much on a
few episodes as well. And if you haven't watch The
Dead Files, I think it's a pretty good show, just
to give you an idea of some of the strange, strange,
strange things that go on. And I'm not chuckling because
it's funny. I'm chuckling because I'm thinking, as I was
saying that, how many times she's talked about spirits being
stuck in walls and stuff. And I'm like, my god,
could you imagine that you're in your afterlife and this
is your experiences that you're stuck in a freaking wall. Oh,
that's got to be a fresh kind of hell. That's
all I'm gonna say. So this is the famous poultrygeist cases,
and this just goes over three of them, but the
first one that they list here is the Thornton Heath Poultergeist.
In the nineteen seventies in Thornton Heath, England, a family
was tormented by poultergeist phenomena that started one August night
when they were awoken in the middle of the night
by a blaring bedside radio that had somehow turned itself
on turned to a foreign language station. So it turned
on and turned to a different language station. So this
obviously in England. Yeah, so they'd pick up European stations
there then too.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: 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
nineteen seventy two, an ornament was buried was hurled rather
across the room, smashing into the husband's forehead. Wow, and
as he flopped into an armchair, reports Haunted Croydon. Haunted Croydon.
I don't know if that's a group or what, but
the Christmas tree began to shake violently. Come the new year.
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 on the front door. The
living room door was then flung open and all the
houses 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, so it was just an auditory phenomenon
that it wasn't actually physical. It was maybe perhaps some
kind of hallucinatory phenomena, which is terrible enough, but you
know what I mean. A medium was consulted and she
told the family that the house was haunted by a
form a farmer rather of the name of Chatterton, who
considered the family trespassers on his property. An investigation bore
out the fact that Chatterton had indeed lived at the
house in the mid eighteenth century. Chatterton's wife now joined
in causing the 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 the television screens wearing a black jacket,
a wide with wide pointed lapels, high necked shirt, and
black cravat. After the family moved out of the house,
the poulter Geist activity ceased and none have been reported
by subsequent residents. So in this case, it was tied
to a family. Now, in most of this story just
sounds like a traditional haunt. The manifestations and stuff don't
to me, they don't tie in with the Poultergeist thing,
because as far as I have ever heard normally, I've
never run across stories that I believe were poltergeists where
there was actually a physical manifestation of some form. And
I might be very badly mistaken in making and making
that statement, but I'm only sharing with you what I've researched. Generally,
they are ghostly phenomena with lots of physical activity, But
I've never heard before this that there was a represented
figure that appeared that seemed to be the manifestation of
the phenomena. So in this case, it sounds like a
haunting that acted in some ways like a Poultrygeist activity.
But to me, that just doesn't seem like a Poultergeist
haunting in the traditional sense. So the next one is
one that I'm sure many many many people have heard about.
It's one that I've heard about many many times, and
it's called the Enfield poultrygeist case. Now, this one is
really famous and was very closely investigated by a really
well known parapsychologist who not only helped out the family
but still remains in contact with the family unless he's
diseased now, but I don't think he is. But this
one is another English ghost. This one is in Enfield,
North London. It made headlines in nineteen seventy seven. The
strange activity seemed to center around the daughter of Peggy Harper,
a divorcee in her mid forties. Again, it started on
an August night, late at night. An urban ghost story
relates Janet age eleven and her brother Pete age ten,
complained that their beds were jolting up and down and
going all funny. As soon as Miss Harper got into
the room, the movement stopped. As far as she was concerned,
her kids were just 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. Miss Harper promptly
got her children out of the house and saw the
assistant of a neighbor. The neighbors searched the house and
garden but found absolutely nobody there. Soon they also heard
a knox on the walls, which continued at spaced out intervals.
At eleven PM, they called the police, who also heard
the knox, and one officer even saw a chair inexplicably
move across the floor, and later signed a written statement
to confirm the events. Several people were witnessed 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 Gross
of the Society for Psychical Research came to investigate in
Gross claims that he experienced the strange happenings first, and
marble was thrown at him from an unseen hand, and
he saw doors open and closed by themselves, and claimed
to feel a sudden breeze that seemed to move up
from his feet to his head.
Speaker 2: Gross was later.
Speaker 5: Joined in the investigation by writer Guy Leon Playfair, and
together they studied the case for two years. So that's
an extraordinarily long one. The haunting or the knocking on
the walls rather than floors, became an almost nightly occurrence.
Furniture slid across the floor and was thrown down from stairs,
Drawers were wrenched out of dressing tables, toys and other
objects would fly across the room, and bedclothes would be
pulled off. Water was found in mysterious puddles on the floor,
and there were outbreaks of fire followed by their inex
inexplicable extinguishing. The case became decidedly unnerving when the spirits
revealed themselves through Janet, which I think is one of
the kids. Speaking in a deep, gravelly voice, the spirit
announced that his name was Bill and he died in
the house, a fact that has been verified. The voices
and the phenomena have been recorded on tape and film,
and Playfair has written a book about the case called
The 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 poultrygeist always stopped when she was being watched closely,
or the activity rather poltergeist activity, and when she was
taken to the hospital for several days to be tested
for physical or mental abnormality, the phenomena ceased in the house,
which stands to reason if it is indeed triggered by
a person. So when she was removed from the house,
it stands to reason the house would go quiet. Let's
see what it says now. 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 the bed. Was this poltergeist case just
the result of an attention seeking eleven year old, and
that is, I suppose possible.
Speaker 2: But I would have to believe.
Speaker 5: That if somebody was a professional investigator, that they would
at least rule those things out out of good conscience.
And then there's one more in this list, and let's
cover this one. This is nineteen ninety eight. 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 Kabre of Savannah. And this is of
course Georgia cob bought the vintage late eighteen hundreds bed
at auction as a Christmas present for his fourteen year
year old son Jason, a purchase he later regretted buying. Yeah,
I bet, I bet. He didn't want to bring home
a haunted bed. I get it. Three nights later, Fisherman 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 his back of his neck. He
also felt sick. The next night, he noticed the photo
of his deceased grandparents on his wicker night stand flipped down,
so he righted it, and the next day the photo
was facing down again. Later that morning, after leaving his
room for breakfast, he returned and found that in the
middle of the bed two beanie babies, a zebra and
a tiger, next to a conch shell, a dinosaur made
of shells, and a plastic to canbird, And that got
his parents and his twin brother Lee's attention. Trying to
make sense of the irrational, Al called out called out,
do we have a casper here? Tell me your name
and how old you are, and then he left some
line composition paper and craons or he left some line
composition paper and kreons, and with his family walked out
of the room. In fifteen minutes, they returned and found
written vertically in large black childlike letters, Danny seven. With
his family out of the house, al Cob decided to
continue trying to communicate with the spirit of Danny and
with the same kind of notes. Danny indicated that his
mother had died in that bed in eighteen ninety nine
and that he wanted to stay with her or with
the bed rather. 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's 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 into
the closet door. No one really knows, Fishman writes in
the 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 to 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 the Bonaventure Cemetery,
and Jill, a young woman who left a number of
handwritten messages, among them one inviting the cobs to a
party in their living room. Parapsychologist Andrew Nichols, head of
the Florida Society for the 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 he moved the bed there
that charged a psychic ability in that the boy already
had there. You have it, Well, that's interesting. It sounds
like the last one could very well be, but I
don't know. Again, it's and maybe I have a hollywood
ized version of poltergeis in my head. You know, maybe
these are the more accurate descriptions, but they sound more
like general hauntings to me in most cases. But that's
why I believe that actual poltergeist cases.
Speaker 2: Are extraordinarily rare.
Speaker 5: And if they are manifestations of the person, then you
know they wouldn't have you know, apparitions and such. That
doesn't stand to support that theory at least, so, but
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