Parapsychologists suggest
poltergeists originate in an agent or focus
Poltergeists and Things That
go Bump in the Night
by David Slone
Poltergeists are rare, but
they do exist. For those that aren't in the loop, a poltergeist is a
spirit that moves through inanimate objects like cups, TVs,
furniture, and windows. Noises - like bumps, thuds, kerplunks - yes
kerplunks is a dictionary word, knocks, scratching at the window,
and banging at the door are all examples of poltergeist activity. Of
course, these are natural phenomena when a human or natural cause is
to blame. However, the wind, a person, the rain, or a cat or dog
aren't the cause in these occurrences. A poltergeist could be at
fault.
In Ancient Egypt,
bed-shaking and the raining down of stones were reported. However, a
skeptic could conclude that mud slides or earthquakes were to blame.
It's no wonder that all cultures have reports of spirits interfering
in our lives - even to this day.
Parapsychologists have put
forth one explanation that suggests that poltergeists originate in a
person, and the lingo for that person is an agent or focus. They
suggest that the psycho-kinetic effects originate in the individual,
and manifest as the result of psychological trauma in that person.
Other researchers have
proposed several unrelated and interesting hypotheses. Ball
lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic fields, ionized air,
people propelling objects as hoaxes, unfriendly spirits, and
"recordings" of negative emotional energy that don't abate ever
after death. The emotion can keep re-playing itself in the natural
world even after the person is dead. Of course, this is all
speculation.
Evil spirits are reported by
practitioners of astral projection, an art associated with
out-of-body experiences. Some, a minority, occasionally use
hallucinogens, which may account for the effects.
Since there is scant
pictorial, video, and audio evidence of poltergeist phenomena, it's
a good idea to opt for the famous movie, Poltergeist. Much of the
phenomena reported by parapsychologists is depicted well in the
movie. A TV show with some parallel popularity can be purchased from
Amazon.
Over the years, there have
been countless reports of haunted houses, abodes, and buildings.
Most of these go unreported in the mainstream media, and it takes
quite a bit of digging in obscure anthologies of poltergeist
accounts to find them out. However, a few of the more important ones
are as follows. The reader should be advised that many of these
stories have inconsistencies, but some do not. Here they go, in the
order of their appearance.
In 858, an evil spirit
chucked heavy stones at a farmhouse, and it shook the walls with
power. The Demon Drummer of Tedworth in 1661, the Wizard named
Livingston in 1797, the Haunting of the Fox Sisters in 1848, the
Borley Rectory incident of 1929, and the Enfield, Mackenzie, Entity,
and other cases in the latter part of the 20th century, e.g., 1977,
1984, 2000s.
Some quick searches will
turn up dozens of field stories related to the inexplicable
phenomena that happened during these times. In many instances,
police, parapsychologists, physicists, and laymen have been unable
to find a causal link between the inanimate movements, noises, and
motions through the natural chain of reasoning, observation, and
scientific prodding.
To learn more about
poltergeist activity and read true ghost stories visit
http://www.trueghosttales.com
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David Slone lives in
Kentucky and writes for various websites including
True Ghost
Tales which is located on the web at
http://www.trueghosttales.com
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