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Poltergeist
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Poltergeist
This topic is named poltergeist because I hope to create a debate on the nature of the poltergeist phenomenon. As this thread is about poltergeist, let me say straight off that any post relating to ghosts (unless linked in some solid way to poltergeist) I will ignore.

I am aware that many of you may not know the difference between poltergeist and ghosts. I will attempt to enlighten you:

1.Poltergeist tend to haunt people whilst the common ghost will haunt a geographical location.
2.Poltergeist tend to have a shelf life of a few weeks or months (although there are cases of longer inhabitation) where as a ghost can remain active for hundreds if not thousands of years.
3.Poltergeist tend to be more violent, but also have a much smaller bag of tricks e.g. They can not go beyond throwing things around the room and banging on the walls with the occasional angry text message now and again.
4.Poltergeist do not appear to be dead souls/spirits. In other words they do not seem to have ever inhabitation a body.

The following is a copy and paste exercise. The work is mine but I am to lazy to type it all out again.




The South Sheilds Poltergeist is perhaps the best documented in recent history. Unlike most poltergeist, 'Sammy'-as it called itself-was not shy or retiring. It violently attacked a member of the household-Marc-on various occasions-at least one of which was in front of the camera.

The phenomenon began in 2005. Marc, Marianne and Robert (Marianne's three year old son) lived in a house in South Sheilds. They first began to notice strange things happening such as doors closing themselves and strange noises coming from Robert's drawers. They called in the investigators in June 2006 as the phenomenon intensified.

The investigators first suspected fraud. They ruled out Marianne as she seemed genuinely terrified but thought that Marc may be involved. They latter ruled this out as they began to witnesses the phenomenon with their own eyes and photograph/record many of them. They concluded that Marc could not stage the phenomenon (e.g. scars appearing and disappearing from his body in front of the camera and independently moving objects).

What make this case so special is the sheer volume of data. At one point 20 credible witnesses saw the phenomenon occur and there is plenty of photographic and video footage. The threatening text messages Marianne received from dead phones and the mysterious disappearance of Robert for short periods of time (only to reappear raped tightly in his bed sheet in a cupboard or under a glass table) all bear testament to the often laughed at poltergeist phenomenon.

References




http://www.mikehallowell.com/shieldspolt/page4.html


http://www.mikehallowell.com/shieldspolt/page11.html


http://monkeywah.typepad.com/paranormali...shiel.html

Paranormal Magazine (various issues)

From this case and various others I have drawn up a hypothesis; at times of stress-both mentally and physically-some people can create an independent entity which carries out a sub-concious-or even concious-desire in a twisted deviation from the original intent. For instance, in this case Marc was the step-dad of Robert. Perhaps Robert accidentally created a poltergeist due to the stress and anxiety caused by this disturbance in the household at such a delicate age-Bowlby (1961) showed that this can have serious natural consequences for development, but perhaps we are overlooking the more 'super'-natural.
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Messages In This Thread
Poltergeist - by dagda - July 1, 2009 at 9:16 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 1, 2009 at 10:50 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Samson - July 1, 2009 at 3:57 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by binny - July 4, 2009 at 11:05 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 4, 2009 at 12:05 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 5, 2009 at 4:52 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Dotard - July 1, 2009 at 10:21 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by padraic - July 1, 2009 at 11:56 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 2, 2009 at 5:59 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Dotard - July 2, 2009 at 8:18 am
RE: Poltergeist - by padraic - July 2, 2009 at 6:28 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 2, 2009 at 6:44 am
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 2, 2009 at 8:46 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 2, 2009 at 11:16 am
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 2, 2009 at 12:29 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 2, 2009 at 1:13 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 2, 2009 at 2:52 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 2, 2009 at 3:11 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 2, 2009 at 4:29 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 3, 2009 at 3:29 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 4, 2009 at 8:37 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 4, 2009 at 8:45 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 5, 2009 at 11:39 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Rob - July 5, 2009 at 7:12 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 5, 2009 at 3:16 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by AngelaRachnid - July 7, 2009 at 8:33 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 8, 2009 at 5:38 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 8, 2009 at 2:57 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 8, 2009 at 5:36 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 9, 2009 at 4:07 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Dotard - July 9, 2009 at 7:05 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 9, 2009 at 3:22 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 7, 2009 at 9:22 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 8, 2009 at 7:25 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 8, 2009 at 8:33 am
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 8, 2009 at 1:55 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by padraic - July 9, 2009 at 8:44 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 10, 2009 at 5:26 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 11, 2009 at 4:51 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 10, 2009 at 7:25 am
RE: Poltergeist - by dagda - July 10, 2009 at 8:01 am
RE: Poltergeist - by leo-rcc - July 10, 2009 at 8:13 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 10, 2009 at 4:38 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 11, 2009 at 6:36 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Rhizomorph13 - July 11, 2009 at 12:45 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 11, 2009 at 3:13 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 11, 2009 at 3:58 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 11, 2009 at 9:34 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Tiberius - July 12, 2009 at 5:10 am
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 12, 2009 at 5:58 am
RE: Poltergeist - by LEDO - July 12, 2009 at 4:17 pm
RE: Poltergeist - by Kyuuketsuki - July 12, 2009 at 5:32 pm



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