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poltergeist
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poltergeist (pōl`tərgīst) [Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism spiritism or spiritualism, belief that the human personality continues to exist after death and can communicate with the living through the agency of a medium or psychic.
..... Click the link for more information. , certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation. Believers in spiritism interpret these phenomena, particularly common during séances, as evidence of the presence of supernatural spirits.
poltergeist
a spirit believed to manifest its presence by rappings and other noises and also by acts of mischief, such as throwing furniture about


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t be too surprised if you find yourself in the middle of some poltergeist activity there.
Ghosts in the Cotswolds Area by Mark Smalls / Philosophy and religion community
MacKenzie's tomb is near the site of the prison, however the poltergeist activity takes place within the prison.
FAVOURITE HAUNTS; FROM CREEPY GOINGS ON IN CASTLES TO VIOLENT ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
With barely-concealed glee, Darren, a civil servant based at Longbenton, North Tyneside, said: "The thing about it is that it went on for so long - poltergeist activity usually lasts three months - and we were on it virtually from the start.
Spirited read by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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