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Poltergeists and Elemental Spirits
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Melissa Martin Ellis
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- The Amityville haunting involved a poltergeist
- The Bell family was plagued by a poltergeist
- Elementals attach themselves to a location
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A poltergeist is a noisy spirit that makes its presence known primarily by way of sound. Physical manifestations follow, beginning as scratching noises from within the walls and escalating to more frequent banging or thumping sounds.
Objects begin to sail through the air, usually narrowly missing the unfortunate inhabitants. It is often the case that there is an adolescent or teenager in the house where the manifestations occur.
It is also possible for adults to trigger the manifestations. All that is truly necessary is that the person be troubled emotionally. One theory is that this person may be unconsciously manipulating the items in the house by means of psychokinesis, which is the power to move things with an energy generated by the brain. Although largely unexplained, psychokinetic energy has been demonstrated to exist.
Usually, people have no idea they are causing the poltergeist activity, which is happening all around them, and they are surprised to find that there is any possibility they themselves could be making the chaotic events happen.
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To be fair, not all cases of poltergeist activity involve troubled individuals. These hauntings aren’t always so easily categorized. It is vital that the paranormal investigators involved be observant and not jump to conclusions too quickly. The three most famous cases of poltergeist activity in the United States were:
- The Amityville haunting, which became the basis for both a book and a movie (The Amityville Horror is generally considered to have been blown out of proportion for the sake of a story.)
- The case upon which author William Peter Blatty based The Exorcist
- The nineteenth-century Bell Witch case
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