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Tag Archives: Poltergeist
Science and Ghosts
“Science itself does not always know why a thing is so.” – God’s World: A Treatise on Spiritualism (T. W. Stead. 1919) Ghosts, they’re everywhere! From the pages of the Bible to the old building down the street, people have … Continue reading
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Tagged 19 hertz, Ghosts, Haunting, Near Death Experience, Philip Experiment, Poltergeist, Science, Skippy Experiment, the Quiet Ones, Trolls
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The Skippy Experiment
The Philip Experiment, discussed last week, has since been replicated several times. The most successful of these efforts, to date, has been the Skippy Experiment, which has also been referred to as the “Sydney Experiment.” This study took place in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fraud, Ghost, Haunting, Michael Williams, Paranormal, Philip Experiment, Poltergeist, Seance, Skippy Experiment, Sydney Experiment, Table Turning
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The Philip Experiment
The Philip Experiment “A poltergeist will usually claim to be whatever its human observers believe it to be” – Poltergeists & Other Hauntings (Rupert Mathews. 2009) In 1972, Canadian Dr. G. Owen conducted the Philip Experiment. This was a study that … Continue reading
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Tagged Fraud, Ghost, Haunting, Philip Experiment, Poltergeist, Seance, Skippy Experiment, Sydney Experiment, Table Turning, the Quiet Ones
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The Eight Stages of a Poltergeist Haunting
The eight stages of a poltergeist haunting has been taken from Rupert Mathews’ book Poltergeists. For anyone interested, Mathews’ book is well researched and a great read. He covers the many different characteristics of what we would now consider to … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparition, apport, Bell Witch, dissapport, Doris Bitter, Entity, famous, Fraud, Ghosts, Haunting, Hauntings, Hungry Ghosts, knocks, lithobolia, noises, Ouija, Poltergeist, psychokinesis, Rupert Mathews, Spirits, theories
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The Cat in Celtic Lore: Demon, Witch, or Lover?
The Cat in Celtic lore is a beast both loved and abhorred. Those in pursuit of Otherworldly powers coveted him, but not in a way that lacked cruelty. For those who despised powers said to exist outside of the church, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparition, Arthur, Cat, Cat Eyes, Cat Head, Cat Ritual, Cuchulainn, Demon, Devil, Dog Head, Evil Spirit, Ghost, Phantom Cat, Poltergeist, spell, Succubus, Witch
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The Banshee: Ghost of the Celts
The Banshee’s arguably the most famous ghost of them all, and probably the least understood. “When the Banshee calls she sings the spirit home. In some houses still a soft low music is heard at death.” – George Henderson 1911 … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparition, Banshee, Banshee Howl, Banshee Meaning, Banshee Wail, Canada, Death, Eleanor Hull, Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Ghost, Ghost Servant, Haunting, Irish, James MacKillop, Katherine Briggs, Lady Wilde, Myth, Omen, Poltergeist, Scottish, spell, United States, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Watcher at Ford
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