poltergeist

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In some scenes, the spirit is a poltergeist nuisance, spilling glasses and knocking down shelves; in others, it’s confoundingly trapped behind some sort of plasma screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Andrew Lloyd Webber has said he once called on a priest to help remove a poltergeist from his London home.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

Here’s what you should know about the mysterious rise and fall of the purported poltergeist.

From National Geographic • Sep. 19, 2023

Both have reportedly claimed that a Skinwalker ranch poltergeist followed them home.

From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2023

We ’ave none of zis ugly armor in ze ’alls, and eef a poltergeist ever entaired into Beauxbatons, ’e would be expelled like zat.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling