poltergeist

Example Sentences

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They are either annoying, like poltergeists, or vengeful, like the girl from “The Ring.”

From New York Times

Her latest case: cracking the enigma of a poltergeist that appears to be plaguing a friend’s business.

From Washington Post

My father wrote books, many of them for children, on science and history and astronomy as well as poltergeists and ghosts and U.F.O.s.

From New York Times

We do not know what a ghost would actually be made of, which means ghost hunters have to guess how a poltergeist would impact its immediate environment.

From Salon

Are the noises she hears, the unseen presence she senses, and the electronics that come on at 4 a.m. signs of poltergeist activity, as they would be in almost any other film of this sort?

From Washington Post