Poltergeists are the most physical and tangible phenomena in the field of paranormal research. "Poltergeist" is German for a noisy ghost, an entity that can throw objects, toss furniture around the room, and even attack people. Some poltergeists have demonstrated incendiary abilities and caused fires. In certain instances, poltergeists have developed voices that give evidence of a clever, mischievous intelligence behind the phenomenon. For thousands of years, poltergeist victims, exorcists, clerics, and psychical ...
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Poltergeists are the most physical and tangible phenomena in the field of paranormal research. "Poltergeist" is German for a noisy ghost, an entity that can throw objects, toss furniture around the room, and even attack people. Some poltergeists have demonstrated incendiary abilities and caused fires. In certain instances, poltergeists have developed voices that give evidence of a clever, mischievous intelligence behind the phenomenon. For thousands of years, poltergeist victims, exorcists, clerics, and psychical researchers have debated whether the frightening, violent disturbances are caused by ghosts, demons, elementals, or some burst of psychokinetic energy released by the human mind in an expression of frustration, hostility, repression, or corrupted creativity. In 1965, Brad Steiger's newspaper column on the paranormal attracted the attention of Ivan T. Sanderson, noted zoologist, Fortean, and explorer of the strange and unknown. Sanderson encouraged Steiger to write a book dealing exclusively with poltergeist cases, and with Sanderson as his mentor, Steiger agreed to enter the eerie reality that is the domain of the most bizarre phenomenon in all of psychical research. Released originally in 1966 but now with a Foreword by Loren Coleman and an Afterword by Brad Steiger, Strange Guests has the distinction of being the first of Steiger's now more than 160 books that dealt exclusively with the paranormal.
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Very good. New York. 1966. Ace Books. 1st Ace Paperback Edition. Good in Wrappers. Paperback Original. 159 pages. paperback. 78901. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER-True, scientifically authenticated stories of the unseen, uninvited, unexplainable forces that take possession of places, things, and people. poltergeist: A noisy ghost; a spirit assumed as the explanation of rappings and other unexplained noises. -WEBSTER'S NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY. To carry the Webster definition a step further, a poltergeist is a spirit which gives a form of action to inanimate objects, and-which can, as a result of this action, alter the behavior of living things. Here are but a few of the Strange Guests who; uninvited and unbidden, have astounded lay observers and trained investigators alike; The dancing poltergeist; The ghost with a grudge; The phantom marksman; The disembodied voice that predicted the future; The traveling poltergeist and the farmer's daughter. inventory #37257.
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This book contains quite a few stories of strange and unexplained supernatural type visitors who show up in people's homes, as well as other places.. The stories take place from earlier centuries, right up to the 1960's. I found it very interesting. But some of the stories are kind of unusual.