Poltergeist means 'noisy ghost'. Being invisible, poltergeists often cause a lot of disturbance which has sometimes been caught on film.
Ghosts are shadowy silent figures and no one has ever been able to prove that they exist.
The haunted house On 31 August 1977 the most famous poltergeist in Britain began haunting the Harper family home in Enfield, London. Over the next 14 months witnesses reported over 400 'happenings'. A photographer from the Daily Mirror set up cameras to record anything he could. He managed to capture the poltergeist whipping the blankets off one of the children's beds. The pub poltergeist In November 1900 a poltergeist hunter travelled to a public house in Via Bava in Turin, Italy, to investigate a haunting.