page_title: Poltergeist
section_title: Famous cases
hierarchical_section_title: Poltergeist / Famous cases
caption_attribution_description: English: The Epworth Rectory famous for the alleged haunting in 1716-1717.
context_page_description: In ghostlore, a poltergeist is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors.
  They have traditionally been described as troublesome spirits who haunt a particular person instead of a specific location. Such alleged poltergeist manifestations have been reported in many cultures and countries including the United States, India‚ Japan, Brazil, Australia, and most European nations. Early claims of spirits that supposedly harass and torment their victims date back to the 1st century, but references to poltergeists became more common in the early 1600s.
context_section_description: Glenluce Devil (1654-1656)
  Drummer of Tedworth (1662)
  Mackie poltergeist (1695)
  Epworth Rectory (1716–1717)
  Hinton Ampner (1764-1771)
  Stockwell ghost (1772)
  Sampford Peverell (1810-1811)
  Bell Witch of Tennessee (1817–1872)
  Bealings Bells (1834)
  Angelique Cottin (ca. 1846)
  Ballechin House (1876)
  Great Amherst Mystery (1878–1879)
  Caledonia Mills (1899-1922)
  Gef the Talking Mongoose (1931)
  Borley Rectory (1937) 
  Thornton Heath poltergeist (1938)
  Seaford poltergeist (1958)
  Matthew Manning  (1960s–1970s)
  The Black Monk of Pontefract (1960s–1970s)
  Rosenheim Poltergeist 
  The Amityville case (1975)
  The Enfield Poltergeist (1977)
  The Thornton Road poltergeist of Birmingham (1981)
  Tina Resch (1984)
  The Canneto di Caronia fires poltergeist (2004–05)
caption: Epworth Rectory
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