noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clark says the poltergeist scatters pots and pans over the kitchen floor, opens locked doors and frightens the family dog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alison says the poltergeist has tried to smother her boyfriend in their terraced house.
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How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room; voices where they had none before?
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She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence, about adolescents harbouring poltergeists.
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The family refused to be reassured by the expert's promises that poltergeists did not harm people.
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The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.
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Though many poltergeist influences can be explained in this way, what of those which happen in empty, uninhabited properties?