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Poltergeists! (Noisy Ghosts? Psychokinesis? Spirits? Demons?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Psychological Aspects of Polter Geist Cases

A survey of 116 poltergeis cases reported between 16 12 and 19 74 by para psychologist william roll found that 79 % seemed to be associated with a particular individual or two s in certain instances. The person at the centre of poultregise cases was often a young person who is experiencing a significant amount of stress. It's thought that this stress subconsciously triggers the person's psycho cinetic abilities so that they start recurrently and spontaneously manifesting. This is essentially what happens in stephen king's novel carey. And if you read the book, carey ends up causing destruction on a massive scale. So stephen king was basing the novel on actual pari

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