Poltergeists!
What are they - are they real?
What creates the activity?
As with all ghost stories - each incident reported is different and individual.
Do your reading and form your own conclusions.
If you are after being there when it happens.
Good luck - you have to be there at the right place at the right time or be intimately involved with the 'polt' you may have to be the focus or close to the focus of activity.
Some people only know what they have seen in the movies.
Of course we all know that what you see in the movies is factual !
Right?
The word 'poltergeist' is a German word meaning noisy ghost and depending on what information you wish to believe, some will tell you that there is no ghost attached to poltergeist activity as it is really the name given to the activity itself not that which is responsible for the activity.
The theory is that there is a main instigator, a focus - one with a heart beat, and usually a boy or girl in the teenage age group and most recently I have also discovered that some researchers say that it seems that us mad menopausal women can also be the cause/focus (so don't cross me!)
This is most often very much a subconscious thing - the key focus person is often not aware that they are the cause of all the trouble, it's only when that person is taken out of the equation that it may be noted if the activity continues or stops.
And the activity is notoriously random and can stop as quickly as it starts.
While others will attribute the activity to ghosts and say that there definitely is someone or something corporeal behind the opening and closing doors, things being thrown to the ground, items disappearing and reappearing etc.
During my research for my book "Newcastle Ghost Stories" I found at least four or five poltergeist stories from the area going right back to the late 1800's.
It seems many of the early stories were about stone throwing poltergeists. We had a stone throwing ghost in Lambton, a suburb of Newcastle NSW and the many people would head out and wait nightly for the events to start happening!
It created quite a fuss with men, women and children standing in front of the house for many nights.
Finally the Police were called in to move the mob on.
The most famous Australian stone throwing 'polt' was the Gyra Ghost.
I'm writing about this topic now as we have a little poltergeist activity at our place!
It's being going on for some time and seemed to escalate when I left for holidays recently and my husband was at home on his own.
But more later.
Firstly some other local poltergeist stories.
The next few paragraphs come from a local newspaper article written by Greg Ray and featuring two poltergeist stories, one very close to home.
"A Novocastrian poltergeist chapter, centred on an incident that was said to have occurred at 18 Gordon Street, Mayfield, in 1977.
Renters George and Jan Brown reported a sound like an egg-beater in their ceiling, icy chills in the living room and loud footsteps around the rooms when nobody was moving.
Pictures and ornaments were removed from walls and placed on the floors overnight, and a replica antique pistol (also hanging on the wall) was torn down and broken.
The couple later heard that somebody had died in the living room of the house. When they moved to Kurri Kurri later on, they left the poltergeist behind.
The San Remo story is weirder.
The Berrell family was living in Barkley Avenue in 1986 when something started banging on the outside of the walls of their house.
Actually, the noises seemed to come from inside the walls themselves, but no matter how often they looked and checked – accompanied by friends and witnesses – they could see nothing to explain the events.
Turns out the Berrells used to live next door, and the banging house was inhabited by a frail elderly neighbour. Apparently he had a bad fall one night, and lay on the floor, banging the wall to get attention. Days later, when Ron Berrell went in and found him, the old bloke grabbed his wrist and said: ‘‘I will look after you, Ron’’.
The Berrells ended up moving into the house while they waited for their own new home to be built, and that’s when they experienced all the noises and other chilling occurrences.
When the house burned down, the Berrells moved in with some friends, and all the creepy stuff followed them there, in a big way. Banging, crashing, bashing. The friend who owned the house, George Sykes, told reporters of a shower of pebbles rising from the path in front of him and striking him as he went to investigate some loud noises.
Another time, both the Berrells and the Sykes family said, a cupboard opened by itself and plates started flying out and smashing all over the place.
The authors of the book have asked me to help them find any of the Berrell family, or any other witnesses they can talk to about the San Remo case.
So if you can help, or if you’ve got a hair-raising poltergeist story of your own, let me know and I’ll gladly pass your details on to Paul and Tony.
Or you can look up their website: australianpoltergeist.com."
Now back to our place,
For quite some time my husband has heard footsteps walking around upstairs and activity in another bedroom only to go searching to find nothing there.
But while I was away we had two incidences where items were thrown to the floor after a big bang was heard.
The first time he sent me photos (cause I asked him to) and he told me that the items would have to be lifted firstly to then get thrown on the floor. It wasn't a simple push, it had to be a lift and push.
The following time it occurred I was actually on the phone talking to him and he was downstairs on the couch when I could hear a huge bang down the phone line and both of us said, 'what was that'?!!
Hubby went upstairs to find more items on the floor in the front hallway, with again no explanation as to how, who or why. He actually got goosebumps talking about it all to me.
This is where we stand right now.
I'm in no hurry to find out any more and its been quiet since I came back home.
So whatever you think about the old poltergeist story it seems to be something that has gone on for hundreds of years.
And I am sure many of you have your own stories to share - if you do please don't keep them to yourselves.
I WANT TO HEAR!!
Message me here or send to info@newcastleghosttours.com.au
What are they - are they real?
What creates the activity?
As with all ghost stories - each incident reported is different and individual.
Do your reading and form your own conclusions.
If you are after being there when it happens.
Good luck - you have to be there at the right place at the right time or be intimately involved with the 'polt' you may have to be the focus or close to the focus of activity.
Some people only know what they have seen in the movies.
Of course we all know that what you see in the movies is factual !
Right?
The word 'poltergeist' is a German word meaning noisy ghost and depending on what information you wish to believe, some will tell you that there is no ghost attached to poltergeist activity as it is really the name given to the activity itself not that which is responsible for the activity.
The theory is that there is a main instigator, a focus - one with a heart beat, and usually a boy or girl in the teenage age group and most recently I have also discovered that some researchers say that it seems that us mad menopausal women can also be the cause/focus (so don't cross me!)
This is most often very much a subconscious thing - the key focus person is often not aware that they are the cause of all the trouble, it's only when that person is taken out of the equation that it may be noted if the activity continues or stops.
And the activity is notoriously random and can stop as quickly as it starts.
While others will attribute the activity to ghosts and say that there definitely is someone or something corporeal behind the opening and closing doors, things being thrown to the ground, items disappearing and reappearing etc.
During my research for my book "Newcastle Ghost Stories" I found at least four or five poltergeist stories from the area going right back to the late 1800's.
It seems many of the early stories were about stone throwing poltergeists. We had a stone throwing ghost in Lambton, a suburb of Newcastle NSW and the many people would head out and wait nightly for the events to start happening!
It created quite a fuss with men, women and children standing in front of the house for many nights.
Finally the Police were called in to move the mob on.
The most famous Australian stone throwing 'polt' was the Gyra Ghost.
I'm writing about this topic now as we have a little poltergeist activity at our place!
It's being going on for some time and seemed to escalate when I left for holidays recently and my husband was at home on his own.
But more later.
Firstly some other local poltergeist stories.
The next few paragraphs come from a local newspaper article written by Greg Ray and featuring two poltergeist stories, one very close to home.
"A Novocastrian poltergeist chapter, centred on an incident that was said to have occurred at 18 Gordon Street, Mayfield, in 1977.
Renters George and Jan Brown reported a sound like an egg-beater in their ceiling, icy chills in the living room and loud footsteps around the rooms when nobody was moving.
Pictures and ornaments were removed from walls and placed on the floors overnight, and a replica antique pistol (also hanging on the wall) was torn down and broken.
The couple later heard that somebody had died in the living room of the house. When they moved to Kurri Kurri later on, they left the poltergeist behind.
The San Remo story is weirder.
The Berrell family was living in Barkley Avenue in 1986 when something started banging on the outside of the walls of their house.
Actually, the noises seemed to come from inside the walls themselves, but no matter how often they looked and checked – accompanied by friends and witnesses – they could see nothing to explain the events.
Turns out the Berrells used to live next door, and the banging house was inhabited by a frail elderly neighbour. Apparently he had a bad fall one night, and lay on the floor, banging the wall to get attention. Days later, when Ron Berrell went in and found him, the old bloke grabbed his wrist and said: ‘‘I will look after you, Ron’’.
The Berrells ended up moving into the house while they waited for their own new home to be built, and that’s when they experienced all the noises and other chilling occurrences.
When the house burned down, the Berrells moved in with some friends, and all the creepy stuff followed them there, in a big way. Banging, crashing, bashing. The friend who owned the house, George Sykes, told reporters of a shower of pebbles rising from the path in front of him and striking him as he went to investigate some loud noises.
Another time, both the Berrells and the Sykes family said, a cupboard opened by itself and plates started flying out and smashing all over the place.
The authors of the book have asked me to help them find any of the Berrell family, or any other witnesses they can talk to about the San Remo case.
So if you can help, or if you’ve got a hair-raising poltergeist story of your own, let me know and I’ll gladly pass your details on to Paul and Tony.
Or you can look up their website: australianpoltergeist.com."
Now back to our place,
For quite some time my husband has heard footsteps walking around upstairs and activity in another bedroom only to go searching to find nothing there.
But while I was away we had two incidences where items were thrown to the floor after a big bang was heard.
The first time he sent me photos (cause I asked him to) and he told me that the items would have to be lifted firstly to then get thrown on the floor. It wasn't a simple push, it had to be a lift and push.
The following time it occurred I was actually on the phone talking to him and he was downstairs on the couch when I could hear a huge bang down the phone line and both of us said, 'what was that'?!!
Hubby went upstairs to find more items on the floor in the front hallway, with again no explanation as to how, who or why. He actually got goosebumps talking about it all to me.
This is where we stand right now.
I'm in no hurry to find out any more and its been quiet since I came back home.
So whatever you think about the old poltergeist story it seems to be something that has gone on for hundreds of years.
And I am sure many of you have your own stories to share - if you do please don't keep them to yourselves.
I WANT TO HEAR!!
Message me here or send to info@newcastleghosttours.com.au
An interesting read Renata, thank you :)
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