Noisy spirit

Usage examples of poltergeist.

In childhood, rare individuals display supranormal powers-the phychokinetic poltergeist phenomenon, for instance.

The region is now awash in UFOs, poltergeists, faith healers, quack medicines, magic waters and old-time superstition.

Don't laugh, but there've even been a couple of incidents like the poltergeist phenomena they sometimes dramatize on what Herb calls 'the psycho-reality shows'.

The Bogarts' isolated cottage has been plagued with apparitions, strange sounds, and poltergeist activity.

I thumbed through several examples, most of them lurid and melodramatic, appealing to gullible natures, and found stories of ghosts, poltergeists, clairvoyancy, mysterious disappearances.

Watching Poltergeist, Frank was disappointed that the whole family survived: He kept hoping that the little boy would be eaten by some creepazoid in the closet and that his stripped bones would be spit out like watermelon seeds.

He also believed in ghosts, poltergeists, demonic possession, Satanic possession, flying saucers, alien abduction, Roswell, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Bermuda Triangle, telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, spontaneous combustion, levitation, reincarnation, out-of-body consciousness and the rapture.

Because of mutual interests in extreme skiing, skydiving, hard-boiled detective fiction, competitive rodeo bronc-busting, ghosts and poltergeists, big-band music, wilderness-survival techniques, and the art of scrimshaw among many other things, the twins are fascinating conversationalists, as much fun to listen to as they are to look at.

It was one of these poltergeist cases, where noises and foolish tricks had gone on for some years, very much like the classical case of John Wesley's family at Epworth in 1726, or the case of the Fox family at Hydesville near Rochester in 1848, which was the starting-point of modern spiritualism.

Like their counterparts in the Anglers' Rest, these jolly imbibers are never too surprised by anything they hear: even if it is the story of a young man who has fallen in love with a dryad, a building haunted by a poltergeist that smells, or—in the case of "The Better Mousetrap"—an unfortunate soul who has recruited a dragon to get rid of a plague of mice.

Nearly Headless Nick was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right direction, but Peeves the Poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class.

Harry looked up and saw, floating twenty feet above them, Peeves the Poltergeist, a little man in a bell-covered hat and orange bow tie, his wide, malicious face contorted with concentration as he took aim again.

Indeed, a week after Fred and George's departure Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.

My body and home are always infested -- whether by cockroaches and tapeworms, or by Martians and poltergeists.