With a typical haunting that involves a ghost you might hear quiet footsteps at night, feel a cold spot here and there. You might even catch a glimpse of the ghost out of the corner of your eye. But a poltergeist is just the opposite. They are noisy, mischievous and destructive. While ghosts prefer night time, the poltergeist will perform day or night. Poltergeist, in German means noisy ghost and it usually involves a young adolescent. This next case which doesn’t fit neatly into any one category, I will call a poltergeist.

In the spring of 1995, Mark and Amy, both in their mid-twenties ,were married and bought their first home. The small ranch located on a quiet street needed a little work, but Mark who was a carpenter was looking forward to working on his new home.

Everything was fine until December when after decorating the Christmas tree, they noticed the ornaments seemed to have changed positions during the night. This would happen many more times during the next few weeks. One morning Amy saw an elderly couple standing next to the tree. They seemed to be admiring it .She also noticed that she could see right through them. She went to the bedroom to wake Mark, but when they went back to the tree, there was no one there. She admitted it could have been her imagination.

Another quiet 6 months went by until one night in July, a bottle cap flew off the table during dinner and went all the way into the neighboring living room. Later that evening Amy was pushed at her shoulders by an unseen force hard enough to send her crashing through a glass coffee table.

The following are some events that plagued Amy and Mark for the next 6 months :

• Clothing was removed from their dressers and thrown around the house.
• Clothing from the dryer was thrown across the room.
• Objects from shelves disappeared and mysteriously turned up in odd places.
• Their fire and burglar alarms would go off for no reason causing the police and fire departments to respond every time.
• They would hear there names being whispered while in bed.
• One morning while Amy was taking the trash out from the laundry room, she found every one of her clothespins neatly hanging on the pull chain to the light.

After realizing that this was no longer their imaginations they sought help from their local priest who blessed their house. Apparently, this only angered the spirit.

Not even 2 weeks later, Amy went shopping at 3:10, and Mark came home at 3:30. When he walked in to his house, Mark immediately called the police.
-Their living room was completely rearranged.
-Almost every drawer in the house had been opened with their contents taken out.
-In bold black letters "get out of my house" was written on their refrigerator.
-On the kitchen table and bedroom mirror was written "Get Out ".
-The seats on the kitchen chairs had 3 slash marks each.

Mark explained to the police that he changed the locks and had alarms installed when he bought the house and no one else had a key. The police found no forced entry and even if they had, this all took place in only 20 minutes.

Amy and Mark finally contacted us shortly after this incident. During the interview we requested that the couple ask their neighbors about the history of the house. We discovered that the previous owners died and left the house to their daughter, but left their son nothing because of his heavy drug use and criminal record. The son who was very upset that he was left out of the Will died of a drug overdose in July of 1996 which is coincidentally the same month and year when all the activity started. Mark and Amy decided to let him have his house and sold it that winter. This house has changed owners 2 times since and is currently on the market again.