nombre
A ghost or other supernatural being supposedly responsible for physical disturbances such as loud noises and objects thrown around.
‘Psychic investigators supposed Gef was a poltergeist or perhaps a ghost.'- ‘Specifically, in both Gallup and Newport's and Ross and Joshi's studies, ‘contact with ghosts' was reported more frequently than physical manifestations associated with poltergeists.'
- ‘There were no reports of supernatural sounds, translucent ghosts, or mischievous poltergeists, let alone greenskinned reptoids in an undergraduate girls dorm!'
- ‘Noisy ghosts are known as poltergeists (literally, noisy spirits).'
- ‘Roll and Hamilton-Parker do not believe that poltergeists are ghosts or conscious entities.'
- ‘The 16th and 17th centuries did see a number of poltergeist stories; poltergeists could be the spirits of the dead, or could be devils or intrusive witches whose spirits could walk abroad separately from their bodies.'
- ‘Whatever ghosts and poltergeists may be, it is increasingly apparent that they are facets of the same phenomenon.'
- ‘Must we explain ghosts, poltergeists, reincarnation, and the healing power of crystals?'
- ‘This covers all manner of weirdness from frog falls, ghosts and poltergeists, levitation, UFOs, lost civilisations and displaced animals (like big cats stalking the British countryside).'
- ‘But those who do believe in the ghosts agree that the theater is not haunted by a poltergeist or mean spirit.'
- ‘There have been countless tales of haunted houses - old buildings, ranging from medieval castles to twentieth-century hotels, plagued by ghosts, spirits, poltergeists, what-have-you.'
- ‘In his seventeenth-century work Saducismus Triumphatus Joseph Glanvil saw poltergeists, apparitions, and other phenomena as evidence of a spiritual world.'
- ‘Our good friend Massimo Polidoro, head of the Italian Committee for the Control of Paranormal Claims went there to observe, and he soon ruled out demons or poltergeists.'
- ‘Therefore, the explanation of poltergeist cases is not, as the term poltergeist suggests, intelligent behavior by an immaterial being, a ghost.'
- ‘After he attributes the resurrection appearances to poltergeists, and calls Jesus a levitating ghost, he's finished with the topic.'
- ‘On Sunday, the activity slowed down a little and the poltergeist contented itself with breaking two more windows and by throwing ripe tomatoes with excellent aim.'
- ‘In 1848 the Fox sisters produced the poltergeist manifestations that led to the spiritualist movement; even if they were frauds, that too is Neptunian.'
- ‘Peter's 18th title is full of local flavour and includes stories of ghosts, witchcraft and mermaids, close encounters, poltergeists and alien big cats.'
- ‘We can even dismiss him as so far away from our own time - this man grew up in a Germany haunted by witches and poltergeists, and threw inkpots at the devil - that we simply cannot understand him at all.'
- ‘In the opening episode, Fred Mumford returns from the spirit world and opens the agency Rentaghost, which offers ghosts and poltergeists for hire on a daily or weekly rental.'
Poltergeist 3 ★½ 1988 (PG-13)Wrestling with the supernatural has finally unnerved Carol Ann and she's sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Chicago where she attends a school for gifted children with emotional disorders. Guess who follows her? Uninspired acting, threadbare premise, and one ghastly encounter too many. Oddly, O'Rourke died suddenly four months before the. Poltergeist III's original ending. REVISED: 3/18/87 CONTINUED: ANGLE-PAT AND CAROL ANNE-Pat recoils in horror, wildly swinging the necklace at the evil presence in front of her. Carol Anne steps back, disappearing into the fog. Pat unlatches her safety belt and plunges from the washing rig through the broken window and into the screaming maelstrom.
- Poltergeist: translation in German - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'Polterer',Polterin',Polstersitz',poltern', examples, definition, conjugation.
- Scary picture in 3, 2, 1 One of the ideas that was tossed around in the early 1990s, not long after the release of Poltergeist 3, was to make a prequel film about creepy villain Reverend Kane, telling the character's origin story that was only briefly explored in Poltergeist 2. It was to be a psychological thriller with little in the form.
Origen
Mid 19th century from German Poltergeist, from poltern ‘create a disturbance' + Geist ‘ghost'.