How is a haunting different than poltergeist activity? Can there be a connection?
As mentioned above, a haunting is information recorded into the environment. This information, like the experience caused by an apparition, has a very subjective and perceptual component. Not everyone experiences something in a haunted place, and those that do may experience slightly different perceptions. On the other hand, poltergeist activity involves physical effects that can be witnessed by anyone looking in the right direction (and can be videotaped, photographed and otherwise recorded). Poltergeist, while it literally means “noisy ghost,” has come to represent a different model altogether from a parapsychological perspective. In poltergeist cases, physical effects are the central theme. These effects can run from movements and levitations and appearances/disappearances of objects to unusual behavior of electrical appliances, from unexplained knockings and other sounds to temperature changes, with all combinations possible as well. Rarely are ghostly figures or voices seen or hea
