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• n  a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder

• I have my share of pet Potter peeves including Peeves the poltergeist, who spends his afterlife being eternally unfunny and I'll never get a better chance to air them.
• In stories, it means simply an imp or goblin, or a poltergeist-like force that disturbs the spirit of a house.
• It was as if a poltergeist had suddenly gone on a global rampage.

News & Articles

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• Poltergeist Exorcism Sends ‘Possessed’ Woman To Hospital
  Riverton, WY – An exorcism was recently performed to rid a possessed woman of the poltergeist inhabiting her body. She was later taken to an area hospital after going into cardiac arrest. Fremont County Emergency Dispatch Center received a call on Tuesday evening about a woman who was said to be possessed with a poltergeist. [...] Poltergeist Exorcism Sends ‘Possessed’ Woman To Hospital is a ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Exorcism of biting poltergeist leads to 911 call
  KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com The exorcism of a Riverton poltergeist led a 911 call claiming a Holy Water-induced heart attack.
  June 13, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Bob Weinstein in Bloomberg
  It's suspense, along the lines of `Poltergeist' and `The Shining,' studio co-founder Bob Weinstein said in an interview. "That has an audience as well, a bigger audience."
• Dana Milbank in Media Matters for America
  Summary: On CNN Election Center, after The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said Sen. Hillary Clinton "must really look like some sort of a poltergeist" to Sen. Barack Obama, adding, "Each time he thinks he has finally finished off Hillary...
• Sarah Waters in Independent
  While writing it, Waters says she sensed the rising of a preternatural impulse: "I was reading a lot of poltergeist and haunting books and I thought I might start conjuring one up," she says. "I thought about whether there was a poltergeist...