ABSTRACT 'Haunt and poltergeist'experiences tend to occur around certain individuals
('person-focusing'). To study this phenomenon, a convenience sample of college students …

The current study examines the specific experiences of individuals who have reported haunt
phenomena in the context of common paranormal belief measures. One hundred and sixty …

Although it has long been suspected that haunt and poltergeist phenomena form a
hierarchy, compelling empirical evidence for this suggestion has been lacking. Using the …

Motivated by previous suggestions in the literature, we addressed the relation between
haunt experiences and Paranormal Belief (New Age Philosophy and Traditional Paranormal …

We review conceptualizations and measurements of base (or core) experiences commonly
attributed to haunts and poltergeists (ie,“ghostly episodes”). Case analyses, surveys …

Previous questionnaire and field research shows that the report and phenomenology of
haunt experiences correlate with a number of perceptual-personality variables, suggesting …

This research tested the notion that poltergeist-like experiences reflect the need to explain
anomalous personal experiences, Thus, it was hypothesized that percipients of poltergeists …

The preceding chapters disagreed about the physical reality of hauntings and poltergeists.
However, few would disagree that these phenomena-and the paranormal in general-are …

The present study investigated whether suggestion, level of belief in the paranormal, and
proneness to reality testing deficits influenced participants' expectation of haunt-related …

The authors predicted that (1) entity encounter experiences would show a positive relation
with scores on the variable known as transliminality;(2) such experiences would correlate …