Halloween is the time of year when interest in the paranormal peaks and people celebrate all things supernatural. Of particular fascination are stories and tales of ghosts and ghouls and poltergists.

A ghost hunter investigating one of the UK’s most haunted buildings claims to have caught the voice of a troublesome poltergeist on camera. Matt Barlow and his team from Ghostmag was on an ...

The sight of small blonde girls watching television is guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of anyone who has watched the movie Poltergeist. We’re right to be terrified, say physicists. Children ...

Poltergeists are a frightening breed of paranormal entity. With their ability to move objects and influence the environment around them, those who claim to have witnessed them are usually left ...

Sure, some of those same Conjuring-lite enterprises, and even a few franchise entries, have endeavored for more tactility—Annabelle: Creation comes to mind. But writ large, the scares and physicality ...

A room in the opulent Double Eagle Restaurant, the most haunted in the state of New Mexico This week on Ghost Adventures, Zak Bagans and the team head to New Mexico where they investigate poltergeist ...

The TVs are bigger than they were in 1982, but the scares in the new “Poltergeist” don’t match the ones offered by director Tobe Hooper and producer Steven Spielberg the first time around. This new ...

Locking your door doesn't keep you safe from intruders as these spooky stories show. For our third installment of Chilling Coventry, we look back at the terrifying tales of poltergeist activity that ...

You only get to take the movie world utterly by surprise once. But you can, if you’re going back to that “Paranormal Activity” well one more time, produce a more polished, more “studio”-looking film ...

Kirsty Logan explores how the poltergeist changed in the 20th century, and how, often, something more terrible than ghosts haunts those at the centre of a poltergeist case. Show more Illustration by ...