stackyFACTSWhen a Bridgeport home exploded with flying pans and smashing plates in the 1930s, the world thought it was a demonic infestation.
When a Bridgeport home exploded with flying pans and smashing plates in the 1930s, the world thought it was a demonic infestation. But when parapsychologist Joseph B. Rhine arrived to do field forensics, he noticed a deeply cynical pattern. Almost all the kinetic anomalies revolved around an incredibly bored, highly stressed ten-year-old girl. Rhine concluded the Bridgeport poltergeist wasn't a ghost at all, but rather the unconscious, psychokinetic tantrums of prepubescent rage.
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