Post by Akadeanna Hawk on Feb 3, 2015 19:13:47 GMT -5
The Lincoln Home in Jackson where the activity took place. In this photo from 1962, Victor Lincoln shows where the family heard footsteps on the front porch, even though no one was walking there at the time.
Although many researchers today often mistake the work of “poltergeists” (noisy ghosts) as being nothing more than the unconscious forces of disturbed persons at the location of the activity, some happenings might not be so easy to explain away! In the past, all ghost researchers assumed that the antics of haunted houses were the work of spirits but as time progressed, it began to be realized that the human mind was more complex that we ever imagined. Some scientists and investigators began to show that some of the items that moved around in houses, glasses that broke, doors that slammed and other weird events that occurred were actually being controlled by energy created by living persons. In some cases, disturbed, nervous or anxious individuals who lived in the “haunted house” were unknowingly causing outbreaks of activity to erupt.
Soon, this became a common theory in the paranormal field and cases that seemed to involve ghosts were quickly found to be the work of psychokinesis (PK) instead. But was this always the case? Were researchers becoming too quick to jump to the conclusion that violent and destructive cases were not ghostly in nature? Could some of the strange and unusual cases that were first thought to involve overly fraught teenagers actually involve the spirits of the dead instead?
Such was likely the case of a terrifying poltergeist who wreaked havoc in a Jackson, Michigan home in the early 1960’s. At first glance, the house had all of the makings of a PK poltergeist case as there were two teenagers living in the house (including a 13-year old girl) and the makings of a tense situation. Perhaps the first thing that most researchers noticed to be out of the ordinary though was the length of time during which the activity occurred. Author and investigator Nandor Fodor (one of the first paranormal researcher to draw the links between human “agents” and poltergeist activity) noted that most poltergeist cases have a lifetime of a few weeks or even a month or two at the most. The aggressive energies needed to cause objects to move about, break and be thrown are usually spent in a short amount of time. It is very rare to hear of a human agent type of poltergeist outbreak that lasts for very long, which is what makes the Jackson, Michigan case so unique. The events in the home of the Victor Lincoln family lasted for more than three years, beginning in 1959!
The events in the Lincoln home began quietly and without much fanfare. In fact, the strange occurrences had been taking place for more than two years before the residents realized that they were not simply the targets of malicious burglars or vandals. Frequently, they would return home to their empty house and find that lamps had been overturned, bottles and cans were strewn about the kitchen, light bulbs were broken, water was running and doors that had been locked tight were standing open.
Not surprisingly, the police were called into investigate but they could find nothing out of the ordinary and no signs that anyone had been in the house. The Lincoln’s simply put double locks on the doors and hoped whoever was targeting them would stop. The locks failed to put an end to it though and they occasionally returned home to find the place vandalized.
Soon, this became a common theory in the paranormal field and cases that seemed to involve ghosts were quickly found to be the work of psychokinesis (PK) instead. But was this always the case? Were researchers becoming too quick to jump to the conclusion that violent and destructive cases were not ghostly in nature? Could some of the strange and unusual cases that were first thought to involve overly fraught teenagers actually involve the spirits of the dead instead?
Such was likely the case of a terrifying poltergeist who wreaked havoc in a Jackson, Michigan home in the early 1960’s. At first glance, the house had all of the makings of a PK poltergeist case as there were two teenagers living in the house (including a 13-year old girl) and the makings of a tense situation. Perhaps the first thing that most researchers noticed to be out of the ordinary though was the length of time during which the activity occurred. Author and investigator Nandor Fodor (one of the first paranormal researcher to draw the links between human “agents” and poltergeist activity) noted that most poltergeist cases have a lifetime of a few weeks or even a month or two at the most. The aggressive energies needed to cause objects to move about, break and be thrown are usually spent in a short amount of time. It is very rare to hear of a human agent type of poltergeist outbreak that lasts for very long, which is what makes the Jackson, Michigan case so unique. The events in the home of the Victor Lincoln family lasted for more than three years, beginning in 1959!
The events in the Lincoln home began quietly and without much fanfare. In fact, the strange occurrences had been taking place for more than two years before the residents realized that they were not simply the targets of malicious burglars or vandals. Frequently, they would return home to their empty house and find that lamps had been overturned, bottles and cans were strewn about the kitchen, light bulbs were broken, water was running and doors that had been locked tight were standing open.
Not surprisingly, the police were called into investigate but they could find nothing out of the ordinary and no signs that anyone had been in the house. The Lincoln’s simply put double locks on the doors and hoped whoever was targeting them would stop. The locks failed to put an end to it though and they occasionally returned home to find the place vandalized.
Georgine Lincoln, then 13 years-old, picks up a lamp that has been throw by the poltergeist in the house in this 1962 photograph.
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