Strange Guests

Poltergeists are the most physically tangible phenomena in the field of paranormal research. Poltergeist is German for a noisy ghost, entities that can throw objects, toss furniture & even attack people. Some poltergeists have demonstrated incendiary abilities, causing fires. Some poltergeists have developed voices evincing clever, mischievous intelligences behind the phenomenon. For thousands of years, poltergeist victims, exorcists, clerics & psychical researchers have debated whether the frightening, violent disturbances are caused by ghosts, demons, elementals or psychokinetic energies released by the mind in an expression of frustration, hostility, repression or corrupted creativity. In 1965, Brad Steiger's newspaper column on the paranormal attracted the attention of Ivan T. Sanderson, noted zoologist, Fortean & explorer of the strange & unknown. Sanderson encouraged Steiger to write a book dealing exclusively with poltergeist cases. With Sanderson as his mentor, Steiger agreed to enter the eerie reality that is the domain of the most bizarre object of psychical research. Released originally in 1966, now with a Foreword by Loren Coleman & an Afterword by Steiger, Strange Guests has the distinction of being the 1st of Steiger's over 160 books dealing exclusively with the paranormal.