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This site is dedicated to informing the public about paranormal activities and the role of parapsychologists. Now, it is time to tell the story of a completely real and uncensored occurance during the late 1950's. Enjoy!!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The events in this story took place in 1958 in a small white house in a suburb of New York City. MONDAY, FEB.3-Tom Lombardo and his sister Nancy had just come home from school.Tom was going on 13 and Nancy was 14.They were talking to thier mother in the living room when they heard a loud POP!in the kitchen.It sounded like a cork had been pulled from a bottle of champagne.But,it was nothing like that.The cap on a bottle of starch had somehow come unscrewed and the bottle had tipped over and spilled.Then bottles all over the house began popping.Bottles of nail polish remover, bleach,shampoo,and even a bottle of holy water.Each had a screw cap that took two or three turns to open.But, each had opened by itself without any human help and had fallen over and spilled. "What is going on here?" Mrs.Lombardo asked. Nobody knew. But the popping soon stopped and everything went back to normal.It was just one of those crazy things,they decided,and put it out of thier minds. THURSDAY,FEB.6-Just after Tom and Nancy got home from school, 6 more bottles popped thier caps.The next day, another 6 did. SUNDAY,FEB.9-At 11:00am Tom was in the bathroom brushing his teeth.His father was standing in the doorway talking to him.All of a sudden a bottle of medicine began moving across the vanity byitself and fell into the sink.At the time a bottle of shampoo moved to the edge of the vanity and crashed to the floor.They watched spellbound. "I'd better call the police," Mr.Lombardo said. That afternoon a patrolman interviewed the family as bottles popped in the bathroom.The police assigned a detective named Joseph Briggs to the case.Detective Briggs was a practical man.When something moved,he believed that a human or an animal had moved it,or that it moved because of a vibration or the wind or some other natural cause.He did not believe in ghosts.When the Lombardos said that they didn't have anything to do with what was going on,he thought that at least one of them was lying.He wanted to examine the house.Then, he wanted to talk to some experts and find out what they thought. TUESDAY,FEB.11-The bottle of holy water that had opened a week before, opened a second time and spilled.Two days later it spilled again. SATURDAY,FEB.15-Tom,Nancy,and a relative were watching tv in the living room, when a small porcelain statue rose up from the table and flew three feet from the table through the air and onto the rug. MONDAY,FEB.17-A priest blessed the Lombardo's house to protect it against whatever was causing the trouble. THURSDAY,FEB.20-While Tom was doing his homework at one end of the dining room table, a sugar bowl at the other end flew into the hall and crashed.Detective Briggs saw it happen.Later a bottle of ink on the table flew into the wall and broke,spattering in all directions.Then,another porcelain statue took off.It traveled 12 feet and smashed into a desk. FRIDAY,FEB.21-To get some peace, the Lombardo's went to a relative's house.While they were gone, everything at home was normal. SUNDAY,FEB.23-When the Lombardos returned, another sugar bowl took off.It flew into a wall and smashed into smithereens.Later, a heavy bureau in Tom's room toppled over.But, no one was in the room when it happened. MONDAY,FEB.24-By now, Detective Briggs had talked to an engineer, a chemist,a physicist,and others.Some thought that vibrations in the house were causing the trouble.These could come from underground water,they said,or from high-frequency radio waves,or from sonic booms caused by airplanes.Others said that the electrical system was the cause,or downdrafts coming through the chimney.The popping of bottles was blamed on chemicals the bottles contained. Tests showed that there were no vibrations in the house;there was nothing wrong with the electrical system;and there were no chemicals in the bottles that would make them pop. Then what was causing the trouble?None of the experts knew.But every day the Lombardos received dozens of letters and telephone calls from people who thought they did know.Many people believed that the house was haunted.They thought that a poltergeist was on the loose-the noisy ghost that is blamed when things move around on thier own. No one has proved that poltergeists exist.But people everywhere have told stories about them for hundreds of years. And what they have told was not too different from what was happening to the Lombardos.Detective Briggs did not, of course, believe in poltergeists.He had begun to believe that Tom Lombardo might be to blame whenever something happened Tom was usually in the room or nearby.When he accused Tom of causing the trouble, the boy denied it. "I don't know what's going on," he said. "All I know is it scares me." People said that detective Briggs was a tough cop who would turn in his mother if she did something wrong.But he believed Tom.Only now he didn't know what to think. TUESDAY,FEB.25-A newspaper reporter came to the house to interview the family.Afterward,he sat in the living room by himself.Hoping somthing would happen that he could describe in his story. Tom's room is just across the hall from where the reporter sat.The boy had gone to bed,but he had left his door open.Suddenly a globe flew out of the darkened room and smashed into a wall.The reporter dashed into the bedroom and turned on the light.Tom was sitting on the bed,blinking,as if he had just been awakened from a sound sleep. "What was that?"he asked. WEDNESDAY,FEB.26-In the morning,a small plastic statue of the Virgin Mary rose up from the dresser in Mr. and Mrs.Lombardo's bedroom and flew into the mirror.That night,while Tom was doing his homework,a 10lb record player took off from the table,flew 15feet, and then crashed to the floor. FRIDAY,FEB.28-Two scientists arrived from Duke University.They were parapsychologists who studied experiences like those the Lombardos were having.They spent several days talking to the families and examining the house,trying to understand what was going on and what was causing it.One night a bottle of bleach popped its top,but that was all that happened during their visit.They did not tell the Lombardos about a theory they had that a poltergeist actually might be involved in such cases.According to this idea,poltergeists were not ghosts.They were normal teenagers.They had become so troubled by a problem that thier emotions had built up into a kind of vibration.Since it taking place in their unconscious minds,they didn't even know it was happening.But, the vibrations somehow left their bodies and moved whatever it struck.It happened again and again until the problem had been solved. Scientists had given this strange power a name. They called it "psychokinesis,"the ability to move objects with mental power, or mind over matter.No one knew if this could really happen, or how to prove it. Yet, most reports of poltergeists did involve families with teenage children and there were two teenage children in the Lombardo family. MONDAY,MARCH 3-The parapsychologists said that they would prepare a report on what they had learned.The day after they left, the trouble returned with a vengence. TUESDAY,MARCH 4-In the afternoon a bowl of flowers flew off the dining room table and smashed into a cupboard.Then, a bottle of bleach jumped out of a box and popped its top.Then a book case fell over and wedged itself between a radiator and a wall.Finally, 4 knocks were heard from the kitchen when no one was in there. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5- While Mrs.Lombardo was making breakfast, she heard a loud crash in the living room.The coffee table had turned over by itself.But, that was the end of it.After a month of chaos, everything returned to normal. In August the two parapsychologists gave their report.They decided that the Lombardos had not made up their story.Their trouble had been real.But what had caused it?They said that no pranks or tricks were involved,nor was any magic.As the police had done,they also ruled out vibration from underground water and other physical causes.The only explanation they could not rule out was the possibility that a teenage poltergeist had been at work moving objects with mental power.They did not have enough evidence to prove it,but it was the only answer they had.If it was a poltergeist, they thought it was Tom.If they were right,if a normal boy like Tom had become a poltergeist this also might happen to other teenagers. 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| PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS,such as the 2 in our story are concerned with mental powers humans may have that are not yet understood. PSYCHOKINESIS (PK) and extrasensory perception (ESP) are examples of these powers. researched by alvin schwartz �
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