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To: Richnorth who wrote (1349)	8/19/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1615

THE POLTERGEIST MACHINE... Keep Albert Budden's card handy. When something invisible throws a tantrum in your house, you might need him. He belongs to a small group of researchers and inventors trying to puzzle out and replicate the strange forces at work in hauntings. Here, he lets us into the spooky world of the electromagnetic storm chaser. When Ms X of Ashton, near Bristol reached for her baby, a painful blue spark almost electrocuted him. She cracked with static electricity so loudly that people looked at her in the street. At night she could hear Morse code signals when no one else could and, once, was jolted awake to be dazzled by an intense blaze of white light in her bedroom. She constantly experienced moments of intense deja vu. Ms X's case is typical of the kind I study; cases in which inanimate objects sometimes suddenly move, bulbs pop, electrical appliances switch on and off, and balls of light appear. Sometimes the long-suffering victims have the strong and inescapable feeling that something invisible is in the house with them or even see apparitions. Such a victim might think of calling in an organisation that studies psychic phenomena but, in my experience, this will do little good, as they will probably assume that your house is haunted and ask to hold an all night vigil there. I begin from a different assumption; that these apparently paranormal phenomena are the bizarre side-effects of electromagnetic pollution. We are all surrounded by a constant fog of waves of electromagnetic energy. There are some places where this unseen pollution is worse than at others and these hot spots are created when the ever-changing wave-forms from several microwave transmitters interact with each other to create powerful standing waves - rather like a mini electromagnetic tornado - which can actually change the rules of reality. Under these conditions the mayhem that results can be quite frightening. Living in a hot spot is both puzzling and a health risk. Not only does your physical living space behave oddly, your nervous system and senses do too. I have known victims to develop unexpected allergies that undermine their well-being. Favourite foods or drinks unexpectedly make them feel nauseous, panic-stricken or experience swings of mood. If you are home most of the day and thus have a prolonged exposure to the hot spot, you could -as Ms X did - develop electrical hypersensitivity. Besides hallucinations, your body could develop a high static charge and emit electromagnetic fields which could cause a tape recorders to grind to a halt or a washing machine to flip through its programme. It is no surprise that even the caring professions fail to recognise the signs of electromagnetic hot spot activity, either refusing to believe the victim's tale or diagnosing nervous instability. When the normal electrical activity of the brain becomes destabilised by electromagnetic interference, epilepsy-like states can sometimes develop. Victims can suffer blackouts or see hallucinations such as balls of light coming through the walls. Even more bemusing, they can suffer lapses in consciousness after which they suddenly become aware that they are not where they thought they were and have no memory of even complex actions they might have performed. This condition is called automatic behaviour. It is during such periods of 'missing time' (to use Budd Hopkins's term) that some people have done things that they would normally be inhibited from doing. One man burst into his employer's office and announced "If I don't have more money, I'm leaving". He was puzzled to find extra cash in his wage packet at the end of the week. Again, a woman, who was struggling with a tortuous knitting pattern for a sweater her husband insisted he wanted, found that it had vanished, forcing her to abandon the project. She found the pattern again about a year later, folded into a tiny square, under an old jar at the back of the kitchen cupboard!