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finds when investigating poltergeist activity. two inches in diameter, of regular mild steel, and a 3/8 of an inch Another major area of activity is the disruptive phenomenon long part was blasted off the end and crumbled like a cookie." where materials are destroyed. Hutchison has a collection of However, even the domestic 'poltergeist’ displays phenomena metal samples which have been broken and/or deformed, indicat- where extremely high energy levels are involved, although in the ing that high energy levels are involved, as mentioned before. following example, also from the Enfield case, we get the impres- As one may imagine, this device has attracted intense interest sion that more conventional high-magnetic-field densities are from a variety of professional, academic and industrial sources, involved: not to mention covert military attention. "Mr Playfair...was already on his feet and standing in the door- In the USA, a respected and well-qualified electrical engineer, way of their bedroom, wondering if he was seeing things. George Hathaway, has taken on the research and development of "The entire iron frame of the gas fire had been wrenched out of the device. As explained, although the device has many interre- the wall, and was standing at an angle on the floor, still attached lated parts, it acts as a single entity. Of the disruptive effects on to the half-inch-diameter brass pipe that connected it to the mains. metals and other materials he relates: The pipe had been bent through an angle of thirty-two degrees. "The disruption part of this...system has produced confirmatory This was a major demolition job, for the thing was cemented into hysical samples that include water, aluminum, iron, steel, molyb- the brickwork, and it was out of the question to suggest that one denum, wood, copper, bronze, etc... We have tested various of the children could have wrenched it out. When we finally dis- pieces that have broken apart, for mantled the whole apparatus, we ardness, ductility, etc. We have 8" dia. copper ball found it quite a job even to move. used optical and electron micro- < It must have weighed at least fifty scopes. pounds."* 3" dia. copper ball "Two samples of aluminum... —— one of which is twisted up in a left-handed spiral...and another We may ask ourselves what new directions for investigation €— ceramic insulator into 'poltergeists' are open to us in which was blown into little the light of the Hutchison Effect. fibres...molybdenum rods which <———_ #2 silver-plate wire Startling as it may seem, an are supposed to withstand temper- 6 turns, spaced ~'/s" answer is there ready-made for us atures of about 5,000 degrees F... IE in the almost matter-of-fact infor- We watched these things wiggle : MOD <—_ trot coll, #8 wire mation that Hathaway supplies: back and forth... In general, a col- wire spacing 1" dia. "Fragments have been analysed lection of pieces of metal shows and found to have an anomalously that they have been blasted apart high silicon content, although the or twisted..." original material was not silicon In domestic settings where 'pol- steel...a standing piece is 5-6 inch- tergeist' activity is usually es tall, 1 and 1/4 inches in diame- observed, metal-bending and ' 4 ter and is a piece of case-hardened deformities take place with less < opposite woun, steel... The case-hardening has vigour—which is to be expected outer coll #32 wire een blown off at the top and due to the accidental field configu- about 3/4 of an inch of it vapor- rations produced as electromagnet- ized during an experiment...a ic pollution from power lines, iece of iron was analysed for Inner coll #28 cloth covered 4" dia. spaced 1/2" from Inner coll radio transmitters, civilian radar, multiple primary composition which showed anom- etc., interacts with Earth ener- one turn, 1" dia. copper tube alously high amounts of cop- gies—otherwise known as geo- 50 turns, #8 copper wire er...wood particles were also magnetic and geoelectric fields— found inside a piece of alumini- at locations inadvertently built um..." over fault lines. Evidently, the energies involved The following example taken are able to reorganise materials in from a well-known case in the a way that is virtually impossible UK—the Enfield poltergeist— y any other means, but we are shows a typical instance of metal- now provided with a previously bending: unheard-of perspective. From the Hutchison experiments, it is "It was 10.15 am on 6 December 1977. Janet was leaning on clear that an analysis of the composition of metals at the 'polter- the kitchen worktop, and her mother was sitting down. Both were geist' site, in order to detect similar mixture-anomalies, is an Diagram showing a seven-foot-tall Tesla coil, as used by Hutchison. out of reach of the stove. Suddenly, they both heard a noise com- essential investigative procedure. ing from the teapot—the same metal one that Grosse had seen Although we may shelve theories of psychokinesis and separate rocking in front of his eyes. Mrs Harper picked up the pot and them out from 'poltergeist’ activity as belonging to dice-throwing found that its stout metal lid had arched upwards, just as the experiments or the spoon-bending of Uri Geller, the weird physi- spoons had done, bending right out of shape so that it no longer _cal antics of the mixing and matching fields of the Hutchison fitted the pot. I took the lid in both hands, and even using consid- Effect provide us with something far stranger. This underscores erable force I was unable to bend it back." the point made earlier that although it sounds as if the enigma of Hathaway, in his descriptions of metal deformity, clearly gives the 'poltergeist' is being diminished by identifying it as electro- the impression of intense energies at work: magnetic field activity, in actual fact the mystery is merely being "The largest piece [of metal] is about 12-13 inches long. It's redirected. NEXUS - 59 Inner coll #28 cloth covered — 4" dia. Diagram showing a seven-foot-tall Tesla coil, as used by Hutchison. DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997