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— The Poltergeist Machine — Continued from page 60 satisfied that it seemed possible that there neous fires and water phenomena, together was some link between noltergeist activity with the nassage of matter through matter. satisfied that it seemed possible that there was some link between poltergeist activity and anomalous behaviour of the surround- ing magnetic field."® One of the primary investigators of the Green Street 'poltergeist' in Enfield, North London, was Maurice Grosse, who has given many lectures on his experiences and is now regarded as one of the leading authorities on this kind of phenomenon. On the whole, 'poltergeists' are regarded as discarnate and mischievous entities who home in on the energies of an adolescent focus and who unintentionally wreak havoc wherever they go, although particular loca- tions are usually favoured for the most spectacular phenomena. In the course of my career as an investi- gator, I have discovered that 'poltergeist’ activity takes place in electromagnetic hot- spots, and is electromagnetic in nature. However, 'poltergeist expert’ Maurice Grosse takes a different view: "Albert's enthusiasm for his suppositions does him credit, but...displays a distinct lack of practical experience of psychic phe- nomena... I look forward with great inter- est to the day when flying boxes, stones, toys, heavy items of furniture, plus sponta- neous fires and water phenomena, together with the passage of matter through matter, levitation, metal bending, to name just a few examples of poltergeist high jinks I have personally experienced, can be explained by electromagnetic and bioelec- tromagnetic activity."’ Well, Maurice, this is the day you have been waiting for! In fact, it was "the day" over 15 years ago when Guy Lyon Playfair's book on the Enfield 'poltergeist' was published in 1981 in the UK, when at the same time on the other side of the world in British Columbia, Canada, John Hutchison's device was just getting under- way and generating all of the physical 'pol- tergeist' activity you were considering. once that she had not thrown it. And each time the needle on the magnetometer did indeed deflect, though Eduardo thought this might have been caused by creaking bedsprings."* It is difficult to understand how bed- springs could cause power surges strong enough to register on a magnetometer (I, myself, have used many types of these instruments during investigations), and even more difficult to understand how they could induce deflections which happened to coincide with the movements of objects. Also, it's a wonder the investigators did not eliminate this as an option, if they thought it was possible, by simply moving the instrument away from the bedsprings. Magnetometers are of course designed to withstand the effects of magnetic fields, and so it is even more puzzling why the following reasoning and actions were employed: "I was a little worried that he might have to go back to his university and report that the expensive instrument he had borrowed without permission had broken down, so we called off the experiment once we were ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY This is not the place to fully expound my own biological research into how the human body reacts to prolonged field expo- sure, except to say that the body eventually acts as an oscillator and can add to the elec- tromagnetic mayhem generated at hot spots. That is to say, I would add to the Hutchison Effect by including my own findings, as outlined in my books, which 84 - NEXUS DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997