Fire Poltergeist. Canada

One of the most exciting, violent and active attacks on the poltergeist of the man who became known to the General public, occurred in 1878 in a quiet canadian town of Amherst, on the shore of Nova Scotia.

In those years there lived a young woman named Esther Cox. She had a sister Jenny, and their house also lived with her other sister olive and her husband Daniel Teed, their two children and brother Daniel named John.

Mother Esther, Jenny and olive died when Esther was still a baby, and their father abandoned the family and left for another woman. But otherwise it was quite ordinary and unremarkable family. Esther herself was considered a modest and humble young lady.

In 1878, the 18-year-old Esther has fallen in love with a young shoemaker, Bob McNeal, who was very aggressive and rough type. One day, he invited Esther to go in the woods, and when he brought her to the arboretum, then got to her head a gun and began to force to sleep with him. Esther miraculously managed to get out of this situation alive and unharmed, but her psyche has been severely damaged. She became depressed and Moody, often crying and day after day sink deeper into depression. While her family did not know and did not understand what the cause of her suffering. It was only the beginning for the subsequent strange events.

Shortly after Esther began to suffer depression, her house started to happen strange things witnessed by all family members. Began to hear the steps are invisible, someone groaned, knocking and scratching on walls, people have also seen strange shadows.

One evening Esther and Jenny settled in for the night in his room. They slept together on one bed and suddenly saw something alive moving under their blanket, writhing and wobbling like a caterpillar. Cats and other Pets in the house was not, and when the frightened girl took off the blanket, then underneath there was nothing. From fear both screamed at the voice.

The next night the situation repeated itself and the whole family came running at the scream scared the girls. This time they said that he had heard a noise coming from a cardboard box with scraps of cloth, standing under the bed. When they pulled the box, she suddenly itself jumped up from their hands and all its contents were scattered around the room.

Both cases the family was blamed on the antics of the mice and rats. But then more started to happen strange events.

Esther suddenly fell ill with the disease, like fever. It was burning and screaming in agony, trying to tear his clothes off. Suddenly she started screaming "What's happening to me?! I'm dying!" and when the frightened members of her family ran to her, he saw that the poor girl writhes and gasps, and her neck something compresses, so that it became red and swollen eyes. Convulsions Esther began her stronger and she fell to the floor and wriggled on it and the redness went across her body. No one has time to do, as suddenly, she abruptly calmed down, as if something choked her, left. Her skin again was normal color and she fell into a quiet sleep.

And this sleep-like trance, as the day passed, two, three, and Esther is still "asleep". During her "sleep" all in the house came to order, there were no strange sounds, knocks and other things. Three days later Esther woke up and that evening she again attacked something, what made her twitch in agony. Again her skin flushed and swollen, and the body became very hot. The attack ended after four loud knocks in the walls of the house. This finally prompted her family to take at least some action.

They called the local doctor Charrette to examine the girl. When the doctor arrived, he witnessed anomalous phenomena in the house sick. Before he could go into a small darkened room, where the bed slept Esther, as suddenly, something invisible pulled it out from under the girl's head a pillow and threw it on the floor. Then something began to pull off girl's blanket, and pulled from different sides. Something began to thump under the bed, then someone screamed and then began scratching at the walls, making frightening sounds. Then there was a very loud knock, like a huge hammer was hitting the roof of the house.

Confused and scared doctor anybody and anything that is not seen and did not understand what was happening. He examined the whole room, thinking that he was kidding, but found no one. But I found scratched with something sharp the inscription on a wooden bed Esther, who said, "Esther Cox, I'll kill you." When the doctor in disbelief looked at the inscription from the wall, broke a piece of plaster and flew in his direction, almost hitting.

Most people in the place of Dr. Carrette immediately ran away from the possessed house, but the doctor suddenly turned daredevil. He returned to Esther the next day and witnessed more active poltergeist. Around the room moving by themselves different things, cold water in the glass suddenly began to boil, something moved a heavy wardrobe, and knocks and scratching became more insistent and louder. They even heard the neighbors rushed into the street.

To calm Esther, she was given a sleeping pill, but even when she slept, her seizures continued. In one of the attacks she, being unconscious, started to talk about how she almost got raped, and when she awoke could not remember anything about what was said. In the days that followed the attack invisible to Esther continued. Girl something pushed, pinched, her body had scratches and red spots from bruises. If this was even in front of a group.

Then came the more frightening attacks. Esther pricked with pins and cut with a knife. When she desperately went to Church, she was attacked directly at the time of worship. Esther began to writhe in pain on the bench, and all Church members watched in horror at her. Without a doubt, they all thought the girl possessed by the devil.

"I quickly became convinced that there was no forgery," later wrote Dr. Carrette in his diary — "If I published an article about this case in a medical journal, I would have no one believed. And I myself would not have believed in such miracles, but I saw it with my own eyes".

The events unfolded on the rise. House Tid became more known in the area and came to him all the more curious. There came even the priests and most of them with his own eyes the abnormal phenomena in the house.

When Esther became ill with diphtheria and was away to the house of a distant relative, not to infect relatives, anomalies in the house of Tid again stopped and resumed when Esther returned. And resumed at a new level of aggression.

Now the invisible man threatened to set fire to the house: on the ceiling mysteriously there were burned matches and fell down on the bed and floor. Then began to burn the clothes of people and burst the furnace, causing almost started a real fire. And then Esther began to come a real Ghost, and to demand that she left the house on one particular evening, otherwise it will burn.

The attack on Esther did not stop, only slightly abated for a while. And then in Amherst came Walter Hubbell, thanks to whose book about the case later found out the whole world. Hubbell was just a theater actor but had a great interest in the study of psychic phenomena.

As Dr. Carrette, Hubbell spent in the family home of Esther for several weeks, observing and recording everything. He witnessed things flying around the room, teleporting things from the ceiling started for no reason here and there fires, abnormal noises, squeaks, etc. He also saw poor Esther suffers physically from the attack of the invisible and adopted their own script for a dialogue with them using cut out letters.

When he started to converse with the spirit, he constantly changed his name, presenting himself as Maggie Fisher, Bobby Nickl, Peter Cox, Jane Nikl or Eliza McNeil. It was all dead relatives of Esther. Also, Hubbell began to ask the spirit questions like "How many coins in my pocket", as well as questions that we can answer "Yes" or "no".

When Hubbell asked the spirit, seen the Devil, he replied, "Yes." In the end, Hubbell was so impressed with Esther things happening around her and wonders, what was to persuade her to go with him on tour to different cities. The girl could entertain the audience with their unusual history. Esther agreed, but after a few cities she and Hubbell were forced to return to Amherst. The audience decided that it's all quackery, booed them and threw eggs.

Besides the aggressive spirit of the persecuted Esther and on tour. So in one of the cities near Esther caught fire and burned down a large barn. However, the tour went to benefit Esther, her aggressor began to weaken and anomalous phenomena began to occur less and less, until practically disappeared.

Esther died in 1912 in peace at the age of 52 years.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»