'Poltergeist' baffles hardened Police Scotland officers
Aug 16, 2016 8:04:44 GMT 10
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PERPLEXED officers on a call to a disturbance saw lights going off, clothes flying across a room and a dog, which was playing in the garden, suddenly perched on top of a 7ft hedge.
The house in Rutherglen, Glasgow, has officers spooked
POLICE investigating reports of disturbances at a house were left stunned when they witnessed paranormal activity.
The officers witnessed clothes flying across a room, lights going off and when they went back on the lampshades were upside down and oven doors opening and closing.
Even a chihuahua dog which was playing in the garden was then discovered sitting on top of a seven-foot hedge.
The family who live at the property had called the police in a panic. They endured two days of the bizarre occurrences before moving out of the property in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.
The situation has been discussed at high levels within Police Scotland, with senior officers perplexed as to how they best handle the incidents.
A police source said: “These were incidents that were witnessed by our own officers. Incidents that are not easily explained.
“One problem we’ve got is where we go from here as no crime has been established, so what else can we do but deal with any reports of disturbances.
“But officers with more than 20 years’ service are saying they’ve never seen anything like this. It really is something that down-to-earth police officers are having trouble getting their heads round.
“How do you handle what, despite us liking to use the word, has been described as a poltergeist.”
The family at the centre of the drama are devoutly Catholic and police did seek assistance from the church.
A priest has been to the house in Stonelaw Road and performed what has been described as a ‘blessing’ at the property.
The saga unfolded when the family, a woman and her son in his early teens, contacted police on Monday and Tuesday to report ‘disturbing incidents’ in her home.
The woman and the teenager, described as extremely distressed, had been experiencing violent and unexplained circumstances and in desperation contacted police.
A source said: “The officers attended expecting it to be a mental health issue but they witnessed the lights going off, clothes flying across the room and the dog sitting on top of the hedge.
“The officers called their superiors who also attended thinking the cops were perhaps being a bit silly but it’s being taken very seriously.
“The fact it was witnessed by our officers has lent itself to a very different but active inquiry.”
With no reasonable explanation for what they witnessed police, acting with the support of the family, contacted the Catholic Church who sent a priest to bless the house.
No-one has been harmed, though the family were given safety advice by baffled officers and chose to leave the house. They are understood to be living with relatives.
The source added: “The main concern is with the family’s welfare and well-being but with no crime committed and no culprit we are at a loss how to proceed with it. Inquiries are ongoing but it’s difficult to know where to go with it.”
Police are understood to be looking into the family’s background, and working with doctors and social services to provide support.
They are also thought to be checking the history of the property, to see if there been any reports of similar occurrences from previous residents.
Our source said all options were being considered by way of explaining the goings-on: “Is it some form of hoax, or is it real or not real? These are the questions being asked by officers but without coming to any conclusion.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: “On 8 and 9 August police attended a house in Rutherglen to reports of a disturbance. No evidence of criminality was found and advice and guidance was given to the family.”
The Catholic Church was approached for comment but failed to respond. link
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THE world's media have been stunned by the incidents on Stonelaw Road, and Catherine Shreenan has spoken for the first time.
THE MUM at the centre of Scotland’s incredible “poltergeist” case broke her silence yesterday.
Catherine Shreenan told of the stress the whole affair had placed her under - but insisted she didn’t want to discuss the bizarre occurrences at her home.
The Record revealed on Saturday how police who went to the Rutherglen house where Ms Shreenan lives with her teenage son had themselves witnessed a series of unexplained happenings.
Called by the frantic mum to deal with what was described as a “disturbance” officers saw clothes flying across a room, lights going off and when they went back on the lampshades were upside down and oven doors opening and closing.
A chihuahua dog which was playing in the garden was then discovered sitting on top of a seven-foot hedge.
Yesterday Ms Shreenan said: “It’s placed enormous stress on the family. I’ve had people, teenagers, going past my home singing Ghostbusters.”
She declined to be interviewed further on the story, which has been reported worldwide by news organisations and shared globally via social media.
Mrs Shreenan said: “We don’t want to be in the papers, we don’t want people coming to our house. I’m not interested in talking to newspapers. You can imagine the stress we have been under.”
Mrs Shreenan was speaking from outside her parents’ house where it’s understood she and her son have been living since being driven out of their home last week.
Their refuge is just a few miles away from the scene of the perplexing events which left experienced officers stunned and caused distress to Mrs Shreenan and her son.
However their chihuaha dog looked none the worse for its ordeal yesterday as it peered through the downstairs window of Ms Shreenan’s parents’ home.
Yesterday all was quiet at Ms Shreenan’s home in Stonelaw Road.
The property - one ground floor section of a subdivided home - was under seige when our story broke according to one neighbour.
He said: “We read the story in disbelief. We hadn’t even seen the police so it was a shock to open paper and read about a ghost!
“There were quite a few kids and some adults appearing on Saturday singing the Ghostbusters theme. A few cars peeped their horns as they went by. But to be honest it hasn’t been that bad and is a bit excitement for a change.”
Another neighbour said: “It’s all a bit surprising. I’ve been here for years and never seen a ghost.”
Police were called to the house on Monday and Tuesday last week.
The situation has been discussed at high levels within Police Scotland, with senior officers perplexed as to how they best handle the incidents.
Police sources said officers with 20 years experience at the force had witnessed the strange events and nobody knew how to proceed.
The source said: “One problem we’ve got is where we go from here as no crime has been established, so what else can we do but deal with any reports of disturbances.”
A priest has been to the house in Stonelaw Road and performed what has been described as a ‘blessing’ at the property.
Police are looking into the family background as well as the history of the property to see if there is any explanations for the strange occurrences.
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Rutherglen 'poltergeist' could be caused by 'teenage energy', says Scotland's only official demonologist
JASON Love has offered his expert advice on the Scottish poltergeist attack and says they are more common than you'd think.
JASON Love has been dealing with paranormal activity for 24 years, working on over 847 cases across the UK, Europe and USA. The story of the poltergeist attack in South Lanarkshire caught his eye due to the officials involved, saying: "The testimonies from the police strengthens the case that this was poltergeist activity."
Working in his job as a psychiatric nurse, Jason knows that many of these incidents can be caused by medications. When he is asked to investigate activity - which he does free of charge - it is one of the first questions he asks.
"The first thing I usually check for is physical or mental activities in the background, to see if there's a history of psychiatry involved. There are quite a lot of medications which can make you hallucinate."
This is one of the three main types of activities Jason has found, saying: "If you have a parent who says they're hearing and seeing things, soon the child will pick up on that and begin to 'feel' these things too. The first thing I do at a property is check if it could be caused by natural reasons first.
"The second is a residual energy. This is when visual ghosts actually manifest on the property and are usually connected to the house or the land. It could be that the property was built on an old graveyard, battlefield or even a convent.
"The last is human based - connected to one person and feeding off their energy. In this case you have to think outside the box, especially if there's a young person involved. It could be from physical, mental or sexual abuse which creates this vortex of negative energy that a poltergeist feeds off."
In fact, Jason said that children are the biggest reason for poltergeist activity.
"One of the most common triggers for this sort of activity is children in their early teens. Manifestations tend to be triggered most by prepubescent or teens going through puberty, because they are giving off the purest life energy.
"This is the life force which feeds poltergeists. It's the most typical background as to why this activity exists. It is very rare to come across a case where there aren't children involved."
Jason has a ritual which he carries out to cleanse the affected properties, which is very similar to an exorcism which is carried out by the Catholic church.
"The Church is very limited in what they do to help. They will send priests to give blessings. I've seen cases where things are thrown at the priest and they'll still walk away. There is a stigma attached to the Church, with how much they're willing to help.
"I have my own procedure that I carry out. It is a form of blessing, but much more potent. It's technically a minor rite of exorcism - minor because I'm not ordained. But it is very similar to a Catholic exorcism. I invoke St Michael and St Benedict to draw out whatever is in the house so I can then banish them. It is roughly a 15 minute procedure, where I walk from each room in the house to bless them until they are clean."
Much like the Rutherglen family, the incidents are generally quite mild. But Jason said there have been a handful of violent infestations.
"I have worked on some very violent cases - you know the expression 'could cut the tension with a knife'? There have been some cases where the energy is that heavy. On cases like that I take a small team of photographers and videographers with me, that I have worked with for years. It's good to capture evidence so we can use it as research later. We use digital cameras and infrared to capture the residual energy."
So should you be scared? Jason thinks probably not.
"It is more common than you would think - I'm contacted on an almost weekly basis. Sometimes people will contact me and they decide they can just live with it, or it dies off. Most cases are not really severe - it is very rare to get anything violent."link
The house in Rutherglen, Glasgow, has officers spooked
POLICE investigating reports of disturbances at a house were left stunned when they witnessed paranormal activity.
The officers witnessed clothes flying across a room, lights going off and when they went back on the lampshades were upside down and oven doors opening and closing.
Even a chihuahua dog which was playing in the garden was then discovered sitting on top of a seven-foot hedge.
The family who live at the property had called the police in a panic. They endured two days of the bizarre occurrences before moving out of the property in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.
The situation has been discussed at high levels within Police Scotland, with senior officers perplexed as to how they best handle the incidents.
A police source said: “These were incidents that were witnessed by our own officers. Incidents that are not easily explained.
“One problem we’ve got is where we go from here as no crime has been established, so what else can we do but deal with any reports of disturbances.
“But officers with more than 20 years’ service are saying they’ve never seen anything like this. It really is something that down-to-earth police officers are having trouble getting their heads round.
“How do you handle what, despite us liking to use the word, has been described as a poltergeist.”
The family at the centre of the drama are devoutly Catholic and police did seek assistance from the church.
A priest has been to the house in Stonelaw Road and performed what has been described as a ‘blessing’ at the property.
The saga unfolded when the family, a woman and her son in his early teens, contacted police on Monday and Tuesday to report ‘disturbing incidents’ in her home.
The woman and the teenager, described as extremely distressed, had been experiencing violent and unexplained circumstances and in desperation contacted police.
A source said: “The officers attended expecting it to be a mental health issue but they witnessed the lights going off, clothes flying across the room and the dog sitting on top of the hedge.
“The officers called their superiors who also attended thinking the cops were perhaps being a bit silly but it’s being taken very seriously.
“The fact it was witnessed by our officers has lent itself to a very different but active inquiry.”
With no reasonable explanation for what they witnessed police, acting with the support of the family, contacted the Catholic Church who sent a priest to bless the house.
No-one has been harmed, though the family were given safety advice by baffled officers and chose to leave the house. They are understood to be living with relatives.
The source added: “The main concern is with the family’s welfare and well-being but with no crime committed and no culprit we are at a loss how to proceed with it. Inquiries are ongoing but it’s difficult to know where to go with it.”
Police are understood to be looking into the family’s background, and working with doctors and social services to provide support.
They are also thought to be checking the history of the property, to see if there been any reports of similar occurrences from previous residents.
Our source said all options were being considered by way of explaining the goings-on: “Is it some form of hoax, or is it real or not real? These are the questions being asked by officers but without coming to any conclusion.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: “On 8 and 9 August police attended a house in Rutherglen to reports of a disturbance. No evidence of criminality was found and advice and guidance was given to the family.”
The Catholic Church was approached for comment but failed to respond. link
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THE world's media have been stunned by the incidents on Stonelaw Road, and Catherine Shreenan has spoken for the first time.
THE MUM at the centre of Scotland’s incredible “poltergeist” case broke her silence yesterday.
Catherine Shreenan told of the stress the whole affair had placed her under - but insisted she didn’t want to discuss the bizarre occurrences at her home.
The Record revealed on Saturday how police who went to the Rutherglen house where Ms Shreenan lives with her teenage son had themselves witnessed a series of unexplained happenings.
Called by the frantic mum to deal with what was described as a “disturbance” officers saw clothes flying across a room, lights going off and when they went back on the lampshades were upside down and oven doors opening and closing.
A chihuahua dog which was playing in the garden was then discovered sitting on top of a seven-foot hedge.
Yesterday Ms Shreenan said: “It’s placed enormous stress on the family. I’ve had people, teenagers, going past my home singing Ghostbusters.”
She declined to be interviewed further on the story, which has been reported worldwide by news organisations and shared globally via social media.
Mrs Shreenan said: “We don’t want to be in the papers, we don’t want people coming to our house. I’m not interested in talking to newspapers. You can imagine the stress we have been under.”
Mrs Shreenan was speaking from outside her parents’ house where it’s understood she and her son have been living since being driven out of their home last week.
Their refuge is just a few miles away from the scene of the perplexing events which left experienced officers stunned and caused distress to Mrs Shreenan and her son.
However their chihuaha dog looked none the worse for its ordeal yesterday as it peered through the downstairs window of Ms Shreenan’s parents’ home.
Yesterday all was quiet at Ms Shreenan’s home in Stonelaw Road.
The property - one ground floor section of a subdivided home - was under seige when our story broke according to one neighbour.
He said: “We read the story in disbelief. We hadn’t even seen the police so it was a shock to open paper and read about a ghost!
“There were quite a few kids and some adults appearing on Saturday singing the Ghostbusters theme. A few cars peeped their horns as they went by. But to be honest it hasn’t been that bad and is a bit excitement for a change.”
Another neighbour said: “It’s all a bit surprising. I’ve been here for years and never seen a ghost.”
Police were called to the house on Monday and Tuesday last week.
The situation has been discussed at high levels within Police Scotland, with senior officers perplexed as to how they best handle the incidents.
Police sources said officers with 20 years experience at the force had witnessed the strange events and nobody knew how to proceed.
The source said: “One problem we’ve got is where we go from here as no crime has been established, so what else can we do but deal with any reports of disturbances.”
A priest has been to the house in Stonelaw Road and performed what has been described as a ‘blessing’ at the property.
Police are looking into the family background as well as the history of the property to see if there is any explanations for the strange occurrences.
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Rutherglen 'poltergeist' could be caused by 'teenage energy', says Scotland's only official demonologist
JASON Love has offered his expert advice on the Scottish poltergeist attack and says they are more common than you'd think.
JASON Love has been dealing with paranormal activity for 24 years, working on over 847 cases across the UK, Europe and USA. The story of the poltergeist attack in South Lanarkshire caught his eye due to the officials involved, saying: "The testimonies from the police strengthens the case that this was poltergeist activity."
Working in his job as a psychiatric nurse, Jason knows that many of these incidents can be caused by medications. When he is asked to investigate activity - which he does free of charge - it is one of the first questions he asks.
"The first thing I usually check for is physical or mental activities in the background, to see if there's a history of psychiatry involved. There are quite a lot of medications which can make you hallucinate."
This is one of the three main types of activities Jason has found, saying: "If you have a parent who says they're hearing and seeing things, soon the child will pick up on that and begin to 'feel' these things too. The first thing I do at a property is check if it could be caused by natural reasons first.
"The second is a residual energy. This is when visual ghosts actually manifest on the property and are usually connected to the house or the land. It could be that the property was built on an old graveyard, battlefield or even a convent.
"The last is human based - connected to one person and feeding off their energy. In this case you have to think outside the box, especially if there's a young person involved. It could be from physical, mental or sexual abuse which creates this vortex of negative energy that a poltergeist feeds off."
In fact, Jason said that children are the biggest reason for poltergeist activity.
"One of the most common triggers for this sort of activity is children in their early teens. Manifestations tend to be triggered most by prepubescent or teens going through puberty, because they are giving off the purest life energy.
"This is the life force which feeds poltergeists. It's the most typical background as to why this activity exists. It is very rare to come across a case where there aren't children involved."
Jason has a ritual which he carries out to cleanse the affected properties, which is very similar to an exorcism which is carried out by the Catholic church.
"The Church is very limited in what they do to help. They will send priests to give blessings. I've seen cases where things are thrown at the priest and they'll still walk away. There is a stigma attached to the Church, with how much they're willing to help.
"I have my own procedure that I carry out. It is a form of blessing, but much more potent. It's technically a minor rite of exorcism - minor because I'm not ordained. But it is very similar to a Catholic exorcism. I invoke St Michael and St Benedict to draw out whatever is in the house so I can then banish them. It is roughly a 15 minute procedure, where I walk from each room in the house to bless them until they are clean."
Much like the Rutherglen family, the incidents are generally quite mild. But Jason said there have been a handful of violent infestations.
"I have worked on some very violent cases - you know the expression 'could cut the tension with a knife'? There have been some cases where the energy is that heavy. On cases like that I take a small team of photographers and videographers with me, that I have worked with for years. It's good to capture evidence so we can use it as research later. We use digital cameras and infrared to capture the residual energy."
So should you be scared? Jason thinks probably not.
"It is more common than you would think - I'm contacted on an almost weekly basis. Sometimes people will contact me and they decide they can just live with it, or it dies off. Most cases are not really severe - it is very rare to get anything violent."link
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