Sauchie Scotland Poltergeist
Virginia Campbell Fit the Profile for the Human Agent Phenomenon
Parapsychologists have noted and researched a correlation between the phenomena and psychological profile of human agents. Activity is theorized to be caused by psychokinesis (PK), the ability of the mind to affect matter. The agent is distressed and, on a subconscious level, releases psychokinetic energy. Poltergeists! The Reality, Not the Movie has more information.
Distressed Girl
Virginia Campbell, 11, was an Irish girl who moved from a farm in Donegal to Sauchie in 1960. She only had one friend, Annie, and Toby, her dog. She missed them.
She was troubled that she and her mother went to live with Virginia’s older brother and his family while her father remained in Ireland to sell the farm. Then, her mother got a job at a boarding house in Dollar and lived there. Virginia shared a bed with younger niece, Margaret, giving up the privacy she once had. The shy, lonely girl was going to a new school.
Poltergeist!
- November 22: After the girls went to bed, they yelled there was a strange noise in their room. A few moments later, the girls ran downstairs and a noise that sounded like a ball bouncing followed them.
- November 23: Knockings started shortly after the girls went to bed. The Reverend Mr. T. W. Lund was called to help. He heard the loud knockings and found they came from the headboard. He saw a large, heavy linen chest start to rock. It rose slightly off the floor and moved toward the bed, then stopped and returned to the wall.
- November 24: There were more knockings. Some china vases moved by themselves, an apple rose out of a bowl, a sewing machine started by itself….
- November 25: Teacher Margaret Stewart saw an empty desk near Virginia rise an inch from the floor. Later,the lid of another one rose by itself. She saw the girl’s desk rise up and down three times. When Virginia approached Stewart’s desk one morning, a blackboard pointer on the desk began to vibrate, moving until it fell on the floor. The desk shook and moved away from the teacher.
- November 26: Lund and Doctor W. H. Nesbit went to the house. They witnessed Virginia’s pillow moving strangely and more rappings.
- November 27: Virginia went into dazed states and became hysterical.
Investigations and Prayers
On December 1, physicians Nesbit and William Logan investigated using a tape recorder and movie camera placed in the girls’ bedroom which recorded various noises and Virginia having a bout of hysteria. Later, Lund and three ministers prayed for divine intervention, which isn’t an exorcism. Rappings and other noises continued through the service.
The activity began to occur less frequently and the poltergeist was dubbed Wee Hughie. By March 1961, the phenomena ceased. By this time, Virginia made a new friend and Toby was reunited with her.
A. R. G. Owen researched the case. After interviewing witnesses, he concluded there was no chicanery, the family appeared stable and no physical causes accounted for the events. Owen theorized Virginia caused the phenomena. There could have been prepubescent energy heightened by shyness, repressed homesickness and feeling lonely that created the disturbances. While he eliminated trickery, Owen said it was possible that the poltergeist activity might have been subconsciously done to get attention.
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Sources:
The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, (Facts on File, Inc., 1992)
The Poltergeist Experience, D. Scott Rogo, (Penguin Books, 1979)
Poltergeists, Michael Clarkson, (Firefly Books, 2006)
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