poltergeist

Converse of object

• suspect: As all the doors and windows to the room were still locked when we discovered the scene, we first suspected a poltergeist.
• get: He did allow that in Ireland, houses built on fairy paths tent to get poltergeists which make things go bump in the night.

Converse of subject

• haunt: The Windmill The Windmill was once said to be haunted by a poltergeist.
• plague: If the shadow leaves you cold, we hear tell the cells there have been plagued by a poltergeist too.

Modifies a noun

• phenomenon: Poltergeist phenomena seemed almost invariably associated with the presence of a 12 or 13 year old.
• activity: There is a story in my book about poltergeist activity in an old people's home.
• case: But out of 500 cases analyzed, this has never happened in a poltergeist case.
• disturbance: All signs pointed to a classic case of poltergeist disturbance.
• effect: Far from word of this appearing, he later tried to make out that it was a genuine poltergeist effect.. .
• incident: Although some poltergeist incidents can be explained away as wicked horseplay there are others which, disturbingly, defy explanation.