House for sale, ghost included.
Borderlanders in Southern California have been watching, via news items, the progress of a poltergeist phenomenon in the town of Yucaipa. We have lectured there several times on Flying Saucers, to a lively Unit of Understanding. It’s about 65 miles east of Los Angeles and just north of the transcontinental highway. The above heading in the LA ‘Times’ for Jan. 10, 1966 indicates that the family is ready to give up and get out.
“The Kenneth D Cannons are putting their new house up for sale because they have been unable to evict a ‘noisy ghost.’ Since Dec. 6th the Cannons have been plagued by strange thumpings and airblasts along a hallway wall of the three-bedroom home. A succession of experts in everything from plumbing to poltergeists has been unable to come up with any explanation – or to stop the ghostly sound effects. The thumpings frightened the Cannons’ three young children and caused their pet dog to run away. After the first week the noises stopped. But they started again during the past week.
Mrs Billie Cannon, who says she still does not believe the house is haunted, announced the decision Sunday. ‘Enough is enough. My husband is just as ready to sell as I am.’
Geological and foundation studies have failed to produce a clue. Gas company and other utility technicians have checked equipment at the house. Even the children, Billy, 12, Dee, 10 and Vickie, 8, have been suspect. But the thumpings have been heard when they were in school. The unexplained noises have been bothersome, but the Cannons also have been harassed by curious sightseers and all sorts of specialists in the supernatural.
‘A group of spiritualists say there is a spirit trying to get a message through,’ said Mrs Cannon. ‘But,’ she added, ‘he’s not getting through to the Cannons!'”
Psychic police aren’t much different from ordinary police, in that wherever a “crime” has been committed, they always suspect an “inside job” first. Always look for a frustrated teenager in common cases like the above. Someone in the family wants attention and this is the kinetic power developed through occult practice in a previous life. The rising creative forces of puberty demand expression and this is one rather thrilling way of releasing them – with the willing help of some elemental, of course!
Journal of Borderland Research, Jan/Feb 1966.