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The Good evening and welcome to monsters among us Us. I am your guide, Derek Hayes.

I hope wherever you are you have the lights on, because tonight's subject is a bit unsettling.

They call it a poltergeist, stemming from a German word meaning noisy or rapping ghost.

And it won't take you long tonight to learn how I got that fitting moniker.

So sit back, relax, and ignore those sounds in the other row.

Because tonight's episode is chunk full of poltergeist stories.

Stories like Elverts out of the state of Oklahoma.

Hello, Derek, a long-time listener, first-time caller.

Well, my story is in response to Lisa's from season 17, episode 15, about the three knocks.

So my family, you know, my grandma always told me we had a family curse, and it had these three knocks associated with it.

And the story goes that generations before, when the family lived in Appalachia, that somebody had done something to upset a local woman who's known as a witch.

She shows up their house, points at a member of the family, and says, come Jack and stay.

At that point, like, he's holding some sort of lawn, implements sort of, like, a hoe or shovel

or something. It immediately jerks out of his hands, standing up on its own, starts moving

across the yard, and after that, it's intermittent poltergeist activity in Knox for, to this day.

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