To avoid commitment to any theory it might be better, though awkward, to speak of poltergeistic disturbances or poltergeistic outbreaks. These are sporadic, starting suddenly and unexpectedly and ending just as suddenly.

In 1817 he connected himself definitively with Blackwood's Magazine, or Maga.

We were disappointed by the shedlike meeting hall.

Policeman: I've ascertained the time of death as 9:15. Monkfish: Have you really? What do you want, a biscuit?