I'm Lauren Norton, and this is one strange thing,

the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

Strangers, we will confess, while we never want to discover that anyone has undergone a harrowing experience.

Well, an unexplained phenomenon, it is perhaps one of our favorite topics to run into, in our archival journeys, into the unknown.

Whether they be mysteriously damaged windshields in Washington or unexplained illnesses in high schools or booms echoing through towns, shared preternatural experiences, they're simply fascinating. So you can imagine our excitement

when we came across a new, to us, unexplained event in the midst of our research into something

else. We'd been digging into a mid-1930s poltergeist experience in London, the Alma Fielding case and case you're interested. Since the word poltergeist experience in London via Alma Fielding case and case you're interested.

Since the word poltergeist was also applied to this early 1980s Birmingham, England case,

it pulled up a few articles for our perusal. And thus we stumbled across something quite unusual,

the fact that for several years, a section

of a suburban road was plagued by attacks by unseen forces who threw very real projectiles.

Was this actually a haunting?

Well, it depends on whom you ask.

But the name has stuck, and the whole things become known

as the poltergeist of Thornton Road. Normally, ghosts kind of just a float around, translucent-like,

perhaps waiting to have their photos taken, or to be shouted at by Zach Bagan's. That's their appeal,

their ephemeral. But poltergeists, well, they're a different story entirely. They're known

for getting physical and sometimes even violent. Actually, according to the paranormal scholar,

poltergeists, they even have a reputation for tossing rocks.

While we can testify to the veracity of that,

having not personally run into one,

the scholar assures us that there are numerous antidotes

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