Call Back phenomenon is a type of paranormal activity that is characterized by its timing. Paranormal studies are often slow and quiet, and researchers can spend long periods in one area, but not to experience any activity at all.
The phenomenon starts when they leave. As soon as the researchers leave the area, paranormal activity will take place behind them and call them back in the area. This can be in the form of a noise, something that is thrown, a visual event such as a flash or other spooky activity.
Sometimes the phenomenon even seems to occur before researchers leave the area, just the mention of rooms can sometimes be everything needed to be illegal paranormal activity at the location.
Call phenomenon back appears to occur more often in poltergeistic cases or in poltergeist-like chases when there is a lot of physical movement. The activity always happens within the hearing distance of the farewell researchers in an apparent attempt to pull them back into the room.
Parapsychologist Ciarán O’Keeffe says: “It is a typical thing that happens with poltergeistic cases, it is always when you leave whether you are turning your back or not paying attention.” Ciarán, has a few theories about why this phenomenon could occur: “Is it looking for attention, or is it playful and naughty that plays in the definition of a poltergeest.”
One of the most famous examples of this phenomenon was in action during the famous Enfield -Poltergeist case that was all about the Hodgson family between August 1977 and October 1978. Shortly after the activity started in their family home, the daily mirror sent that reporter Douglas Bence and photographer Gram Morris while the family was next to the door.
The couple spent all night in the empty house and found nothing unusual, but just as they were about to leave, something shouted in the building. Douglas remembers the moment when neighbor Vic Nottingham shouted in the house: “Graham stopped his equipment in the back of the car, I was about to climb in and Vic ran out of the house. We went back and that was when the first incident took place.”
The second that they walked back into the house, began to be thrown around Lego and marbles, both men witnessed the flying objects and Graham was even hit by a Lego brick that shot over the room.
A similar example took place a decade earlier in Pontefract at 30 East Drive. The Pritchard family was also tormented by a poltergeist and had contacted a local vicar, Pastor Davy, to discuss the possibility of an exorcism. Davy spent an hour and a half in the house with the family and nothing special happened at all.
Colin Wilson wrote about the meeting in his book ‘Poltergeist!’ From 1981. He writes: “Mr. Davy finally looked at his watch and said he should come home. Jean Pritchard said:” I’m sorry we dragged you for nothing, “and while she spoke, the house sounded to loud thumps that came out above the head.
This was enough to convince pastor Davy that there was “something bad” in the house.
More recently, a research team experienced this phenomenon for itself at 30 East Drive. They had carried out the house for eight hours and had little activity. The moment they decided to call it one night and knocked down for the night, something happened.
The team was spread over the three bedrooms of the house and only five minutes after climbing in bed, they all heard the sound of something that was thrown away on the landing, as if something tried to seduce them out of bed.
After the incident, the team changed their approach to investigating the house and instead of directly calling for all the spirits present and to ask them to show them some activity, they decided to ignore the entity together in the hope that it would eventually do something to attract their attention.
This is a valid research method, especially in a poltergeist case. Ciarán thinks that sitting in a dark room waiting for things that occur are very unnatural because you normally don’t do that and the psychology of waiting for something to happen is very powerful. Speaking of 30 East Drive, he said: “The majority of the stories that the house have given this reputation are not people who investigate it. They are people who live and follow their daily activities.”
Ciarán said the evidence for how effective you turn your back on a spooky can come from the experiences he has had with the East Drive team “have already had if you have just said:” Oh, let’s go to bed now “and then something happened.”
Although the mechanism of calling back is a well -known phenomenon in paranormal researchers, the term “call back phenomenon” is relatively new and was conceived by Yvette Fielding, the host of the long -running ghost yacht show, ‘Most Haunted’. During the delivery recordings of the team, they experience these calls of the spirits so often that they started to refer to them as a phenomenon of recall.
