Poltergeist

Poltergeist
Powers and Abilities	Varies; can include telekinesis and possession.
Vulnerabilities	Varies; one standard is the salting and burning of the ghost's physical remains.
Appearance	Varies; the form of the deceased, which may have visible signs of trauma or decay.
Episode(s)	1.09 Home 5.12 Swap Meat

Poltergeist A mischievous ghost, especially one that makes mysterious noises. – Pad of Definitions (1.04 Phantom Traveler), Official Website

History

Poltergeist A term used to describe a supposed spirit or ghost that manifests itself by moving and influencing inanimate objects. Reports of poltergeist activity typically feature heavily on raps, bumps, thumps, knocks, footsteps and bed-shaking, all without a discernible point of original or physical reason for occurrence. Many accounts also detail objects being thrown about the room, furniture being moved, and even people being levitated. Though rare, a few reported poltergeists have been purported to speak, including The Bell Witch in 1817 and Gef the Talking Mongoose in 1931. – Pad of Definitions (2.18 Hollywood Babylon), Official Website

Episodes

5.12 Swap Meat

Sam and Dean get a call from one of their old childhood babysitters, Donna, regarding a possible haunting. Donna explains that the problems started after they moved int their new home with simple bumps, knocks, scratching on the walls and objects breaking. Eventually the poltergeist graduated to attacking Donna's daughter Katie, carving the words “Murdered Chylde” into her skin.

Sam and Dean begin researching the house Donna and her family moved into, finding out that in the 1720s the house belonged to a man by the name of Isaiah Pickett, who hung a woman -- Maggie Briggs -- in his backyard for witchcraft. However, Gary Frankel, who has taken possession of Sam's body learns that, Maggie Briggs was never hung for witchcraft, but rather she was carrying Pickett's illegitimate child, so he killed her and buried her in the basement of his then home, explaining why Donna's daughter Katie had “murdered chylde” carved into her.

When they arrive at the home, Dean and Gary/Sam enter the basement and find willow moss, which is only known to grow on the graves of witches. As Dean begins to dig the grave, Gary/Sam is suddenly thrown into the wall, as Dean goes to help him, he too then thrown into the wall. As Maggie Briggs begins to approach Dean, she suddenly burns up as she rushed towards him; her bones having been salted and burned by Gary/Sam.

See also

• Ghost
• Vengeful Spirits