I believe there are hauntings because of unfinished business, or maybe they don't know they are dead so that might be the reason for residual hauntings.
I think poltergeists are entities that know they are dead and they want to be noticed. A lot of people are not sensitive to the other side so they have no choice but to throw things.
I never thought of poltergeists as entities that may only be able to communicate through their noisy ways. I have always accepted the theory that they are somehow created in the highly emotional human mind. New thought!
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Your husband is into UFO's and Urban Legends? We have an urban legend here called the Goat Man of the Pope Lick Tressle. Pretty wild.
I much more prefer ghosts.
So do I. He is a huge Bigfoot fan. I bought him a book by Troy Taylor, my mentor, about stories around a campfire. I swear it is scarier than any ghost book I have ever read! He used to live in the Northwest near alot of Bigfoot sightings. Here I always grew up with the Thunderbirds and remember being scared of them.