The Haunting Case of The Lindley Street Poltergeist

EPISODE 78 | Avery discusses the Lindley Street Poltergeist Case of 1974
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[@jasondrawsstuff9134]

I love that your content is so fresh, as opposed to most of the other true crime creators that rehash the same cases, while adding nothing new or original to the story. This is quality content from a seasoned storyteller. You're well on your way.

[@AveryAfterDark]

Jason! You just made my day! Thanks so much. I try find stories that haven't been covered much or at all. I know I personally don't want to listen to the same story 1000 times. I'd rather bring you something new! Appreciate your kind words, they mean a lot 😃

[@robjohnson212]

What makes it so much more compelling than the Amityville case, is the fact that you have both Police and Firefighters written accounts about what they witnessed inside the house.

[@Billbilly6969]

My father was a Bridgeport cop at the time. He was not one of the first on scene but what he swore to was that when he pulled up he saw a fireman run out of the house so fast that he ran right in to a telephone pole and knocked him out

[@jeffwarren6906]

This tale was very credible , and well documented , but what put life into it for me was the clear & concise telling of it . Stellar narration . I liked and I subscribed . Thank you Avery

[@RalphieGirl713]

Love the new background! And I always love hearing stories from my home state lol. Love your videos ❤😊

[@AveryAfterDark]

Thanks so much for watching! You are lucky! CT has some of the BEST ghost stories around. New England in general but some of the tales that come from Connecticut are NEXT level!! 👻

[@RalphieGirl713]

​@@AveryAfterDark Lol thanks. I miss it every day. There was a ghost lore/true crime case in the 80s in the town next to mine that involved a serial killer and a church. Trinity Church in Brooklyn, CT. Growing up legend was serial killer Michael Ross killed two girls behind the church in the cemetery and thats why it's haunted. But there's contridicting info about if he even killed anyone there, or if it was haunted before he were to have killed people there. Most teens go try and ghost hunt there, but they have patrols and all to keep people out. We almost got caught when we went 😆 And besides that, my house was haunted growing up lol we don't know who it was, but he was kinda just, there. We'd see shadows or feel his presence, but he felt more protective than anything lol and our house was only built in the 80s, so I personally think the land was haunted. Also, I appreciate the visual podcasts on here now 😊 Eta- We tried going there in like 2010, but the patrol was there so we just left. So I didn't get to actually try and see if it was haunted lol

[@user-ug2dn7ee2h]

I've just recently started watching you on KZbin and so far you've grabbed me with the paranormal stories...I lived in Bridgeport when this happened. I was just a kid but I remember my uncle saying that it was nonsense and there was no such thing. One story about Lindley Street was that a cat was witnessed talking. Don't know if that was made up at the time but I do remember that it was said to call a person's name. George I believe. I also witnessed the activity in Dudleytown while on a paranormal tour with the Warren's in the early 90's. And as you said in your podcast there was absolutely no sound once you passed a threshold goingnin to Dudleytown. The group I was with also witnessed the sound of someone walking around us but not seeing anyone who was doing this...We all stood still listening and could not explain what was happening.

[@JuanReyes-if6ky]

The 966 lindsley st incident was not a hoax. I was 8 years old when this happened in 1974 and I live a few blocks from this house. I also heard that the there was a black cat in the basement that was singing jingle bells and a priest told me that the picture frames were floating of the walls and the refrigerator was also floating about 1 foot off the floor. Scary, very scary stuff to even talk about but it was the real deal. Oh and I really enjoyed your video!! Thank you !!

[@catholic3dod790]

Priest told you. It was his fault. Because he supposed to take an oath for not tell anyone about he was a witness.

[@JuanReyes-if6ky]

@@catholic3dod790 I didn't know that but when he told us of the haunting I was only 9 years old.

[@JuanReyes-if6ky]

He also kept his oath and only spoke of a rumor but said that he can't talk about the full details of the haunting

[@kerryspeck6875]

Ed and Lorraine seem legit to me. I don’t know why they’re getting negative press here 🤷‍♀️thanks for another great story Avery. Love the eerie background ❤

[@AveryAfterDark]

Thanks so much for watching & so glad you enjoyed 👻😀 I'm not sure either, seems like nowadays people just love to complain about anyone & anything!

[@juleswins3]

I’m sure you could do your own internet sleuthing but for time and convenience sake, read the Wikipedia article on the Warren’s. It’s pretty well documented.

[@prahmisebanks9371]

​@@AveryAfterDarkthey complain until they need help for something paranormal.

[@Kate82261]

​@@prahmisebanks9371❤ exactly and this subject is one of ppls favorites to say they're more logical and intelligent than others

[@amanwithnohands]

@@AveryAfterDark@kerryspeck6875 The Warren’s were awful people. Ed was a predator. They kept a 15-year-old girl as Ed’s live-in lover for many years. Elizabeth forced her to have an abortion. Also If they could not make money off of a case they would leave. They would very often only stay for one day, and then takeoff, especially if they couldn’t convince the people to sign off on an agreement to write a book. That has been well documented. For example, Enfield poltergeist in England. They were there for one day and they asked the family if they wanted to make money off of it, and the family basically told Ed to leave. In the Lindley street case , they were there for a very short time. If they could not make a case fit into their usual demon narrative they would move on. In this case they told the father that they could make a lot of money and the father just told him to leave. It’s all documented in interviews and in a book. You really shouldn’t be, pushing their fake narrative. Also - the warrens did not conduct the lengthy interviews in this case. The interviews were conducted by a university team. Read www.amazon.com/Worlds-Most-Haunted-House-Poltergeist/dp/1601633378 The Warrens were also religious frauds. The priests they relied on were not there in official church capacity. Father Charbonneau was a very young priest and I think they took advantage of him. He was reprimanded by the church because of his official sounding interviews he would give concerning his involvement with them. They would also rely on defrocked priests. There was one priest they used who was so conservative the church threw him out. Do better with your research and don’t glamorize these frauds.

[@cfnquan]

just passed by this house today and i can tell you its creep when you know the history

[@teezyjames596]

I drove past this house 3 days ago people currently live in that house

[@jacalahall]

😮😮😮 WTH are you serious

[@rosemiller3025]

You are SUCH a wonderful story teller Avery! ❤ I appreciate you!

[@AveryAfterDark]

Thank you so much Rose! I appreciate YOU! ❤😃

[@fangsandfolklore8795]

It is my belief that Poltergeists are not ghosts, but rather demons pretending to be ghosts.

[@catholic3dod790]

Exactly 💯%

[@betheurich7790]

Love these stories!! Subscribed!!

[@TheLokitrowa]

Greeting from the uk love your videos I either watch them on here or listen on Spotify while walking my dog, I look forward every week and not missed an episode, love the new back ground ❤❤

[@AveryAfterDark]

I love to hear this! Thank you so much for watching & listening 👻I need to cover some more great UK stories, you all have some majorly spooky places & cases!! :)

[@pinspatience4525]

I found your pod cost through TikTok which lead me here. I'm confident the spirt in the home was attacking young Marsha and was doing everything it can to insure no one was going to help them. Now, I appreciate this next thought may be outlandish. I'll call the poltergeist a demon going forward. It's possible the police superintendent may have been influenced by the demon during the interview with Marsha. Being exposed to Marsha and the house the demon could have attached and then influenced him. In turn discounting Marsha's experience, other officers and fire fighters. The demon causing Marsha to say it's a lie, then applying pressure to the superintendent is what it needed to remove anyone who wanted to help. As you said in your episode demons want the victims to be abandoned and have no support. In turn causing the victim to feel even more helpless and even more vulnerable. That's my thoughts after my years of reading paranormal accounts, authors, and personal experiences. Thanks for the hard work and the great story sharing.

[@Sirianstar10]

Skeptics love to make excuses for why things happen, even when they see it with their own eyes. I'm an old tree hugging medium. I can't tell you how many times I've heard those excuses! Like a little kid could even fake that mess. Crazy!

[@monikamartin6002]

I feel really bad for Marcia. By my math, she would be in her late 50s by now. I can only help but wonder what effect this experience as a child has had on her life; the things that happened to her, as well as being labeled responsible for it all. It definitely sounds like a poltergeist to me. As you mentioned, there are just too many credible witnesses for it to be otherwise. It seems to me that the only hoax here was the Superintendent's decision on the case.

[@juleswins3]

Whenever I hear that Ed and Lorraine Warren were involved in something I automatically assume it’s fake. I looked up the house on Google Earth and it looks exactly the same now as it did then. Looks like people live there, too, apparently without a haunting.

[@angelarailey4812]

Do you think it’s typically structures that are haunted or is it perhaps people?

[@juleswins3]

@@angelarailey4812 Structures or areas.

[@tootnickle70]

​@@juleswins3Have you seen structures levitate? I haven't.

[@tootnickle70]

​@@juleswins3A question, in your investigation of this property, did the inhabitants say there was no activity? Or are you making assumptions based on Google still shots. I'm curious, because going to locations can be interesting. I wouldn't mind going.

[@grouchyolddan]

I love being from a place with hauntings and hearing how stories corroborate then you hear of another place you don't know about but there's so many people with different experiences and you find out from somebody they're all entirely bullshit lol

[@renaz630]

The Chief of Police tried to discredit his officers who were there. Not everyone thought they were lying.

[@singchef1965]

I do NOT believe that this was a hoax. The police chief was wrong to label it as such and pin it on a little 10 yr old girl without fully and rationally, asking more questions concerning the displacement of a refrigerator that many have seen to move on it's own.

[@seanroche2358]

We need to know more about what happened to them,and I could swear I read it had something to do with Marsha’s blood family

[@AveryAfterDark]

It would be so interesting to learn more, I agree. Sad it was shut down so quickly before anyone could investigate it further & see where the entity came from

[@tomjones5338]

The house is a portal to hell there are certain houses built that are portals to hell you will have to look up the history of the area starting from 1610 upwards the house itself could be built on ancient Indian burial ground the Amityville house is built on ancient Indian burial ground New York City is built of a sacred indian burial ground there are graves still buried underneath, the house on Linley street definitely wouldn't live on it it's the type of house you'd buy but you'd have the outside secured as in bars on windows and doors same if there's a old fashioned basement with Doors that lead to the basement, whatever is in the house has to do with the basement your talking about a ancient malivelent evil never ever demolish these houses for safety reasons especially with neighbouring homes they'll just go into a neighbours house certain people can by accident trigger evil spirits without knowing they have my final words and advice don't fear evil but don't live in those houses

[@angelarailey4812]

That poor child. I don’t see how anything else except a poltergeist could be the answer. ……Some of the details are really fascinating like the makeup of the white entity feeling similar to bird bones? Wow! Never expected bird bones to be so creepy………..I love the spooky trees 💜

[@markwebster5749]

Great video Avery don’t get how I missed it 😮

[@Angie-GoneSoon]

Ok, I gotta say it... Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! 😂 Ok, I got that outta my system! 😅

[@blueeyesnero]

I really want to go ghost hunting

[@LorrieHook]

Another great one Avery!

[@AveryAfterDark]

Thanks so much for watching Lorrie! :)

[@Loviebabii20]

I'm new and just subscribed 😊

[@AveryAfterDark]

welcome!! so glad to have found you! 😃

[@dmojcik]

The cat starts talking you forgot to mention that !!

[@Angie-GoneSoon]

Basically, the devil knew that his demons were about to be evicted from that house. He then probably scared that police chief, or caused him to do what he did to end it, by getting into his head, influencing his thoughts.

[@sharonfreitas7447]

Can you provide any history about the house or Marcia's past? The fact that she was adopted is interesting. I don't believe she did all that by herself. Crazy!

[@dianariley7199]

I grew up with poltergeist activities happening in my home,yes, I believe this was a legit poltergeist in Connecticut

[@catholic3dod790]

Tell me please...how did poltergeist began? Thank you

[@TheYoungDoctor]

I was wondering if you might do a video on Borley Rectory in the future.

[@AveryAfterDark]

great suggestion! I will look into this 👻

[@user-du5tg4si2j]

I just got my DENTURES in that are WAY TOO BIG for my mouth!!!! Looking at my teeth is SCARY AS HELL in the MIRROR!

[@kyfann1]

Your fans need a once a week live KZbin call in show .

[@AveryAfterDark]

Hahaha that would be so fun!!!!

[@catholic3dod790]

Make a movie about this.

[@pattiecomo3089]

I had a family member who lived down the street from the house I was near this its all true the cat Sam spoke to a police officer he knew the officer had a brother who died

[@I-serve-you-tea]

So creepy

[@pattiecomo3089]

@@I-serve-you-tea yes it was a real poltergeist case there us a book out by Auth or William hall the most haunted house the Lindley street po,terguiest

[@tonyleyden2066]

i would love to know is the house still there and has anyone else tried to explore it

[@AveryAfterDark]

I believe it's still there. I would be curious too!!

[@manhattanmike6959]

Trust me. You don't want to be in that neighborhood without some sort of self defense. Bridgeport ct especially that area is a crap hole. I'm 10 minutes from the home as I'm writing this. Lol

[@catholic3dod790]

​@@manhattanmike6959 People who are ghost hunters like Ghost Taps, Ghost Adventures, and etc...why don't they go into that house?

[@manhattanmike6959]

​@catholic3dod790 because there are no ghosts in the house and the people that live there now don't want to be bothered

[@JosephMiller-gh6mv]

Unless she was on the strongest man in world competition no why she could pick up a frig , go out to your kitchen try to pick up your frig , and she was 10 so she may not have had her first female moment and it seems to draw in spirits many times evil ones

[@coreyfazo690]

I walked in there when it was boreded up ain’t shi happen just cold I smoked on the front porch of the house coming outta central only thing I can say weird bout it it’s just cold asf in there then usual 💯🤷🏽‍♂️

[@alexisfultz5350]

What if there is some kind of energy from the earth that causes these phenomenons? 🤷‍♀️

[@ayotollaofrockandrolla7219]

Typical police response. Cover it up and let it go. Haha

[@nardoEBK148]

Avery so fine ❤️‍🔥😍

[@danielmorrissette4757]

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[@user-lk8uf6pf6m]

Your really cute

[@MichaelR262]

And no video evidence?

[@SeriouslyWarped]

What were you expecting to see? The incident being portrayed here occurred in 1974. Video cameras were not readily available in those times unless you were loaded, which is not how the people in this community were being portrayed. This is such a low-key comment to an otherwise very good re-telling of the story. If the actual police reports were not good enough to believe the story, then video evidence would be totally useless. Wouldn't matter anyway. There are always those like you who would pick it apart in such detail only to throw out their own theory as to why it can't be real. You obviously have never had a personal encounter with the supernatural because this comment would have never been made if you had.

[@fallenseraph5V]

Maybe by removing all the attention it was getting, the angry spirit or whatever it was got bored and decided to take a hike.