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Zelda Rubinstein, the diminutive character actress with the childlike voice who was best known as the psychic called in to rid a suburban home of demonic forces in the 1982 horror movie "Poltergeist," has died. She was 76.

Sarah Waters: 'Is there a poltergeist within me?' (Cannot be posted on FR)

The Ghost Of The Old Baraboo Inn Many Years Ago The Restaurant Was A Brothel, And Recent Guests Have Reported Seeing Apparitions Of A Woman Dressed As A Saloon Dancer. Wisconsin State Journal :: FRONT :: A1 Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Doug Erickson Wisconsin State Journal BARABOO B.C. Farr has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars turning a 141-year-old saloon into a restaurant, so he's understandably reluctant to jeopardize his investment by sounding like a crackpot. That's why he says he kept quiet for years about the odd things he's seen -- dishware flying off a rack, a broom floating...

True ghost tales By Emily Quirk equirk@seacoastonline.com RAYMOND - Tim Louis never believed in ghosts before he bought the old Bean Tavern on Fremont Road more than 20 years ago. Now he says he’s a believer. In 1982, after his father-in-law died, Louis and his wife, Peg, were searching for his father-in-law’s will. Louis had just come home from work the day after Christmas with The Boston Globe and placed the newspaper on the kitchen table. He went upstairs looking for Peg and she was frantically looking for her father’s will, which Louis said must have been filed away in...

Family wishes ghostly noises would just go away Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked by Joseph M. Giordano When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up. But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal. "His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him." Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might...

WEST PALM BEACH -- Palm Beach County soon could bid adieu to some of the finer indulgences of South Florida lifestyle: walking the dog on the beach, tossing back a brew at 4 a.m. and letting it all hang out. All in the same half-hour, county commissioners suddenly went on the offensive against dogs on the beach, late-night bar hoppers and people who seem to want to show off their underwear. There oughta be a law, they said. And they ordered staff to study how that could best be done. It was a day for pet peeves, and the commissioners...