Poltergeist, The Seaford Case

[Jim Eshelman]

Poltergeist : The Seaford Case.

The newspaper clippings spread the news of the Seaford Poltergeist around the world. The "Seaford Case" was a series of 67 poltergeist phenomena in Seaford (NY), of which the real reason couldn't be found. Countless things moved free in the air, bottles exploded or flew without falling. Although police and many specialists searched in the whole house, they found nothing. However, the poltergeist, which finished after about a month, seemed to have a coincidence with an 8 years young boy. When he came home, immediately his presence in the house played a role. But fraud or trickery was never observed.

Seaford Case A rated: 2/3/1958 3:30 PM Seaford, New York.

I find this case somewhat interesting, not necessarily about a Poltergeist, but when we look at the 1958 Capsolar mundoscope for Seaford New York we see a striking Mercury-Pluto non-dormant mundane square. Bradley for Pluto symbolism uses the following words:

Sensation creating and record breaking, inexplicable phenomena, stunning, shocking.

Bradley’s above words certainly describes the Seaford Case. Bradley says about Mercury-Pluto:

Circumstance cause great nervous tension when Mercury & Pluto are prominently related.

IMO, Seaford’s 1958 Capsolar nailed the planetary symbolism for this Poltergeist News Story.

http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Pol ... aford_case

http://www.survivalafterdeath.info/arti ... eaford.htm

[Jim Eshelman]

Seaford Case A rated: 2/3/1958 3:30 PM Seaford, New York.

Since you are treating this interesting case as a mundane event, I'm moving it to the mundane events section. - Is this the time of the first incident, btw?

As you point out, the Capsolar from 2-3 weeks earlier is fascinating, with a 0°01' Mercury-Pluto mundane square on the angles. "Weird stories" is as concise a phrasing as I can muster: You've given a more extended summary.

The Caplunar isn't particularly descriptive. Sun is exactly rising, and we get a little Moon, a little Venus, a little Uranus, and a whisper of Jupiter. The Sun-Jupiter square is probably its most pronounced feature.

The Canlunar immediately before the date you gave is fascinating, drawing together several intimations from earlier charts in the series.

Moon-Mercury op. (0°18')
Jupiter (IC 1°31')
Venus (Dsc 1°58')
-- Ve/Ju on angles (0°13')
Sun (Dsc 2°01')
-- Su/Ve=Dsc (0°02')
-- Sun-Jupiter sq. (0°29' mundo)
Uranus (Asc 2°18')
-- Su/Ur on horizon (0°08')
-- Ju/Ur on angles (0°24')
-- Venus-Uranus op. (0°20')
Mercury (WP 1°50')
Neptune (IC 5°17')

At the date and time you give (the start?), t. Mars was 0°54' past conjunction with Capsolar Descendant, and 0°20' shy of exact conjunction with Capsolar Mercury. Genuine poltergeist phenomena are nearly always "leaking" Kundalini-type energies, especially when these energies are newly awakening, powerful, and unfamiliar / undisciplined, such as from children at puberty or people who are at certain intermediate stages of intense spiritual disciplines. The Canlunar is consistent with some of this, but not sharply. I take this transit of Mars to Mercury and its angle, though, as a sudden, powerful release of mental energy connected to the events.

The CanQ is a little strange I'm inclined not to take it too seriously. Q Asc was square ingress Saturn. Of much greater interest to me, given the earlier showing of Jupiter (especially through recurring Sun-Jupiter aspects) is that the CanQ has a progressed Moon-Jupiter opposition exact to the minute (0°00').

What could this Jupiter be? I'm guessing, but maybe someone has more information and can confirm or deny. I'm wondering about the family's religious practices and intensity. On the one hand, intense, concentrated devotional practices can trigger the sort of energies that manifest these phenomena. On the other hand, religious-fed repression can concentrate emerging sexual energies and have them "leak" around the edges in metaphysical expressions.

I think this is the pivotal aspect. especially since the phenomena ended after about a month - just the time it would take this Moon-Jupiter progression to move out of orb. In other cultures, these events simply would have been called miracles, and addressed with religious devotion, the location marked as a shrine. If Seaford, NY in the 1950s wasn't inclined to do this, it doesn't change the underlying characteristic of the energies or the event (though it does strongly color people's psychological orientation to it).

[Jim Eshelman]

Jim asked:

Is this the time of the first incident, btw?

Sixty-seven distinct mysterious events were listed from the beginning of the disturbances on February 3 until the last one occurred on March 10.

Jim wrote:

What could this Jupiter be? I'm guessing, but maybe someone has more information and can confirm or deny. I'm wondering about the family's religious practices and intensity.

Some of the incidents involved religious objects (the statue of the Virgin Mary and the holy-water bottles). Willful destruction and interference with these objects would amount to desecration and would constitute a serious religious offense. It seems unlikely that a family as devout as the Herrmanns would be party to such sacrilege… Later that day Detective Tozzi called the rectory of the Church of St. William the Abbot with the request that the bishop be asked if it was possible to have the rite of exorcism carried out… (An inquiry was also made about the rites of exorcism and it was learned that permission must be given by a bishop. Detective Tozzi was told that exorcism is generally used only when church property is desecrated. Moreover, the rite is generally used on one person who is allegedly possessed of evil and not in a case of this kind.)

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