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Back in November, the story of a poltergeist in a small Czech Republic town flared brightly then faded as news media – and, it seems, the public – quickly lost interest. What happened?

The focus of attention was the Mráček family in the town of Strašice, in the Plzeň Region, 39 miles (62km) south-west of Prague, where they live in a small bungalow. Precisely how the phenomena came to the attention of the Prague Daily Monitor we don’t know, but the paper was told of a “sudden” onset of cracking windows and light bulbs, and small fires appearing “constantly throughout the house”.