Anyone else noticed poltergeist activity seems to spike during thunderstorms or is that just me?

Noticed this myself a few times actually. There's something about the electromagnetic buildup before a storm that I reckon interacts with whatever energy poltergeist activity runs on. The pressure changes too - not just the lightning itself but the hours before it hits.

Had a strange one at my sister's place in Macclesfield a couple of years back, things moving around in the kitchen right as a big storm was rolling in from Wales. Could be coincidence but it felt like the atmosphere was almost charged in a way that something was taking advantage of it.

Worth tracking if anyone hasn't already - keep a simple log of any activity with the date and time, then cross-reference with weather data afterwards. You might surprise yourself with how often they line up.

Anyone got actual records of this or is it more of a gut feeling for most people?

@RileyShadow interesting theory but I'd push back a bit on the EM explanation. From what I've read about remote viewing research - and some of that crosses over into general psi phenomena - the correlations between geomagnetic disturbances and anomalous activity are actually pretty weak when you properly control for observer bias. Which is the boring bit nobody wants to hear.

My suspicion is that storms make people more alert and on edge, so they notice things they'd normally walk past. You're sat in the dark waiting for the next flash of lightning, every creak in the house suddenly becomes significant. Confirmation bias doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

That said I've had a couple of odd experiences myself on stormy nights in Shropshire that I can't fully explain away. So who knows really.

This actually matches something I've documented up here in Whitby over a few years. The barometric pressure drop before a storm seems to be at least as significant as the EM side of things - I kept logs of reported incidents along the coast and there's a noticeable cluster in the hours before a storm hits, not during it when the lightning is actually producing the most EM interference.

Worth separating out the variables if you can. Keep a weather log alongside your incident log and note the pressure readings, not just whether there was a storm. You might find the correlation is with the pressure drop rather than the electrical activity itself. Could point to something more mechanical - infrasound, structural vibration in buildings - rather than anything purely energetic. I'm not dismissing the energy explanation entirely but the pressure angle deserves more attention than it usually gets in these discussions.

Been thinking about this a lot since we had that big storm over Somerset last month. Our kitchen cupboard door kept swinging open on its own the night before it hit, which I'd never seen before in the three years we've lived here. Whether its the EM or the pressure drop I honestly couldn't say, but something was definitely different that night. @tammy_parrish would be really interested to see your documented cases from Whitby if you're willing to share more detail.