Poltergeist
General Characteristics
Type	Mutated human
Statistics
Health	Medium
Attacks	Telekinesis
Abilities	Telekinetic attacks Gravitational attacks
Body parts	None
Locations	Shadow of Chernobyl Lab X-18 (Common) Clear Sky Red Forest (Rare) Call of Pripyat Zaton (Rare) Yanov (Rare) Pripyat (Common)
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A Poltergeist is a type of mutant featured in all three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

Lore Edit

Overview Edit

Poltergeists are extremely deceiving for rookie players as they do not appear threatening; they only appear as a ball of electricity. However they can be killed with conventional weaponry just by shooting at the ball of lightning. Poltergeists will attack with anything that's not tied to the ground by utilizing their telekinetic powers to throw objects at the player (e.g., buckets, barrels, ammo boxes, crates, discarded firearms). However it can also be that they can manipulate gravity similar to that of Vortex anomalies.

Appearances Edit

Shadow of ChernobylEdit

Poltergeists are relatively annoying, but pose no greater threat to the player. The flying junk does only very light damage. Unlike in two later S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, in Shadow of Chernobyl Poltergeists do have a physical body, which seems humanoid although consisting only of top half without the legs of what would have been a regular body. It can only be seen after killing this creature, and killing it is extremely hard task. A Poltergeist is a real bullet absorber, taking 20-40 shots from an AKM-74/2 type weapon to kill. One tell tale sign of a Poltergeist in the area or near to you is the blueish fuzzy tint your view will have around it. While alive it appears nearly identical in all three games.

LocationsEdit

During your trips to the labs of X-16 and X-18, you can see the deformed bodies of what appears to be infants in stasis tubes; it can be theorized that those creatures are Poltergeists still in infant stages.^{[source/verification needed]} Poltergeists are particularly found in Lab X-18, adding an eerie and frightening atmosphere to this laboratory contributing to its nearly legendary fame. They may also surface to the Wild Territory, Army Warehouses and Dark Valley in unpatched or older versions of the game.

Clear SkyEdit

In Clear Sky, Poltergeists can be found inside the abandoned mine at the Red Forest during the mission to find the Compass. If one goes deep into the mine, they will see that a section of the ground is covered with wooden planks; without a careful step, one may fall into the pit and be faced with several Poltergeists. The Poltergeist will take even more bullets, and their attacks are ridiculously powerful. If they hurl a heavy object at you, be prepared for instant death, even if you're in an Exoskeleton.

LocationsEdit

Two Poltergeists with powerful Psychic abilities are found in an abandoned mine shaft in the Red Forest. They are very deadly, as their throws of assorted objects can result in more than 50% damage to one's health; even while wearing high-end armor. They are also near a rare Bulldog 6 and a quest item from a Duty or Loner squad leader.

Call of PripyatEdit

In Call of Pripyat, Poltergeists are back to normal. They also seem to have much less health, but this is partially offset by the fact they're rather hard to aim at. Most importantly, they have lost their ability to see and instead now sense movement. By walking or crouching the player can remain completely undetected; hitting a Poltergeist once will usually not be enough to fully alert it (use low crouch to be sure), allowing the player to easily take it out even using nothing but a Hunting knife.

LocationsEdit

In Call of Pripyat, there is a Poltergeist around the Iron Forest anomaly and inside the Circus anomaly in Zaton, one is inside Lab X-8, and at least two are in the Kindergarten in Pripyat.

See AlsoEdit

• Pyrogeist

TriviaEdit

• The name "Poltergeist" comes from the two German words poltern which means to make noise and geist which means ghost.
• In real life legends, a poltergeist is a ghost that manifests itself by moving objects around an area. In-game they pretty much do the same by moving objects and throwing them at the player, except for the ghost part as they are a horrid by-product of C-Consciousness research and experiments.

Gallery Edit

A Poltergeist in Call of Pripyat in Pripyat's Kindergarten.

Player view when a poltergeist is near.

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