Science! Teenage Girls Cause Poltergeists

I shit you not: a scientist from Italy has proposed that the origin of poltergeist phenomena (ie, flying objects and general panic) is in fact the result of the growing brains of children and teenagers channeling energy into the quantum mechanical vacuum. Cuz kids are so good at making antimatter.

Puberty, you see, "is a modification of the child body which involves various organs, chiefly the brain." Check. Also, researchers Brovetto and Maxia have posited:

Brovetto and Maxia hypothesise that the changes in the brain that occur at puberty involve fluctuations in electron activity that, in rare cases, can create disturbances up to a few metres around the outside of the brain.

These disturbances would be similar in character to the quantum mechanical fluctuations that physicists believe occur in the vacuum, in which "virtual" particle and antiparticle pairs pop up for a fleeting moment, before they annihilate each other and disappear again.

I knew kids could make antimatter.

'They're here': The mechanism of poltergeist activity [NewScientist]