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Ivan Sanderson, a well known naturalist and author was visiting a rubber plantation in Sumatra in 1928, where he participated
in what was perhaps the most bizarre entertainment of his life. Dinner was over and everyone was gathered on the veranda.
Suddenly, small stones began to shower down on the veranda deck from the darkness beyond.
Then Sanderson said...
"The host told us...that these small stones came all the time,particularly on certain nights and usually still ones,but, not
neccessarily on dark ones....As everyone was amazed and skeptical,our host told us to mark the stones in any way we liked
and throw them back anywhere into the hopelessly thick tangle of vegetation beyond or around the garden house. To mark them,
he found us chalk from his desk,a file and some pencils. The ladies used ,of course, their lipsticks, and we employed all
kinds of designs and devices. We all threw them back hard and lightly in all conceivable directions. Almost,but, not quite
all of the marked stones came back onto the veranda ina matter of seconds...some were even thrown back a few minutes later.
I would say some 50 stones were so marked and thrown that night....I can vouch for the fact that it would be impossible,absolutely,
for any human to trace,find and throw back marked stones in that vegetational tangle short of clearing said tangle and sifting
it's entire surface."
~William G Roll,The Poltergeist,p.28
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