86. News Crew Caught a Poltergeist on Camera [Beauport, 1989]

Was a poltergeist caught on camera by a Canadian news crew? Summer, 1989. In Beauport, Quebec, an entire apartment building on Mgr-Gauthier Street came alive, violent banging that shook partition walls, ragged holes punched through plasterboard in real time, and dark shadows at the edge of vision. Witnesses weren't just tenants. Police officers, gas engineers and city inspectors all felt it. In this true ghost story, I investigate the Beauport Poltergeist, the TVA footage from August 4th 1989, what Lt. Guy Bedard and Inspector Gaston Dubé experienced, why gas, clay soil and plumbing theories failed, and the two chilling triggers: reported seances after a death downstairs, and 12-year-old Zoe's summer stay. This is a documented poltergeist true story, never fictionalised, told from contemporary press and investigator notes. Have a genuine experience to share? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/ITF-YourStory Editor Gerard Giorgi-Coll Research Marcus Lowth Artwork Steph Lay Research and Image Credits This episode draws on the following key research sources: The Beauport Poltergeist: Ghost Theory https://www.ghosttheory.com/2015/08/0... Poltergeist in Quebec City: The Beauport Case Revisited https://mesplaisirs.com/poltergeist-a... Archival television footage of Micheline Cochrane and the Beauport property: The Beauport Phenomenon, TVA, via @SpiritSeekers / YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfS2jv-2Noc Newspaper articles: “Une maison hantée à Beauport?” and “Des fantômes en chair et en os?”Le Journal de Québec, August 1989. TVA television network logo, 1984–1990: EsaïeGregoryPrickett, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Photograph of Christian Page: IMDb profile, accessed September 2026.