AUBURN — Eddita Felt saw “balloons bursting and water everywhere” and warned her client to brace for a major cleanup at home. It wasn’t a surprise when the Rockport, Mass., woman reported back that her teenage son had left the faucet on upstairs, destroying the bathroom and the hallway below.

When Felt investigated, she discovered a poltergeist egged him into doing it.

“I can feel minds with my mind,” Felt said. “This mind did not feel like a human mind at all; it was kind of a sly feeling. A wandering spirit came by and said, ‘Look at all this energy; I’m going to have some fun here.’ That’s the kind of spirit that comes through the Ouija Board, too.”

Felt, a psychic and medium from Lisbon, gave a poltergeist primer — they feed off conflict, can’t possess people — as the first New England Ghost Conference drew to a close Saturday. Stacey Farrington of Central Maine Paranormal Investigations, the conference host, said 50 people turned out at the Fireside Inn. Despite the weather, she planned to go ahead with a ghost-hunting investigation of Evergreen Cemetery.

“There’s a couple resident ghosts that always make themselves known when we visit,” Farrington said.

Teri Stover and husband Earle drove down from Ellsworth for the conference. Both had a general interest in the paranormal.

“We just decided to make it a date,” she said. “The table-tipping was the most interesting thing so far.”

As two women from a spiritualist church rested their hands on a small, battered table, another person’s deceased pet came through wanting to communicate, Stover said. “It was very emotional.”

Friends Danielle Baker of Lewiston and Niki Pendleton of Auburn had taken a ghost hunting class with Central Maine Paranormal Investigations last year.

“We’ve very skeptical,” Pendleton said. “Very interested, but very skeptical about what seems to be accepted by others as evidence: ‘This is a demon, this is a ghost.'”

They were looking forward to hearing more theories and science from the last speaker, Andrew Graham of New England Anomalies Research — New Hampshire.

“I don’t know if I’m really looking for the answers,” Pendleton said. “I want to take everything in and find the answer for myself.”

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