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THIS is the terrifying moment an apparent poltergeist violently shakes a lamp causing a couple to flee their home - on notorious LA land where screen goddess Katharine Hepburn once escaped her "haunted" house.
In exclusive footage obtained by The Sun, panicked resident Amanda Michaels, 46, can be seen on a Ring camera getting up to switch on a flickering floor lamp before it begins shaking vigorously with nobody else around.
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She grabbed her cell phone and dog and abruptly left before calling her husband Craig - who had put cameras up after hearing mysterious banging and experiencing chills.
The couple live in Coldwater Canyon, on the same site where Hollywood actress Hepburn fled her luxury mansion - convinced the multi-million-dollar property was haunted.
Amanda's husband Craig, 58, told The Sun: "Amanda said, 'You need to get home, hurry up, something strange is going on.'
"I'm like, 'Ok, the lamp is moving', but then I replayed the footage. It wasn't moving, it was shaking.
"We went to the hotel for two days but we're now back in the house, I think I'm more scared than she is. It's really bizarre.
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"My buddy stayed in the house on the first night while we were living in another spot, he said it was noisy as hell, and nothing scares him.
"We've heard noises from day one being in this place, like someone banging tin cans together and doors slamming.
"There are sounds like footsteps in the house and it gets cold all of a sudden in certain places, things have been misplaced and then found again.
"You just get this feeling that someone is looking at you all the time at night, it's really creepy. I'm up all the time hearing this stuff and I can't sleep."
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Amanda said: "I didn't realize at first [what was happening] but then when it happened again, that's when I thought, 'Ok, something's not right'.
"Then when the lamp started shaking I just ran out, I was terrified. I know the house is haunted."
The couple live next door to a famous home previously owned by Hollywood actor Boris Karloff, known for his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1930s films.
Actress Katharine Hepburn spent five years living at the original 1927 Hacienda-style mansion before it was sold to Karloff.
The actress moved out as she was convinced it was haunted by a ghost, according to reports.
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The old house still remains, with recent owners also leaving with no explanation after just a month, while the land was parcelled off and Amanda and Craig moved into their new home on the site earlier this year.
Craig had put Ring cameras all around the property to try and capture any odd movements after being spooked and says the couple's Siberian husky, Luna, had been barking at the lamp for no reason on the same day.
"I've got two [cameras] in the living room from both angles, two in the bar, I have one in the kitchen and eight on the exterior of the property," he said.
"I have two in the guest house as well in the back area of the guest house. We're constantly hearing movement, especially at night.
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"They're all hooked up to my phone. The cameras are always going off everywhere, but then there's nobody there.
"Yesterday, we were in the room putting together this exercise bike and this massive orb came shooting down on the footage, there are always orbs.
"Lights keep going out and I don't know it's pretty weird, very scary."
He says he plans to invite paranormal investigators into their five-bed five-bathroom home before getting someone to bless the house.
"I think we're going to do a seance first and then a blessing in the next month or so," he said.
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"Katharine Hepburn stayed in that [other] house as well, and she couldn't any longer because it was haunted. There's a real history of the land.
"I don't know if it's spirits or demons, but I want to catch some more of this stuff on video first before I do anything, I want to see more."
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