It's electrical. You can smell the charge.
5 seconds sound clip from the Poltergeist (1982) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:46:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- There'll be two more in a couple ofseconds. They always travel in pairs.
- Gotta be quicker than that around here.
- It's electrical. You can smell the charge.
- You were saying about poltergeists?
- Poltergeists are usually associated with an individual.
- Hauntings seem to be connected with an area. A house, usually.
- Are you telling me that all of this could just suddenly end at any time?
- Yes, it could. Unless it's a haunting.
[...]