Very slow movements sometimes presented sudden accelerations as in Hartville aforementioned. According to other cases, some objects that were hurtling at high speed towards a person (with obvious fear of injury) suddenly barely touched that person as in Marcinelle in 1913 (Flammarion, 1923) and fell vertically, sometimes without bouncing as the laws of logistics would have predicted as in Los Angeles in 1974 (Rogo, 1979, pp. 112-123).

In the case of Bristol in 1761 (Gauld & Cornell, 1979, pp. 118-24), Henry Durbin, a direct witness, talked in his pamphlet IIA narrative of extraordinary things," published in Bristol in 1800, about a glass placed on a chest of drawers:

It rose gradually about a  foot, perpendicularly from the drawersi then the glass seemed to stand, and thereupon inclined backwards, as if a hand had held iti it was then flung with violence about five feet and struck the nurse on the hip a hard blow. (Gauld & Cornell, 1979, p. 120)

In many cases, bedding is regularly thrown out of bed, as in Amherst in 1878 (Carrington, 1913i Hubbell, 1879, pp.  95-124). Sometimes, the objects are thrown with extreme precision, as in the case of Nottingham in 1990 (Cornell, 2002), where small stones passed at high speed through the same hole drilled by the first in a window (not achievable by manual throws or catapults). Also, they seem to move intelligently, avoiding other objects as in Miami in 1966 (Roll, 1971, 1973), where William G. Roll conducted some experiments and reported:

Susy placed an alligator ashtray as a  target object on the second shelf at the north end ofTier3, one of the most active areas in the room. Right in front of it, Julio himself put a cowbell that had been involved in earlier incidents ..... I was looking at Julio (the supposed agent), who was just about to reply to Miss Rambisz when the alligator ashtray crashed to the floor behind him. The cowbell remained in place, so the ashtray must have moved over or around it. I had Julio and the others under observation and had examined the target area myself. No one had been near it since my last examination. (Roll, 2004, pp. 134-5)

In some cases, objects' movements seem to be directed towards a particular area or person as in Indianapolis in 1962 (Roll, 1970, pp. 85-87i Roll, 2004, pp. 56-69).