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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

92: The Enfield Poltergeist

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Happy Monday cult babes! This week we’re talking allll about the Enfield Poltergeist that terrorized the Hodgson family in the late 70’s. You may be familiar with the story from The Conjuring 2, which was based on the actual events that occurred in the home. This week’s episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Visit betterhelp.com/cultliter for ten percent off your first month. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. What's up, Cult

0:41.0

Babes here to give you the news? Tell you a little story. Today's story is a story that nobody

0:45.6

asked for, but I'm telling you anyways because guess what? It's terrifying. It's also something

0:51.6

I don't want to be alone with. I don't know, be alone with the things that I've heard, the things

0:55.6

that I have seen. It takes a lot for me to want to do an episode on a ghost story, but this one, for sure, it just

1:02.8

sends me for details and pictures from the episodes you can follow along online at Cult Leader Podcast. I'm

1:08.8

as Spencer Henry, and you know, if you're new here, maybe leave a little review. Should you feel so inclined?

1:14.4

Now, Cult Babes, whether you are a believer or a skeptic or somewhere in between like myself, this story is

1:20.6

wild. Next week's story is very murder focused. Last week we had Nexia with the Cult, so I was like, okay,

1:26.8

this week I'm going to do a good spooky ghost story, and I am going to deliver. This case was

1:32.6

actually the inspiration for the conjuring two, which I'm a big fan of that film franchise. I'm a big

1:39.0

fan of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who I will familiarize you with later on. They actually weren't as big of a

1:45.1

part of this story as the movie makes them out to be, but you're all a bunch of weirdos. You probably

1:50.0

know all about them. The story takes place in Infield, England in 1977, and it goes down as one of

1:56.0

the most notorious paranormal stories to date. Single mom Peggy Hodgson had rented a home at 284

2:02.5

Green Street with her four children, Janet, who was 11 years old, and is kind of like the star of

2:07.5

today's story, and then 13 year old Margaret, 10 year old John, and 7 year old Billy. On August 30th

2:13.7

of 1977, around 9.30 pm, Peggy hears her daughter coming down the stairs. Janet tells her,

2:21.1

mom, I heard a noise upstairs. It sounds like the beds are moving, so she follows her back up

2:26.2

stairs into the kids bedrooms, and is like, hey guys, you know, time to go to sleep, but they tell

2:30.6

her that the noise is coming from a dresser near the door. She looks over, and that's when she sees

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