S06-E02 - The Enfield Poltergeist Part 1

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Steven Holloway

Haunted Locations, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Strange Phenomena, Documentary Podcast, Folklore, Documentary, Hauntings, Ufos, History, Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries

4.5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A quiet house in North London begins to knock back.

Furniture moves in front of witnesses.

And a terrified family find themselves at the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist cases in history.

In the first part of this three-part investigation, Haunted UK Podcast begins its deep dive into the Enfield Poltergeist — the extraordinary case that unfolded at 284 Green Street, Enfield, in 1977.

The story begins with Peggy Hodgson and her four children, whose ordinary family home is suddenly overtaken by unexplained knocks, moving furniture, flying objects and disturbances that soon draw in neighbours, police officers, council representatives, journalists and investigators from the Society for Psychical Research.

As the activity escalates, WPC Carolyn Heeps witnesses a chair move across the living room, Daily Mirror reporters and photographers are struck by flying objects, and researchers Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair begin documenting a case that would become one of the most debated hauntings of the twentieth century.

This opening chapter explores the first weeks of the case: the frightened Hodgson family, the early witness testimony, the alleged levitation photographs, the strange behaviour of everyday objects, and the growing suspicion that the activity may be centred around twelve-year-old Janet Hodgson.

Careful, atmospheric and grounded in testimony, this episode opens the door on a haunting where belief, scepticism, childhood, grief, media attention and unexplained phenomena all begin to collide.

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1:37.3	On Thursday, 1 September, 1977 at approximately 1am, I was on duty in my capacity as a policewoman when I received a radio message to 284 Green Street Enfield. I went to this address where I found a number of people standing in the living room.
1:42.3	I was told by the occupier of this house that
1:45.4	strange things have been happening during the last few nights and that they believe that the house
1:51.0	was haunted. Myself and another PC entered the living room of the house and the occupier
1:57.6	switched off the lights. Almost immediately I heard the sound of knocking on the wall
2:02.6	that backs onto the next all neighbour's house.
2:05.6	There were four distinct taps on the wall and then silence.
2:10.6	About two minutes later I heard more tapping
2:14.6	but this time it was coming from a different wall.
2:18.3	Again it was a distinctive appeal of four taps.
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