S06-E03 - The Enfield Poltergeist Part 2

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

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A voice begins to speak through Janet Hodgson.

Objects appear, vanish and strike the windows.

Then witnesses outside the house claim to see the impossible.

In the second part of Haunted UK Podcast’s investigation into the Enfield Poltergeist, the case moves deeper into the strange, disturbing and highly contested events that unfolded inside 284 Green Street.

As researchers Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair continue their work, the haunting takes a new turn when a rough male voice begins speaking through twelve-year-old Janet, identifying itself as Bill Wilkins.

Tests are arranged, experts are brought in, sceptics visit the house, and the line between genuine paranormal phenomena, psychological strain and possible trickery becomes increasingly difficult to hold.

This chapter explores some of the most famous and controversial moments in the Enfield case: the alleged voice phenomena, levitation experiments, the red cushion on the roof, objects moving in sealed rooms, curtains wrapping around Janet’s neck, and independent witnesses who claim to have seen her floating horizontally through an upstairs window.

The episode also looks at the wider investigation, including visits from psychical researchers, magicians, broadcasters, the Warrens, Dutch medium Dono Gmelig-Meyling, and the later confirmation from Terry Wilkins that details given by the voice matched the death of his father.

Careful, atmospheric and sharply aware of the case’s contradictions, this episode follows the Enfield haunting at its most intense — where testimony, evidence, scepticism and fear all collide inside one ordinary North London house.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Want to stay up to date with everything that's happening on the show? Or do you have a story that you'd like to submit for one of our listener stories episodes? You can get in touch with the show via the website at www.hunted UK Podcast.com, on Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, on X at Haunted UK pod, or you can email us at contact us at haunted UK podcast.com.
0:24.0	We're also on Facebook and TikTok.
0:26.6	And if you want to support the show, you can do it via either Patreon or Coffee.
0:31.3	Both platforms have exactly the same content, but work in slightly different ways.
0:36.0	One of the advantages of Patreon is its sleek user interface,
0:39.4	but if you want to avoid those pesky additional charges,
0:42.5	Apple, Google and Patreon apply to your subscription,
0:45.6	then why not give coffee a try?
0:47.6	Simply open a browser window and type K-O-Hawnted UK-Four-Shunted UK podcast.
0:55.2	That's coffee forward slash haunted UK podcast, and you'll soon find us.
1:00.7	Whichever platform you choose, we're sure you'll enjoy the bonus content.
1:04.3	Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode.
1:25.3	I was standing there looking at the house when all of a sudden a couple of books came flying across and hit the window.
1:30.1	It was so sudden. I heard the noise because it was so quiet. There was no traffic and it made me jump. Then after a little while,
1:37.1	I saw Janet. I don't know if there's a bed underneath that window, but she was going up and down
1:43.4	bodily as though someone was just tossing her up and down bodily as though someone was just
1:45.2	tossing her up and down bodily in a horizontal position. Like as if someone had got hold of her
1:51.7	legs and back and was throwing her up and down. I definitely saw her come up about window height,
1:59.9	but I thought if she was bouncing, she'd bounce
2:02.7	from her feet.
2:04.3	She wouldn't be able to get enough power to bounce off her back, to come up that high.
2:10.0	My friend could see her as well.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Steven Holloway, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Steven Holloway and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.