S06-E04 - The Enfield Poltergeist Part 3
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A family stands by what they saw.
Investigators defend years of evidence.
And sceptics ask whether one of Britain’s most famous hauntings was something far more human.
In the final part of Haunted UK Podcast’s Enfield Poltergeist trilogy, the focus turns to the arguments, doubts and contradictions surrounding the events at 284 Green Street.
After two years of alleged poltergeist activity, the case remains one of the most documented and debated hauntings of the twentieth century. This episode examines the sceptical case in detail, including the concerns raised by SPR member Anita Gregory, psychologist John Beloff, investigators, neighbours, magicians and later commentators who questioned the methods used by Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair.
The episode looks at the admitted pranks, the voice of Bill Wilkins, the levitation photographs, the role of media attention, the emotional strain within the Hodgson family, and whether belief itself may have shaped what witnesses thought they saw. It also considers the counterargument: that some early events were witnessed by credible people, including neighbours, police officers and journalists, and that the family never became wealthy or comfortable from the story.
Careful, balanced and reflective, this closing chapter does not force a verdict. Instead, it asks why the Enfield case continues to unsettle us — not only because of what may have happened inside that house, but because of what it reveals about fear, grief, childhood, testimony, belief and the strange power of the unexplained.
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| 1:24.9 | Putting the case for psychic research has never been easy. |
| 1:31.3 | Researchers have to overcome any obstacles when presenting the results of their labours to the wider community. There appears to be a strong undercurrent of belief that what is not understood does not exist. |
| 1:38.3 | It may stem from a very deep-rooted fear of the unknown, or just a refusal to recognise anything that cannot |
| 1:46.6 | be appreciated by our senses. This type of refusal might at first glance appear to be a sensible |
| 1:54.9 | and logical way to approach our particular subject, because we are dealing with the inexplicable. |
| 2:02.0 | Yet are not other branches of research also dealing with much that is unknown and inexplicable? |
| 2:11.3 | Quote from Morris Gross, Paranormal Research, |
| 2:15.3 | member of the Society for Psychical Research, and lead investigator in the Enfield Paltkegeist case. |
| 2:22.3 | The The |
| 2:37.0 | Oh, |
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