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Dark Histories

The Enfield Poltergeist Story

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The true story of the Enfield Poltergeist. A historical haunting of a British family during the 1970s, the Enfield Poltergeist is still today Britains most famous haunting. This story would become the inspiration for several TV shows and also the film The Conjuring 2.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to Dark Histories.

0:03.0

Before we start, I just want to take a second to thank all the people who support the show

0:07.0

and help make it sustainable, both on Patreon and by signing up to Audible via the Dark History's affiliate link.

0:13.4

You can find links to both of those in the show notes if you're interested,

0:16.6

or you can help out just by sharing the show with people who you think might be interested,

0:21.0

on social media or with all the good people you might know.

0:24.0

All right let's get on in the episode. Cheers.

0:29.0

In 1977 a family living in a small semi-detached house in Enfield, a quiet suburb of London, was subject

0:36.6

to a series of violent paranormal disturbances which lasted for an entire year.

0:42.3

Levitations, moving objects, overturned furniture and channeled

0:46.4

voices were all witnessed by more than 30 people including residents, journalists,

0:52.0

neighbors and police officers.

0:55.0

Today we look at the story of the Enfield poltergeist.

0:59.0

This is Dark Histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

1:03.0

Hello and welcome season.

1:09.0

Hello and welcome season one episode two.

1:12.0

I'm going straight in with something that I'm really

1:14.2

excited about the Enfield Polgeist I talk about a bit more at the end but this is

1:19.8

definitely one of my favorites since I was a child. So if you've not heard of it,

1:25.2

tuck yourself in, although since it was kind of covered by the

1:30.5

conjuring, or I should probably sort of say covered in air quotes there by the conjuring too.

1:37.0

It's become more famous outside of Britain, but anyway, let's get on with it, let's just jump straight in. This is the story of the Enfield poltergeist.

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