The Ghost Haunting That Started It All (1977)

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Enfield Poltergeist is one of the most interesting cases in Paranormal history. A UK family of 5 experienced a bunch of strange activity for months. Many news outlets followed the story and wrote about their experience while visiting the family after their claims. We take a look at the Ghost story and examine the phenomenon.  Enfield Poltergeist 0:00 Intro 0:32 Hodgson Family 1:55 Police Witness  2:50 Strange Happenings 3:44 Janet 4:45 Interview 6:34 Joe Wilkins 7:10 Investigation 8:30 Haunted 9:30 Outro

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00:00it was one of the most chilling stories in paranormal history many strange reports of

00:13the supernatural with witness testimonies but was a true let's take a look back at the infamous

00:20enfield poltergeist story and find out what actually happened renting out a home in the

00:27north london area was the hodgson's family peggy was a recently divorced single mother of four

00:34children two young boys and two young girls in august of 1977 things would start to get real

00:43strange for the family of five while settling in for bed at around 9 30. peggy heard a loud noise

00:50coming from one of the other rooms in the house assuming it was the kids playing a little too

00:56loud she went to scold them so she can get some sleep the kids denied it was them making the

01:03noise her youngest daughter janet claimed it was their dresser making sounds peggy assuming the

01:10kids were playing around didn't believe them i don't want to hear another word now get back to bed

01:16everyone was immediately startled by what they just all witnessed now frightened peggy rushed her kids

01:32over to a nearby neighbor's house wanting to put the scared family's fears at ease their neighbors

01:38volunteered to check things out after entering the house they also heard the noises coming from the walls

01:46still unable to figure out what was happening in the home the scared group decided it was time to

01:53get the police involved two officers were dispatched to investigate the call once they arrived one of

02:01the officers saw a chair move across the living room floor it came off the floor or nearly a half

02:09inch i should say and i saw it slide off to the right about three and a half to four feet before it came

02:15to rest i checked to see whether or not it could possibly have slid along the floor i placed a marble on

02:21the floor to see whether or not the marble would go in the same direction as the chair did and it didn't

02:27didn't roll at all um i checked for wires under the cushion the chair and i could find no explanation

02:33at all unfortunately for the hodgson family the police could not do anything further

02:39this was not something they expected to deal with that night

02:43over the course of the next few days more incidents seemed to occur

02:48the family along with their neighbors witnessed other strange phenomena

02:51they saw marbles and toys lift off the ground and then fly around in the air

02:57this unordinary chain of events had spooked the family and made living in the home almost unbearable

03:04desperately looking for answers and a resolution for her scared family

03:09peggy reached out to different news publications in hopes they could witness the paranormal activity

03:14for themselves and perhaps they could offer some assistance

03:18news outlets sent reporters out to the hodgson house quickly

03:24as many as 10 people unrelated to the family observed unexplained incidents

03:30the family soon would gain a lot of attention in the newspapers following the findings

03:35things would only get weirder for the family

03:39peggy's youngest daughter janet soon became the center of attention

03:43she had started to project a deep graspy voice similar to an elderly man

03:49on those occasions she referred to herself as joe wilkins

03:54why can't janet fill you

03:59i'm invisible you're invisible why are you invisible

04:04apparently a man with that name did in fact live in the house previously

04:19this mr wilkins who had died in the house he claimed to be alive and well in the young girl's body

04:25while speaking through janet in a raspy voice when you hear the voice and it comes out where does it come from

04:34and so it must be as if it's somebody else speaking there when you hear it behind us

04:50and do you get the feeling when you hear the voice that there is a person there yes yeah and do they

05:02tell you much about themselves

05:05not really no

05:08they just tend to growl and play around and sort of joke and be silly

05:14i wonder if

05:20do you think there's anyone there just now

05:23yeah

05:24i don't

05:29who's that

05:32what

05:33who's that janet

05:34pardon

05:36stuart

05:38stuart's certain and he's one of the voices

05:43why do you think he comes

05:45and speaks through you

05:47to noise to a noise

05:50does he ever say anything nice

05:54well

05:58i don't know really

05:59i don't know if he's going to speak to him

06:04shall we try and speak to him now

06:06we'll see if he'll speak to us

06:09yeah

06:12is anybody there

06:15no no

06:17who's there

06:18doctor

06:20doctor who

06:29her older sister margaret also started to speak in a similar harsh manner

06:35the investigators recorded hours worth of conversations with joe wilkins

06:40the voice being so unnatural caused many to wonder how it was being done

06:45was a man named joe really inhabiting the young girls

06:50or was it some sort of elaborate hoax

06:53maybe even an undiagnosed personality disorder

06:56as the case continued to grow in the media

07:01more expert researchers visited the home attempting to debunk the phenomena

07:06magicians were called to the house to evaluate janet

07:10spiritual mediums and psychics were sent to make contact with joe

07:14one of the main investigators who often ran experiments and believed the phenomena

07:20claimed to have witnessed the girls faking things

07:23such as bending spoons

07:25jannett admitted to trickery but only on a few occasions

07:30the family claimed the phenomena was real regardless

07:33one night i was standing here there were about 11 or 12 people in the room and i was standing

07:38talking to one of the members of the family and i'm in front of the settee and the settee

07:45went straight up in the air and turned upside down right in front of me no more than

07:48a foot away from me how does it feel to be haunted by a poltergeist it's not haunted

07:58why isn't it haunted i don't know does it frighten you the things that happen here

08:03well it did first but now i've got more use to it and you learn to accept the things that happen

08:09some skeptics believe she may have simply trained herself to talk in a certain way

08:16after 18 months of the supposed strange activities the weirdness seemed to stop

08:23and everyone was able to move on with their lives the hodgson family eventually moved out

08:29and a new family would move in the new residents claimed to get a weird feeling during their stay

08:37the feeling was described as someone watching them also they claimed to hear weird noises and voices

08:45and insisted they had no prior knowledge of the previous family or their experiences in the house

08:51however once they were informed they understood what was happening to them

08:55they moved out the house just after a few months of living there the sisters as they got an older

09:02still claim the haunting to be true the case over time has taken on a life of its own

09:09from books to tv shows and movies what do you think about this story do you believe their story to be true

09:18are you a skeptic of the paranormal leave a comment below and let me know

09:25do

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