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00:00Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine when something goes bump in the night?
00:03Imagine this, it is late in the night in 1977, a quiet house in North London.
00:08Suddenly there is violent knocks on the walls and a heavy wooden dresser
00:11scrapes across the floor on its own as if pushed by invisible hands.
00:16You rush to your children's bedroom and you find them huddled in a corner, wide-eyed and shaking.
00:22And then right in front of you, the dresser slides forward again, trying to trap the girls in the room.
00:27Sounds like a scene from a horror movie, right?
00:30But for the Hodgson family of Enfield, this was real life.
00:33This is the true story of the Enfield poltergeist, the infamous case that inspired The Conjuring 2.
00:40And trust me, the reality might be even stranger and scarier than the movie.
00:49Let's start with the family at the heart of this mystery.
00:52Peggy Hodgson was a single mother raising four kids in a modest council house
00:56at 284 Green Street in Enfield, London.
00:59Her daughters, Margaret 13 and Janet 11, they shared a room.
01:03And her two younger sons, Johnny and Billy, were just kids.
01:07They were an ordinary family.
01:09Until the night of August 30th, 1977, when the extraordinary burst into their lives.
01:15Peggy initially thought that the kids were just roughhousing when she heard commotion in the girls' bedroom.
01:20But when she opened the door, she found Margaret and Janet cowering in fear, the furniture moving by itself.
01:27Peggy herself witnessed a chest of drawers wobble and slide away from the wall as if pushed by unseen hands.
01:34She tried to shove it back, but it wouldn't budge, almost as if invisible force was resisting her.
01:40Frightened out of their wits, the Hodgson's ran next door to their neighbors, Vic and Peggy Nottingham, for help.
01:47Vic marched into the house to investigate.
01:49Because who wouldn't want to play Ghostbuster at 1 o'clock in the morning, right?
01:53Yeah, he heard strange knocking sounds echoing from the walls too.
01:57Doesn't that sound fun? Just a little party at your neighbor's house? Demons? Great.
02:00It wasn't just the Hodgson kid's imagination.
02:03Something truly bizarre was happening in that house.
02:06Not knowing what else to do, Peggy Hodgson called the police.
02:08And here's where things get officially spooky.
02:11Even a police constable who responded reported seeing a chair wobble and then slide on the floor
02:18with no obvious cause.
02:20Think about that.
02:20A seasoned police officer watching the chair move without anyone near it.
02:25The officer even signed an affidavit about this later.
02:27But after a thorough check of the premises, the police were literally stumped.
02:32No burglars, no intruders, literally no explanation.
02:35One officer basically said, well, something moved that chair, but it's not exactly a police matter.
02:41I can imagine the cops scratching their heads and likely thinking,
02:44Coase? Not in our job description.
02:47Amen. That's in mine. Stay away from my business.
02:49This was just one night of what would become a nearly 18 month ordeal for the Hodgson family.
02:55As a friend telling the story, I want you to really picture it.
02:58A hardworking single mom and her kids in a tiny home, suddenly thrown into a real life nightmare.
03:05They have no idea what's going on.
03:07Only that it's terrifying.
03:08In Margaret's words, years later, we didn't understand what was happening.
03:12It's frightening.
03:13We didn't like to be on our own in the house.
03:15And who could blame them?
03:17Furniture was moving by itself.
03:19Knocks and bangs and empty rooms.
03:21And the Hodgson's were desperate and scared.
03:23Little did they know that their household was about to become the center of one of the most famous
03:27paranormal cases in history.
03:30After those first disturbances, things in the Hodgson house went from weird to utterly off the freaking
03:36charts, my dude.
03:38The activity escalated quickly, almost as if whatever poltergeist, ghost or force was there
03:44wanted more and more attention.
03:46Loud knocks continued at night, often in patterns of three or four raps that would travel from wall to wall.
03:52Objects.
03:53They literally started flying across the rooms with alarming aim.
03:57In fact, when the Hodgson's reached out to the press for help, a lego brick zoomed through the air.
04:03Oh no, poltergeist.
04:05Definitely not at him.
04:07A lego brick zoomed through the air and smacked a photographer in the actual face,
04:12leaving him with a notable bruise.
04:15How?
04:15How hard does a lego have to be thrown at you to get a bruise on your face?
04:19That's, that's hard.
04:20I don't know.
04:20I don't know.
04:20By this point, the story had attracted the attention of a reporter and photographer
04:24from the Daily Mirror, a major British newspaper.
04:28At first, when the news crew arrived, the house was quiet.
04:32Embarrassingly quiet.
04:33For hours.
04:34You can imagine the Hodgson's anxiety.
04:36Like, of course, the ghosts decide to play dead when the reporters show up.
04:41The reporters were packing up to leave, thinking that this was all a wild goose chase,
04:45when bam, that lego incident happened right in front of them.
04:49The poltergeist had made its presence known in dramatic-ass fashion.
04:53With that startling proof, the Daily Mirror folks said,
04:56okay, something really is going on in here.
04:59And they contacted the Society for Psychical Research, SPR.
05:03The SPR, it was like Ghostbusters of the Real World.
05:06A group of researchers who investigate the paranormal claims.
05:09They dispatched Maurice Gross, an inventor turned paranormal investigator, to Green Street.
05:15Would that be Grossi?
05:17Grossi.
05:18Let's say Grossi.
05:19For the rest of this, we're calling him Grossi.
05:21Sorry.
05:21To Green Street to study the case.
05:24When Grossi arrived early in September 1977, things really hit a new level of strange.
05:30Over the next few days and weeks, new phenomena kept the family and investigators on edge.
05:35Grossi reported witnessing over 2,000 separate paranormal events in that house.
05:40That's a lot, okay?
05:42Whoa.
05:42We're talking furniture flipping over by itself, cups of water appearing mysteriously filled
05:48and thrown sudden cold breezes and foul smells, not farts, ghosts, okay?
05:54Even small fires igniting spontaneously on shelves only to extinguish on their own.
06:00Bed sheets would be ripped off empty beds and toys would zoom across the rooms like missiles.
06:05Neighbors would come by, drawn by the commotion, and end up witnessing heavy armchairs tipping over
06:11without anyone near.
06:12On one occasion, an enormous cast iron fireplace and an entire bed were found
06:18flipped on their side in an upstairs bedroom.
06:21These were far too heavy for the young kids to move, yet there they were, tossed about like
06:26dull furniture.
06:27Honestly, if I hadn't heard of these witness accounts, I probably would have thought they
06:30were making this up too.
06:32And we can't forget Janet.
06:33Janet was an 11-year-old and she was at the epicenter of all of this.
06:37As weeks went by, Janet began to fall into weird trans-like states.
06:41She would wake up in strange places, like on top of a dresser or down at the bottom of the
06:46stairs.
06:46Oh my god, there's a demon in me, I don't sleepwalk.
06:49Adam, call the Daily Mirror.
06:51She had no memory of how she got to these places.
06:53Ding, ding, same.
06:54She started speaking in gravelly, creepy old man voice that literally no little girl should
06:59be able to produce.
07:00Imagine your tween daughter suddenly starts talking like a grumpy old man
07:04who chain smokes cigars.
07:05Why is all of this resonating with me?
07:07I don't know baby, let's figure it out.
07:10I need to go to bed.
07:10The voice claimed to be Bill Wilkins.
07:13A spirit of a man who had died in that very house years before.
07:18In fact, the voice coming out of Janet's mouth famously rasped.
07:21Days before I died, I went blind.
07:25Then, I had an image and I fell asleep and I died in a chair in the corner downstairs.
07:34Creepy, right?
07:35Later on, a man who heard the recordings of this voice recognized it and said it sounded
07:40just like his father, William Bill Wilkins, who indeed had lived in the Hodgen homes years
07:47prior and had died of a freaking hemorrhage in that freaking chair.
07:52Guys, and the details match because Bill Wilkins had gone blind due to the hemorrhage
07:56that caused his death at 284 Green Street in 1963, long before the Hodgens family had moved in.
08:03The family insists that they did not know about Bill Wilkins at the time.
08:06So either an 11 year old girl was somehow privy to this morbid trivia,
08:10or is pulling an elaborate prank with a voice that sounded eerily adult,
08:14or perhaps it honestly is something paranormal.
08:17Imagine hearing that raspy voice echoing in the dark of night from your child's room.
08:21A voice that isn't theirs.
08:22Imagine Janet's mother hearing her little girl growl out the words of a dead man.
08:28At times, researchers even filled Janet's mouth with water to see if she could still
08:33talk without using vocal cords. And unbelievably, that deep voice still emanated,
08:39gurgling out words without her lips moving.
08:42How do you explain that? You can't. I know you can't.
08:46The poltergeist activity seemed to target Janet the most, levitating her into the air on several
08:51occasions as witnessed by neighbors and even a lollipop lady outside, who claimed she saw Janet
09:00floating inside her bedroom window. Famous photographs show Janet apparently levitating
09:05above her bed, mid-scream, while her sisters are in the room with looks of alarm.
09:11Skeptics later noted that the photos could just be Janet jumping off her bed,
09:15and indeed they do show her at mid-air with limbs astrue like a kid who might have bounced off
09:20the
09:20mattress. But witnesses insist that she was thrown by an unseen force and that she sometimes
09:25landed in weird places like on top of a dresser, which is not consistent with a simple jump.
09:30The most frightening moment for Janet herself? She later said it was when a curtain wrapped itself
09:36around her neck when she was in bed choking her, as if some entity was trying to strangle her.
09:42Her mother had raced in and ripped the curtain away before her daughter could be harmed.
09:47Fires that started would stop and water would appear out of nowhere. Heavy furniture was
09:52levitating, disembodied voices, attempted stranglings. This is stuff of nightmares or movies.
09:58And it was happening nightly in Enfield. Eyewitnesses and investigators said this really honestly did
10:05happen. And as the strange happenings continued, more people got involved. Drawn by either curiosity or a
10:11genuine desire to help this poor family. What makes the Enfield case stand out is how many eyewitnesses
10:16there were. We're not relying on just the family's word. Over 30 people eventually claimed
10:22that they saw or heard something inexplicable in the house. Neighbors, journalists, the mailman,
10:28police officers, psychic researchers, and even the lollipop lady. They all became a part of this story.
10:33Foremost among the investigators were Maurice Grosset and Guy Lyon Playfair, members of the Society for
10:40Psychical Research, who effectively moved in with the Hodgson's for long stretches. Grosset was an
10:45approachable, down-to-earth guy, and he had a personal motivation. He had tragically lost his own
10:51daughter not too long before, and some say he was hoping to find proof of the afterlife. Guy Lyon Playfair
10:58was a
10:58journalist turned ghost hunter who would later write a book about the cases titled This House is Haunted.
11:04These two men became like unofficial uncles to the Hodgson's kids, trying to protect them and document
11:10the phenomenon at the same time. Grosset and Playfair spent over a year on the case, logging incidents,
11:17trying to catch poltergeists in action. They recorded hours upon hours of audio, including those creepy
11:23Bill Wilkins voice sessions. Grosset even devised clever little tests, like scattering flour on the
11:29floor to see if furniture had moved by itself, or if somebody was sneaking in to push it. No human
11:35footprints were ever found in the flour, by the way, and some of the chairs still did move. They kept
11:40cameras rolling and continually challenged the entity to perform on cue. Sometimes it obliged,
11:46sometimes it didn't. Ghosts don't exactly perform like trained seals, but Grosset said that in total,
11:52he had witnessed more than 2,000 freaking paranormal incidents in that house, okay? He described seeing
11:57doors slam shut with no wind, marbles and toys jumping off the floor, often warm to the touch
12:04immediately after, which is very weird. I guess ghosts are like a microwave. Chairs tumble, drawers opening
12:09by themselves, and of course hearing that gruff disembodied voice echoing from the walls. Despite
12:16being believers, Grosset and Playfair were not entirely gullible. In fact, they caught the children
12:22trying to cheat on a few occasions and weren't shy about it. Once Grosset walked in to find Janet banging
12:28a broom handle on the ceiling to fake knocking sounds. Another time, a hidden video camera caught
12:35Janet bending spoons, a classic prank, and attempting to bend an iron bar, presumably to fool investigators
12:43that it was telekinesis at work. See? Sometimes it's a bad case. I think it's a little bit both. We're
12:49gonna see. Whenever the girls fake something and got caught, Grosset and Playfair would scold them,
12:54like strict dads, obviously. Janet later admitted that yes, she and her siblings had faked maybe two
13:01percent of the phenomenon just to test the investigators or see if they could get away with the joke.
13:07In their words, oh yeah, once or twice we faked phenomenon just to see if Mr. Grosset and Mr.
13:13Playfair would catch us, Janet confessed. They always did. And 98% of the time the weird stuff was real,
13:20and even the little pranks that they attempted were quickly busted. Interesting. The case also attracted
13:27big names in the paranormal world, most notably Ed and Lorraine Warren. Yes, the famed American
13:32demonologist couple portrayed in the Conjuring films. They made a cameo in this story too. In real
13:39life, the Warrens showed up briefly in Enfield in 1978, and by all accounts, their visit was a short
13:45one. Ed Warren was fully convinced it was a demonic haunting, saying, no doubt about it, those who deal
13:51with the supernatural know the phenomenon are here. But British investigator Guy Playfair later recalled,
13:58with a bit of British dry humour, that Ed also tried to persuade them that there was money to be
14:04made from this case. Book deals, movie rights, the whole works. Playfair claims Ed essentially said
14:11this could be a gold mine, and then the Warrens left. So while the Warrens publicly stood by the
14:17Hodgson's haunting is real, some UK researchers viewed them as, well, a tad opportunist, a tad opportunistic.
14:29What is it? Say it. Just go. In fact, one skeptical analysis bluntly noted that Ed Warren was notorious
14:37for exaggerating and even making up incidents, often transforming a haunting into a demonic possession.
14:43Ouch. Regardless, the Warrens' brief appearance at Enfield has been greatly embellished in fiction.
14:48In The Conjuring 2, they basically are the main heroes, but in reality, they were minor players
14:54in the heavy lifting that was done by the folks like Grasse, Playfair, and the Daily Journalists
15:00on the scene night after night. Whether it was a ghost, a telekinetic teen, or some combination,
15:06Morris, like Grasse, and Playfair were convinced the events were real.
15:09It was the strangest thing. It was all true, he insisted. Absolutely everything that happened was
15:14true. They couldn't have made it up. They were a very poor family who were frightened to death and
15:19just wanted this to stop. For a hard news photographer to say that on the record is pretty striking.
15:24By early 1979, after roughly a year and a half of chaos, the phenomenon finally quieted down. Janet,
15:31at the epicenter, was sent away from home for a while. First to a mental hospital for evaluation,
15:36where, notably, then the activity had paused, and later to live with a family friend. Perhaps
15:41that separation helped calm things. Eventually, the poltergeist episode simply ended as abruptly
15:47as it had begun, which is super common with poltergeist. No definitive, ah, here's the ghost
15:51climax. It just stopped. And from the get-go, the Enfield poltergeist was a media sensation.
15:56We often hear about ghost stories that only come out years later, but this one hit the newspapers in
16:02literally real time. The Daily Mirror ran the initial exclusive, Splashing the Story,
16:09The House of Strange Happenings, across its pages. The public was hooked. Soon other papers,
16:14like The Daily Mirror and The Sun, followed their own headlines. But the Hodgson home became a bit of
16:19a circus. Journalists, photographers, self-proclaimed experts, and curiosity seekers gathered at the outside
16:26of 284 Green Street, hoping to catch a glimpse of flying furniture or ghostly action. British national
16:31newspapers covered the case regularly until 1979, when reports finally died down. This was the late
16:391970s. No internet babies, no Twitter, no viral TikToks, no Instagram reels. Yet, the Enfield case
16:45became world famous through good old-fashioned press and TV coverage. It got to the point that any mention
16:51of the poltergeist on TV or radio would bring up the Enfield as a prime example. There were radio
16:57interviews. One particularly spine-tingling moment came when the Hodgson's and Maurice Grosse were on
17:02the LBC radio show playing a tape of Bill's voice. Come on, say it for me, Dr. Bill.
17:11When a caller phoned in to say that he recognized the voice as his dead father, which we know is
17:17Bill
17:18Wilkins. Can you imagine listening to the radio and realizing the ghost
17:21that everyone is talking about is your freaking dad? And of course, that literally made headlines too.
17:27Public reaction at the time was split, much like it is today and when any of these cases get
17:32attention. Many people are fascinated and sympathetic to the Hodgson's. Here was a normal family thrust
17:38into the spotlight by something utterly bizarre and terrifying. Neighbors and strangers sent supportive
17:43letters or dropped off toffees for the frightened children, as if dealing with a ghost was hard to
17:49recover from, just like an illness. But there was also skepticism and ridicule. The tabloids,
17:54while sensationalizing the story, also ran jerky cartoons about flying teacups. Some skeptics
17:59accused the Hodgson's children of being little actresses, seeking fame, or suggested that Peggy
18:05Hodgson was an overwhelmed mom concocting a story to get better government housing. It got quite nasty in
18:12some press quarters. Yet, despite the doubters, no one ever definitively debunked all the evidence.
18:17There were just too many independent witnesses and recordings that the case couldn't be entirely
18:21dismissed. Even those who thought the girls fake stuff had to concede something unusual had happened
18:27to the house. One journalist wrote that whether it was real or not, the Enfield poltergeist had a
18:32tremendous impact on the entire generation of children who grew up hearing about it. It became the
18:36ghost story everyone knew. Kids would dare each other to repeat the Enfield ghost said, or play
18:41with Ouija boards. Bad idea, by the way. Janet herself admitted that she had played with a Ouija board
18:47shortly before the haunting began. The name Enfield poltergeist entered into pop culture.
18:52Alright, now let's address the big ghostly elephant in the room. Was the Enfield poltergeist a hoax?
18:57It's important to examine the skeptic side of the story. Even if I am a believer at heart, healthy
19:02skepticism keeps us all honest. After all, professional skeptics and magicians also weighed in.
19:07Mel Bourne's Christopher, a famous American stage magician and paranormal debunker,
19:13dropped by the Enfield house. He spent a whole day there and observed nothing paranormal at all.
19:18In fact, he was just put off by how suspicious Janet's behavior was and concluded the poltergeist was
19:24nothing more than the antics of a little girl, who was very, very clever. Another magician,
19:30Joe Nickel from the US Committee for Skeptics, he inquired and studied the case from afar and pointed
19:35out some solid critiques. For one, he noted that many incidents happened when the girls were alone
19:41or not closely watched. For example, the famous levitation photos that we've talked about. Those
19:46were taken by a remote camera with no one else in the room and at the exact second that they
19:51had
19:51occurred. Then, there's the voice. A verontilochist named Ray Allen visited Janet and concluded that her
19:57demonic voice was nothing more than a vocal trick, essentially a good ventriloquism or using false
20:03vocal cords to test her. Researchers did creative experiments like the water in the mouth test,
20:08as mentioned, and asking her to speak with her mouth taped, though she might have just spoken
20:13through her nose. Still, skeptics argue that while her voice is eerie, an 11-year-old girl could learn how
20:19to produce deep voice with practice, especially when it got her a lot of attention and got the pesky
20:25reporters to go, wow. Skeptics pointed to the physiological and psychological factors. Some
20:31suggested Janet's puberty and family, you know, stress, a single mom type finances, could have led to
20:37her unconscious psychological effects or simply a desire to spice up their dull life with mischief.
20:42A big but, things like puberty can also bring on a poltergeist. One psychologist noted how people
20:49see what they want to see in uncontrolled situations. A room full of believers in the
20:53dark hearing a noise might convince each other it is a ghost, whereas in daylight with clear
20:58observation it might turn out to be the plumbing. Indeed, no rigorous scientific control was applied
21:03in Enfield. This was a family home, not a tech lab. Deborah Hyde, a notable skeptic, said that there is
21:09not a single piece of solid evidence because occurrences didn't happen under controlled
21:13circumstances. People frequently see what they expect to see, shaped by their prior beliefs.
21:18That's a fair point. Confirmation bias can make true believers out of even smart people when spooks
21:24are afoot. There's also infamous bit of audio where the investigators left a tape recorder running and
21:29it did catch Janet and Margaret giggling and seeming to hatch a plan to trick the researchers. Essentially
21:35caught red-handed and the audio, when confronted, the girls said that they were just joking around about
21:40how they could fool the adults not actually doing it. An important note to make is that once the press
21:47and the researchers stopped hanging around, the haunting basically stopped. Could it be just without
21:52an audience, the girls had no reason to keep it up, or is it that the entity's energy faded as
21:58Janet
21:58grew older? A cynic would say the timing is suspicious. Finally, skeptics often highlight that no
22:04conclusive photo or film ever captured the poltergeist in the act, only aftermaths. The best that we have are
22:10those levitation shots, which again are super debatable, and many creepy audio recordings.
22:16But in an age where some other hauntings have viewed convincing videos or clear EVPs,
22:22Enfield's evidence is just tantalizing and ambiguous. It is just enough to make you wonder,
22:27but not enough to prove anything.
22:28When the movie studio was making The Conjuring 2, they even brought Janet and Margaret back to the
22:33old house in Enfield in 2016 for a visit. The sisters stood outside for the cameras, now much older,
22:40and reflected on that crazy chapter of their childhood. It's very strange being back, Janet
22:45had said, looking at her former home. After Peggy Hodgson's death, a new family briefly lived in the
22:51Green Street house. They reportedly knew nothing of the history, which is honestly a very weird,
22:56serious omission by the landlord. The mom, Claire, later said that she felt uncomfortable in the house,
23:02as if somebody was always looking at her. Her sons, interesting, would wake up at night hearing
23:08people talking downstairs when nobody was ever even there. When the family eventually learned about the
23:14events of 1977, it suddenly clicked why they might have felt uneasy. They moved out after just two months,
23:20unable to shake the creeps. To be clear, they didn't witness anything flying or anything
23:26dramatic, but a lingering presence and feeling. And today, another family does live there,
23:32and by all accounts, they have experienced no disturbances at all and wisely don't invite
23:38journalists in to poke around. Maybe whatever haunted the place has finally moved on for good,
23:43or maybe the poltergeist was only ever tied to the Hodgson kids and this particular moment in time.
23:49So I know you are all probably wondering, what do I think about this? And I'll be honest,
23:55the story does give me the chills. I am a believer when it comes to the paranormal,
23:59at least. I do believe that not everything in our world fits neatly into scientific explanations
24:05that we have made. The Enfield poltergeist case captivates me because it wasn't just a bump in the
24:10night or one witness. It was month after month after month of weirdness with a crowd of people
24:16seeing it all unfold. As a friend of yours, I will tell you that I believe something very strange
24:21really did happen in that house. Of course, I do have my skeptical moments too. It's kind of like
24:27believing your friend's fishing story, even though you know they tend to exaggerate. You think,
24:33okay, the fish wasn't that big, but you definitely caught something. I suspect that the Hodgson kids,
24:38being kids, added some embellishments and they admitted to as much. Maybe they banged a broom to
24:44stir things up when activity was slow, or jumped off the bed pretending to be spirits. Those bits don't
24:50shock me. They were under unimaginable pressure, living in a haunted house and under media scrutiny.
24:56If I was 11 and could fool a bunch of grownups, maybe I would have tried it too. So yes,
25:00I think
25:00a few of the Enfield events were fake, but in the core of it, the truly bizarre stuff that multiple
25:05sane adults witnessed, I don't think that was fake. There are just too many reports of the same events
25:10from different credible people. When a police officer, a reporter, and a neighbor all see a chair move,
25:15now that is a hard one to sweep underneath the rug. When recordings exist of a voice that no little
25:20girl
25:21should physically be able to produce for hours on end, that raises an eyebrow. This case makes me
25:26feel a mix of awe and unease. Awe because even if a part of it was a genuine paranormal event,
25:31then it means that our world is a lot stranger than we often admit. It makes me wonder about the
25:35nature of
25:35reality. Was it a ghost? A demon? Some unexplained psychic ability? And it gives me unease because for the
25:41haunch since this wasn't cool or fun. This was traumatic. A part of me feels protective over
25:46little Janet and Margaret, even all these years later. They didn't ask to become the center of a
25:51phenomenon. Whether you think they summoned something with a Ouija board or if it was a collective energy
25:56of a tense household or plain fakery, those kids went through hell for a while. The fear in their eyes
26:02in these photos were real. Enfield also makes me want to reflect on how we deal with the unknown.
26:06Some people ought to believe the wildest stories. Others automatically dismiss anything as a hoax or
26:12hysteria. I stay curious. I wasn't there. So I can't know for sure what happened. But after digging
26:17into these first-hand accounts, I find it hard to believe that it was all made up. And I'll admit,
26:22I also love a good ghost story and the Enfield poltergeist is one of the best because it is messy
26:26and human and spooky as heck. But it is not a tidy Hollywood tale. It is full of contradictions
26:32and drama. In a weird way, it makes it feel more authentic. Real life is messy. And if I were
26:37conducting a hoax, I would probably try to make everything line up neatly. The Enfield story,
26:42however, is all over the place. Both incredibly convincing and at times head-scratchingly dubious,
26:47just like a real-life haunting might be. In the end, whether you are a headline skeptic or a true
26:52believer or somewhere in between, the Enfield poltergeist leaves me with lingering questions.
26:56I think that's why it endures. People are still fascinated by it. Still arguing at the pub or
27:01the internet forums about, hey, did Janet throw a teapot or was it a ghost? So what do you think
27:07happened to that house in Enfield? Was it a clever prank by two imaginative girls that snowballed way
27:12out of their control? Or was it a case of collective hysteria fueled by willing media? Or did a restless
27:18spirit, maybe old Bill Wilkins or something else, truly torment this family for a year and a half?
27:23The Enfield poltergeist is a mystery that we may never fully solve. And maybe that's okay. It reminds
27:29us that the world can stay a very mysterious place. And as I turn off the lights tonight,
27:34I will be pondering those knocks on the walls and the voice in the darkness and this family's ordeal
27:39that has kept us talking about it for nearly half a century. So thank you all for joining me for
27:44this
27:44episode of The Haunted Estate and on this deep dive into the unknown. Stay curious, stay open-minded,
27:50and next time you hear something go bump in the night, well, it might just be the pipes. Maybe it's
27:55not.
27:55So sweet dreams. Stay spooky, boo crew.
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