Publicly known as the Enfield Poltergeist it was called by some as the most documented evidence of paranormal activity, it was also deemed by some as one of the greatest paranormal hoax in history.
The Enfield Poltergeist case occurred in 1977 to the Hodgson family residing in Enfield. The haunting supposedly carried on to 1979. The mother of 4 Peggy Hodgson noticed things in their house. She often had to go into her girls room after she heard loud noises. Her daughters Margaret (age 13) and Janet (age 11) then reported that the drawers in the house would move by themselves. it often seemed that the furniture was trying to trap the girls in the house. Maurice Grosse a Psychical Researcher spent a lot of time with the family. Reporting to have witnessed 2000 incidents. These involved moving of furniture, voices and glasses getting filled with water.
At one point there drawers of the house moved and petrified so much that they had to run to the neighbors house. When the neighbor went to investigate, he claimed to hear strange noises in the house. The police were called who claimed to see a chair move. The police then concluded that this is not a police matter.
Eventually Janet claimed that it started to speak through her. She spoke in a hoarse voice claiming to be Bill Wilkens a man who lived and died in the house before. Later on Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the house. They were not as involved in the case as the movie depicts. They concluded that the house was experiencing paranormal activity without a doubt. The haunting unlike the movie involved no Nun.
According to the family the haunting occurred for 18 months. It was claimed that the haunting sub-sided when a priest visited the house in 1978. The younger brother Billy lived in the house until his mother passed.
This case however, has many rational evidence that it was fake. Investigators caught the girls faking some of the events. They were caught bending spoons together. Investigators also found it odd that when ever Janet/ The demon spoke no one was allowed in the same room. In an interview, Janet admitted to faking some of the incidents, her explanation was that they wanted to see if the investigators would catch on. On another interview in 1980 Janet claimed that it wasn’t a haunting. Reportedly her sisters giggled and told her to shut up, later on she said that she didn’t feel the ghost was evil. So you are telling us you ran in fear to your neighbors house one night/ you were levitated and after some years you think it wasn’t evil???. Questionable.
One of the reasoning behind it was the 1973 released movie the Exorcists. If you don’t know, this movie is still considered the greatest horror movie of all time. If you search that phrase you will surely find a dozen lists putting the Exorcists at number one. The movie was super scary for its time depicting events of horror that for its time was unbelievable and totally original for its audience. This movie released only a few years before this case and had some similarities with the Enfield Poltergeist case. Some believe that this movie was so terrifying for its time that it was embedded in the minds of audiences. Following this any strange things experienced by people made them think of demons. This is backed up by data that suggests that more people reported demonic processions after this movie than any other time.
Is it possible that all this was done for fame or money. This case has as much evidence of being real as it has of being fake. It is eventually up to the reader to decide what he/she chooses to believe because sometimes as in the movie, these things require a leap of faith.
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