Enfield

It started at the end of August in 1977.

Peggy Hodgson lived with her four kids at 284 Green Street in Enfield, England.

It was a three bedroom house built in the 1920s.

The family got along with the neighbors and the kids were happy and healthy.

They throw things, flip chairs and tables, and set things on fire.

And sometimes they claim to be the dead.

Enfield ran longer than most, but it followed the pattern.

For a few months, the same things happened over and over.

I can't afford this.

How much does it cost to get rid of a poltergeist? Oh, well, maybe we'll find out how in this episode, because today we're going to be talking about the most famous British spook in the world, the Enfield poltergeist.

The Enfield

poltergeist.

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Enfield is part of, was it North London?

Yes, North London.

Ruth.

no no in um in chelsea dental studio the two principles they're both called inas in as though he and in us wall and in in one building smarts here and to be honest they treat me very nicely and you know patient very lovely um but i've also uh worked with uh like a mentored a lot in in in london for example in kingston um with uh and uh actually another practice in in in wimbledon uh which is wimbledon dental that's with amar and um in kingston um with dipole dip in nathaniel so we've done lots of full arches together um i've worked in wandsworth and also in Enfield, Enfield, Enfield? Yeah, we've done some full arches there as well and mentoring.

You must be incredibly busy, man.

Yes.

Yeah.

So anyway, so, yeah, that's Enfield.

And then I get sent over to Ponder's End one day because Monkey, Johnny Monksfield, has got himself pissed one night and his contact lenses were stuck to his eyeballs.

Oh.

Wow.

And Harry had been a DC and a DS on the flying squad.

So Harry Clement is the DCI at Enfield.

And I don't know if you've ever heard of a publication called Assistant Commissioner C-Department Consolidated Instructions.

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Let's do it.

It was August 1977 in Enfield, London, England, and Peggy Hodgson started hearing weird things happening at her home at 284 Green Street.

One evening, she heard loud noises coming from the bedroom where two of her daughters slept.

This was 11 year old Janet and 13 year old Margaret.

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Because while something was clearly going on at the house, there was no plausible explanation and no signs of an actual human being breaking into the house, causing these things to happen, and there was nothing the police could do.

But this began what would be a nearly 18 month long haunting of this home in Enfield and the Hodgson family.

Things kept happening in the home and the Hodgson's ended up contacting the Daily Mirror, which is a tabloid newspaper in England, and they picked up the story.

Ooh

... [laughs] in Enfield, which is the site of the infamous 1977 to 1979 Enfield poltergeist story, which inspired the movie The Conjuring 2.

So the story of the Enfield poltergeist was two young sisters reported levitation, furniture moving, and disembodied voices in the house, and investigators and magicians came over and spent quite a lot of time in the house.

As you do.

Ring up your magician mate.