Peggy Hodgson

I have a theory that the state of the nation and the timing of the Enfield haunting mania is 100% connected, and we're all going to get to why.

But for now, it's 1977, and in late August, single mother Peggy Hodgson and her kids were living at their rented house, 284 Green Street in Enfield, which is, yeah, it's north London.

It's way north.

Like, it would take you probably an hour to get there from London Bridge.

So it's September 1977.

It's in the headlines.

Peggy Hodgson and her daughter say the talk of the town.

Furniture and Lego is moving around.

And in August of 1977, there were no police around, beyond a typical patrol now and then, and there were no television crews, no paranormal teams, and no ghost hunters that anyone was aware of.

47-year-old Peggy Hodgson was divorced but independent and resourceful, and although she was raising her four children on limited finances, she was a caring provider and by all accounts a loving mother.

The oldest daughter, Margaret, was 13, quiet and reserved.

Janet was nearly 12 and more lively and outgoing.

According to them, the sounds also seemed to move, so they would hear knocking in one room, go to investigate, find nothing there, but then hear knocking from the room they had just left.

This went on for 15 or so minutes, and both men described the same experience.

When they returned to the Nottingham house and told the women what had happened, Peggy, that's Peggy Hodgson, phoned the police.

This is a good time to point out the significance of this development.

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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On August the 31st, 1977, at 284 Green Street in the working class North London suburb of E- Enfield, a single mother named Peggy Hodgson switched off the lights in an upstairs bedroom.

Within 48 hours, the modest semi-detached council house would become the epicenter of one of the most extensively documented, fiercely debated, and intensely scrutinized poltergeist outbreak in modern history.

Over the next 14 months, this address produced thousands of hours of audio recordings, iconic phot- photographs of children suspended midair.

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The family lived under immense psychological and financial pressure.

Peggy Hodgson was a recently divorced single mother struggling on state welfare.

Peggy and her chimney sweeping husband, Tony Hodgson, had divorced and separated prior to the 1977 disturbances, with Tony only visiting weekly on Saturdays to drop off maintenance money for the children.

So it started in August of 1977 when police arrived at the house.

Peggy Hodgson, who was a single mother of four kids, reported her two young daughters, Janet, who was 11, and her oldest sister, Margaret, had heard knocking.

The source of the sound could not be determined.

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But for both sides, there are things that have no explanation.

So what really happened inside 284 Green Street? In August 1977, Peggy Hodgson lived at 284 Green Street with her four children, Margaret, Janet, Johnny, and Billy.

She was a single mother doing everything she could to take care of her family.

One night, though, the children complained about a strange knocking sound coming from inside the walls.