The Enfield Poltergeist (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

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It's now quarter past 11:00.
Janet appears to be in sleep
and breathing regularly.
A year ago,
a number of strange coincidences
in my personal life
made me feel I should try
to understand the paranormal.
"If you get a good poltergeist case,"
I said to the Society
for Psychical Research.
"Let me have it."
Then one day, they phoned me up.
I had no idea
when I walked into that house,
how long I would be involved.
But I did have a strong feeling
that we were in
for a pretty difficult session.
Testing. One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
The time now is 7:55.
And I arrived at 284
just over half an hour ago.
I'm recording this in the kitchen.
Mrs. Hodgson is now going
to tell me of events
that took place here on Friday night.
Oh, Billy, here, on here.
- Billy.
- Is that mine?
- Yes, no sugar. Go on.
- Yes.
It all started in the back bedroom.
I could hear this sort of rustling--
very light rustling sound as though
there was some movement in the bedroom.
Not a heavy movement,
but I sensed that something was there.
But I laid with my eyes shut
until Janet woke up.
First of all, I thought it was the mice
or rats or something.
I come out and stood in the doorway,
and there was a chest of drawers
moving towards the door.
And I-- Well, at that time, I stood there,
and I was really, literally petrified.
Well, I went in,
and I pushed it back once.
I stood back in the room and I watched,
and I saw it moving.
And then I pushed it back again,
and the third time I went to push it,
I couldn't move it.
then I pushed it back again,
and the third time I went to push it,
I couldn't move it.
Persons involved.
Mrs. Peggy Hodgson is 47.
A divorced mother of four children.
Her daughter, Janet, aged 11,
is a reasonably bright child.
Rather excitable,
with a strong imagination.
She shares a bedroom
with her older sister, Margaret,
who is inclined to be overemotional.
She cries a lot.
Billy, the youngest, is intelligent,
but he has a speech defect,
which makes him very difficult
for me to understand.
The older brother, Johnny,
is away at a school for troubled children.
I'm determined to study the paranormal
in a purely scientific manner.
The introduction of a tape recorder
is essential to be able
to analyze events
in the cold light of day.
What was actually the first thing you saw?
John Burcombe, brother to Mrs. Hodgson
Oh, God. The actual first thing I saw
Deputy head porter in a hospital.
A down-to-earth, intelligent man who
lives five doors away from the Hodgsons.
You see things that you can't explain,
you've got a tendency not to believe them.
You've got a tendency to say,
"I didn't really see 'em."
But you know you did.
His son, Paul, 12.
A lively boy.
You're the first person I've spoken to.
I just-- I've never discussed it.
It was a Sunday night.
Peggy came down and told my dad that
there was lots of noise, banging--
And she was obviously really scared.
I don't know why,
but I went with my dad down to the house.
It was dark.
We went upstairs
and there's a massive oak wardrobe,
and that had been moved
to the middle of the room.
I felt terrified.
And now, was it possible for her
to push the cupboard?
- No way. No.
- No way?
I see.
The first that I knew
about it was a phone call
coming through to the news desk.
I was early 20s.
I was scared of the dark.
If I'd stopped to think about it,
I would've run a mile.
Yes, this is bringing it back.
The house.
It was so many years ago,
but this is weird.
This is very strange.
We arrived at the house at about midnight.
The family were next door
with the neighbors.
I came through into the kitchen.
Here it is.
The family came in one by one.
As they came through,
they all just stood 'round here.
I remember the Daily Mirror reporter,
Doug Bence,
suit and tie on, hand in his pocket.
And the last one in was Janet.
And I'm here, ready,
and then as Janet was carried in--
Just unbelievable.
Just-- Things just started flying
around the room.
The lingering memory
is of those two girls screaming.
They were absolutely terrified.
Just mayhem.
LEGO bricks,
marbles started flying around the house.
One of them struck me on the head.
Nobody moved their arm.
Nobody could've thrown
or flicked that piece of LEGO.
There, I mean, that's the sort of force
and the speed and the impact
that you'd need for that.
Now, you can't be stood
in a corner with a camera,
watching everybody in the room,
and not see somebody do that.
I think it was Thursday, the phone rang.
The Daily Mirror.
A poltergeist in Enfield.
I was, at the time, the honorary secretary
of the Society
for Psychical Research, the SPR.
We used to have calls like that
at least once a week.
Sometimes, twice in a day.
Who could we send?
Maurice Grosse.
Now that's an idea.
You see, Maurice was
a relatively recent member of the Society,
and he was a thorough nuisance
to be honest.
He was forever plaguing us
with that it was a scandal
that these things so demonstrably
occurring were not investigated properly.
He was impatient. He wanted action.
He wanted to be involved
in investigations.
Animals.
There is only a budgerigar
and two goldfish in the house.
The budgerigar belonged
to an old lady who died.
And the phenomena did start shortly
after the bird came into the house.
The witnesses
include the next-door neighbors,
who have heard raps
and knocking for three days.
This recording is being taken at 8:30.
Your name is
Peggy Nottingham.
And you wanna
know when it first started from the--
Well, yes.
You had heard all these bangs yourself.
It was banging on the side of the walls,
and on the ceiling.
On the floor.
So my husband come in.
It was just a strange knock on the wall.
I went up the stairs,
and as I went up the stairs,
this knock followed me.
I got three knocks.
Three distinctive knocks on the wall.
I go into the front bedroom,
same thing again.
The knocks followed me.
And I didn't know what it was.
Being in the building game,
I thought to myself, well,
I'll have a look around the house,
I gotta be brave.
You know, and try and find out what it is.
So I go through all the pipes.
No air locks or nothing like that.
Then I said to Peg--
I said to her-- I said,
"Mrs. Hodgson, there's something
definitely strange in your house."
I said the best thing there is to do--
I said, "You're all coming to my house,"
and I said, "We'll phone the police."
Then when we phoned the police and they--
The police
say that as they could not arrest whatever
was causing the disturbance,
they can be of little help.
But WPC Carolyn Heeps
has made a striking statement
about a chair in the living room.
It came off the floor
nearly a half inch, I should say.
And I saw it slide off to the right,
about three and a half to four feet,
before it came to rest.
I checked to see whether
or not it could possibly
have slid along the floor.
I placed a marble on the floor,
to see whether or not the marble
would go in the same direction
as the chair did, and it didn't.
It didn't roll at all.
I checked for wires
under the cushion of the chair,
and I could find no explanation at all.
For two weeks,
they'd been terrorized by objects
inexplicably shooting through the air,
or furniture moving
for no apparent reason.
I don't know if you read
the Daily Mirror this morning,
but rather a spooky story
about the family who's living in fear
of strange goings-on
that are driving them from their home.
Being on the front page
of any national newspaper,
not alone the bestselling one
in the country, was--
I wouldn't say fame, but notoriety.
We just felt that it was such
an important story.
It was just something that no one,
that any of us knew,
had ever experienced
anything like this before.
Relatives, friends, the police saw it.
It came off the floor
nearly a half inch, I should say.
And I saw it slide off to the right,
about three and a half to four feet,
before it came to rest.
I walked into the room-- As I walked
into the room, the LEGO began to fly.
Marbles shooting around the living room.
Cups and saucers, books, chairs
We was all just standing in the kitchen
all of us together.
Beds, you name it.
That's supernatural.
It's said to be
Britain's most publicized haunted house.
A semi-detached
in a quiet corner of Enfield.
It's all very intriguing,
so we sent Rosalind Morris ghost-hunting.
Can I rearrange people,
so that I can do an interview?
Is that all right? Can you sit over there?
I'll sit where Maurice is.
And I'll sit over here. And then--
I was working as a BBC Radio reporter.
We didn't have enough
to fill the program on the Sunday,
and I was sort of threatened all day with
"If nothing else happens,
you'll just have to go to Enfield
and cover this ghost story."
I was pretty skeptical.
I mean,
I didn't expect anything to happen.
And there is a sort of rule in journalism
that the moment a reporter turns up,
the ghost disappears.
It's now about half an hour since
the family settled down for the night.
And Janet, who's the 11-year-old,
the one you've been watching most--
She now seems to be asleep.
She's not really moving around very much.
So, what happens now? What do you do?
Do you just stand here
every night and have a look?
I usually wait
after these girls are asleep,
I wait about another half an hour.
If I don't see any signs of disturbance,
I go.
I have to go home sometime, you know?
I think we ought to go downstairs again.
I just thought, well,
I'd better record what I can.
Did you hear that thump?
Well, we've just heard a noise,
having come downstairs.
We've just heard a noise upstairs.
And the chair,
which was standing by Janet's bed,
appears to have moved.
Well, Janet appears
to be sleeping quite peacefully.
And she was sleeping when we
went down just a few seconds ago.
Now the chair was by the bed,
and it's now by the door.
The chair's been thrown nine feet.
It's more violently than last time.
It's just very strange.
It didn't seem likely that either
of the girls could've done it.
Well, I'm hoping I'm not getting
the microphone shaking in my hand,
because that was rather
an unnerving experience.
I don't know what it is.
But there is something strange
going on in that house.
Our little section of semi-detached
box-like houses were very basic.
We were definitely working class,
and to be honest, we were quite poor.
For many Britons, these are hard times.
In the last two years,
Britain has suffered
one of the highest
inflation rates in Europe.
And for many Britons,
it means a real cut
in living standards because
All I can say is,
whatever struggles I had,
Janet and Margaret
must have been having the same,
if not worse because they
didn't have their dad there either.
That green one was mine.
I paid 13p for that lollipop.
Listen! Don't you think we
ought to get ready for bed?
- But Mum, it's not time yet.
- Margaret. Janet
Peggy's husband was estranged.
I never saw him.
And I don't remember them being
a happy family or a happy environment.
For the one-and-a-half million
unemployed in Britain,
the pinch is even more severe.
The '70s were quite a basic time, really.
We never went on holidays, you know,
so we just tried to amuse ourselves.
Me and Janet, I just remember we got on.
Family living close by,
we were just drawn together.
You had to make your own entertainment.
At the back,
there was a bit of a wasteland
and all the kids used
to hang out over there.
It was just general kids' stuff, really.
Never felt like we was ever
at the center of the universe.
Yeah, things always felt on the periphery.
And then I just remember seeing this
E-type Jaguar parking outside their house,
and it was just like this vision of color
in this black-and-white world.
I felt like he wanted to talk to you,
and he didn't judge.
284 Green Street.
List of incidents
commencing 31st August 1977.
One: A heavy chest of drawers
reported sliding six inches from wall.
Two: LEGO pieces seen
in high-speed transit
from parts of the room
where no persons were standing.
Three: Marbles appearing
to emanate from walls and curtains.
They stop dead without bouncing
and are hot to the touch.
Four: Persistent raps and knocks
moving around the house
from no obvious source.
Five: Furniture moving,
chairs moving and turning over.
- Six: A lamp in the bedroom went out.
- My father brought
- Seven
- a determination to look at the detail.
He was a person who made his career
out of detail, making things work.
I mean, understanding things.
He's the type of person that, you know,
if you give him
a radio, will take it apart,
see how it works.
I mean, me, I just switch it on.
You see, I'm a professional inventor,
and when I get hold of something,
I have to dissect it
because that's my business.
He was always
very scientifically inclined.
His mechanical engineering
was almost natural,
and he designed some extraordinary things.
This particular display, as made here,
is using a 60-watt bulb
with two drums
revolving in opposite directions.
His life had started
from hard times and come to better times.
He'd suffered a huge emotional loss,
and yet he was a very grounded, realistic,
down-to-earth person.
Many times, I'm tempted to dismiss
some of the more bizarre activity
simply because it is easier
to accuse the children of cheating
than to face the necessity
of accepting the impossible.
But the accumulating evidence
is overwhelming.
Two theories.
One: The mind has powers
over and above its normal functions
and is capable
of affecting physical objects.
Two: It is a poltergeist.
It must have been
early September on a Thursday,
we held a-- one of a regular series
of meetings for new members.
I was chairing the meeting.
It was on nothing other than poltergeists.
Our speaker this evening has
investigated all over the country.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I welcome
on your behalf, Nicholas Clark Lowes.
So, what are poltergeists? I wish I knew.
I mean, the very name itself
is a German word meaning,
"a boisterous, noisy spirit."
Well, what can poltergeists do?
Firstly, they can produce knocks
and sounds
or even recognizable human voices.
They are capable of responding
to requests or orders, either in code,
one rap for yes, two for no,
etcetera, or directly.
I'd already read up something
about poltergeists,
so I knew that this type of experience
with similar things happening,
has been logged for hundreds of years.
In fact, I think the first
reports we have are the Romans.
They can move objects and project them
often considerable distances.
In some cases, dragging even human beings
about the place.
They can alter the temperature
of the place.
Normally,
this is noticed as a drop in temperature,
but in extreme cases,
clothes and even houses catch fire.
Furthermore,
all poltergeists have a human focus.
It's notorious that they often
seem to center
around some disturbed person,
usually an adolescent.
Often, it's a young person
at a particular time in their life.
Their emotional energy
is creating this sort of force.
Can it, therefore,
be the unconscious mind?
If the answer is no,
then it's back to the drawing board.
And we shall have
to consider seriously the possibility
of matter other than normal,
sources of energy other than normal,
and perhaps even creation ex nihilo
and a fourth dimension.
The time came for questions,
and one of the first
to put his hand up was Maurice Grosse.
I am at the moment involved
in a very interesting
poltergeist case in Enfield,
and I've been up three nights with it.
The phenomena itself
has been flying marbles,
flying LEGO bricks, last night,
a chair was shot across the room.
Four-foot, twice.
We have so many witnesses.
We have police witnessing phenomena.
We also have four newspaper reporters
who have seen it.
I mean, this is a most extraordinary case.
I think Mr. Grosse is certainly
to be congratulated himself,
in that the thing still seems
to be there while he watches it.
I would like somebody
to come along themselves.
It's in Enfield, it's not very far.
I'm getting to the point of exhaustion.
Well, if there are any further volunteers,
perhaps have a word
with Maurice Grosse afterwards.
The lecture had finished,
and people were dispersing.
Guy Playfair came up to him,
they had a brief conversation,
and the rest, as they say, is history.
Guy realized that my father
was probably out of his depth,
and the case needed
a steady, experienced hand.
The two of them actually
made rather a good team.
My father being the down-to-earth one,
and Guy probably more
of a spiritualist persuasion.
They shared an ambition
to fully investigate
what had been presented to them
as basically
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
This is the tape recorded
on the night of Wednesday,
the 21st of September, 1977,
at 284 Green Street in Enfield.
The Enfield poltergeist case.
I'm starting at approximately 10:00 p.m.
He was a very unusual man, Guy.
I'd never met anyone like him.
His book called
The Flying Cow, of all things,
is a classic on Brazilian magic
and the paranormal.
He seemed almost otherworldly,
very pale, quietly spoken.
But when he got onto his subject,
he knew about it.
You just have to record
a vast amount of data
to get the really worthwhile stuff.
I'm not saying there's supernatural,
there's no such thing as supernatural.
If anything happens,
it's natural, we just don't understand it.
It's like filming
a story here tonight, innit?
- With all the cameras.
- Absolutely.
- We normally have this light on
- There's a little
and that one--
Is that-- Turn that light off.
This is the condition
as we have it every night.
It's always light.
We never operate in the dark.
They were saying that this has never
really been proven photographically.
And they wanted me to stay on.
I wanted to stay on as well
because it was such
a fascinating occurrence.
All right, you can go to sleep--
go to sleep now.
We'd spend the evenings
sitting down in the lounge.
We had remote-triggered cameras.
Tape recorders running
with a live audio feed
to their room so we could hear
what was going on and very well.
Very slight-- Any creaking of floorboards.
Time is now ten minutes past 1:00.
I'm going to lie down for a bit
and I'll leave the tape recorder running.
Microphone close to Janet's bed.
Mr. Grosse!
Mr. Grosse!
What's happening?
I found this curtain round her neck
and it jumped out.
The curtain jumped at her?
Did you see it go?
Come on, get out.
- Janet.
- I nearly suffocated.
- What wrapped round your neck?
- Go to bed, Bill.
She slid under the bed,
and the sheet went over her like that.
As though it was holding her down.
Come on. Get up, Janet.
You'll catch a cold.
You know, I'm sure
there's something in this house
trying to kill her.
I swear it.
Leave them alone.
I'm watching you.
Leave the curtains alone.
I'm watching ya.
It's something about this girl.
There was something happening
around Janet at this time.
She's an intelligent girl
who was terrified.
There was something going on in
that house that involved energies
that I didn't understand, and, actually,
the population
at large doesn't understand.
One theory is that the focus person
is piercing the veil between
us and the spirit world,
and they become like a radio for ghosts.
It seemed there must be something
that is coming into the house,
which is what Mrs. Hodgson said.
She felt there was something invisible
watching them.
If there was an external force,
it was-- Seemed to be out to get Janet.
My dad and I, we used to spend quite a lot
of nights upstairs supporting them.
Just being there.
I did feel there was something
in that house that wasn't good.
I'm sitting on the stairways,
on the wall there is a
I don't know how to describe this.
Never seen anything like it.
A light.
It looks like an illumination.
It's about 12 inches long and
like a light.
Bloody hell.
Well, the temperature's dropped.
It's a very weird sensation.
Like somebody's just walked over my grave.
The best I can describe is
I'm not alone.
Some of the incidents have been
more suggestive of a haunting than
of a poltergeist.
Such as the laughing,
moaning and cries of a small child
that have been heard
from the top of the stairs.
The time, 6:35.
Janet told me of an indentation
of a human body on the bed.
Well, I can tell you that no one's
been upstairs since half past two.
I've said all the way along it's a child.
I've just got that feeling.
Listen. Guess what?
You know that little girl
was killed over the road
she was buried in Durants graveyard.
One minute Remember it's being recorded,
only speak one at a time please.
- Mrs. Hodgson is now speaking.
- Be quiet then.
There's a long, tall,
brutal story behind that.
But he was a man that
lived at Hunt's Mead across the way,
that murdered his own daughter.
And she was only five or six years of age,
and she was apparently found
on the landing.
He strangled her.
- The father killed the
- I thought
- it might have some connection, you see?
- Yes, well, not necessarily
- has any connection, but
- No.
I'm interested in this particular story.
- It was in the Gazette.
- How did he kill her?
- I think he suffocated her.
- Yeah,
he put a cover over her
when she was asleep.
- She was in bed.
- I see.
And my ex-husband, he knew him.
He bought some stuff from the house
and brought it over here.
And it wasn't until after he came
into the house,
I realized what the man had done.
I was in the house
the day after she was buried.
And you've had these
in the house the whole time?
Yes.
And what were the articles you brought in?
- Curtaining.
- Curtaining.
- Pelmets.
- Pelmets.
There was a chair.
Glass cabinet.
This glass cabinet here and curtains?
- Now, how long ago did you put them up?
- Yes.
About a week
before all this trouble started.
A week before this trouble started.
Right.
Wednesday, September the 28th.
Some of the furniture
and curtains in 284 originally
came from a house where
a small child of five was murdered.
I suggested that the house be redecorated,
new furniture brought in
and the family all sleep together
in the same room.
We are just measuring
the rearranged bedroom,
which now has all the beds put
in the same room
and the rest of the furniture put
in the backroom.
Most throwable objects
removed from the room, except one radio,
two books, a lamp, two dolls,
one teddy bear and a cardboard box.
A much better arrangement.
Where's Billy sleeping?
- With Margaret?
- He won't go in there.
You wanna go with Margaret?
Let him go over the far side.
The only thing is
if he starts any activity.
That's what I'm saying, right?
You go in the small bed, Margaret.
Trust you to say that.
- Yes.
- Now, you two have been arguing ever since
you come back from
the shops this afternoon.
Right, Mum.
I don't really mind where I sleep
as long as I get--
Well, you won't get no disturbance,
will ya?
Hope you know the tape recorder's on.
London funeral workers were pleased
with the turnout
on the picket lines today.
Their week-old
work-to-rule has already led to delays
of up to two weeks of burials in
some London areas,
and there are fears for health
where bodies have to be left in the home.
That's the news tonight. Good night.
It's 10:30.
News at Ten has just ended.
And I think I'll turn the tape over now.
My father and Guy
spent endless hours there,
day in, day out.
I would come home, and he'd be going out
at two or three o'clock in the morning
to go to Enfield.
Every day there would be a tape recording.
Every moment, every hour was different.
Ten minutes past two.
Mr. Grosse, come here.
The camera wire's moving
and there's handle
moving round on that drawer.
- See that top drawer--
- Yeah, have a look.
- Yeah.
- That knob thing this side.
- Yes.
- I saw the wire move,
and I saw that handle move slightly.
- Did you?
- Yeah.
I can see the wire moving now myself.
- You see it?
- Yes.
The wire coming down from the camera
is vibrating on its own.
Very vigorously.
That's very strange.
As I'm watching it, it's vibrating.
Keep perfectly still, Margaret.
Mr. Grosse, there's knocking on the wall.
Where is it coming from?
- Where?
- From the chimney.
- Coming from the chimney?
- Yes, I heard it.
Mr. Grosse.
Lay down. Keep quite still.
- Oh, my God!
- Oh, no!
Hurry up, Mr. Grosse!
Janet, hold my hand.
What happened?
Go on, tell me what happened.
Wednesday, October the 26th.
Margaret said a metal part
from the fireplace moved slowly
across the room before it dropped,
to hit the camp bed occupied by Billy.
The entire gas fireplace
was wrenched out of the wall.
Bending the half-inch brass pipe
33 degrees.
I heard that and I recorded it.
It landed on the bed,
just by the head of the boy.
If this thing had hit him,
he would have been killed.
That must have been a what--
10 kilos-- 15 kilos of ironware?
Now where's that energy coming from?
What worried me and unsettled me was
the fact that it was uncontrolled.
It appears that high stress
triggers the phenomena.
I think the lack of sleep has been
the hardest thing to contend with.
Mrs. Hodgson is
regularly taking sleeping pills.
And Janet is so exhausted that
she appears to be in a complete daze.
What?
Nothing.
- There must have been something.
- My mum.
I keep on thinking about Mum.
In what way?
Nothing will happen to your mum.
Perfectly all right.
It gets on my mind here.
If I was far away,
it would be much better.
As tough as Janet was--
and she was a tough little girl--
you know, things got on top of her.
And he was very aware of that
and very upset about it.
I'm convinced
that the only way to stop the activity
is to reduce the tension existing
in the Hodgson family.
And to get them away from Green Street.
I asked for a meeting with officials
from Enfield Council,
Welfare and Social Services,
together with the teachers
at Janet's new school.
Can I ask, please, whether the family are
aware that we're having
- this case conference?
- Yes.
- You did ring the headmaster
- Yes.
- and express your wish to attend.
- Yeah.
Well,
I have spoken to the headmaster at length.
But you must accept
what I'm saying to you in good faith.
Everything is happening there,
furniture is turning over,
marbles are being thrown.
It seems to draw its power
from tensions created
and there's certainly
plenty of tension in that family.
Yeah. Well,
Janet has been our new first year.
And she comes here very worn out.
She has a bad night,
and she's too tired to work very often
at 9 o'clock in the morning.
So we allow her
to sleep in the medical room.
I think she gets three
or four hours' sleep.
And that's our side of it.
Well, as I say, it breeds
on this particular type of tension.
In poltergeist phenomena,
it is very common
for the thing to get on top of them.
And I hate to think what
the next thing's gonna be.
You know, I would say a priority is
to get the people out of the environment.
A holiday may be the answer.
Well, we have no holidays available.
We don't have the funds for it.
For Janet-- the anxiety--
the worry must have been tremendous.
And I think there's only a few people
who were aware of that.
I think Maurice.
And I think he must have helped out
with the holiday, definitely.
It was so suffocating,
so they went there for--
Just to get away from it all.
Today, November the first,
I received a card from Mrs. Hodgson,
saying that there had been no incidents
since they arrived in Clacton.
But the next-door neighbor,
Mrs. Nottingham,
says they were awakened at 2:00 a.m.
with many raps and bangs.
The house was empty.
Bonfires were lit throughout
the length and breadth of the country.
A 30-foot-high bonfire
had been built by local scout groups
and in the evening it was lit
by the mayor of Harrow.
Saturday, November the fifth.
The family have arrived back
from their week in Clacton.
They enjoyed their holiday very much
and were reluctant to return.
- See here.
- There's clean clothes on there.
I'll have to put those away tomorrow.
Saturday, November the fifth. 9:50.
Good night, Peggy.
- Good night, Peggy.
- Night night.
Don't faff about now
because the tape's on.
- Peggy's coming.
- Janet.
Oh, no.
Five minutes to ten.
Family have just gone to bed.
Apparently we've already had knocks.
Maurice is up there with Mrs. Hodgson
and the two girls all in the front room.
Maurice is going to attempt
communication with the entity.
What? What, you heard it knocking?
The knocking's on the wall,
is something quite extraordinary.
I went back there several times
and heard it.
It was very insistent.
Like someone's knocking to come in.
It is November the fifth and there's
a lot of noise going on outside.
It gets a little confusing.
Will you knock back?
Did you hear what I was saying?
I'm knocking now.
There's now a knocking back.
It's very weak knocking.
Can you knock louder?
One for 'no,' two for 'yes.'
That's two.
Why are you here?
Is it because you want
to give us a special message?
Two knocks for 'yes'--
Do it again, please.
Do you want to give me a special message?
You do?
I can feel the vibrations
from the knocking
on the floor very, very clearly indeed.
Vibration is quite heavy.
The knocking is actually
moving backwards and forwards,
underneath the bed,
across the room and back again.
This is quite extraordinary.
Here, obviously, is a soul who is lost.
And she really probably
doesn't know how to go.
This is something I've got to find out.
Did you die in this house?
One for 'no,' and two for 'yes.'
What's going on?
Was that three?
Are you having a game with me?
- Crikey!
- Mr. Grosse.
As I asked the question,
"Are you having a game with me?"
it threw the cardboard box
right at my face.
What's a ghost?
I don't know.
Is it physical?
I don't know.
Who'd you go to for help?
We pray that those in darkness
may be made to see the light.
We ask your blessing upon this,
our meeting together.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, amen.
Maisie Besant and Edwin Butler
at 284 Green Street, Enfield.
- I'll just put this a little nearer.
- Yeah.
I don't want to miss anything.
Right.
Guy, through his experiences in Brazil,
wanted to bring in a medium
because he believed the medium
could ameliorate the situation.
My father was more skeptical
but because so many things
had opened up to him,
he was never going to dismiss anything.
Maybe there are people who are gifted.
Maybe so much is out there
and it's always out there,
it's just very few people can reach out
and see it or feel it or experience it.
Be still, quiet.
We have got
some entities here.
Speak, entity.
Take a look in the mirror.
We want to straighten you out.
You try coming in here again
and you'll feel that burn again.
Stay away from this place.
I'll kill you. I'll kill all of you.
I'll kill you.
Your predominant desire
is to get rid of them.
Cast them out.
That's it.
Out.
If we go there,
we shall have a war on our hands.
It is centered so much round this one.
The child is highly sensitive.
And she needs help.
Mr. Grosse!
- What do you want, Janet?
- Mr. Grosse!
- Help!
- What do you want?
Mr. Grosse!
Yes? What do you want, Janet?
She's written on the paper,
"The ghost is in the bedroom
this time no warning."
Mr. Grosse!
Mr. Grosse!