A Police Officer Watched the Chair Move: The Enfield Poltergeist, 1977
This Magna Logos horror film follows the reports from Enfield, the investigators who returned to the house and the evidence disputed by skeptics. It keeps the reported events, admitted tricks and later interpretations distinct.
About A Police Officer Watched the Chair Move: The Enfield Poltergeist, 1977
From the public channel description
A POLICE OFFICER WATCHED THIS CHAIR MOVE. 🪑 On the night of 31 August 1977, in a council house in Enfield, north London, two of Peggy Hodgson's four children heard shuffling in their bedroom. Then a chest of drawers slid about eighteen inches across the floor, and the knocking began. Neighbours heard it too. At about one in the morning on 1 September the police came: a constable heard four taps on the wall and then saw a chair slide three or four feet across the living room floor, and she signed a statement saying so.
Within days marbles and toy bricks were flying through the house, and a newspaper photographer was hit on the forehead. Maurice Grosse came for the Society for Psychical Research. A year earlier his own daughter had died after a motorcycle accident. With the writer Guy Lyon Playfair he came back again and again, and they recorded more than 180 hours of tape.
In December 1977 a deep, rough voice came out of Janet, who was eleven. It called itself Bill and said it had died on a chair in the corner downstairs. Later, Terry Wilkins said his father, Bill, had died in that house. But the house was being watched. One investigator said a video camera in the next room caught Janet bending spoons and trying to bend an iron bar.
Grosse himself once saw her knocking on the ceiling with a broom. A ventriloquist called the voice a trick of the throat, and the girls admitted some pranks to reporters. Grosse and Playfair said the tricks were few and the rest was real; the skeptics said it was all the same game. Peggy lived in the house until she died in 2003. Years later Janet said they had faked about two percent of it.
What do you think was in that house? 👇 Sources: Society for Psychical Research, Psi Encyclopedia, "Enfield Poltergeist" (the first night, 31 August 1977; the constable's statement of 1 September; the photographer on 4 September; Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair; over 180 hours of tape; the voice from December 1977; Terry Wilkins; "about two percent"); Wikipedia, "Enfield poltergeist" (the video camera in the next room, Anita Gregory's account; the broom on the ceiling; the girls' admissions to reporters; the ventriloquist Ray Alan; the skeptics, among them Joe Nickell and Chris French).
The pictures are a reconstruction. No one involved is shown, the voice is never imitated, and the house, where people live today, is never identified. #enfieldpoltergeist #poltergeist #paranormal #haunted #unexplained #history #Shorts
