The Enfield Poltergeist: Britain’s Most Famous Haunted House

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In 1977, a single mother in North London called the police to report something strange inside her home.

Furniture was moving on its own. Knocking sounds echoed through the walls. Toys flew across bedrooms.

At the center of the disturbances was an eleven-year-old girl named Janet Hodgson.

Over the next eighteen months, the small council house at 284 Green Street in Enfield became the site of one of the most famous paranormal cases in modern history. Witnesses reported chairs sliding across floors, objects thrown across rooms, and even a child levitating above her bed.

Then came the voice.

A harsh male voice began speaking through Janet, claiming to belong to a man who had died in the house years earlier. Investigators from the Society for Psychical Research documented the events, while journalists and skeptics debated ... 

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