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[vehicle engines humming]

[tape recorder whirring]

[narrator]
It’s now quarter past 11:00.

Janet appears to be in sleep

and breathing regularly.

[breathing heavily]

- [knocking]
- [breathing heavily]

[gasps]

[Janet gasping, screams]

[whirring]

[overlapping tape
recorder chatter]

[tape recorder
chatter continues]

[narrator] A year ago,
a number of strange coincidences

in my personal life
made me feel I should try

to understand the paranormal.

[Grosse] "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.

[Grosse] Testing.
One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

[Grosse]
The time now is, uh, 7:55.

And, uh, I arrived at 284
just over half an hour ago.

Uh, I’m recording this
in the kitchen.

Mrs. Hodgson is now going
to tell me of events

that took place here
on Friday night.

[Mrs. Hodgson] Oh, Billy,
here, on here.

Billy.
[Grosse] Is that mine?

[Mrs. Hodgson] Yes,
no sugar. Go on.
Yes. Yes.

[Peggy]

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-- W-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.

[Peggy] ...then I pushed
it back again,

and the third time
I went to push it,
I couldn’t move it.

[indistinct recorder chatter]

[typing]

[Grosse] 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.

[Grosse]
What was actually
the first thing you saw?

John Burcombe, brother
to Mrs. Hodgson...

Oh, God. Uh, the actual
first thing I saw...

[Grosse] 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.

[Grosse] His son, Paul, 12.

A lively boy.

[Paul]
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, 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.

[Grosse] And now,
was it possible for her
to push the cupboard?

- No way. No.
- [Grosse] No way?

I see.

[photographer] 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, uh--
this is bri-- [laughs]
bringing it back.

The house.

It was so many years ago,
but this is-- [stammers]
This is weird.

This is very strange.

We arrived at the house
at about midnight.

Uh, the family were next door
with the neighbors.

I came through into the--
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-- as Janet was--
was carried in--

Just... [sighs] ...unbelievable.

Just-- Things just
started flying
around the room.

- [shouting]
- [crockery clattering]

The lingering memory
is of those two girls screaming.

They were absolutely terrified.

[shouting]

Just mayhem.

[Morris] 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, th-- 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.

[Pincott]
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... [chuckles]
...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.

[Grosse] 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.

[bird chirping]

[Peggy speaking indistinctly]

[Grosse] 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--

[Grosse] 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-- [stammers]

[Grosse] The police
say that as they could
not arrest whatever

was causing the disturbance,
they can be of little help.

[Grosse] But WPC Carolyn Heeps
has made a striking statement

about a chair in
the living room.

[Heeps] It, um, came off
the floor, oh, 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.

Um, 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, um, 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.

[reporter] 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.

[Morris] Being on the front page
of any national newspaper,

not alone the bestselling one
in the country, was-- Ah,

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, um, came off the floor,
oh, 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.

Tha-- That’s supernatural.

[reporter 2] 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, um--

[Roz]
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, um, nothing else
happens, you’ll just
have to go to Enfield

and cover this ghost story."

I was pretty skeptical.

I mean, um, 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--

Um, she now seems to be asleep.

- She’s not really
moving around very much.
- Mmm.

So, um, what--
what happens now?
What do you do?

Do you just stand here
every night and have a look?

I-- 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-- I go.

I have to go home
sometime, you know?

I think we ought
to go downstairs again.

[Roz] I just thought, well,
I’d better record what I can.

[thud]

[Roz] Did you hear that thump?

Well, we’ve just heard a noise,
having come downstairs.

We’ve just heard
a noise upstairs.

[inhales shakily]
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.

[thudding continues]

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.

[Roz] 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, uh, 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.

[Paul] Our little section
of semi-detached

box-like houses
were very, very basic.

We were definitely
working class,

and to be honest,
we were quite poor.

[reporter] 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...

[Paul] 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.

- But Mum, it’s not time yet.
- Margaret. Janet... [indistinct]

[Paul] Peggy’s husband
was estranged.
I never saw him.

And I don’t remember
them being a happy family
or a happy environment.

[reporter] For the
one-and-a-half million

unemployed in Britain,
the pinch is even more severe.

[Paul] The ’70s were
quite a basic time, really.

We never went on
holidays, uh, you know,

so we just-- 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.

[screams]

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.

[typing]

[Grosse] 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.
- [Richard] My father brought...

- [Grosse] 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,

um, a radio, will take it
apart, see how it works.

I mean, me, I just switch it on.

[Grosse] You see,
I’m a professional inventor,

and when I get
hold of something,

I have to dissect it
because that’s my business.

[Richard] 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.

[Richard] 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.

[Grosse sighing]

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.

[breathing deeply]

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.

[Pincott] 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.

[applause]

[Pincott]
So, what are poltergeists?
I wish I knew.

I mean, the very name itself

is a German word meaning,
"a boisterous, noisy spirit."

[Clark Lowes]
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.

[Roz] I’d already read up
something about poltergeists,

so I knew that this type
of experience with
similar things happening,

um, 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.

[Roz]
Often, it’s a young person at
a particular time in their life.

Their emotional energy
is creating this sort of force.

[Clark Lowes] 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.

[Pincott] The time came for
questions, and one of the first

to put his hand up
was Maurice Grosse.

Uh, 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, uh,
last night, a chair was
shot across the r-room

Four-foot, twice.

We have so many witnesses.
We have police witnessing phenomena.

We also have, uh, 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.

[stammers]
I’m getting to
the point of exhaustion.

[Pincott] Well, if there are
any further volunteers,

um, 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.

[Richard]
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.
- [Grosse] Absolutely.

- We normally have
this light on...
- There’s a little...

...and that one-- Is that--
Turn that light off.

This is-- [stammers]
Thi-This is the condition
as we have it every night.

It’s always light.
We never operate in the dark.

[Peggy speaks
indistinctly, sniffs]

[Morris] 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.

[camera shutter clicks]

[Morris] 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.

[Janet breathing deeply]

[floorboard creaks]

[screaming, wailing]

[Margaret]

[screaming]

[Peggy]
Come on, get out. Janet.

[Grosse]

Go to bed, Bill.

[Grosse] Come on. Get up, Janet.
You’ll catch a cold.

[breathing heavily]

[Grosse breathing heavily]

I’m watching ya.

[camera shutter clicks]

[shutter clicks]

[Morris]
It’s something about this girl.

There was something happening
around Janet at this time.

[Bence] 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.

[Roz] 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.

[Paul] 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...

Oh, 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... [stammers] ...uh,
like a light.

Ooh, 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.

[Grosse]
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.

[Grosse] The time, 6:35.

Janet told me of an indentation
of a human body on the bed.

[Janet] Be quiet then.

[Grosse]

No.

Mmm.

- [Peggy]
- [Billy] Yeah,

- [Peggy]
- [Grosse] I see.

[Peggy]

[Grosse]

Yes.

[Grosse]

[Grosse]
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.

Hmm.

[Grosse] 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.

Uh, where’s--
where’s Billy sleeping?

[Janet chuckles,
speaks indistinctly]

- Um...
- [Grosse] With Margaret?

[Margaret] He won’t go in there.

You wanna go with Margaret?

- Let him go over the far side.
- [Margaret speaks indistinctly]

- [Janet] Yes.
- Now, you two have
been arguing ever since

you come back from
the shops this afternoon.

[Margaret] Right, Mum.

[newscaster on TV]
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.

[newscaster 2]
That’s the news tonight.
Good night.

It’s, uh, 10:30.

News at Ten has just ended.

And, um, I think I’ll turn
the tape over now.

[Richard] 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.

[tape recorder chatter]

Every moment, every hour
was different.

[sighs]

[Grosse] Ten minutes past two.

- [hissing]
- Mr. Grosse, come here.

- See that top drawer--
- [Janet] Yeah, have a look.

- [Grosse] Yeah.
- [Peggy]
That knob thing this side.

- Yes.
- [Peggy] I saw the wire move,

and I saw that handle
move slightly.

- Did you?
- [Janet] Yeah.

I can see the wire
moving now myself.

- [Peggy] You see it?
- [Grosse] Yes.

The wire coming down from the--

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.

[knocking]

- Mr. Grosse, there’s
knocking on the wall.
- [knocking continues]

Where is it coming from?

- Where?
- [Billy] From the chimney.

- [Grosse] Coming
from the chimney?
- [Billy] Yes, I heard it.

[Janet]

[knocking]

[knocking continues]

[children whimpering]

[screaming]

- [Peggy]
- [Janet]

[Peggy]

[screaming continues]

Janet, hold my hand.
Janet, hold my hand.

What happened?
Go on, tell me what happened.

[screaming]

- [Grosse]
Wednesday, October the 26th.
- [clears throat]

Margaret said a metal part
from the fireplace moved slowly

across the room
before it dropped,

- to hit the camp bed
occupied by Billy.
- [sighs, clears throat]

[Playfair]
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.

[Pincott] 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.

[water running]

[Grosse]
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.

[Richard]
As tough as Janet was-- and
she was a tough little girl--

you know, things got
on top of her.

And, uh, he was very aware of
that and very upset about it.

[Grosse] I’m convinced
that the only way
to stop the activity

is to reduce the tension
existing in the Hodgson family.

[bell rings]

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.

[Grosse] Yes.

[Grosse] Yeah.

Hmm.

["Summerlove Sensation" playing]

[Paul] 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.

[children laughing, shouting]

[song ends]

[Grosse]
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.

[reporter] 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.

[Grosse]
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.

- [Peggy] See here.
- There’s clean clothes on there.

I’ll have to put those
away tomorrow.

[Grosse on tape recorder]
Saturday, November
the fifth. 9:50.

[Margaret] Good night, Peggy.

- [Janet] Good night, Peggy.
- [Margaret] Night night.

[Peggy] Don’t faff about now
because the tape’s on.

- [Janet] Peggy’s coming.
- [Peggy] Janet.

[Margaret gasps] 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.

[Janet shushes]
What? What, you
heard it knocking?

[Roz]
The knocking’s on the wall,

is something
quite extraordinary.

I went back there
several times and heard it.

[knocking]

It was very insistent.

Like someone’s
knocking to come in.

I-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-I’m knocking now.

[knocks]

[faint knocking]

[gasps]

There’s now a knocking back.
It’s very weak knocking.

Can you knock louder?
One for ’no,’ two for ’yes.’

[fireworks explode]

[knocking]

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?
- [knocking]

You do?

- [knocking]
- [gasps]

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, um...

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.’

[fireworks exploding]

- [Janet gasps] What’s going on?
- [Grosse shushes]

[knocking]

Was that three?

- Are you having a game with me?
- [Janet yelps]

- [groans] Crikey!
- [Peggy] Mr. Grosse.

As I asked the question,
"Are you having a game with me?"

it threw the cardboard box
right at my face.

[Paul] What’s a ghost?

I don’t know.

Is it physical?

I don’t know.

Who’d you go to for help?

[Butler] We pray that those
in darkness may be made
to see the light.

Maisie Besant and Edwin Butler
at 284 Green Street, Enfield.

[Besant] Yeah.

[Playfair]

[Besant] Right.

[Richard] 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, um,
and it’s always out there,

it’s just very few people
can reach out and see it
or feel it or experience it.

[Besant] Be still, quiet.

We have got...

some entities here.

Speak, entity.

[breathing heavily]

[groaning]

[laughing]

[groaning continues]

[breathing heavily]

Take a look in the mirror.

[whimpering]

[Butler]
We want to straighten you out.

You try coming in here again
and you’ll feel that burn again.

- [whimpers]
- Stay away from this place.

I’ll kill you. I’ll kill
all of you. I’ll kill you.

[breathing heavily]

Your predominant desire
is to get rid of them.

Cast them out. Hmm?

That’s it.

[Besant] Out.

If we go there,

we shall have a war
on our hands. Hmm.

It is centered so much
round this one.

Huh? Mmm.

The child is highly sensitive.

And she needs help.

[Janet]

[shouting, groans]

[mumbling] Help!

[Grosse]

Mr. Grosse!

- Yes? Yes, yes,
what do you want, Janet?
- [groaning]

[shouting]

Mr. Grosse! Mr. Grosse!

Mr. Grosse!

["Sound of the Suburbs" playing]