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- Grosse claimed to have recorded many hours of audio and video evidence of the poltergeist while staying at the house for long periods of time, along with another psychical investigator, Guy Lyon Playfair, who later wrote the book This House is Haunted (1980).
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Enfield poltergeist. Playfair is most famous for his endorsement of the Enfield poltergeist. He investigated the case alongside the inventor Maurice Grosse in 1977.
Grosse claimed to have recorded many hours of audio and video evidence of the poltergeist while staying at the house for long periods of time, along with another psychical investigator, Guy Lyon Playfair, who later wrote the book This House is Haunted (1980).
Oct 26, 2023 · The case came to the attention of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and two of its members, inventor turned paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse and writer Guy Lyon Playfair,...
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In August 1977, single parent Peggy Hodgson called the Metropolitan Police to her rented home at 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, claiming she had witnessed furniture moving and that two of her four children had heard that knocking sounds on the walls. The children included Margaret (13) and Janet (11). A woman police constable reported witness...
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Society for Psychical Research (SPR) members Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair reported "curious whistling and barking noises coming from Janet's general direction." Although Playfair maintained the haunting was genuine and wrote in his later book This House Is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist (1980) that an "entity" was to blame for the Enfield disturbances, he often doubted the children's veracity and wondered if they were playing tricks and exaggerating. Still, Grosse and Playfa...
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Milbourne Christopher, an American stage magician, briefly investigated the Enfield occurrences and failed to observe anything that could be called paranormal. He was dismayed by what he felt was suspicious activity on the part of Janet, later concluding that "the poltergeist was nothing more than the antics of a little girl who wanted to cause trouble and who was very, very clever." Ventriloquist Ray Alanvisited the house and concluded that Janet's male voices were simply vocal tricks.
Criticisms of investigations
Skeptic Joe Nickell of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) examined the findings of paranormal investigators and criticized them for being overly credulous; when a supposedly disembodied demonic voice was heard, Playfair noted that "as always Janet's lips hardly seemed to be moving." He states that a remote-controlled still camera—the photographer was not present in the room with the girls—timed to take a picture every fifteen seconds was shown...
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Skeptics have argued that the alleged poltergeist voice that originated from Janet was produced by false vocal cords above the larynx and had the phraseology and vocabulary of a child. In a television interview for BBC Scotland, Janet was observed to gain attention by waving her hand, and then putting her hand in front of her mouth while a claimed "disembodied" voice was heard. During the interview both girls were asked the question, "How does it feel to be haunted by a poltergeist?" Janet re...
On 26 December 1978, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the documentary The Enfield Poltergeistby BBC reporter Rosalind (Roz) Morris. Morris visited the Hodgson family on numerous occasions to make this documen...In 1992 the BBC aired a controversial mockumentary titled Ghostwatch written by Stephen Volkand based on the Enfield poltergeist.In March 2007 Channel 4 aired a documentary about the Enfield poltergeist titled Interview with a Poltergeist.[citation needed]The Enfield poltergeist has been featured in episodes of ITV series Strange but True? and Extreme Ghost Stories.Couttie, Bob (1988). Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox. Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7188-2686-4Morris, Rosalind (presenter); Thompson, Sally (producer) (26 December 1978). The Enfield Poltergeist. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 15 April 2018. Contemporaneous radio documentary featuring eyewitne...Nickell, Joe (2012). The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-61614-586-6Playfair, Guy Lyon (1980). This House Is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-7387-1867-5BBC Radio 5 Liveinterview with photographer Graham MorrisMaurice Grosse, a successful inventor, initiated an investigation soon after the start of the events on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research. Grosse was soon joined by author and paranormal investigator Guy Lyon Playfair, whose 1980 book This House is Haunted: An Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist is the main source of information ...
Jun 1, 2019 · The title refers to the tape recordings made by Maurice Grosse (1919-2006) and Guy Lyon Playfair (1935-2018) during their investigation of the well-known Enfield poltergeist case, to which Playfair devoted a book: This House is Haunted, first published by Souvenir Press in 1980. A third edition was published by White Crow Books in 2011.
Playfair partnered with Maurice Grosse to investigate the 1977–78 Enfield poltergeist case, which has been described as the most fully documented of its kind in the SPR’s history.7 This research lasted almost two years, involving all-night vigils and the production of a large quantity of written documents, also many hours of tape-recordings ...
