Between 1977 – 1979, the unfortunate Hodgson family was plagued with terrifying occurrences of poltergeist activity.
It all started when the children experienced their beds shaking one night. They called their mom into their room and she blew it off and told them to go to sleep. The next day, the kids were screaming again and the mom (Peggy Hodgson) witnessed a large dresser being pushed across the floor by itself. She pushed back against it and it didn’t move. There was something pushing back against it. This spooked her. She decided to go and get the neighbors for help. The neighbors came over and checked, they heard knocking in the walls and were spooked themselves. They decided to call the cops, the cops checked the house and didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. Then suddenly, as they were all conversing in the kitchen, they all witnessed a chair fly across the room. The police actually wrote a detailed report of this instance but couldn’t really do anything else.
The next day, things continued, things like marbles flying through the air and being incredibly hot to the touch. They were coming from parts of the room where there were no kids, so the children were not suspects. Peggy Hodgson contacted her local newspaper for help, because they were running gout of options. One of the reporters mentioned that they may have a poltergeist in their house. They were directed towards the Society of Psychical Research. A paranormal group that investigates paranormal hauntings in England. From this society, Maurice Gross, an inventor and paranormal investigator went and decided to help the Hodgson family.
Maurice Gross was determined to help. he wanted to be as rational and logical as possible to get to the bottom of this poltergeist in Enfield. He almost immediately started witnessing paranormal events. He at first thought it may have been one of the children playing jokes on him. He tested to make sure they were asleep when he heard things flying around in parts of the house at night. He was witness to the notorious flying marbles and lots of absolutely freezing drafts coming from out of nowhere.
Eventually it became to much for Maurice to investigate on his own. He got some help from a fella named Guy Playfair, also from the Society for Psychical Research. Now we had two paranormal investigators on the Enfield poltergeist case. They tried tricking the kids, to see if they were playing jokes, they tested and tried to debunk all of the unusual phenomena happening. For the life of them, they just couldn’t figure out how the suspicious marbles would drop from the air suddenly out of nowhere and be burning hot. Was there a portal of some sort?
By now, the stress of the family was at an all time high. especially around young Janet Hodgson, who is the main victim in this case. The activity seemed to be focusing around her (Janet). Maurice decided to start recording instances of the activity. There is recordings of knocks being recorded and boxes being thrown. The family being spooked.
Around this time, Janet started talking in a deep voice. Was she possessed? Some mediums who visited said she may have been a medium herself and was channeling different spirits. Some of the spirits may have been very nefarious, as one time, Janet was strangled by curtains and actually chased by floating knives. Other than this, (possibly being possessed by multiple different entities) Janet was perfectly fine.
As the poltergeist activity was coming to a head, there was water and poo manifesting all around the house. Along with fires and very violent movement of objects flying and an overall stress level, through the roof. The family decided that Janet needed to go to the hospital. When she was gone, the family still witnessed apparitions and other minor paranormal activity. When she came home it ramped up again. maybe she really was a medium and the activity just ramped up around her. She was a victim and incredibly stressed out. Remember she was just a teenage girl with possible psychic powers that were being exasperated by being on a possible supernatural hotspot.
After she came back from the hospital, a final medium came in and astral projected to confront the entities at the house. He concluded that it may have been Maurice Gross’ deceased daughter (RIP) and she was trying to contact him. She may have been one of the good entities that may have been helping Janet and helped the activity disperse after this. Soon after this, the activity DID stop.
Was this an elaborate hoax? Or real evidence of ghosts or real paranormal activity? What do you think?
BELOW IS SOME FOOTAGE OF JANET DOING THE VOICE:
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