1977: The ENFIELD POLTERGEIST | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"Either 17 people have all been having hallucinations - including the police - or this is the best-documented ghost story of all time."


Nationwide's James Hogg reports from a seemingly ordinary, suburban house in Ponder's End, Enfield, where residents have reported experiencing a variety of unusual phenomena. There has been knocking in the walls, and furniture is regularly thrown around the house - apparently unaided.

These bizarre occurrences have piqued the interest of Maurice Grosse, an inventor and a member of the Society of Psychical Research. Mr Grosse believes that the disturbances are being caused by a poltergeist, and thinks that the recordings he has made while investigating the disturbances in the house might be the best evidence yet of parapsychological activity.


Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 23 November, 1977.





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