Case Update: It Follows
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Siksi Vaasan Sähköllä on asiakkaita joka ikisessä Suomen kaupungissa. Ai Vaasan Sähköllä. Just niin. Pitkä historia ja yli hyvä hinta vetää puoleensa. Siis näinköhän. Kurkkaa sopparit osoitteesta. Siis onko Rovaniemellä? Siellä ollaan myös. Tampere? Kyllä. Kurkkaa osoitte. Siis Oulussakin. On, on. Ja osoite on. Vaasan Sähkö.fi
I'm going to go and sit in the shed and write about ghosts.
What have you got in your shed? We're going to record...
I'm going to record about ghosts.
Daddy, why do you talk about scary things?
Well, because I'm investigating it, I'm looking into it at the moment, but you don't need to worry about it at all.
Because they don't actually assist monsters or ghosts.
I'm Danny Robbins, and as you could hear there, this case is starting to take over my every waking moment. So this is the second of our case updates where we can dig a bit deeper and answer your questions. I want to start with some shocking news though. My wife Eva, who you heard there and in episodes one and five, has still not listened to a single episode because she is too scared. Thank you to all the people who have listened, though. And it's been really amazing to see how people have been launching their own personal investigations. A lot of the focus seems to have been on the house and the geography of Wycliffe Road. Sam Whitfield from Wales asked if subsidence could have been causing the noises.
And I guess potentially even objects moving. He's found a map from the late 18th century that shows the site of Number 63 was on the edge of Clapham Common, marked as Marshland. So we do know that the Hitchings landlord actually arranged for building surveyors to come round, I think on more than one occasion, and they found no evidence of anything structurally unsound. Also on the subject of the actual land, Evelyn Hollow, our expert in our last case update, told us about her research, which had found an acetic acid factory on the site of the house in the 1800s. And Julian Dutton has tweeted saying, does anyone know if acetic acid causes madness, pollution of soil for 150 years? Can vinegar send you bonkers?
Brilliant theory, though the response generally seems to be, unfortunately, no. Of course, people have been wondering a lot about the individual family members as well. And that's where this becomes a fascinating detective story with lots of different personalities, different suspects, if you like. And it works whether you're a sceptic or a believer, because, of course, you can feel that one of the family is faking phenomena. But there's also that theory that it's the energy from a person that creates a poltergeist. One member of the household who's had a surprising amount of scrutiny that I didn't expect is the cat. Here he is with Chip. I have a little study at home.
Endless piles of paper. My wife says I'm obsessed. With what? The dead.
So I had emails from Deborah Moffat and Gareth Evans, both wanting to know, did the cat display any unusual behaviour when things were happening? Gareth says if anything else of the ordinary occurs, like a loud noise or a visitor, cats make themselves very scarce, sometimes for hours or days. So he feels that if that didn't happen, it could be a sign that this was a hoax. Well, I asked Shirley about the cat. He's called Jeremy, by the way. And she told me that he was often distressed, his backward arch, his fur would stand on end. He was clearly troubled by the atmosphere in the house, but nothing about him running away and hiding.
What's he staring at? They see things that we don't.
It's freezing. He's shaking off.
I could keep going on with your theories forever. There's so many good ones. And I think absolutely keep looking into the house. But we also need to pursue another line of inquiry now, after that big revelation in episode five, that the noises can follow Shirley.
Would you call it a knock? Or maybe more of a tap?
I mean, he bangs too, but I suppose mostly it's like a tap.
Right.
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