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Chapter 1: What connections exist between the Battersea case and the Enfield Poltergeist?
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Her back was arched.
Rigid.
Help me! It was like she was hovering, floating, maybe six inches over the bed. So I was wrong. You were close, John. This is all to do with Shirley.
What?
It's you, my dear. You're the focus. Donald is here because of you. Chip really frightened me, you know. He said it's always a teenage girl at the centre of it. And I was horrified. Did you feel in danger, Shelley? I think so, yeah. I thought something horrible was going to happen to us. We were all really scared out of our wits. I just can't put it into words.
I thought this is going to be the end. We're all going to die.
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Chapter 2: Who are the reporters involved in the Battersea case and what did they experience?
It takes place in Enfield, a suburb of North London, about 20 years after Battersea, 1977. Like with our case, most of the activity focuses around a young girl, 11-year-old Janet Hodgson.
You need to contact a man called Graham Morris. Now, he was the first photographer on the scene, and not only that, but he actually claims to have been hit by a flying object. All right, happy ghost hunting, Godspeed.
So I've managed to track Graham down. I'm going to talk to him now. He's a sensible, sporty looking man in his 60s. Back in 1977, he was working for the Daily Mirror newspaper. You as a man who normally goes out and photographs very real life events, what did you actually think you might be asked to do? I had absolutely no idea.
I think I'd feel quite scared though if I was walking into a place where objects might be flying around and I had to photograph them.
I was. I was scared not so much of the objects flying around.
I put up with that, but it was just, I was scared of the fact that I was about 20-something years old, and there am I being told to go into a house in the dark on my own with whatever this was. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. I put myself right back into a corner so I could see as much of the room as possible. The wide-angle lens, flash, all the rest of it.
So there's nothing happening at all, but... As the family came in, the children were being carried by the adults. Janet seemed to be last one in. And she was brought in. Suddenly, wow, here we go. Just things started flying. Just things are whizzing around the room. It was... or bits and pieces of ashtrays around. There were cups and saucers. There were things that would move.
But there were lots of Lego bricks everywhere, as there would be in any kid's house. And these were taking off and flying. I got hit in the head. I got hit just above the eyebrow by a corner of only a little Lego brick. But it must have been going at such speed. It gave me a lump for about four days. It was unbelievable. This is what I've been most intrigued to ask you about, I think.
It's seemingly impossible, isn't it? So how do you, as a rational human being walking into the situation, how do you process that?
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Chapter 3: What is Shirley Hitchings' story and how did it gain media attention?
It was there was something about it. It's just so strange and out of the ordinary and puts you on edge.
Talking to Ros and Graham has left me with as many questions as answers. One thing's for sure, though, the stories that emerged from Enfield turned Janet into an unwitting celebrity. And back in 1956, the same thing is about to happen to Shirley.
What now? It's not Donald. It's the front door. They're everywhere.
There's no hope now.
The whole blessed universe knows.
What are you talking about?
Kitty, John, there's journalists everywhere. They had heard the story, the police.
Some journalist got hold of the reports and then it just snowballed. Everybody wanted to see the haunted house.
Yeah, Shirley's private spook gets rough. Look at this rubbish they're writing.
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Chapter 4: What evidence supports the claims of paranormal activity in the Enfield case?
Nan? Was it nice? Seeing Grandad again?
wasn't him, child.
Who was it then?
The same thing you were speaking to. He takes many guises, but his aim is the same. It's time for this to end, child, before it goes too far.
I want to know more about your gran, Shirley. She seems like quite a character. She smoked a pipe. She was a big woman because when she died, she had to have a bigger coffin because she was about six foot four. She used to throw things. I remember once she had an argument with my auntie up in, because she had a kitchen upstairs. She threw a whole pot of hot tea. That's the type of temper she had.
She was quite fiery, my gran. In the war, apparently, she stayed in London in the house and she used to go up on Ruth's file watching. If anybody could brave the German bombers, it'd be Ethel. Oh, yes. Oh, she wasn't going to be beaten by Hitler. Oh, no way.
Dear Lord, protect this family from evil. Watch over us as we are in our hour of need. And keep a special watch on Shirley. She needs you most. Amen.
So she wasn't scared of Hitler. But what about Donald? She was very scared. She was proclaiming that it was evil and that it's all going to get us, you know.
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Chapter 5: How did the Enfield Poltergeist case evolve into a media sensation?
Several times.
Dad said, whoever's doing this, do it again. And it did. Gracious.
You actually saw this? Yeah, with my own eyes. How is that possible? You tell me. What about this levitation? People are saying Shirley flew around the room. That's complete rubbish. She was just floating above the bed. We tried to pull her down, but Donald wouldn't let her go. Donald? That's what we call him.
He answers to it.
Pardon?
When we talk to him, we call him Donald and he replies.
You talk to it? How?
Surely. He bangs on the walls, so we told him to answer us that way.
She's got a lot of code. One tap for no, two for yes. Can we try it now? Right. That is enough for me. It's just a bit of fun, Ethel. It's sinful. It's what it is. The Lord said it loud and clear. Do not let your people call forth the spirits of the dead. If you don't want to, we understand. But our readers, they would love to make contact. There's no guarantee that he'll come.
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Chapter 6: What role do teenage girls play in poltergeist phenomena?
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