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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I'm at the sink here and I'm just washing the cups.
And I just felt the instinct... to turn and in that corner, this object just materialized in thin air, popped into existence and it went straight at me, bounced off the window like that and then landed on the floor. And I looked down and it was a domino and you'll have to beat this, but I said, what the just happened?
I'm in a semi-detached house in Yorkshire, Northern England. Like 63 Wycliffe Road, it's an ordinary house on a quiet street.
Chapter 2: What accusations are made against Shirley in the haunting case?
But unlike 63, it's still here. And apparently, so is its poltergeist.
It was a Sunday, I'll never forget it. I spent the next two hours being bombarded by objects.
Chapter 3: What evidence suggests Donald is becoming more violent?
This is Bill Bungay, the owner. He's a tall man with a goatee, a ponytail and quite a jazzy shirt. A flying domino could have really hurt you. When it hit the window, I mean, there was a proper clack.
I kept it because it's the reality of the object that gives what occurred purchase. You know, the fact is that it's a real object and it genuinely just materialised there.
I'm here because Bill's house has quite a reputation. One I'm hoping can shed some light on our case. So this episode, as things intensify for Shirley back in 1956, I'm going to try my own experiment to make contact with a poltergeist. Statistically, what's the chances of me experiencing something in this house?
I would say pretty high. I reckon the odds are as good as 7 out of 10.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of the poltergeist activity at 30 East Drive?
I'm Danny Robbins and this is the Battersea Poltergeist.
Episode 6.
Fright Night. Hello. So a lot happened last episode. There's some really big new strands to explore. Firstly, we've got this accusation against Shirley, the suggestion that some or even all of the phenomena could be hoaxed, and even that she herself might have started that fire.
And then almost like a polar opposite, we've got this idea that Donald is growing in power and he's becoming more violent. There's Wally's arm, the scratches or gouges in the centre of his burn. And that was real. The police took photos. It's those injuries that I find one of the hardest things to comprehend in this case.
Chapter 5: How does Danny plan to investigate the poltergeist phenomenon?
So I started looking back at other poltergeist cases with reports of someone allegedly being physically hurt. And that's what led me to Bill's house, 30 East Drive in the town of Pontefract. Back in the late 1960s, it was a scene of what's been dubbed Europe's most violent haunting. So now, I find myself actually in the kitchen with Bill.
My experience, and bear in mind, I've never been scratched, I've never been burned, I've never been shoved. I haven't been attacked, but there are people that have been carried out of this house. People that have given up ghost hunting as a direct result.
I'm going to spend the night here to explore the links to our case. But first, let's go back to 1956 and our own haunted house, number 63 Wycliffe Road.
Chapter 6: What role does journalist Joyce Lewis play in the investigation?
After the fire, Wally has begged Chip to come back and continue his investigation. So Chip set up camp in the family's kitchen. Shirley, love, stick the kettle on, would you? Morning!
Oh!
What are you doing under the table?
I thought it'd make a good shelter in case anything was thrown in the night.
You're sleeping on the floor?
Blimey, are you alright? Oh, yes. I survived the Western Front. I can cope with some frigid linoleum.
Want a cuppa?
Oh, that'd be lovely. I shall stash my sleeping bag. Shirley and I sat up for a while last night, Wally, teaching Donald to use these. Alphabet cards?
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Chapter 7: What experiences do Joyce and Shirley have during their night with a poltergeist?
I want to get beyond yes or no. So, I move my pencil across them.
And Donald knocks when Chip reaches the letter he wants.
Sounds like it could take a while. What if he's a bad speller like Cheryl? Margaret's not foolproof, but this way I hope we can start to learn more about him. So, do you really think it's possible to talk to dead people? I hope so. Or I've wasted my entire life. What a thought that is. But yes, I think they're all out there somewhere. My good friends who died on the battlefields of France.
Your great-grandparents. Every person who's lived in this house. And of course the famous ones. Shakespeare, Rasputin.
Chapter 8: How do the ghost hunters prepare for their investigation?
James Dean. Yes. History of humanity is waiting for us to hurry up and work out how to talk to them.
I'm glad you're back, Chib. You're about the only one who still believes in Donald. Ever since that horrible mail article, everywhere I go, people stare. I can hear them, whispering, she did it.
Oh, Joe. Do they matter?
Yes. I know you haven't been a teenager since, like, Victorian times.
Edwardian, thank you.
What people think of you is pretty flippin' important. Half the street's saying I started the fires, I tried to kill my own family.
Hmm. It strikes me that we must fight fire with fire, if you'll forgive the pun. To undo the harm, what we need is another journalist.
No. I've had enough.
Hear me out. We invite someone to stay overnight. Let them witness the phenomena and then write the truth. We don't trust any of them. Well, there must be one.
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