Introducing The Battersea Poltergeist
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A new podcast series from Radio 4, The Battersea Poltergeist.
In the first stage of a poltergeist haunting, the entity will confine itself to making noise, as if it's testing its victims.
A paranormal cold case, reinvestigated through a mixture of documentary and drama.
You've got objects moving, but also levitating, bedsheets being pulled, scratching sounds. You've got apparently intelligent communication that's happening, so handwritten letters, drawings on the wall.
So I'm going to ask you now, for the benefit of everybody listening, for the hardened sceptics out there.
Yes.
You saw heavy pots and pans fly through the air in your room.
Yes. Yes.
Yes.
It's 1956 and ghost hunter Harold Chibbett arrives at 63 Wycliffe Road, an ordinary house on a quiet London street. I think you're frightened and fear is a powerful thing. It's rented by the Hitchings family and has become famous as the scene of an alleged poltergeist haunting.
Dad? What's going on, John? I thought we were shooting. In the middle of the night, you daft! Come on, mate. It's like the Blitz all over again.
The press attention focuses on the Hitchings' 15-year-old daughter, Shirley.
Here's the Hitchings. Shirley's private spook gets rough. Look at this rubbish they're buying.
But what is really going on? Starring Daphne Keane.
Real fear. It's like a disease. It eats away at you.
And Toby Jones.
That's why I'm here, Shirley. To find out what is going on. And make it stop.
No, Chip. Not it. Him. Dad, look.
Molly. The chair. The Chase movie.
Written and presented by me, Danny Robbins. Can a nexusism be dangerous?
Very, very. Even myself, I've got a case where a young lady set on fire in front of me, actually burst into flames.
It's quite mind-blowing, isn't it? As soon as you allow that thought to come into your head, you have to reassess everything you believe about the world. A supernatural detective story told in eight episodes, exploring a real-life mystery that's remained unsolved. Until now.
This is real. This is not made up. And hundreds of people have experienced that. Are they all making it up?
I thought this is going to be the end. We're all going to die. Donald, move the chair. Please?
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What unusual phenomena were reported during the haunting?
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