The Enfield Poltergeist — The Case That Divided Experts

THE SINISTER PAST · Oct 16, 2026 · 15m

In August of 1977, a police constable in a quiet North London council house watched an armchair slide across the carpet with no one near it — and put her name to a signed statement saying so.

Over the next thirteen months, the Hodgson family's ordinary home became one of the most exhaustively documented poltergeist cases in British history: thirty hours of tape, a voice that wasn't a child's, a photograph that still divides believers and skeptics, and an investigator who never stopped looking for proof his own grief could be answered. Some of it was later proven fake. Most of it never was…