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The Enfield haunting was real.

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ALittleBitWooo · 05/05/2025 21:46

I’m watching The Enfield Poltergeist, probably the most famous ghost story in England.
The two sisters both give interviews and still seem deeply troubled by what happened, what are people’s thoughts?
And does anyone want to share their own spooky experiences. I’ll go first,

When my son was three I caught him chatting to himself in my hallway, he told me he was talking to a sad little girl who had lost her way in and was stuck.
He’d come into my room at night and tell me she’d woken him up by playing with his toys.
I was home alone one night, I got up to get a glass of water and was walking back to the bedroom and the hallway light turned off and the kitchen radio turned on.. full sodding blast, I was terrified!
I also come home one day to find the oven door open and all of the oven trays on the floor.
Another day I come home to my cat with its fur all puffed up, growling at the wall like the dog in The Poltergeist movie. Nothing else like this has happened since moving out of that house.

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NOTANUM · 05/05/2025 22:20

JandamiHash · 05/05/2025 21:52

Im very sceptical about the Enfield poltergeist. And usually there’s an explanation for spooky stories.

However I became open minded to the possibility of a third dimension when a block of Roquefort I definitely bought, definitely put in the fridge and looked forward to eating suddenly disappeared 20 minutes after I put it there. I even counted out loud to myself the number of shelves as in “It’s not on shelf 1, shelf 2” all the way to shelf 4. Several times. Then I went for a bath, came back opened the fridge - there in the middle shelf at the front was by block of Roquefort, and there were suddenly 5 shelves. I was all alone. I absolutely crapped myself (still ate the Roquefort though).

This is the poshest ghost story ever! 😁

Phase2 · 05/05/2025 22:17

I don’t think the sisters admitted fraud, Janet says 2% made up in that article. I’m not convinced, all the photos look like she’s jumping - hair up, toggles up, etc.

Fontet · 05/05/2025 22:15

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TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 05/05/2025 22:15

😁😁🤣🤣

ALittleBitWooo · 05/05/2025 22:14

ChompandaGrazia · 05/05/2025 22:12

What program are you watching?
I recommend watching the one on Apple TV which is all taken from the audio recordings taken at the time. They have actors lip syncing to the recordings but it is much better than it sounds.

There is so much more to the whole story than many people realise. I don’t believe any of it now.

That is what I’m watching, and it’s making it really believable to me! I’m only half way through it though.

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soupyspoon · 05/05/2025 22:14

Children with disturbed, unexplained, distressing (to them and others) behaviour, have always been around, its given different names at different times in history. In the 60s and 70s people still believed in things like the supernatural rather than recognising what psychological and physiological changes children go through at puberty. Children display what society believes in.

ChompandaGrazia · 05/05/2025 22:12

What program are you watching?
I recommend watching the one on Apple TV which is all taken from the audio recordings taken at the time. They have actors lip syncing to the recordings but it is much better than it sounds.

There is so much more to the whole story than many people realise. I don’t believe any of it now.

CurlewKate · 05/05/2025 22:07

No it wasn’t.

ALittleBitWooo · 05/05/2025 22:07

Holy moly this program is insane that I’m watching, lots that I didn’t know.
The photo of Janet flying across her bedroom.. She went from being tucked under a duvet to the up right in the middle of her room in less then one second. They’ve also got photos where the poor girl has woke up on top of her record player!

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DinoLil · 05/05/2025 22:01

Not the same thing (and I always thought the sisters had admitted to it being a fraud), but my friend has to have a big operation this week and is worried about it going south. Me, in all sympathy, told her that if it does, and she tries to haunt me, then I'm stocking up on salt to circle the house and sage to burn and shoo her off!

ANiceBigCupOfTea · 05/05/2025 21:58

I absolutely believe there was something going on in that home. The social workers, police officers etc who were all genuinely quite disturbed going into the home really struck me.
Yes the girls did admit to some mischief at the time but I don't think that means that nothing happened.

JandamiHash · 05/05/2025 21:52

DefinitelyMaybe92 · 05/05/2025 21:49

I thought at least one of the two sisters had admitted to monkey business?

Yes I thought this too. It’s quite sad what happened to a lot of the family in the end IIRC.

ALittleBitWooo · 05/05/2025 21:52

I’m watching it now, they are sticking to their story and like I said both sisters still seem affected. Janet was actually put in to care because the mum was convinced the ghost was attached to her.

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JandamiHash · 05/05/2025 21:52

Im very sceptical about the Enfield poltergeist. And usually there’s an explanation for spooky stories.

However I became open minded to the possibility of a third dimension when a block of Roquefort I definitely bought, definitely put in the fridge and looked forward to eating suddenly disappeared 20 minutes after I put it there. I even counted out loud to myself the number of shelves as in “It’s not on shelf 1, shelf 2” all the way to shelf 4. Several times. Then I went for a bath, came back opened the fridge - there in the middle shelf at the front was by block of Roquefort, and there were suddenly 5 shelves. I was all alone. I absolutely crapped myself (still ate the Roquefort though).

CraftyNavySeal · 05/05/2025 21:52

Shortly after my mum died random devices would go off. Like my laptop and phone would start playing random YouTube videos or songs even when the lid was closed/screen was locked. Never happened before or since.

Then I was sitting the living room and all the photo frames fell over, the same thing my mum said happened after my grandma died.

Otherwise I am not very woo, I find it funny that ghosts might exist but they are a bit useless. Like in the series Ghosts where it takes all there effort to move something 1cm!

DefinitelyMaybe92 · 05/05/2025 21:49

I thought at least one of the two sisters had admitted to monkey business?

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