Far more interesting regarded as a manifestation of psychic dis-ease or unease, whether conscious or largely not.
See also Kate Summerscale’s The Haunting of Alma Fielding, about a working-class Croydon housewife who in 1938 became the centre of strange disturbances — furniture hurling itself around, plates smashing, objects appearing out of thin air. She was investigated by Nandor Fodor, a Jewish Hungarian refugee who was an investigator at the Society for Psychic Research who had written masked several famous frauds, and later, partly as a result of this investigation, became a psychoanalyst. She was a skilled trickster, but also expressing a desire to break out of her life — lost children, impotent, hostile husband, a mastectomy, the removal of all her teeth, an affair with the lodger etc etc. Fodor was sympathetic and didn’t denounce her, but started to regard her psychoanalytically rather than as an instance of the supernatural. Summerscale makes parallels between a Jewish refugee who was about to lose half his family to the Nazi camps, and a powerless, angry woman with few ways of taking control of her life.
I imagine you could make a similar case for the investigator who fronted the Enfield case, and who had lost his own daughter traumatically.
I really recommend the book.