Everything that happened in the distant 1970s in Enfield, located in the north district of London, was very reminiscent of a horror movie scenario. But the events, unfortunately, were quite real. The phenomenon almost immediately became known as the Enfield poltergeist. The public was shocked by this scary story. And it was one of the most deeply investigated cases of its kind.
The protagonists of the tragedy that broke out on August 30, 1977 were Peggy Hodgson and her four children: Johnny, Janet, Billy and Margaret. The family, shortly before the events, moved into a small apartment building in Enfield. As usual, in the evening, the mother put the children to bed and was about to leave the nursery, when Janet began to complain that her and her brother's beds somehow vibrated strangely. Entering the room, the woman froze in fear. The heavy chest of drawers moved across the floor on its own. Trying not to scare her daughter even more, she tried to return the furniture to its place, but no luck. The chest of drawers resisted, someone or something continued to push him towards the door. Janet later mentioned this evening in her notes and added that when the chest of drawers moved, she distinctly heard the shuffling of someone's feet. And her sister Margaret recalled that the house was increasingly filled with strange sounds, so the children could not sleep for a long time.
The poltergeist manifested himself in different ways. With numerous eyewitnesses (there were about 30 people), things, furniture flew around the room, danced in the air. A decrease in temperature was felt, inscriptions appeared on the walls, water on the floor, matches ignited spontaneously. Physical attack.
The poltergeist focused his main attention on the youngest daughter Janet. The girl often fell into trance states and showed all the signs of an obsessed woman: levitation, inarticulate growls, seizures and bouts of aggression. Quite often, Janet spoke in a "rough male voice" on behalf of a certain Billy Wilkins, who died a few years before the events in Enfield. The police even met with the son of the deceased old man to check the truth of the words that came from the girl and rule out the possibility of a simple hoax. The son confirmed all the details of the story.
We can say that all this looks like a fiction, a rigged trick, as skeptics claimed, only some of the eyewitnesses managed to take a few pictures of what was happening. One of them shows how the poltergeist lifted Janet and threw her with such force that the girl flew off to the other side of the room. In the photograph, the distorted face clearly shows that she is in great pain. It is unlikely that a child would intentionally hurt himself.
The photographer Graham Morris himself said that when a poltergeist appeared in the house, real chaos was created, people screamed in fear, things moved through the air, as with telekinesis.
Despite such a variety of manifestations of the phenomenon, many researchers believed that the Enfield apparitions were nothing more than a prolonged children's prank organized by Janet Hodgson and her older sister Margaret. Skeptics claimed that the girls surreptitiously moved and broke objects, jumped on the bed and made "demonic" voices. Indeed, on several occasions researchers caught girls bending spoons. In 1980, Janet admitted that she and her sister simulated some incidents, but only in order to test the researchers themselves.
“I felt that I was controlled by a force that no one understands. I really don't want to think about it too much. You know, I'm not entirely sure that this something was genuine "evil". Rather, he wanted to be part of our family. It didn't want to offend us. It died in this house, and now it wanted peace. The only way he could communicate was through my sister and me.”
"This was hard. I spent some time in London, in a psychiatric hospital, where they braided my head with electrodes, but everything was normal. Levitation was scary because you don't know where you're going to land. In one of the cases of levitation, a curtain wrapped around my neck, I screamed and thought that I would die. Mom had to make a lot of effort to break it. The man Bill, who spoke through me, was furious that we were living in his house.
I was teased at school. They called me the "ghost girl", calling me names, they threw various things at my back. After school, I was afraid to go home. Doors opened and closed, they came and went different people and I was very worried about my mother. She ended up having a nervous breakdown."
Janet's brother was nicknamed "the freak of the haunted house" and was spit on by passers-by. The girl herself made it to the title page of the Daily Star with the glib title "Devil Possessed." At the age of 16, still quite young, she left home and got married. The press soon calmed down, and younger brother died of cancer at the age of 14.
Janet's mother also died of breast cancer in 2003. Son Janet died at the age of 18 in his sleep.
Janet denied that the whole story was a fabrication and a hoax to earn money and fame.
“I did not want to experience it again while my mother was alive, now I want to tell everything. I don't care if people believe it or not - it happened to me and it was all real and true."
Is there a poltergeist living in the house today?
After the death of Peggy Hodgson, Claire Bennett moved into the house with her four sons. Here is what she said: “I didn’t see anything suspicious, but I constantly felt uncomfortable. Someone's presence was clearly felt in the house, I always felt that someone was looking at me.
At night, her children often woke up and heard someone's voices below. Claire became interested in the history of the house when she heard about the Enfield poltergeist, and everything fell into place, she says.
The family moved out after 2 months. 15-year-old Shaka's son Claire says: “The night before I left, I woke up and saw a man enter the room. Running into my mother’s bedroom, I told her about what I saw and said: “We need to leave,” which we did the next day.
Now another family lives there. The mother of the family did not want to introduce herself and said briefly: “My children do not know anything about this. I don't want to scare them."
edited news LjoljaBastet - 28-06-2016, 05:41
In 2016, James Wan released The Conjuring 2. The creators claim that the film is based on real events, based on reliable facts, video recordings, interviews with eyewitnesses, and so on. The background was the so-called Endfield poltergeist that occurred in 1977 in England. The case excited the public, it was discussed on radio and television. So how accurately did The Conjuring 2 reconstruct the events that took place, and were those events really paranormal activity, or is it just another overblown hoax?This article will not review the film, although I liked it, there will be an analysis of dry facts, because the topic is very extensive and there is a lot of information.
How it all started
In the film, paranormal events are preceded by the personal torment of the Warren family, a mysterious demon who has taken the form of a nun, and a sense of the imminent death of her husband Lorraine Warren. The nun, by the way, is really scary, catches up with some kind of unnatural horror, but these scenes have nothing to do with real events. Also in reality, the Warrens were never associated with the church, they founded the "Warren Occult Museum", and also led a group of researchers of paranormal activity. That is, in this film and reality diverge quite significantly. Here is a photo of the Warren family, from above - real life, below - screening. By the way, in reality, the Warrens never encountered the Endfield poltergeist. I think they were included in the film because they are quite famous personalities.
The similarities begin when a police squad was called to the house on August 30, 1977 in Enfield, hence the name of the poltergeist. This episode is also played out in the film adaptation. The house was rented by mother-of-four Peggy Hodgson. Two of her children, Janet and Margaret, claimed that the furniture in the house moved by itself, extraneous sounds were heard at night, someone's shuffling feet and objects fell. Later, a policewoman who arrived at the exit claimed that she saw a chair that had passed around the room, which no one had touched at that moment. Well, it boiled.
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The essence of the phenomenon
One of Peggy's daughters, Janet, was possessed by an old man's spirit, presumably Bill Wilkins. His old voice, coming out of the mouth of an eleven-year-old girl, claimed that he had died of a hemorrhage in the corner of the living room. The girl entered into a terrible state, her face was twisted from the pain she experienced when the ghost took possession of her body. Most of the paranormal activity took place around this child. "Spell 2" reveals the essence of this phenomenon in sufficient detail, there are flying objects, and frightened children, and strange sounds throughout the house.
The public became interested in the Endfield poltergeist when there were too many witnesses of the events taking place there, according to some sources, there were about thirty of them. Researchers who came to this house report one and a half thousand unexplained phenomena:
- furniture, including a heavy chest of drawers, moved by itself, sometimes it was impossible to return it to its place or simply move it
- small objects flying in the air
- in the small rooms of the English house, the inhabitants heard shuffling steps, an old man's cough
- doors opened and closed
- Janet repeatedly levitated, while experiencing an incredible sense of fear
- the ghost used physical violence on children, strangled Janet and threw her in different parts of the room
- the children's beds vibrated and bounced, sometimes the blankets fell to the floor on their own, as if someone had pulled them
One night, when a ghost threw the children out of bed, the Hodgsons asked for help from their nearest neighbors - Nottingham. Vic Nottingham, the father of the family, went alone to a creepy house and immediately heard mysterious sounds that seemed to come straight from the walls. He was seriously scared, just like the police, who only shrugged. This case was clearly out of their jurisdiction.
Researchers of all
When things got really frightening, paranormal investigators Morris Gross and Guy Lyon Playfair were invited to the house. By the way, they are also present in the film adaptation and the actors are very similar. It was these people who recorded the audio recording with the voice of a creepy old man, and also took many photographs.
Janet was placed in a psychiatric hospital in London, but the doctors did not find any pathologies in the child. She speaks of this incident as a severe mental trauma. They called her and her brother names at school, threw stones at them and, of course, were afraid.
However, when Janet returned home, terrible events continued to occur. It was at that time that the story hit the British newspapers - the Daily Mail and the Dayli Mirror.
In "The Conjuring 2," Janet was rigged, bending spoons and throwing objects in the kitchen on camera. In reality, this incident also happened, but Morris Gross was sure that most of the cases were genuine.
Photo - confirmation or refutation
In fact, I have not been able to examine the evidence enough to say whether the Endfield poltergeist was true or fake. If the latter, then everything was done very well, however a large number of Witnesses speaks not in favor of this version. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the photographs that paranormal researchers provide as evidence.
In the photo above, you can see how the towel is gradually being placed on the child's bed.
The other day, the expected by many American horror "The Conjuring 2" was released, which tells about another battle with " evil spirit"Media paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. By analogy with the first film, the plot of the second part is also based on a real story. This time, the well-known case of a poltergeist that occurred in the late 1970s in the English town of Enfield is taken as the basis. Then An unknown force terrorized the large Hodgson family for a long time.Traditionally, in this short article we would like to analyze how close the film adaptation is to the real case.
According to the plot of the second "Conjuring", the Warrens come to the northern part of London (the town of Enfield) to help the mother of many children, Peggy Hodgson, to expel an evil spirit from her house. The latter not only prevents the family from living peacefully, but also poses a direct threat to the lives of Peggy's three children. In place of the Warrens, they realize that they are not faced with a simple spirit, but with a real demon, which, moreover, has its own views on the youngest daughter Jeannet. Predictably, the writers of The Conjuring 2 turned an ambiguous story into a typical horror movie with a cursed house, a possessed child, and fashionable ghostbusters. But was it really so?
Frame from the film "Conjuring 2".
It is worth noting that the authors of the film managed to quite accurately repeat the entourage and costumes of the characters, reflect the general synopsis of the Enfield poltergeist, but this is where all the similarities end and Hollywood fantasies begin. First of all, the real events that took place in Anfield in the 1970s left much open questions and, according to a number of researchers, represent a skillful falsification on the part of the sisters Janet and Margaret Hodgson. Some experts even claimed that the girls surreptitiously moved and broke objects, jumped on the bed, and made "demonic" voices.
Actress Madison Wolfe (left) as Janet in The Conjuring 2 and the real-life Janet Hodgson (right).
It was the repeated levitation of the younger Janet, filmed by researchers on film, that became the hallmark of the Enfield poltergeist. The girl claimed that an unknown force picked her up from the bed and "dragged her through the air." A number of researchers took a different view. They believed that Janet was just jumping out of bed so that it would appear on the tape as "hovering in the air." It was known that the girl was engaged in gymnastics and therefore could easily do such a trick. Subsequently, Janet really admitted that she and her sister simulated some of the episodes. All this is mentioned in passing in The Conjuring 2, and skeptics, in contrast to the noble Warrens, are presented by scoundrels who do not want to help the poor girl.
However, demonologist Ed Warren claimed that he and his wife witnessed Janet's real levitations. The researcher noted that he personally saw how the girl was fast asleep, and, in the next moment, she was already floating in the air. According to the Warrens, these authentic episodes were not captured on camera. But here you need to know that the real Warrens were known for a fair amount of exaggeration in their investigations, which, however, was to the liking of Hollywood. It was the free interpretation of the materials of their cases that served as the impetus for the film adaptation of such well-known horror films as The Amityville Horrors, The Haunting in Connecticut, and The Annabelle Curse. "Conjuring 2" was no exception to this list. Moreover, as the Enfield case became widely regarded as a hoax, some saw it as evidence that the Warrens themselves were frauds.
It was the media presence of the Warrens that served as another divergence from real story. In the film, the famous couple are presented as the main investigators of the phantasmagoric events, although, in reality, they stayed in Enfield for only a few days. It is common knowledge that the main investigation was carried out by other people. Of these, only Maurice Gross appears in the film, who appears here as minor hero with a comical fake nose. At the same time, the main photographer of the Enfield phenomenon, Guy Playfair, is not even mentioned in the film.
Frame from the film "The Conjuring 2" (top photo): from left to right "cine" Lorraine Warren, Maurice Gross, Ed Warren and Peggy Hodgson and Warren's real demonologists in one of the investigations (bottom photo).
It is clear that the filmmakers did not seek to accurately reproduce the real events in Enfield. Otherwise, they simply would not have been able to shoot a full-fledged horror in the best American traditions. For example, the storyline with a demon in the form of a nun is entirely the fiction of director James Wan himself. It has nothing to do with the Enfield case. As well as the episode when the poltergeist smashes the whole house brick by brick, trying to kill the researchers. On the other hand, the movement of furniture, multiple flights of various objects, spontaneous opening of doors and much more shown in the film are not fiction or exaggeration. IN real case they were documented not only by experts studying the Enfield phenomenon, but also by local police officers who confirmed the fact of such anomalous occurrences. For example, Officer Caroline Heeps testified in writing that she witnessed a chair levitate in the Hodjohn home.
The real Janet showed signs of "demonic possession" (right), which was also reflected in the film adaptation (left).
I would like to note that a good, and even sometimes touching, acting allows you to empathize with them quite sincerely. As is usually the case with film adaptations "based on true events", the characters in the film are much more likeable than their real-life counterparts. The Warrens are presented as noble, brave explorers who are ready to help unfamiliar people at the cost of their lives. The Hodgsons are unconditionally shown as innocent victims of "evil forces" and unknown circumstances, to which the viewer does not even think not to trust these honest people.
Despite the noted inconsistencies with real events, as well as the ambiguity of the Enfield poltergeist himself, the horror film "The Conjuring 2" should appeal to all fans of this type of horror. The film is not exchanged for long introductions and backstory. From the very first minutes, the evil spirit attacks the frightened heroes, using all possible poltergeist tricks. The sudden appearances of the demon and other spirits make the viewer flinch, although for the most part only from the effect of surprise. In theory, the feeling of "screening real events" should only add fear, but in practice, a sophisticated viewer is more likely not to believe that such a thing could take place.
“Before I died, I went blind, I had a hemorrhage. I blacked out and died in a corner on the ground floor” - such a revelation from the other world makes you numb with horror. But even more terrifying is that this rough, husky male voice came from the lips of 11-year-old Janet Hodgson. Preserved tape recordings made 2 years after the death of the owner of the voice, Bill Wilkins. Everything that happened in the distant 1970s in Enfield, located in the north district of London, was very reminiscent of a horror movie scenario. But the events, unfortunately, were quite real. The phenomenon almost immediately became known as the Enfield poltergeist. The public was shocked, excited and puzzled by this terrible story. The street in Enfield where it all happened (modern photo)
About 30 people witnessed the poltergeist with all the classic moments of its manifestation. It was getting colder in the room, things and furniture were moving in the air, making unthinkable sinusoids, inscriptions suddenly appeared on the walls, puddles on the floor, and matches ignited by themselves. In addition, an unknown force grabbed those present by the leg, then by the arm, preventing them from moving. But the most terrible sight was the girl who began to speak in the voice of the deceased Wilkins. And even after death he did not skimp on obscene expressions. Of course, there were also skeptical people who believed that all this was just a well-prepared hoax, a trick. But to prove that this is so, no one could. But the son of the deceased fully confirmed the words of his father, which came from the girl. Conversation recording. The girl answers questions in a male voice and calls herself Bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OWgImgIRic#t=17
THE FIRST CALL The actors of the tragedy that broke out on August 30, 1977 were the mother and four children of the Hodgsons: Johnny, Janet, Billy and Margaret. The family, shortly before the events, moved into a small apartment building in Enfield. As usual, in the evening the mother put the children to bed and was about to leave the nursery, when Janet began to complain that her and her brother's beds somehow vibrated strangely. Mrs. Hodgson did not attach any importance to the girl's words, and, as it turned out, in vain. In the evening of the next day, upstairs, where the children's bedrooms were, there was some kind of indistinct noise. The alarmed mother rushed into Janet's room, where she thought the sound was coming from.
Entering the room, the woman froze in fear. The heavy chest of drawers moved across the floor on its own. Trying not to scare her daughter even more, she tried to return the furniture to its place, but no luck. The chest of drawers resisted, someone or something continued to push him towards the door. Janet later mentioned this evening in her notes and added that when the chest of drawers moved, she distinctly heard the shuffling of someone's feet. And her sister Margaret recalled that the house was increasingly filled with strange sounds, so the children could not sleep for a long time. And sometimes it became so scary that they were forced to run out into the street in just bathrobes and slippers so as not to hear or see what was happening. Covering their tracks The woman and children were very frightened and turned to neighbor Vic Nottingham for help. It seemed that nothing could frighten this strong, big man. However, when he entered the neighbor's house, he heard the same sounds that, according to him, rushed from everywhere - from the walls, from the ceiling. Then Margaret recalled that she had never seen a neighbor in such confusion and horror. Nor did they help the police, whom Mrs. Hodgson called after Vic left. The perplexed police officers said that it was not their job to investigate such cases. A frame from the British mini-series (3 episodes) "The Enfield Haunting" (The Enfield Haunting), released in 2015 based on this story
We can say that all this looks like a fiction, a rigged trick, as skeptics claimed, only some of the eyewitnesses managed to take a few pictures of what was happening. One of them shows how the poltergeist lifted Janet and threw her with such force that the girl flew off to the other side of the room. In the photograph, the distorted face clearly shows that she is in great pain. It is unlikely that a child would intentionally hurt himself. The photographer Graham Morris himself said that when a poltergeist appeared in the house, real chaos was created, people screamed in fear, things moved through the air, as with telekinesis. Janet during another poltergeist attack
But not everyone was lucky to get video and photo materials. Later, a film crew from a local television channel was specially invited to the house, who installed cameras everywhere in the house to record the appearance of the poltergeist. When, a few days later, they began to view the footage, they found that all the equipment was faulty, and what they managed to shoot was erased. "THIS HOUSE IS OBSESSED" It became clear that specialists were indispensable here. The unfortunate family turned for help to the Society for Psychical Research, which had existed in the UK for more than a century and was engaged in the study of human abilities, namely the psychic and paranormal. As a result, two specialists from this society, Guy Playfair and Maurice Grosse, began to stay in the house permanently. By the way, on this occasion, they later released the book This House is Possessed. In his book, Grosse wrote that, as soon as he was in the house, he immediately realized that all this was not at all someone's joke. He noted the constant feeling of anxiety, fear and anxiety in which the whole family lived. The author saw with his own eyes how parts of a children's designer and a fragment of marble flew around the room. Grosse was surprised that these objects were hot.
And then the poltergeist, apparently, got used to new people and made a real bacchanalia: the sofa flew from wall to wall, the rest of the furniture crawled around the room, and at night someone pushed the sleeping household and their guests out of the warm bed. One day the men heard Billy scream. The boy screamed that someone was holding his leg and he could not escape. In the literal sense of the word, adults had to fight with an invisible force in order to take the child away from her. The family was on the edge, especially the knocking, which did not subside for a minute, acted on the nerves. It became louder, then quieter, moved from the walls to the ceiling and back. In the end, the inhabitants of the house began to sleep in the same room and never turned off the light. For two years, the researchers worked at the Hodgson home and carefully recorded their observations. As it turned out later, in two years they witnessed more than 1.5 thousand cases of poltergeist. THE KNOT IS TIGHTENED I must say that paranormal activity was directed not only at family members, but at everyone in the house - guests, policemen, neighbors, journalists. But 11-year-old Janet suffered the most. When the girl plunged into a trance state, it was a terrible sight. After Janet did not remember anything and was very surprised when she was shown pictures of the poltergeist. She had her own point of view on what was happening.
She believed that the power that possesses her is not evil. And the poltergeist did not want to harm the family, rather, he wanted to become a member of the family and find peace of mind in this. And he had no other way to express it, except through Janet and Margaret. Once a curtain was wrapped around the girl's neck, and the mother with difficulty unraveled the knot that had begun to tighten. And on another occasion, someone tore out the grate with force and threw it into a far corner. Janet believed that Wilkins, who died in the house, was angry at the misunderstanding and was defending his territory. Why did Janet choose the poltergeist? In her opinion, the reason is that she was playing with the Ouija board. There were, of course, moments that cast doubt on the authenticity of events. For example, researchers once found that children were sitting quietly in their room and bending spoons. Or they are not allowed to enter the room when Janet speaks in a male voice. But a few years later, the children admitted that if they had faked the pranks, it was only a couple of times to see if the researchers could distinguish a real poltergeist from a fake one. To the credit of Playfair and Grosse, they always succeeded. LIFE AFTER CONTACT It is worth saying right away that Janet is doing well now, she is married and lives in Essex. But the girl had to undergo treatment in psychiatric hospital. She now describes her impressions of the events of those years as traumatic. Her portrait flaunted on the cover of the Daily Star with the caption "Possessed by the devil." At school, Janet was teased by peers, at home it was just scary, plus enduring concern for her family, and, as it turned out, not in vain. Her brother Billy was called the "freak from the haunted house", no one wanted to communicate with him. He died of cancer at a very young age, at the age of 14. Soon after, her mother also died of cancer. And Janet's son died in his sleep when he was only 18 years old. Now Janet continues to assert that all the events of those years are real, this is not an attempt to earn fame and money. She recalls that even when everything in the house was calm, someone's presence and a studying look were still felt. And I am sure that if the poltergeist is not provoked, as in her case, with a board for spiritualism, then you can completely coexist with him. Currently, new tenants are living in the house, but something is happening there or not, it is not known.
Who are Ed and Lorraine Warren - everyone who watched the dilogy The Conjuration of James Wan knows - a frightening story of famous paranormal researchers who have been hunting ghosts since 1952, when demonologists founded the Society for Psychical Research and the Warren Occult Museum, which contains hundreds of satanic objects rituals and demonic artifacts.
Ed and Lorraine Warren's investigations:
According to the demonologists themselves, they account for more than ten thousand episodes of encounters with otherworldly phenomena. However, throughout their long careers, Ed and Lorraine Warren's investigations were accompanied by attacks and criticism from skeptics, atheists, envious people, competitors. We will never know the truth about the adventures of ghost hunters, so we can simply believe or deny. In any case, in the books of the Warren duo, the most prominent examples of the supernatural are the following horror stories.Annabelle
One of the most sinister exhibits of the Museum of Occult Artifacts is the Annabelle doll with the inscription “Do not touch with your hands” on the stand. Tony Spera, the Warrens' son-in-law and museum manager, declares that Annabelle is the scariest item they've ever had. An excerpt from the book of researchers of paranormal manifestations:
In 1968, two female roommates began to notice that the Raggedy Annie model doll they had been given began to inexplicably change its location. Then scraps of paper began to appear in different parts of the room with the words “Help me” written in clumsy handwriting. Further, Annie began to leave traces of blood, which horrified the neighbors, who hurried to turn to the medium. The specialist they invited stated that Annie was possessed by the spirit of a little girl named Annabelle Higgins. Having learned about the mystical Annie-Annabel, the Warrens joined the process, who concluded: the sinister toy must be put in a cage until the ghost spread from the doll to people.
More details - in the movie "Annabelle's Curse".
Perron family
In January 1971, the Perron family, Caroline and Roger, moved with their five daughters to big house in Harrisville, Rhode Island, USA. Almost immediately, the family felt signs of a demonic presence in the rooms, basement and attic of the dwelling. The mop was gone, doors were slamming, books were falling off the shelves, paintings were falling off the walls, there was a clatter, a clatter, screams, laughter. Caroline turned to the history of the building and learned that it was previously owned by several generations of the same family, many of whose members died as a result of violent death, drowned or hanged themselves. After learning the shocking details of their new home, the Perrons turned to professional demonologists who discovered a paranormal presence in the form of a witch who had lived in these parts since the nineteenth century. The Warrens held seances, but they did not use exorcism, but were forced to admit defeat, advising the Perrons to leave the cursed haunted house. What the family did in 1980. Other details - the film "Conjuring".
Amityville
George and Kathy Lutz bought the infamous High Hopes House in 1976, a year after Ronald Defeo Jr. shot and killed his parents and siblings, killing six people. Confessing to the crime, Defeo repeatedly claimed that the voices that whispered to him from the walls of the house forced him to kill his family. Spouses Lats also heard voices and other otherworldly signs, after which they decided to resort to the help of priests. In vain. Without waiting for a repeat of the Amityville Horror, the Lutzes moved out of High Hopes, finally contacting the Exorcists. The Warrens arrived in Amityville twenty days later and met with the most notorious case in their history.
enfield poltergeist
In 1978, the Warrens visited England, where the Enfield poltergeist showed up in north London, a sinister spirit that had kept the Hodgson family at bay for a year. The hardest hit was 11-year-old Janet Hodgson, who showed many signs of demonic possession. This paranormal case has many witnesses, including among police officers who repeatedly came to calls and saw incredible scenes at the Hodgson estate - slamming windows, flying chairs, a girl Janet speaking in an incomprehensible language in a male voice. Rumors about the Enfield poltergeist reached America, from where honored paranormal workers urgently left for London, about the otherworldly adventures of which the picture Spell-2 tells. True, unlike the horror movie in reality, the Warrens were not even able to enter the haunted house, because the owners refused the help of American guests.
On August 23, 2006, Ed Warren died, after which his widow Lorraine left her career as a medium and researcher of paranormal events, although she still runs her own Museum. The family occult enterprise was inherited by the son-in-law, who worked alongside father-in-law and mother-in-law for thirty years, and now independently continues active research into otherworldly phenomena.
