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Enfield Poltergeist July August pages_SI new design masters 5/30/12 4:30 PM Page 12 [ INVESTIGATIVE FILES J OE NI CK E L L Joe Nickell, PhD, is CSI’s senior research fellow and author of such books as Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, Relics of the Christ, and Looking for a Miracle. Enfield Poltergeist n August 1977, a series of distur- A female police constable witnessed found on the stairs with one leg ex- bances that were soon characterized a chair wobble and slide but could not tended behind her in a manner that Ias a case of poltergeist phenomena determine the cause of the movement. could easily be explained as play-acting. or even demonic possession began in By the next morning, marbles and Lego She was also involved in other inci- Enfield, a northern suburb of London. toy pieces began to “zoom out of thin dents, and when on one occasion the The subject of a forthcoming movie, air and bounce off the walls.” girls were separated (with Peggy sent to the occurrences, including the actions “Janet, did you throw that?” Her a neighbor’s home), the antics contin- of an eleven-year-old girl who repeat- mother’s question began a long series of ued at both houses; moreover, when edly “levitated” above her bed, “held the witnesses’ suspicions—or outright ac- neither girl was present—for example nation spellbound” for over a year, ac- cusations—that Janet was the cause of when Playfair spent a night alone in the cording to Britain’s Daily Mail; “no ex- the trouble that centered on her. Ac- house—there were no disturbances at planation other than the paranormal cording to Guy Lyon Playfair—who, all (1980, 80). Were both girls playing has ever been convincingly put forward” with colleague Maurice Grosse, ob- tricks, or could the poltergeist be in two (Brennan 2011). served and recorded much of the phe- places at once? When Janet was in the hospital for six weeks for evaluation, some incidents occurred only at home (Playfair 1980, 69, 90, 102, 263). Still, says Playfair, The poltergeist tended to act only when it Janet was all energy, big for her age, jumping up and rushing was not being watched. Stated Grosse: around on the slightest pretext, and talking so fast that I had “It’s smarter than we are....” some difficulty at first in under- standing her. She had an impish look, and I could understand why some visitors to the house in the later months would suspect her of playing tricks. (1980, 44) Suspicious Acts Children’s Tricks nomena over their course—Janet was The events began on August 30 in the the “main focus” or “epicentre” of inci- Even Playfair himself, who chronicled Enfield home of Margaret Hodgson. dents. “She was always near when the events in his book This House is The divorced Hodgson lived there with something happened, and this in - Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist her four children—Peggy, thirteen; evitably led to accusations that she was (1980), had occasional doubts. After a Janet, eleven; Johnny, ten; and Billy, playing tricks, although Grosse was al- chest of drawers tipped and jammed at seven—whose names, in early accounts, ready fully convinced that she could not an angle against a wall, Playfair played were fictionalized. Two of the children, be responsible for all the incidents” his tape recorder and heard suspicious Janet and Johnny, attempted to con- (Playfair 1980, 37). creaking noises, as if someone like Janet vince their mother that their beds were Was her sister, Peggy, partly to had slipped up to the chest. “Could they unaccountably shaking. The next night blame? Although Janet was by far the have been made by her?” Playfair asked. brought mysterious knocking sounds most frequently present suspect, with “I was beginning to have my doubts and the sliding of a chest of drawers in disturbances even following her to again” (1980, 52). the girls’ room. There were more school, her older sister was also central There were reasons aplenty for sus- knockings, and soon Hodgson had a to some events. Once, for example, picion. The poltergeist, a.k.a. “The police car making a call to 284 Green when Peggy shouted, “I can’t move! Thing,” tended to act only when it was Street (Playfair 1979; 1980, 12–33). Something’s holding me!” she was not being watched. Stated Grosse: “It’s 12 Volume 36 Issue 4 | Skeptical Inquirer July August pages_SI new design masters 5/30/12 4:30 PM Page 13 smarter than we are. Look at its tim- faked the Voice, the other mysterious nated paranormally (Gregory was a ing—the moment you go out of a room happenings remained un explained (Play- British parapsychologist inclined to be- something happens. You stay in the fair 1980, 233). lieve in the paranormal), she concluded room for hours, and nothing moves. It This remained Playfair’s and Grosse’s it had turned quickly into a farcical per- knows what we’re up to” (Playfair 1980, defense even when Janet was caught at formance for investigators and reporters 53). Indeed, when Janet knew a camera trickery (Playfair 1980, 196–7) and when desiring a sensational story (Gregory was on, nothing occurred (1980, 53). In- Janet and Peggy confessed their pranking 1980; Clark 1981). credibly, Playfair and Grosse found that to reporters. The two investigators soon Even more skeptical was American the children were sometimes “motivated elicited a retraction from the girls magician Milbourne Christopher, who to add to the activity with some tricks of (1980, 218–21). Others, such as the pro- investigated briefly at the house. On one their own.” When members of the Soci- fessional ventriloquist, were not so quick occasion, when Janet claimed she was ety for Psychical Re search (SPR) made to rationalize. unable to open the bathroom door to get visits, the children’s trickery was the main Anita Gregory, who was investigat- out, Christopher stated that he could not feature of their interest, whereas, says ing for the SPR, reported on the events determine paranormal causality if he Playfair, “it did not bother us very much. in the Journal of the Society for Psychical could not see an incident. Playfair writes, We had already seen incidents with our Research. She suggested that the case “It almost seemed that the poltergeist own eyes that the children could not pos- had been overrated, describing several was out to incriminate her, by producing sibly have done deliberately” (1980, 70). episodes of behavior on the part of third-rate phenomena in the presence of (More on this presently.) Janet and Peggy that were revealing. a first-rate observer” (1980, 170). An- The incidents involving “curious Gregory concluded that the girls were other time, when Janet was sent to her whistling and barking noises coming nonpsychically responsible for many of room and the Voice manifested, Christo- from Janet’s general direction” suggest the incidents that were attributed to pher slipped upstairs to observe. He saw the extent of Playfair and Grosse’s “poltergeist” phenomena. Although she Janet quietly steal out of her room to peer credulity. In time, the entity began to thought the outbreak might have origi- down the stairs as if to make sure she was voice words, including obscenities, and although Playfair wondered if it were really Janet acting as “a brilliant ventril- oquist,” he did not think so. His faith in Janet continued even though “the Voice” refused to speak unless the girls were alone in the room with the door closed (Playfair 1980, 138, 146). More over, the credulous investigators noted that, when the growling voice occurred, “as always Janet’s lips hardly seemed to be moving” (1980, 190). Evidence of ventriloquial fakery was even taken as proof of authenticity! Ac - cord ing to Playfair, “The connection be- tween Janet and the Voice is obviously very close. There have been several oc- casions when she says something it ob- viously meant to say, and vice versa. Would she slip up like that if she was faking the whole thing?” (1980, 173). Is he kidding? Even after profes- sional ventriloquist Ray Alan visited and concluded that the girls were pro- ducing the Voice because they “obvi- ously loved all the attention they got,” Playfair and Grosse were not persuaded that the girls were faking. In fact, they Figure 1. An eleven-year-old girl is supposedly levitating during the poltergeist outbreak of 1977–79 in Enfield, England. (Forensic illustration by Joe Nickell based on a photo in This House Is Haunted, 1980.) were quick to claim that even if the girls Skeptical Inquirer | July/August 2 012 13 July August pages_SI new design masters 5/30/12 4:30 PM Page 14 not being watched. Seeing Christopher suspect tension in the household fol- best one—well applies here. Inter - clearly flustered her. Christopher would lowing the parents’ divorce—eventually viewed by the Lon don Daily Mail later conclude that the “poltergeist” was ran its course. But the question re mains: (Brennan 2011), Janet at age forty-five nothing more than the antics of “a little Is it true that Janet and the other chil- (living in Essex with her husband, a re- girl who wanted to cause trouble and dren really could not have caused cer- tired milkman) ad mitted that she and who was very, very, clever” (1984–85, tain disturbances, as Grosse and Play- her sister had faked some of the phe- 161). fair insisted? Let us look at just one nomena. “I’d say 2 percent,” she admit- Paranormal investigator Melvin instructive incident.
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