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Sep 2025
1h 12m

The Enfield Poltergeist

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart
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In the summer of 1977, single mother Margaret Hodgson called the police to her council estate apartment in Enfield, London to report that she and her two daughters, Janet and Peggy, had seen furniture move in the apartment and were hearing strange noises coming from within the walls. That simple albeit unusual call set in motion a chain of events that would ... Show More
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