Ghost Poltergeist

Chairs move about by themselves. Walls shake from loud, unexplained banging. Water drips from a ceiling. Hairbrushes for days, only to reappear in their place on the dresser.

These are some of the classic symptoms of a haunting. From the German for 'noisy ghost,' a poltergeist refers to phenomena usually credited to mischievous spirits or ghosts and are characterized by or other physical manifestations. Although ghosts may sometimes be involved, most poltergeist incidents are a kind of, usually centered around a living 'agent.' A lampshade repeatedly was knocked to the floor by unaided hands. During the season of 1972, an ornament was hurled across the room, smashing into the husband's forehead. 'As he flopped into an armchair,' reports Haunted Croydon, 'the Christmas tree began to shake violently. Come the New Year and there were footsteps in the bedroom when there was no one there, and one night the couple's son awoke to find a man in old fashioned dress staring threateningly at him.

A poltergeist is perhaps the best-known — and most feared — type of ghost. It is a spirit that is said to harass and torment its victims. This harassment typically includes minor but.

The family's fear grew when, as they entertained friends one night, there was a loud knocking at the front door, the living room door was then flung open and all the house's lights came on.' A medium who was consulted told the family that the house was haunted by a farmer of the name Chatterton, who considered the family trespassers on his property. An investigation bore out the fact that Chatterton had indeed lived in the house in the mid-18th century. 'Chatterton's wife now joined in causing mayhem, and often the tenant's wife would be followed up the stairs at night by an elderly gray-haired woman wearing a pinafore and with her hair tied back in a bun. If looked at, she would disappear back into the shadows.

The family even reported seeing the farmer appear on their television screens, wearing a black jacket with wide, pointed lapels, high-necked shirt, and black cravat.' Another English ghost — this one in Enfield in North London — made headlines in 1977. The strange activity seemed to center around the daughter of Peggy Harper, a divorcee in her mid-40s. Again, it started on an August night. 'Late at night,' An Urban Ghost Story relates, 'Janet, aged 11 and her brother Pete, aged 10, complained that their beds were 'jolting up and down and going all funny.' As soon as Mrs. Harper got to the room, the movements had stopped — as far as she was concerned her kids were making it all up.'

But things got progressively more bizarre from there. Shuffling noises and knocks on the wall were followed by a heavy chest of drawers sliding by itself across the floor. Harper promptly got her children out of the house and sought the assistance of a neighbor. 'The neighbors searched the house and garden but found no one. Soon they also heard the knocks on the walls which continued at spaced out intervals. They called the police, who heard the knocks, one officer even saw a chair inexplicably move across the floor, and later signed a written statement to confirm the events.' Grosse was later joined in the investigation by writer Guy Lyon Playfair, and together they studied the case for two years.

'The knocking on walls and floors became an almost nightly occurrence, furniture slid across the floor and was thrown down the stairs, drawers were wrenched out of dressing tables. Toys and other objects would fly across the room, bedclothes would be pulled off, water was found in mysterious puddles on the floors, there were outbreaks of fire followed by their inexplicable extinguishing.' Despite the documentation, however, much controversy surrounds the case. Skeptics claim that the case is nothing more than the work of a very clever and mischievous girl — Janet. The poltergeist activity always stopped when she was watched closely, and when she was taken to a hospital for several days to be tested for physical or mental abnormality, the phenomena ceased in the house. Some researchers believe that Janet taught herself to speak in the strange male voice and that merely caught her jumping off her bed.

Was this poltergeist case just the result of an attention-seeking 11-year-old? Later that morning, after leaving his room for breakfast, he returned and found in the middle of his bed two Beanie Babies — the zebra and the tiger — next to a conch shell, a dinosaur made of shells and a plaster toucan bird. That got his parents' — and his twin brother, Lee's — attention. Trying to make sense of the irrational, Al called out, 'Do we have a Casper here? Tell me your name and how old you are.' Then he left some lined composition paper and crayons and, with his family, walked out of the room.

In 15 minutes they returned and found written vertically in large block childlike letters, 'Danny, 7.' With his family out of the house, Al Cobb decided to continue trying to communicate with the spirit of Danny. With the same kind of notes, Danny indicated that his mother had died in that bed in 1899 and that he wanted to stay with the bed. He also made it clear that he didn't want anyone else sleeping in it. 'The same day they found a note reading, 'No one sleep in bed,' Jason, who had moved out of the room, decided to stretch out and pretend to take a nap.

That, says Al, was a mistake. 'I doubled back in the room to pick up my clothes,' remembers Jason, 'when this terra cotta head that had been hanging on the wall came flying through the room, just missing me before it smashed on the closet door.' 'No one really knows,' Fishman writes in her second installment, 'who — or what — is leaving the copious notes, moving the furniture, opening the kitchen drawers, setting the dining room table, flipping over the chairs, lighting the candles, arranging the posters to spell out a person's name, Jill, then hanging the finished product on a bedroom wall. Jason also spoke of other spirits: 'Uncle Sam,' who had come to reclaim his daughter he said was buried under the house; 'Gracie,' a young girl whose sculpture sits in Bonaventure Cemetery; and 'Jill,' a young woman who left a number of handwritten messages, among them one inviting the Cobbs to a party in their living room.'

14 John, Janet and Margaret found themselves at the centre of intense media attention after claims that a demonic spirit was following Janet around Credit: Mirrorpix Sounds of terrorBetween the years of 1977 and 1979, the house remained the scene of strange goings on, centred around sisters Janet and Margaret.Eerie banging sounds could be heard throughout the house, chairs tipped over without warning, and a deep, demonic voice started coming from Janet without any sign of the girl opening her mouth.' Just before I died, I went blind,' the gravelly, threatening voice started out in one particularly distressing outburst from Janet's direction, although her lips never moved.'

And then I had a haemorrhage and I fell asleep and I died in the chair in the corner downstairs.' 14 A series of remotely-captured photos seem to show Janet levitating, or so some people believe Credit: Graham MorrisReporters went on to capture the voice on tape - recording it telling interviewers to 'shut up' and singing nursery rhymes, as well as alluding to a past life in the house.Roz Morris, then a reporter for BBC radio, was among the many investigators dispatched to look into the reports of otherworldly horrors.

And she would never forget what she uncovered.The journalist entered the house a sceptic, like many people who suspected that the story had been exaggerated or that the weirdness was the result of children playing an elaborate prank on their mother.But Roz left insistent that the case of the Enfield Poltergeist was more than a con or childish tricks - and she even returned to record the husky voice which followed Janet around for a BBC documentary on the haunting. 14 It was widely reported that 284 Green Street, in the London Borough of Enfield, was the home of a mischievous poltergeist Credit: Rex Features Evidence from EnfieldNow, reflecting on the story 40 years later, reporter Roz told Sun Online: 'I recorded the voices and a thumping, knocking noise on the walls.'

There was this very strange voice coming from near Janet. She wasn't moving her lips but the voice would just appear, talking for hours.' The voice would say a lot of childish stuff - swearing as well. It was very disturbing.' Something strange was happening which just wasn't normal.' 14 Janet's sister Margaret, right, also attracted some paranormal attention, although Janet appeared to be the real conduit Credit: BBC Interviewing a poltergeistThe story of the Enfield Poltergeist has stuck with Roz ever since and she appeared this week on a BBC Radio 4 show, The Reunion, to look back on the case.Photographer Graham appears on the show as well, having also experienced the strangeness of the whole saga firsthand.He says: 'I stood in the gloom in the kitchen and one by one they brought the children into the adults' arms and the last one to come in was Janet. Suddenly things just took off and started flying around the room.'

Everyone wanted to see it. They came in as sceptics and left believing they had seen something.' Roz, now the managing director of, a media training company, says: 'I was also sceptical at first and looking out for trickery.'

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But there were lots of independent witnesses and it was the report of the policewoman which really stood the story up.' I was a reporter for many years and it was the weirdest story I've ever reported on.' There was definitely something unusual going on, but I honestly don't know what caused it.' BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion: The Enfield Poltergeist is available to listen to. A repeat will air on Radio 4 at 9am on Friday 13 April.

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