The Enfield Poltergeist reports

Record summary

The Hodgson family haunting in Enfield generated police, journalist and psychical-research attention, including investigations by the Society for Psychical Research. Alleged phenomena included knocking, displaced objects, voices and an apparent levitation. The case matters because it sits at the boundary between ghost narrative, child performance, family crisis and media construction. Several incidents were challenged as tricks or exaggerations, while investigators disagreed about how much remained unexplained. Documentary comparison should separate contemporaneous notes from later recollections and dramatizations.