Enfield Revisited.

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This is an interesting story, I think that on the case, noone has a clear idea of what was going on, put the disformation of the bed looks to me like she jumps up and the motion camera took the picture as she was at her peck and beginning to descend.
The families that have lived there after them ever reported anything?

I agree that when looking at the events in the bedroom, initially I took it at face-value.
The 'levitation' looks like nothing more than Janet leaping off her bed and her sister pretending to
be terrified.

Janet's hair is up in the way someone's hair would be on the descent of a jump and her arms are
out in the manner that indicates automatic balancing of her body when jumping.



There's a gif where a pillow looks like it is moving on it's own accord, but since all of the incidents
were recorded by singular photographs being taken one after the other in 15 second instances,
we all know that trickery could be used at the beginning and between shots without a camera
registering a deceitful action.

There's this one below that is curious though. The curtain is moving without assistance from Janet
and I've seen an image where it looks 'tied' for a moment or two to the top bed sheet.
The two girls are not close enough to be involved, however, those few seconds between shots can
be long enough for chicanery.



One of the main problems was the pro-poltergeist investigators, Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair.
Grosse would explain that the lack of paranormal activity during monitoring was due to the alleged
phenomena known as 'Billy', waiting until nobody was looking before throwing objects or moving
furniture.

This behavior would also be indicative of one of the girls -mainly Janet, attempting to deceive by
waiting for a moment to display her pranks. A ghost isn't needed to explain how these things happened!

Janet was seen banging a broom handle on the ceiling to imply spirits making the noise and
was taped via video camera, bending spoons. Remember, Uri Geller was all the rage in the UK during
1974-75. The movie -The Exocist was also doing the rounds from 1973 onwards and it seemed a low
hysteria was abound about demons and the devil.

With this type of swirling interest in the supernatural, the media were quite happy to portray it as a serious
investigation into a working-class family's problems with a noisy old man in the here-after! Any possible
evidence to the contrary would be just omitted for better newspaper sales.

'...Sceptic Joe Nickell examined the findings of paranormal investigators and criticised them for
being overly credulous; when a supposedly disembodied demonic voice was heard, Playfair noted
that, "as always Janet’s lips hardly seemed to be moving."

Nickell wrote that a tape recorder malfunction that Grosse attributed to supernatural activity and Society
for Psychical Research president David Fontana described as an occurrence "which appeared to defy
the laws of mechanics" was merely a peculiar threading jam common to older model reel to reel tape
recorders.

Nickell states that a remote-controlled still camera (the photographer was not present in the room with
the girls) timed to take a picture every 15 seconds that supposedly "recorded poltergeist activity on
moving film for the first time" was shown by investigator Melvin Harris to reveal the girls' pranks.

A photo allegedly depicting Janet "levitating" in mid air actually shows her bouncing on the bed as if it
were a trampoline. Harris called the photos examples of common "gymnastics", and said "It's worth
remembering that Janet was a school sports champion!"

Nickell also wrote that demonologist Ed Warren was "notorious for exaggerating and even making up
incidents in such cases, often transforming a "haunting" case into one of "demonic possession".

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the adult Janet admitted that she and her sister had faked "2 percent"
of the phenomena, prompting Nickell to comment in another publication, "the evidence suggests that this
figure is closer to 100 percent."...'

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Still, at a time when the United Kingdom was dealing with the three-day week situation (a country-wide
attempt to conserve electricity due to the miners Union's long-term industrial action), the IRA  bombing
mainland Britain and Enoch Powell's speech about ''rivers of blood' due to mass immigration, a good old
ghost story is a welcomed relief from the negativity!

As far as 284 Green Street is concerned, there's nothing to imply the hauntings have continued.
But then again, Janet Hodgson doesn't live there anymore!!