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Would you like
to talk to me? Don’t forget.
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One for no and two for yes.
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284 Green Street.
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Inexplicable events personally
experienced by Maurice Grosse.
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One.
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Marbles and plastic pieces
seen in high-speed transit.
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And there was a chest of
drawers moving towards the door.
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Two. A
chair in the bedroom...
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A chair which was standing by
Janet’s bed appears to have moved.
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I went up the stairs, and as I went
up the stairs, this knock followed me.
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Banging on the side of
the walls and on the ceiling.
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On the floor.
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You know, I’m sure there’s something in
this house trying to kill her. I swear it.
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We have got
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some entities here.
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And we shall have to
consider seriously the possibility
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of matter other than normal,
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sources of energy
other than normal,
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and perhaps even creation ex
nihilo and a fourth dimension.
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LBC on 261. Pass it on.
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We’re talking about poltergeists
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because rather a spooky
story about the family
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who’s living in fear
of strange goings-on
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that are driving
them from their home.
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With me is Mr. Maurice Grosse.
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And you’re at pains to mention that it’s not an
evil spirit, but do you believe in the fact...
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I mean, I’m thinking of films like
The Exorcist where an evil spirit
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can get into a child and make it
do the most extraordinary things.
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Does that sort of thing happen?
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Round about the 1970s,
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there was a gradual buildup
of-of interest in these phenomena.
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On the entertainment side, the
subject was becoming more topical.
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Somewhere
between science and superstition,
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there is another world.
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The world of darkness.
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It was The Exorcist
movie that’s directly related,
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I suppose, in some
sense, to Enfield.
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Something
beyond comprehension is happening
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to a little girl on this
street, in this house.
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No! Please,
don’t! No, please!
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Do it!
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I wouldn’t tell me wife
to go and see it anyway.
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Well, I just found
it really horrible.
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I just had to come out.
I couldn’t take anymore.
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I believe. I believe.
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But the mainstream
view was still
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that these phenomena
couldn’t really be real.
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Let’s go back to the calls.
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We’re talking to the people who’ve
been suffering from these poltergeists.
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Next on the line is
Hilda from Wandsworth.
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When I came down the stairs,
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I-I would be lifted
up and placed down.
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I was absolutely
terrified to mention it to...
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The milk bottle
lifted itself up and moved,
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two or three yards to the settee
and stood straight up on the...
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It’s quite possible
that, um, disasters such as
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aircraft accidents
could be inspired
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by subconsciously wanting
something to happen.
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Interesting
call. Maurice Grosse is with us.
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He’s a member of the
Society for Psychical Research.
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We tried to
investigate it in scientific terms
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as far as possible.
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And my personal view is that it
won’t be very many years now
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before people begin to accept
the paranormal as normal.
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We’re only just touching
the tip of the iceberg.
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What sort of a
case is this in your experience?
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Well, I think this is probably
the best case this century.
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In fact, as far as
documentation is concerned,
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it may be the best
case of all time.
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Fortunately,
we have tape recorders.
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Now tape recorders for
the assessment of evidence
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is the best instrument you can
possibly have because it is non-selective.
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You don’t have to point it,
you don’t have to stay with it,
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you turn it on and you leave it.
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And whatever you pick up, you hope
you picked up what you were looking for.
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The Society for Psychical
Research were interested in the possibility
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that there might be evidence
for some new force of nature.
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Crikey!
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As I asked the question, "Are
you having a game with me?"
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The SPR was a
wonderfully... very friendly,
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but very fuddy-duddy
organization.
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The vast majority of the people
there were elderly men interested
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in finding evidence of the
paranormal, evidence of life after death,
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evidence that spirits carry on.
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When we talk about
assessment of evidence,
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I’m now talking about the
assessment of real phenomena.
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Not theoretical phenomena.
Real phenomena.
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Because that’s what I
specialize in, the real stuff.
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- Maurice was...
- absolutely committed.
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He really wanted people
to... to know.
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You might imagine
there are lots of poltergeists around,
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but there aren’t that many.
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And when one comes up that
lasts more than a couple of days
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and has things that
can potentially be tested,
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people rushed off there.
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From the SPR’s point of
view, was this a genuine case?
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November 1977.
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Visit by Tony
Cornell, Alan Gauld,
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and Bernard Carr, of the SPR.
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I’m not particularly
psychically sensitive,
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so I’m not like a medium
that would go into a building
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and immediately feel,"
there’s something... something here."
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I wasn’t even an experienced
investigator of poltergeists.
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I was very young.
I was just a... a beginner.
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On the other hand, Tony
Cornell and Alan Gauld
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were the most experienced ghost
hunters, if you like, in the world.
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Yes, you come up, boys.
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As time went on, you
got this complete thoroughfare
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of people coming to your home.
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You got lots
of people judging you.
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Questioning you.
Criticizing you, maybe.
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"Well, you didn’t see that."
"How did that happen?"
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"You sure that
happened?" Questioning.
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That’s gonna be
wearing on anybody.
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Right.
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What’s happened then?
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The... The pillow
just jumped over me.
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Janet was laying...
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Now how did that... While
you were watching how did the pillow go?
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Well, Janet moved, and
the pillow shot right over.
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- Like this?
- Yes.
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- This?
- Yes.
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- We’ll just go outside again...
- Yes.
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And listen and see what happens.
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During the time I was there
with Tony and Alan, we did hear bumps.
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The children were-were falling out of
bed and things were moving around,
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but only when none of
us were in-in the room
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where the phenomena
were occurring.
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And so, we couldn’t be sure
from... from... from the evening
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we spent there, that it
wasn’t just the children.
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Most of the senior members
of the society were academics.
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In the opinion of
many, only academics
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were thought capable of carrying
out a decent, impartial investigation.
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The academics were
old money, if you like.
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Maurice and Guy were, as
they called it in those days, trade.
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The establishment
acts like three wise monkeys,
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"I see nothing, I hear
nothing, I say nothing."
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This time it’s
hit the light very hard,
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and the light’s gone out.
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The reason Dad got involved
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with the Society for
Psychical Research
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was because it was the
only scientific institution
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that... that was trying to
look into these phenomena.
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Dad was always very
interested in science,
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that’s the career
he wanted to follow.
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And then, of course, the war
took away six very important years.
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He was 20 when he joined up.
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He was at Dunkirk.
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He never really spoke about
what happened in the war.
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And when he came out, he went to work
in one of his father’s confectioner shops.
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He managed to escape that life.
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By chance, he and two
friends won the pools.
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£3,000 each.
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In the mid-1960s,
it was a lot of money.
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Enough for him to get out
of the shop and start his own business.
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And that’s what he did.
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The dream of all
poster advertisers
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is to be able to sell one
space more than once.
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He created a poster
advertising machine.
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You could have 32
posters in this one box.
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He’s no fool.
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My opinion is that,
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if this was anything other
than a paranormal investigation,
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the verdict would be overwhelmingly
in favor of activities of forces unknown.
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And as this is a
paranormal investigation,
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we must press on for 101% proof.
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Well, blow it out, blow ’em out.
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- I saw that go.
- What was that?
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- I believe the kettle.
- It’s started.
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- I’ll wash out the kettle.
- Enfield, November the 10th, 1977.
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It’s the... -
Now the chair gone over.
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The red chair has
turned over backwards.
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Yeah, she-she was...
She was like this on it.
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- Like that over it.
- Janet was sit... Janet was sitting on it
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at the time it was
thrown over backwards.
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I’ll sort it out.
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Janet was sitting on the chair,
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and the chair moved
across the room.
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St-Steady on.
Steady on. Calm down.
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And her feet did
not touch the ground.
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And she was really,
um, screaming.
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It was really scary
but unexplained.
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It just threw Janet off
the chair, absolutely in front of me,
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and I saw her go
flying off the chair.
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At the moment, the people in
the room are Mrs. Nottingham,
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Margaret, Janet, Mrs.
Hodgson, Billy, Paul, and myself.
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And it’s activating like mad.
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It just tipped over the settee
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in front of us all
in the room here.
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Christ. Come on.
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Let’s all calm down, shall we?
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It’s so easy for someone
who’s not experienced it
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or seen it to say,
"It’s not real."
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You... You, particularly. I
want you to calm down, right?
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Listen, whatever you are,
we’re not frightened of you.
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We’re gonna keep on putting everything
straight every time you do anything.
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Well, it’s definitely
worse. It’s the worst I’ve ever seen.
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I’ve never...
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- No.
- I’ve never seen anything like it.
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We have tried
everything in our power
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to stop the phenomena
but to no avail.
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The situations we are encountering
simply cannot be explained
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when referred to the
accepted laws of physics.
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At the time of the Enfield case,
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physicists, people
like John Hasted
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started getting interested
in the phenomena.
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At least a few
physicists began to think,
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"Well, maybe some of
these anomalous interactions
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involving mind and
the physical world,
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maybe they can be
described by physics after all."
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John Hasted
was Professor of Physics
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at Birkbeck College in
the University of London.
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I’m Hasted, physicist.
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I work on these things,
and I can speak as a person
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who thinks that many of these
effects are well on the way to validation.
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I think it is going to be absolutely
central in the next 20, 30 years.
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Professor Hasted, like
me, wanted to know,
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actually, what was going
on, what the physics was.
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What is the nature
of physical reality?
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That was our key
driving motivation.
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John Hasted sprang
on the psychical research scene
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with the appearance
of the metal-benders.
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So, the camera will
see that, um, there...
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- You can see that there’s no pressure.
- None whatsoever.
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And I’m doing it on the thin side
of the fork, that if it bends it will...
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In the early 1970s,
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Uri Geller had
surprised audiences
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all around the world with
his paranormal metal bending.
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Do you feel anything in yours,
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under your fingers,
happening now?
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- Wait.
- What’s happening?
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I already feel something.
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You can feel
it in your fingertips, can you?
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Well, I can feel the
metal cracking slowly.
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- Well. There it is.
- There it is.
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- It’s over there.
- Where is it?
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The effect was very dramatic.
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I mean, that led
people like John Hasted
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and other physicists
to start to investigate.
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Not bad. Not bad.
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He thought that if
bending metal by the power of the mind
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was possible... if
there is any telepathy,
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clairvoyance, psychokinesis,
precognition, poltergeist,
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any of these things... that
would be dramatic alteration in...
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In our understanding of physics.
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And I think that’s
what he was expecting
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and hoping to find with
the Enfield poltergeist.
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Now the other one.
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Janet is clearly the epicenter.
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Does her mind have
powers we have overlooked?
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It was three days ago since Uri
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was on Monday’s Blue Peter
and calls are still coming in
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from people about strange
things that have been happening
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to their knives,
forks and spoons.
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We’ve got some people with us today
in the studio with some unusual spoons
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and forks that, strange
things have happened to,
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like Allison down
there at the end.
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What have you got there,
love? You’ve got the fork?
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Um, what’s happening
after the program...
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Hasted asked whether
I could go up to the house to, um,
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be an extra hand to
assist with the case.
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Come in, David.
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We’re in the living
room now, in 284.
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Most people do not
have experience of the paranormal.
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It’s very rare.
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What, something
like one in a million
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can actually do physical things.
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The other 999,000 have
got no experience of it at all.
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So, what reason have they got
to believe that it actually exists?
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We took up a strain gauge that
was attached to a metal spoon,
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then that goes to amplifiers...
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and then the amplifiers
go to a chart recorder.
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It’s basically
measuring any bending.
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Small changes in
length of the metal.
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What you do is encourage
her to bend the metal.
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This went on for
about 20, 25 minutes.
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The signals built
up in strength.
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The sensor actually physically bent...
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then finally broke
without any touch.
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Janet could produce the
signals more or less on command.
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My impression was that
she was sort of mentally
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in touch with what was happening
283
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with some of the
physical phenomena.
284
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It was sort of responsive
to her internal state.
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Can the subconscious mind
286
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actively affect its
physical surroundings?
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Throw things about?
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Bend metal?
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Is the mind just a product
of the biology of the brain?
290
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Or is it a quite
separate spiritual entity?
291
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How does
mind fit in a world of matter?
292
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That is the question I think
has threaded all through this.
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I think I have studied and
listened to practically every theory
294
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that’s been put forward
over the last century.
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But I do not find any
of them very convincing.
296
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My father was a
thinker, something of a philosopher.
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He was always interested
298
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in the infinitely small,
the infinitely large.
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For example, he created a box
which was only an inch-and-a-half thick,
300
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and you would look into this
box, and you would see into infinity.
301
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It’s a mirror within a
mirror within a mirror within a mirror.
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Going back and back and
back and back and back forever.
303
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Just suppose the mind
could control matter.
304
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The implications
would be tremendous.
305
00:26:53,264 --> 00:26:56,827
Imagine if you could explode
an enemy’s atom bombs
306
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merely by concentrating
on the trigger mechanism.
307
00:27:00,865 --> 00:27:03,537
So, some scientists have
taken this subject seriously.
308
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They’ve devised ingenious
experiments to find the truth.
309
00:27:07,905 --> 00:27:11,216
Janet seemed to
be the center of everything.
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There’s this force that’s following
her around and doing all this stuff.
311
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And I was sort of thinking, well,
something has to be done definitively
312
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to photograph whatever’s
happening in that house.
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A lot of the photographs I
was taking were quite mundane.
314
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I wanted to get the thing moving,
flying, falling over, whatever.
315
00:27:47,549 --> 00:27:53,456
It was almost as if whatever this
thing was was outsmarting you.
316
00:27:55,986 --> 00:27:58,823
You just had to try
and get one step ahead,
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but you never did.
318
00:28:11,936 --> 00:28:15,169
I liken this to a game of chess,
319
00:28:15,170 --> 00:28:22,584
where the poltergeist makes a
move, and we make a countermove.
320
00:28:23,717 --> 00:28:29,052
The essence of the phenomena
is a mischievousness.
321
00:28:29,184 --> 00:28:35,256
One night, I set up the
cameras in the corner of the room.
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I’m downstairs,
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we’re listening to a live
feed on a tape recorder.
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And I’ve got a 25-meter cable
325
00:28:52,944 --> 00:28:57,245
that I can hit and
trigger the camera.
326
00:29:06,694 --> 00:29:08,761
Suddenly we heard...
327
00:29:08,762 --> 00:29:11,225
and I’m thinking,
"What the fuck was that?"
328
00:29:11,226 --> 00:29:14,602
I hit the button and taken
a sequence of pictures.
329
00:29:16,572 --> 00:29:19,266
Janet!
330
00:29:19,267 --> 00:29:21,005
Where is she?
331
00:29:26,274 --> 00:29:29,749
It was only by
processing these the following day
332
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:31,520
that we...
got to realize
333
00:29:31,521 --> 00:29:33,621
the true extent of... of
what was happening.
334
00:29:33,622 --> 00:29:36,921
Where she was actually
flying across the room
335
00:29:36,922 --> 00:29:40,794
and crashing down
just inside the door.
336
00:29:50,540 --> 00:29:56,611
You could see that Janet has
come from prone in the bed,
337
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covered up, to upright.
338
00:30:01,452 --> 00:30:04,883
The thing just runs
six frames a second.
339
00:30:04,884 --> 00:30:05,917
So, when the
pictures were taken,
340
00:30:05,918 --> 00:30:10,989
they were at least a sixth of a
second between... between each frame.
341
00:30:11,429 --> 00:30:13,155
There’s not one picture
of her climbing up
342
00:30:13,156 --> 00:30:17,192
or moving the covers down
to get her legs out, or anything.
343
00:30:17,193 --> 00:30:22,297
She’s gone from that to
that in a sixth of a second.
344
00:30:25,234 --> 00:30:30,447
All I know is I triggered the camera
remotely when I heard the noise.
345
00:30:30,448 --> 00:30:34,309
I wasn’t in the room at
the time. I didn’t see it.
346
00:30:34,617 --> 00:30:38,950
As to what it is, I’ve
absolutely no idea.
347
00:30:38,951 --> 00:30:42,757
Just have to let the pictures
speak for themselves.
348
00:30:54,901 --> 00:31:00,775
Time, ten minutes
past 1:00, 3rd of December.
349
00:31:01,710 --> 00:31:04,712
This time, Janet was thrown
right out of the room, onto the stairs.
350
00:31:04,713 --> 00:31:09,409
- Try and explain to me what happened. Yeah.
- I was in bed, lying down.
351
00:31:09,410 --> 00:31:11,246
And my arms went up like this.
352
00:31:11,247 --> 00:31:12,621
So, then I felt
something pull my arm.
353
00:31:12,622 --> 00:31:14,216
- And I was pulled out of bed...
- You were pulled up by your arms.
354
00:31:14,217 --> 00:31:16,724
- dragged over there, and fe... -
You were dragged along the floor?
355
00:31:16,725 --> 00:31:20,057
- Yeah, and I was lifting... No.
- What, running? Were you running?
356
00:31:20,058 --> 00:31:21,894
- How were you going?
- Dragged.
357
00:31:21,895 --> 00:31:23,863
Dragged. Yeah. To
where? To where?
358
00:31:23,864 --> 00:31:26,668
- Like this. Like-Like this.
- Dragged out.
359
00:31:26,669 --> 00:31:30,430
She’s showing being pulled
forward with her hands together.
360
00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:35,402
It was getting to the point
where they felt it was out of control.
361
00:31:35,403 --> 00:31:37,581
They couldn’t really handle it.
362
00:31:51,353 --> 00:31:56,226
This evening I visited
Professor Hasted for advice.
363
00:31:56,391 --> 00:32:01,164
Although it is very rare for
any person to be seriously hurt
364
00:32:01,165 --> 00:32:03,166
from poltergeist incidents,
365
00:32:03,167 --> 00:32:06,907
I’m concerned that there
could be an accident.
366
00:32:07,578 --> 00:32:12,715
Hasted asked me to
try and find ways to help the family.
367
00:32:28,764 --> 00:32:31,425
The poltergeist
case is a situation
368
00:32:31,426 --> 00:32:37,498
where this particular mental
state becomes intense.
369
00:32:41,876 --> 00:32:45,307
Hasted suggested that it
can actually break through
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00:32:45,308 --> 00:32:49,553
into something beyond
our physical reality,
371
00:32:49,554 --> 00:32:55,087
and... the energy
from it manifests in a physical way.
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00:33:07,935 --> 00:33:10,838
- Interview with David Robertson.
- Okay.
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00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:15,909
Um, yesterday morning I took
Janet up to the top bedroom
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00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:20,046
where lots of phenomena
appeared to happen.
375
00:33:28,758 --> 00:33:32,487
What’s happened there?
376
00:33:32,663 --> 00:33:34,598
The window!
377
00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:37,634
She described
how she was floating about the room.
378
00:33:37,635 --> 00:33:40,670
She’s still going.
379
00:33:40,671 --> 00:33:45,939
I could hear moving, but I
was outside the room, of course.
380
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:47,270
What’s happening now?
381
00:33:48,646 --> 00:33:50,009
- I can’t get in.
- There’s a...
382
00:33:50,010 --> 00:33:53,144
A really strong force pushing the door.
383
00:33:53,145 --> 00:33:57,214
Of course, all this time, there
had been a group of people outside
384
00:33:57,215 --> 00:34:02,187
who have actually witnessed
what was happening.
385
00:34:02,660 --> 00:34:09,094
Some of the people outside the house
witnessed Janet levitating horizontally,
386
00:34:09,095 --> 00:34:10,425
up in front of the window,
387
00:34:10,426 --> 00:34:13,494
and the curtains were
billowing into the room.
388
00:34:13,495 --> 00:34:18,203
Following is an
interview with Mrs. Hazel Short
389
00:34:18,676 --> 00:34:22,108
the woman who looks
after crossing of the children.
390
00:34:35,891 --> 00:34:39,664
And that was
followed by a pillow.
391
00:34:41,028 --> 00:34:43,062
Then I see young Janet.
392
00:34:43,063 --> 00:34:46,065
And I could see her
going up and down,
393
00:34:46,066 --> 00:34:48,936
up and down in
front of the window.
394
00:34:48,937 --> 00:34:51,433
She was curved,
as though somebody...
395
00:34:51,434 --> 00:34:52,599
- Picking her up?
- Yeah.
396
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,908
So she was actually
curved. So...
397
00:34:53,909 --> 00:34:55,745
Well, that’s what she looked
like to me ’cause she could...
398
00:34:55,746 --> 00:35:00,080
Remember, I was
standing down here, looking up.
399
00:35:03,149 --> 00:35:05,315
The following
is a statement made to me
400
00:35:05,316 --> 00:35:10,617
by Mr. John Rainbow,
tradesman of Chatsworth Drive,
401
00:35:10,618 --> 00:35:12,762
Enfield, Middlesex.
402
00:35:35,181 --> 00:35:36,852
These are paranormal things
403
00:35:36,853 --> 00:35:38,513
that are happening
in the neighborhood.
404
00:35:38,514 --> 00:35:44,960
There are actual independent
witnesses who saw physical phenomena.
405
00:35:48,524 --> 00:35:50,327
This is evidence not just seen
406
00:35:50,328 --> 00:35:55,069
by people involved in
the case, but by outsiders.
407
00:35:56,565 --> 00:35:59,975
And it all begins
to tie together.
408
00:36:10,788 --> 00:36:13,152
Consider the idea
409
00:36:13,153 --> 00:36:18,092
that we actually exist
in various dimensions.
410
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,200
Perhaps thousands,
millions of dimensions.
411
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:37,045
I’m beginning to wonder if we live
in many worlds at the same time.
412
00:36:41,544 --> 00:36:45,889
Well, we would have
to conceive of people’s minds
413
00:36:46,450 --> 00:36:51,454
being able to have contact
with these other dimensions.
414
00:36:51,455 --> 00:36:52,225
Because if all of us
415
00:36:52,226 --> 00:36:54,831
believe only in
three dimensions,
416
00:36:54,832 --> 00:36:59,001
then we’ll never see
anything extraordinary.
417
00:37:00,838 --> 00:37:07,437
But once we have contact and
can persuade other minds also
418
00:37:07,438 --> 00:37:11,882
to see this other
parallel universe...
419
00:37:12,916 --> 00:37:17,249
it may just be a
very good formulation
420
00:37:17,250 --> 00:37:22,057
for movement and
disappearance of atoms.
421
00:37:25,786 --> 00:37:29,426
If people
could really spirit objects
422
00:37:29,427 --> 00:37:32,902
merely by thinking about
them, surely, by this time,
423
00:37:32,903 --> 00:37:38,238
spies and bank robbers
would’ve perfected the technique.
424
00:37:38,469 --> 00:37:40,668
Yet if there’s one
thing we’ve learned,
425
00:37:40,669 --> 00:37:43,671
nature never cheats,
but some people do.
426
00:37:43,672 --> 00:37:49,017
They bend the evidence, and that’s
something that scientists often forget.
427
00:37:49,018 --> 00:37:51,449
And there’s no heat
at all. Just touch it.
428
00:38:14,175 --> 00:38:16,044
Saturday, December the 10th.
429
00:38:16,045 --> 00:38:22,645
I arrived at 284 at 7:05 p.m.
to be greeted by whistling.
430
00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:51,805
I... I might be... the trajectory.
431
00:38:52,983 --> 00:38:57,316
This whistling, that’s going
on now, is paranormal whistling.
432
00:38:57,317 --> 00:39:00,781
Absolutely nobody
here is whistling at all.
433
00:39:00,782 --> 00:39:04,555
Billy can’t whistle and
neither can Margaret.
434
00:39:09,967 --> 00:39:12,793
I was 25
years old, a young lawyer.
435
00:39:12,794 --> 00:39:14,938
And before I went off
to work in the morning,
436
00:39:14,939 --> 00:39:19,140
I would come down to breakfast and
my mother and father would be there.
437
00:39:19,141 --> 00:39:22,440
And my father, every
morning, would delight
438
00:39:22,441 --> 00:39:26,247
in telling me what had
happened the night before.
439
00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:33,814
And I went through day
after day of banging’s,
440
00:39:33,815 --> 00:39:35,651
and knocking’s, and screaming,
441
00:39:35,652 --> 00:39:39,392
and shouting, and
things happening.
442
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,661
Time is 10:17.
443
00:39:45,662 --> 00:39:48,235
If there’s any entity
here, you’re welcome.
444
00:39:48,236 --> 00:39:51,767
Please talk directly
into the microphone.
445
00:39:54,308 --> 00:39:58,047
You’re welcome. Please talk
directly into the microphone.
446
00:39:58,048 --> 00:40:01,446
If you cannot do that,
please knock on the table
447
00:40:01,447 --> 00:40:04,582
or make any other
appropriate noise.
448
00:40:12,997 --> 00:40:15,757
He kept on badgering
me. "Why don’t you come?
449
00:40:15,758 --> 00:40:19,794
Why aren’t you interested in coming
to the house to see what’s happening?"
450
00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:23,799
I said, "Dad, I’m
really not interested."
451
00:40:24,371 --> 00:40:28,573
I was what you would
call a complete skeptic.
452
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:30,673
Then I made a concession to him.
453
00:40:30,674 --> 00:40:36,218
I said, "Look, Dad, if
this thing ever talks,
454
00:40:36,614 --> 00:40:39,881
and can talk to me, I will go."
455
00:40:40,552 --> 00:40:47,459
So one morning, he triumphantly
switched on the tape recorder,
456
00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:50,364
and he said to
me, "Listen to this."
457
00:40:51,728 --> 00:40:54,929
Time is 24
minutes past 10:00.
458
00:40:55,699 --> 00:40:58,602
Saturday, December the 10th.
459
00:40:58,603 --> 00:41:00,274
Right, are we all in bed?
460
00:41:00,275 --> 00:41:02,937
Yes, we are all in bed.
461
00:41:06,314 --> 00:41:07,975
Blimey.
462
00:41:08,283 --> 00:41:10,152
Where’d that noise come from?
463
00:41:10,153 --> 00:41:11,846
By the wall.
464
00:41:11,847 --> 00:41:13,056
Where about?
465
00:41:13,057 --> 00:41:15,323
Where Janet’s sleeping.
466
00:41:15,917 --> 00:41:18,589
Under Janet’s bed.
467
00:41:18,590 --> 00:41:20,195
Yeah.
468
00:41:20,196 --> 00:41:22,726
Seems to be saying it to me.
469
00:41:23,925 --> 00:41:27,137
Where’d that come from?
470
00:41:27,698 --> 00:41:29,666
Over there. Near
your tape recorder.
471
00:41:29,667 --> 00:41:33,737
- Near the tape recorder?
- What it sounded like to me.
472
00:41:33,836 --> 00:41:35,474
From that side of
the room, definitely.
473
00:41:35,475 --> 00:41:37,872
All right, so it didn’t
go anywhere near Janet?
474
00:41:37,873 --> 00:41:38,873
- No.
- Right then.
475
00:41:38,874 --> 00:41:41,579
That last noise...
476
00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:45,649
That bark came
well away from Janet.
477
00:41:45,650 --> 00:41:48,454
At least six foot
away from Janet,
478
00:41:48,455 --> 00:41:50,721
and six foot away from Margaret.
479
00:41:59,202 --> 00:42:01,060
Ooh, I don’t like that noise.
480
00:42:05,241 --> 00:42:11,445
Come on. You whistle. You can bark.
You can speak. I want to hear you speak.
481
00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:17,417
No, come on, you can do
better than barking like a dog.
482
00:42:17,418 --> 00:42:19,255
I want to hear you speak.
483
00:42:19,486 --> 00:42:21,983
Let’s have a name.
Somebody’s name.
484
00:42:22,852 --> 00:42:24,722
Anybody here.
485
00:42:27,428 --> 00:42:30,332
See if you can say
my name, "Maurice."
486
00:42:32,895 --> 00:42:33,863
Maurice!
487
00:42:33,864 --> 00:42:35,567
Is that it?
488
00:42:35,568 --> 00:42:38,032
Come on. Try "Maurice."
489
00:42:40,738 --> 00:42:41,903
Maurice!
490
00:42:43,642 --> 00:42:45,577
I heard this sound.
491
00:42:45,578 --> 00:42:51,815
It went, "Maurice!"
Just like that. "Maurice!"
492
00:42:53,718 --> 00:42:55,687
Try again.
493
00:42:58,195 --> 00:43:01,428
- Grosse!
- It said, "Grosse."
494
00:43:01,429 --> 00:43:03,199
Did it say, "Grosse"?
495
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:04,761
Grosse!
496
00:43:04,762 --> 00:43:06,236
It spoke.
497
00:43:06,632 --> 00:43:10,272
Now... Now can
you tell me your name?
498
00:43:10,273 --> 00:43:12,572
Tell me what your name is.
499
00:43:16,378 --> 00:43:17,005
I’m Bill.
500
00:43:17,006 --> 00:43:18,038
- Bill.
- Bill?
501
00:43:18,039 --> 00:43:20,778
- I’m getting...
- Scared?
502
00:43:20,910 --> 00:43:22,912
Have you got another name?
503
00:43:26,113 --> 00:43:28,984
Wilkinson.
504
00:43:29,149 --> 00:43:31,459
"Wilkinson."
505
00:43:31,921 --> 00:43:35,429
Now, I’m going to ask
you another question.
506
00:43:35,430 --> 00:43:38,532
Did you die in this house?
507
00:43:38,994 --> 00:43:40,765
Yes!
508
00:43:40,996 --> 00:43:42,998
I was dumbstruck.
509
00:43:43,768 --> 00:43:48,277
And I said to him, "Okay,
Dad. I’ll... I’ll go."
510
00:43:50,577 --> 00:43:54,745
I arrived at this
house in Enfield.
511
00:43:54,746 --> 00:43:59,222
I was then invited
to go upstairs.
512
00:43:59,223 --> 00:44:03,084
The door to the
room was slightly ajar.
513
00:44:04,019 --> 00:44:04,888
I thought to myself,
514
00:44:04,889 --> 00:44:07,461
"I’m gonna look through at Janet
515
00:44:07,462 --> 00:44:09,530
and see what she’s up to."
516
00:44:09,662 --> 00:44:13,500
And as soon as that thought had
gone into my head, the voice said...
517
00:44:13,501 --> 00:44:16,130
Shut the fucking door!
518
00:44:17,967 --> 00:44:19,639
Read my mind.
519
00:44:20,277 --> 00:44:23,378
And then it said to
me, "You can come in,
520
00:44:23,379 --> 00:44:27,779
but you must stand by the
wall and look at the wall."
521
00:44:38,185 --> 00:44:41,925
I’m Bill Wilkinson...
522
00:44:44,532 --> 00:44:48,469
and I died 15 years ago.
523
00:44:48,470 --> 00:44:52,034
I come from Durants
Park graveyard.
524
00:45:04,387 --> 00:45:10,393
I have come
here to see my family.
525
00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:15,254
And I thought,
"I’m having a conversation
526
00:45:15,255 --> 00:45:18,224
with a discarnate
voice, which is strange,
527
00:45:18,225 --> 00:45:22,966
but I suppose it behooves me as a
lawyer to ask him some questions."
528
00:45:24,935 --> 00:45:26,310
Bill?
529
00:45:27,267 --> 00:45:29,379
I want you to tell me
530
00:45:29,610 --> 00:45:34,516
whether you... you remember what
happened to you when you died.
531
00:45:37,783 --> 00:45:41,016
I had an hemorrhage,
and I fell asleep,
532
00:45:41,017 --> 00:45:46,660
and I died in a chair
in a corner downstairs.
533
00:45:57,902 --> 00:46:00,442
And what do you make of that?
534
00:46:03,842 --> 00:46:10,420
Um, that I witnessed
and spoke to a ghost.
535
00:46:11,179 --> 00:46:12,454
- Your name?
- Shut up.
536
00:46:12,455 --> 00:46:15,017
- No, your name?
- Shut up, you. Shut up.
537
00:46:15,018 --> 00:46:16,018
Yeah.
538
00:46:23,323 --> 00:46:26,667
Get out of here, you...
539
00:46:30,033 --> 00:46:35,103
It’s not the children.
It’s too quick. It’s too sharp.
540
00:46:36,204 --> 00:46:38,338
It just doesn’t fit.
541
00:46:39,614 --> 00:46:45,454
There’s a certain change
of tone, from normal tone to this voice.
542
00:46:45,455 --> 00:46:49,854
I come to see my wife
but then she weren’t here...
543
00:46:49,855 --> 00:46:51,691
Though it
appears to come from Janet,
544
00:46:51,692 --> 00:46:54,463
and sometimes Margaret...
545
00:46:54,464 --> 00:46:57,961
when we listen to our
recordings over and over again...
546
00:46:57,962 --> 00:47:00,436
I get the strong impression
547
00:47:00,437 --> 00:47:04,408
that there is another
personality at work.
548
00:47:04,672 --> 00:47:05,969
I don’t know.
549
00:47:05,970 --> 00:47:12,647
I’m doing exercises
on Janet’s bed.
550
00:47:14,781 --> 00:47:20,622
When you hear the voice, and
it comes out, where does it come from?
551
00:47:22,283 --> 00:47:24,724
- Here, your throat?
- No.
552
00:47:24,725 --> 00:47:27,859
- Where do you feel it comes from?
- Back of the neck.
553
00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:30,060
The back of the neck.
554
00:47:30,632 --> 00:47:34,602
And so, it must be as if
it’s somebody else speaking then
555
00:47:34,603 --> 00:47:37,330
- when you hear it?
- Yeah. Behind us.
556
00:47:37,331 --> 00:47:41,202
And do you get the
feeling, when you hear the voice,
557
00:47:41,203 --> 00:47:43,777
that there is a person there?
558
00:47:44,371 --> 00:47:45,712
Yes.
559
00:47:45,713 --> 00:47:48,814
- Yeah.
- Is that the voice now?
560
00:47:48,815 --> 00:47:50,178
Yeah.
561
00:47:50,179 --> 00:47:52,115
Is anybody there?
562
00:47:54,282 --> 00:47:56,658
- Nothing. No.
- No.
563
00:47:56,757 --> 00:47:59,220
It doesn’t always
do it to order.
564
00:47:59,221 --> 00:48:01,530
No, it doesn’t. It
goes in spasms.
565
00:48:01,531 --> 00:48:06,095
Like, we’re talking now. It may
not now, after you’ve said that,
566
00:48:06,096 --> 00:48:09,032
but it won’t do it
when you want it to.
567
00:48:09,033 --> 00:48:11,475
Is anybody there?
568
00:48:15,743 --> 00:48:17,206
Who’s there?
569
00:48:26,985 --> 00:48:29,889
Ghost-chaser’s here.
570
00:48:30,758 --> 00:48:32,319
Tell me about that.
571
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:33,222
Professor John Hasted
572
00:48:33,223 --> 00:48:34,959
and David Robinson
recorded the voice
573
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,963
on a special thing called a laryngograph.
574
00:48:38,964 --> 00:48:41,768
They found that the
voices were produced
575
00:48:41,769 --> 00:48:44,133
not in the normal way
as we are talking now,
576
00:48:44,134 --> 00:48:48,401
but... from what
are called the false vocals folds
577
00:48:48,402 --> 00:48:51,437
which are a...
bit further up from the larynx.
578
00:48:51,438 --> 00:48:57,179
They discovered that...
these voices were not produced normally.
579
00:48:57,180 --> 00:49:01,184
Janet used to say, "It’s
doing this. It’s doing that."
580
00:49:01,481 --> 00:49:03,152
Something was using her.
581
00:49:03,153 --> 00:49:06,694
I can go on for blinking hours.
582
00:49:06,695 --> 00:49:09,158
Don’t you ever
get a sore throat, Janet?
583
00:49:09,159 --> 00:49:11,732
- No. Yeah.
- Sure?
584
00:49:11,733 --> 00:49:13,767
You never get
pain in the back of the neck
585
00:49:13,768 --> 00:49:14,670
- or something?
- No.
586
00:49:14,671 --> 00:49:19,399
To keep up this particular type
of voice for any length of time
587
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,403
without damage to the vocal
cords is absolutely impossible.
588
00:49:23,404 --> 00:49:25,944
I mean, there must be some
hoarseness attached to it.
589
00:49:25,945 --> 00:49:30,916
But don’t forget, these children don’t
do this for a couple of minutes or so.
590
00:49:30,917 --> 00:49:34,656
They do it for lengths of
periods up to three hours.
591
00:49:34,657 --> 00:49:39,222
And without any hoarseness
or sore throats whatsoever.
592
00:49:43,127 --> 00:49:45,458
What we have
done is amass good evidence
593
00:49:45,459 --> 00:49:51,773
for activity that has no known
physical or psychological explanation.
594
00:49:55,106 --> 00:49:59,879
We now have irrefutable proof
that the majority of the manifestations
595
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:06,854
encountered are of a nature not
explicable by orthodox science.
596
00:50:09,516 --> 00:50:15,697
The international conference
at Cambridge on the Enfield poltergeist,
597
00:50:15,698 --> 00:50:18,634
presented by Maurice
Grosse and Guy Playfair.
598
00:50:18,635 --> 00:50:21,527
And it was an
excellent presentation,
599
00:50:21,528 --> 00:50:26,499
followed by much
discussion and controversy.
600
00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:30,074
Now, Mr. Grosse
is going to speak first.
601
00:50:34,013 --> 00:50:36,146
Can you hear
all right, by the way?
602
00:50:36,147 --> 00:50:37,246
Can you all hear? Yes? Good.
603
00:50:37,247 --> 00:50:43,219
I’m Maurice Grosse, and my
colleague below is Guy Lyon Playfair.
604
00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:45,122
The annual
SPR conferences were great.
605
00:50:45,123 --> 00:50:48,697
I went to every one for a
couple of decades, at least.
606
00:50:48,698 --> 00:50:49,797
is to
give a brief, brief...
607
00:50:49,798 --> 00:50:51,997
And the Enfield poltergeist,
of course, was...
608
00:50:51,998 --> 00:50:55,737
you know, for a few
years, w-was-was big deal.
609
00:50:55,738 --> 00:51:00,071
On December the 10th, one of
the girls began to speak in a voice
610
00:51:00,072 --> 00:51:01,809
resembling that of an old man.
611
00:51:01,810 --> 00:51:04,273
Each of us subsequently
recorded many hours
612
00:51:04,274 --> 00:51:08,542
of what we tentatively
term, "automatic speech."
613
00:51:09,312 --> 00:51:13,150
Now...
Now, can you tell me your name?
614
00:51:13,151 --> 00:51:15,318
Tell me what your name is.
615
00:51:16,220 --> 00:51:18,728
I’m Bill.
616
00:51:19,256 --> 00:51:21,731
Do you know you’re dead?
617
00:51:23,062 --> 00:51:24,491
Shut up!
618
00:51:24,492 --> 00:51:29,166
Now, tell me, what are
you doing here, and why are you here?
619
00:51:29,167 --> 00:51:31,872
Shall I tell
you really who I am?
620
00:51:31,873 --> 00:51:34,633
I must remind you
that’s an 11-year-old girl.
621
00:51:34,634 --> 00:51:35,678
Yes, I’d...
622
00:51:35,679 --> 00:51:37,042
I wasn’t so
impressed with the voices...
623
00:51:37,043 --> 00:51:39,682
because, I mean, it was a deep voice.
624
00:51:39,683 --> 00:51:42,014
It wasn’t the normal
voice of Janet, for example,
625
00:51:42,015 --> 00:51:47,757
but it wasn’t clear to me that Janet
couldn’t be producing the voice.
626
00:51:55,061 --> 00:51:57,623
Grosse and Playfair
were convinced this was the...
627
00:51:57,624 --> 00:51:59,768
You know, the
case of the century.
628
00:51:59,769 --> 00:52:03,497
Some of the members of the
SPR w-were rather skeptical.
629
00:52:03,498 --> 00:52:05,532
I’d like to answer that one.
630
00:52:05,533 --> 00:52:11,175
We are observers and we are
presenting facts the only way we know.
631
00:52:11,176 --> 00:52:14,112
And we believe this
is the first time ever
632
00:52:14,113 --> 00:52:19,580
that a poltergeist case has
been in-investigated in such depth.
633
00:52:22,451 --> 00:52:25,024
I’ve got my diary, and it says,
634
00:52:25,025 --> 00:52:28,423
"The symposium was
boring. What a shambles.
635
00:52:28,424 --> 00:52:30,997
Tapes of little girls
woofing et cetera, et cetera.
636
00:52:30,998 --> 00:52:35,199
A quick drink and then back to think
about my own paper for tomorrow."
637
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,203
I’m afraid it didn’t make very
much impression on me.
638
00:52:39,204 --> 00:52:43,438
In this case, we
have 1500, at least, episodes.
639
00:52:43,439 --> 00:52:45,605
And I myself... I
will stick my chin out
640
00:52:45,606 --> 00:52:51,413
and say 1490 of them cannot
be called into question at all
641
00:52:51,414 --> 00:52:52,887
unless somebody is
prepared to stand up
642
00:52:52,888 --> 00:52:56,451
and call us either fools
or liars. That’s is all.
643
00:52:56,452 --> 00:52:59,960
It is very interesting in
that clip that Maurice says,
644
00:52:59,961 --> 00:53:02,028
"Are you calling us
either fools or liars."
645
00:53:02,029 --> 00:53:05,229
As far as he’s concerned,
those are the only options.
646
00:53:05,230 --> 00:53:08,463
The real point is you
need investigators
647
00:53:08,464 --> 00:53:10,806
who are going to ask
pertinent questions.
648
00:53:10,807 --> 00:53:13,843
And that’s what
Anita brought to it.
649
00:53:16,571 --> 00:53:19,672
First of all, I think
it’s very, very difficult
650
00:53:19,673 --> 00:53:22,015
to be neutral about
a case like this.
651
00:53:22,016 --> 00:53:24,116
I find it very difficult.
652
00:53:24,117 --> 00:53:26,954
I can’t say, but
I share a feeling
653
00:53:26,955 --> 00:53:31,091
of our very devoted
investigators.
654
00:53:31,828 --> 00:53:33,895
I always got
on really well with Anita.
655
00:53:33,896 --> 00:53:35,259
She had
an interest in psychology.
656
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:40,066
She had interests in all sorts of
things. But she was very open-minded.
657
00:53:40,067 --> 00:53:43,663
So, look, for instance,
the little dialogue we heard
658
00:53:43,664 --> 00:53:47,403
between Maurice
and whatever it was.
659
00:53:47,404 --> 00:53:50,010
It was an element
of a game in this.
660
00:53:50,011 --> 00:53:55,708
I feel that the investigators,
the subjects, that family
661
00:53:55,709 --> 00:54:02,253
all play a part in somehow
creating this situation.
662
00:54:02,254 --> 00:54:06,026
I have continually challenged
everybody to tell me
663
00:54:06,027 --> 00:54:09,997
how this girl does it if
she does do it deliberately.
664
00:54:09,998 --> 00:54:14,364
And nobody, nobody has been
able to come up with an answer.
665
00:54:14,365 --> 00:54:16,762
I’d like to say,
as Maurice just said
666
00:54:16,763 --> 00:54:17,906
that we are interested
in the genuine stuff,
667
00:54:17,907 --> 00:54:22,768
and some of you simply must accept
the possibility that the phenomenon
668
00:54:22,769 --> 00:54:25,947
for which this society was
founded do actually exist.
669
00:54:25,948 --> 00:54:27,773
- We do.
- Now, if that changes your...
670
00:54:27,774 --> 00:54:30,083
Well, it could be challenged.
671
00:54:30,084 --> 00:54:31,612
Yes, couldn’t we?
I’m sick of it. Yeah.
672
00:54:31,613 --> 00:54:34,813
stop it.
Anyway, we are running out of time.
673
00:54:34,814 --> 00:54:35,683
And...
674
00:54:35,684 --> 00:54:37,024
Anita undoubtedly brought
675
00:54:37,025 --> 00:54:38,487
the kind of psychology
that would be
676
00:54:38,488 --> 00:54:41,226
much more common
nowadays, but then, you know,
677
00:54:41,227 --> 00:54:43,162
she w... she was quite
pioneering in a way.
678
00:54:43,163 --> 00:54:46,935
And saying, "We’ve got to
understand what’s going on in the family,
679
00:54:46,936 --> 00:54:49,873
what’s going on in the
minds of these kids."
680
00:54:53,668 --> 00:54:59,278
And so we are faced with
the big problem of psychic research.
681
00:54:59,674 --> 00:55:02,446
How do we convince the skeptic?
682
00:55:04,250 --> 00:55:06,119
The answer may
be that the only way
683
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,517
people can be
thoroughly persuaded
684
00:55:08,518 --> 00:55:10,156
of the existence of phenomena
685
00:55:10,157 --> 00:55:14,589
is to experience the
activity themselves.
686
00:55:14,590 --> 00:55:15,393
This is a surprise.
687
00:55:15,394 --> 00:55:18,758
Hello.
688
00:55:18,759 --> 00:55:20,969
Hi. How are ya?
689
00:55:20,970 --> 00:55:21,729
Be quiet now.
690
00:55:21,730 --> 00:55:26,206
Hello. - Nice to be here.
691
00:55:26,338 --> 00:55:28,438
This is Mrs. Hodgson...
692
00:55:28,439 --> 00:55:31,870
and Anita Gregory.
693
00:55:31,871 --> 00:55:36,678
"So Tuesday the
20th of December, 1977,
694
00:55:37,415 --> 00:55:40,550
in the evening,
I went to Enfield.
695
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,520
Anita Gregory came,
696
00:55:43,652 --> 00:55:48,162
and events took a
very interesting turn."
697
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:52,166
Right. Now let’s go
from where we were before.
698
00:55:52,892 --> 00:55:54,794
We know what your name is now.
699
00:55:54,795 --> 00:55:57,038
Tell me something
about yourself.
700
00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:02,505
Anita was a
lecturer in psychology.
701
00:56:02,506 --> 00:56:04,574
Come on, you can talk now.
702
00:56:09,183 --> 00:56:10,382
Bill.
703
00:56:10,481 --> 00:56:15,090
She was the ultimate academic.
704
00:56:25,969 --> 00:56:28,202
My name’s Anita Gregory.
705
00:56:33,306 --> 00:56:35,110
I’m interested in you.
706
00:56:40,841 --> 00:56:42,414
What do you want?
707
00:56:47,452 --> 00:56:50,752
What do you want?
Tell us what you want.
708
00:56:57,957 --> 00:56:59,893
Do you want me to go out?
709
00:57:10,376 --> 00:57:12,411
Are you frightened of me?
710
00:57:15,678 --> 00:57:17,251
No.
711
00:57:19,913 --> 00:57:21,948
Tell me how you are.
712
00:57:33,432 --> 00:57:35,038
Fuck off.
713
00:57:37,304 --> 00:57:40,768
Well, that’s very
good, that’s splendid,
714
00:57:40,769 --> 00:57:42,308
but you haven’t
told me how you are.
715
00:57:42,309 --> 00:57:43,738
You’ve told me where to go,
716
00:57:43,739 --> 00:57:45,476
but you haven’t
told me how you are.
717
00:57:45,477 --> 00:57:48,711
Tell me how you are.
I really want to know.
718
00:57:58,589 --> 00:58:00,624
Shit off!
719
00:58:04,023 --> 00:58:06,992
Didn’t catch that. Say
it again. More distinctly.
720
00:58:06,993 --> 00:58:08,400
Now you’re doing very well.
721
00:58:08,401 --> 00:58:10,865
Say it a bit more
clearly, please.
722
00:58:19,379 --> 00:58:23,514
You tell me how you are. I
really want to know how you are.
723
00:58:23,515 --> 00:58:28,289
How you’re feeling. I want to
know what it feels like to be you.
724
00:58:41,632 --> 00:58:43,238
Shit you!
725
00:58:51,741 --> 00:58:53,676
Really must say
good night now. Bye-bye.
726
00:58:53,677 --> 00:58:55,877
- Okay.
- Bye-bye.
727
00:58:59,045 --> 00:59:00,320
When we went outside,
728
00:59:00,321 --> 00:59:04,655
Anita gave me a
look. Disbelieving look.
729
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,461
"Do you really believe that?"
730
00:59:50,338 --> 00:59:52,636
Friday, December the 23rd.
731
00:59:52,637 --> 00:59:56,673
Arrived at 7:50 p.m.
and was told that both
732
00:59:56,674 --> 01:00:01,843
the goldfish died at the
same time this afternoon.
733
01:00:01,844 --> 01:00:08,323
- My God!
- My...
734
01:00:13,196 --> 01:00:16,397
I came to torment you.
735
01:00:16,421 --> 01:00:18,421
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