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1977: The ENFIELD POLTERGEIST | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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"Either 17 people have all been having hallucinations - including the police - or this is the best-documented ghost story of all time."
Nationwide's James Hogg reports from a seemingly ordinary, suburban house in Ponder's End, Enfield, where residents have reported experiencing a variety of unusual phenomena. There has been knocking in the walls, and furniture is regularly thrown around the house - apparently unaided.
These bizarre occurrences have piqued the interest of Maurice Grosse, an inventor and a member of the Society of Psychical Research. Mr Grosse believes that the disturbances are being caused by a poltergeist, and thinks that the recordings he has made while investigating the disturbances in the house might be the best evidence yet of parapsychological activity.
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@jafwilding 9 ай бұрын

I think Maurice Grosse is one of the coolest guys ever. Great moustache, and drove an E-Type Jaguar.

@JJONNYREPP 4 күн бұрын

1977: The ENFIELD POLTERGEIST | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 0855am 22.8.24 who was the dude in that back bedroom with his moog? he was making a right racket.... i dont believe in ghosts and yes it's a effin mare trynna tell folk who do that they do not exist... no common ground, y'see......... they'll all have to top themselves and come back to confirm the notions either way.... good luck!!!

@yaosio 10 ай бұрын

It was very dark in 1977.

@joedge6142 7 ай бұрын

We used up all the sunlight the year before in the great drought 😆

@alancawfield6549 10 ай бұрын

12 comments at the time of posting and nobody mentions the incredible moustache the guy in the thumbnail has.That's by far the most impressive thing about this video.

@maquisarddouble6342 10 ай бұрын

Some people just don’t appreciate style.

@stephenguppy7882 10 ай бұрын

And the most frightening thing too.

@READYTEDDYBEAR 10 ай бұрын

That moustache is possessed by a poltergeist itself!

@darkdogstudios 10 ай бұрын

It’s a disguise that you can buy in joke shops! 😂 this whole thing is a joke! Kids having fun and games. Unsophisticated times…

@alililley5697 8 ай бұрын

The first thing I said when I saw it!!! So sexy!

@simoncumming2124 10 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this go out live, properly terrifying stuff. It gave me sleepless nights then, and it's still hard to watch now. People nowadays don't realise it, but it was the believability of it back then. People really did have moustaches like that.

@tonyhancock3912 10 ай бұрын

But with all the camera phones and stuff around now and no one has managed to take a picture or video of a moustache like that. They don't exist full stop

@darkdogstudios 10 ай бұрын

😂

@xfactor3000 9 ай бұрын

I was quite perturbed by the severe lack of hygenic care they paid to their teeth.

@acidmack1041 2 ай бұрын

I suppose this had the same effect on the kids of your generation as what Ghostwatch had on the kids of my generation in 1992 lol

@Sheblah1 4 ай бұрын

"don't throw those bloody lego pieces at me!"

@tjfSIM 2 ай бұрын

😂 Glad it’s not just me, that guy sounds exactly like Michael Caine

@squizzel8938 4 ай бұрын

How well kept the houses were in 1977 - Now it is a different story!

@paulwhelan7123 3 күн бұрын

Nowadays there are worse occupants of houses.

@michaelbruns449 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating and terrifying contemporary footage, seriously disturbing.

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 3 ай бұрын

Not much more disturbing than a flea-fart

@fritzdrybeam Ай бұрын

Disturbing that people believe this nonsense.

@user-un9go4qe5i 9 ай бұрын

Some great posters in that room. Those were the days...

@jean-lucpicard5510 29 күн бұрын

Even the Jimmy Saville one?

@HaileyHdokenHarmon 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading in high quality.

@AnthonyMonaghan 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching this as a seven year old...completely terrifying. It all seems a bit comical now. How did my Mum let me see this!?

@johndaarteest Ай бұрын

Hey, great avatar you're using - dig the Captain. 👍👍

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb Ай бұрын

I dont know about ghosts but that wallpaper the neighbours had was definitely frightening!

@NoosaHeads 10 ай бұрын

Maurice Gross - sounds just like Michael Caine.

@Dan23_7 8 ай бұрын

I thought that too.

@KD400_ 7 ай бұрын

Why because hes cockney lol

@vermilliongecko 2 ай бұрын

Not a lot of people know that.

@Seminal_Ideas Ай бұрын

She was just fifteen years old. Fifteen years old when the bloody poltergeist started.

@fritzdrybeam 26 күн бұрын

Both actors.

@theram4320 7 ай бұрын

Sounds like Michael Caine was hit by a slipper at one point!

@MrDastardly 10 ай бұрын

Many years ago, a friend of my sisters (who lived alone) had similar occurrences: a. Two bedside lights in a spare room, which were plugged out, went on fire at the same time. b. For weeks and weeks, the occupant of the house would arrive home to find all of the back doors and windows open. c. Regularly hearing floor boards creak. d. Whilst the friend was downstairs, furniture was being overturned upstairs. Through the Estate Agent, the friend contacted the two previous tenants of the house. The two previous tenants said they rented the house for only a short time as there were many unusual occurrence’s. Through investigation, it was found that in the 1990’s the house was rented to a family who did ‘strange things’, which included ‘animal sacrifice’ and an Ouija Board. The police got involved and the council moved the family. A local priest was contacted and he was aware of the history of the house. The last I heard of this, was when the priest visited the house and I am told after which, no more ‘strange happenings’ took place.

@davidbeazley1958 9 ай бұрын

Lol... Good one. 👍🏾

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 3 ай бұрын

JOKE: What do poltergeists and farts have in common? ANSWER: Neither can be seen yet one can sense their presence in a room.

@Chillmax 26 күн бұрын

Does anyone remember this - I recall seeing a short film documentary in the 1980's, could've been part of a news programme. It was on the BBC in the afternoon and about a haunting at a particular old house. The investigators said that they left a recorder running at the bottom of a supposedly haunted staircase, and when they ran the tape back, they heard a ghostly conversation, where the ghosts acknowledged that they were being looked at and recorded, one ghost saying 'Yes, they're looking at us'. Does anyone else remember this, I've never forgotten it, but it's just vanished from history?

@SuperCee80 2 ай бұрын

The scariest thing about this film are the 1970's British teeth ☠️

@pauladaniels-bc7rj 6 ай бұрын

We have a poltergeist in our Victorian terraced house but it is is benign & we're quite used to it,what does it to you may ask- it has thrown bread all over the kitchen floor,crossed cutlery after the table has been set,moved things round & round & a few times spoken memorably shouting dad up the stairs when my husband was in the bathroom & when i was in bed asking me'who are you' we arnt scared & there are sometimes months without any activity x

@fritzdrybeam Ай бұрын

Sure you do.

@fritzdrybeam 26 күн бұрын

No you don't. Behave.

@TheGrimStoic 18 күн бұрын

Either that, or you're just typical British parents.

@joedge6142 7 ай бұрын

I love the neighbour's wallpaper.

@DaraM73 10 ай бұрын

More please. Isn’t there a longer form BBC programme too?

@Mistydazzle 10 ай бұрын

More importantly, the girls were Bay City Rollers fans...

@johndaarteest Ай бұрын

It's understandable why they were possessed then.

@frogtastic1000 9 ай бұрын

One of my favourite stories

@dogbreath8396 10 ай бұрын

The dunlop flying towards his boat 😂

@MichaelBosley 10 ай бұрын

You had to pass the time somehow in the 70's.

@garrybaldy327 10 ай бұрын

The levitating photograph is clearly the girl jumping off her bed (her knees are bent) and both girls admitted they'd messed with Maurice's tape recorder and were also caught banging on the floor. If supernatural things really were happening, why the need to make things up?

@catholic3dod790 7 ай бұрын

I noticed her bent knees.

@Kindcaringsoulgentle 2 ай бұрын

or stay there....

@Chillmax 26 күн бұрын

If you listen to the stories about Enfield over & over again, there are so many versions, including this pretty serious piece from the Beeb, what seems clear, is that something odd, possibly supernatural was indeed happening. But, the girls were augmenting it, either for fun, or to help the story along when not much was happening, or just kids being naughty. As the reporter says here, could 17 people, including the police all be lying or delusional?

@JJONNYREPP 4 күн бұрын

1977: The ENFIELD POLTERGEIST | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 0904am 22.8.24 something more than a "haunting" i feel.... still, Amityville horror is still a fine film... a large distant father brought down to earth b a convenient haunting - bringing him closer to ho he actually feels about.................................................................... stuff.

@spiderprint 10 ай бұрын

Guest appearance by Michael Cane 0:58

@MrSimonmcc 9 ай бұрын

I was expecting, 'You were only supposed to throw the bloody Dunlop!'

@klisher 7 ай бұрын

The music is from BBC sound effects “death and horror “ volume 1. I used it for a Horror film I made in 1992 ( which is on KZfaq but I changed the music for KZfaq as there were other copyright songs in it)

@haroldmclean3755 10 ай бұрын

Never a Dull moment ✨

@robbflynn4325 10 ай бұрын

These same people today would be on the jeremy kyle show.

@thewotsit 10 ай бұрын

Don’t be daft. The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed 8 years ago.

@rayrussell1519 5 ай бұрын

love all the old posters

@mikethespike7579 8 күн бұрын

One of my teachers had a moustache like that. Didn't drive an E-Type though.

@TheFlixFiles 10 ай бұрын

I didn't see Vera Farmiga anywhere?? 😕

@whetphish Ай бұрын

@BBC: Would it be possible to make the whole episode available on iPlayer? I think it would be highly amusing to see how credulous people were in 1977.

@Chillmax 26 күн бұрын

If this was from Nationwide as stated, what you've seen here would be the entire piece. Whether they would have discussed it when it went back to the studio is unlikely, they probably just went to another topic - 'All very spooky, now here's a dog juggling cats in Wigan' etc.

@whetphish 26 күн бұрын

@@Chillmax now that's something I would like to see! 😂

@mushroomhead3054 10 ай бұрын

Now that's a tash 👌

@johndaarteest Ай бұрын

Hides the stretch marks.

@JohnDoe-yr4wc 10 ай бұрын

Bit early for April Fool's isn't it?

@Dan23_7 8 ай бұрын

People believed any old poppycock in those days.

@LarryFleetwood8675 8 ай бұрын

Especially people called Dan.

@roasty80 10 ай бұрын

This is nothing more than the 70s version of most haunted. Total nonsense

@elysiumsexsmith 10 ай бұрын

But entertaining nonsense...and isn't that what really matters?

@acidmack1041 2 ай бұрын

Ahhh thanks for finally clearing all this up

@Kev-england-LFC-32 Ай бұрын

@@elysiumsexsmithNO

@EErail26 10 ай бұрын

Classic 70s spooky bollocks!!

@nellyfett2681 10 ай бұрын

I take it this is a forerunner to the Parkinson and Sarah Green ghost watch thing?

@thephilpott2194 2 ай бұрын

Nope. In some respects it rivals the Doris Bither/Barry Taff case as regards multiple and credible witnesses to the phenomena. The Ghostwatch production some years later was entirely fabricated, although it spooked many of the more gullible viewers, to the extent that many of them 'phoned in. What they expected to gain by that is anyone's guess, but then again you can't cure stupid.

@digitaldobbie 10 ай бұрын

I laughed so hard I fell off my rocker and lost my marbles. Even now days where everyone has cameras on their smartphones, nobody has managed to record any supernatural footage including the lock ness monster or Father Christmas. Maybe it’s not a spectre, it could be someone trying to contact them from another dimension, or even more unbelievable it could be a load of bollocks.

@roasty80 10 ай бұрын

Because they don't exist. Pure psychological delusions influencenced by movies or personal trauma

@MrSimonmcc 9 ай бұрын

Maurice is driving my car.

@TheGrimStoic 18 күн бұрын

You passed in their inhaling monoxide, dear - he just picked it up at the auction afterwards.

@dweston76 13 күн бұрын

Oh Crumbs!

@glennparrington7292 3 ай бұрын

This case is real, sure there was some bullshitting and exaggeration but the copper seeing the chair move, the slipper hitting the door - they were authentic reactions to supernatural phenomena. It's not ghosts though, I really can't believe in spirits roaming free after death - I think it's something to do with space, other dimensions, we don't know much really, loads of great Theories which solve part of the puzzle but huge gaps in our understanding of the universe still. The best thing is, if this was real then there must surely be other cases that are real.

@thephilpott2194 2 ай бұрын

True, some of these things did happen. Highly likely to be the mind's interaction with matter- but we don't know how. Poltergeists haunt people, not houses; but it's not a haunting in the conventional sense.

@Barnaby_bo 10 ай бұрын

Howcome bullrush was a thing in the 70s?

@joedge6142 7 ай бұрын

Everyone had them, and pampas grass and carved African figures of antelopes and elephants.

@kattysat Ай бұрын

That E-type is still road legal

@Peter-cz8hx 14 күн бұрын

I bet you check up on all your neighbours too😮.

@londonroulette 9 ай бұрын

You can’t record Father Christmas and Loch Ness if they don’t exist, problem solved

@Jaygazzilli Ай бұрын

Better focus on the lamp before the lights go out while the kids are laughing, better turn the camera away when the shoe is thrown while the kids are laughing. Then get someone to knock on the ceiling.. then get first hand accounts of nothing that happened ever.. how this ever took off is beyond me, different time i guess. They all lied ffs and as for "the voice" in the young lass 😂 get a grip

@magdawszeborowska 9 ай бұрын

Probably I missed something in the last ep of the documentary of Apple TV+…. But can someone explain to me how the ghost eventually went away? It left when Janet was in the children’s home and later hospital and then never came back when she came back home?

@davidmoriarty3606 2 ай бұрын

They were told to ignore it. Eventually, Bill(?) left them alone.

@Chillmax 26 күн бұрын

I believe the family, or just the mother lived there until her death, and they said that strange things still happened, but not to this extent.

@moderntart-nr2bu Ай бұрын

Apparently the poltergeist did a poo on top of the wardrobe. Absolutely ghastly, repugnant and abhorrent.

@TheGrimStoic 18 күн бұрын

Well, we're all sharing diggings with all sorts now - have you noticed the rents lately? And don't you get me started on the bills...

@BalearicBeatnik Ай бұрын

this house is prob worth a million quid in todays money

@No2theBS 9 күн бұрын

Not the dead you need to be scared of it's your government

@acidmack1041 2 ай бұрын

Maurice arguing with the ghost at the end is the best thing about this 😂 You must go away No Well, yes you must No You have to its essential you go away now No Yes, youve had a good time now its time to go No 😂😂😂😂

@davidbeazley1958 9 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary for the feeble minded.

@edwardwolf2766 Ай бұрын

more truth in this report then in the last 30 years of bbc

@Barnaby_bo 3 ай бұрын

Funny how the rise in poltergeist and ufo sightings coincided with the rise of Hollywood.

@grahammcdonald 10 ай бұрын

I reckon Michael Caine could play the dad.

@bid84 10 ай бұрын

Paul MCCartney could play the wife

@Seminal_Ideas Ай бұрын

@@bid84Someone knocking at the door Somebody ringing the bell

@somethingfromnothing8428 3 ай бұрын

Most of the things reported to have happened probably have explanations. I think it was probably a hoax that several people were in on, however the chair moving infront of two police officers and the two journalists seeing lego flying are the only two things i’ve heard that i cant figure out an explanation for

@barclayhollands3313 19 күн бұрын

Snip snell Bori Gore 😢

@Acid_Techno_Monk 2 ай бұрын

It was the children fooling this guy and was proved to be utter tripe, the money from the papers kept them all in on it. Great scam.

@andrewbashford9786 4 ай бұрын

Hollywood made a film about it The Conjuring 2

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 2 ай бұрын

It was the nun the whole time

@bigcahoonaburger8550 3 ай бұрын

So what happened. Did it just disappear? Not heard of anything now?

@Chillmax 26 күн бұрын

I believe the family, or just the mother lived there until her death, and they said that strange things still happened, but not to this extent.

@coolmacatrain9434 2 ай бұрын

The Enfield Load of Old Bollocks, more like!

@barclayhollands3313 19 күн бұрын

Snip snell Bori Gore 😢

@missbunty Ай бұрын

Valek!!!!

@user-ys8tw5jf6b 4 ай бұрын

The footage during the 1970s made it all more eerie similar to Billy Friedkins approach in his master piece movie. The 16mm footage makes it wierd

@bradz007 9 ай бұрын

If ghosts existed, Everybody would see them everyday, in supermarkets , in the streets , in the office , not just in some old house with creaking doors , why don't people see neanderthal ghosts ? Oh yea they didn't have a soul I forgot 😂

@nicksb68 9 ай бұрын

How do you know you're not?

@TheGrimStoic 18 күн бұрын

@@nicksb68 cuz he saw The Sixth Sense

@detectingadventuresscotlan6177 10 ай бұрын

Been watching this

@rayrussell1519 5 ай бұрын

this guys wearing flars well next door did bill go there

@scotmorley8526 10 ай бұрын

April 1st by any chance?

@londonroulette 9 ай бұрын

But no proof it’s real

@moderntart-nr2bu Ай бұрын

Maurice Gross was an inventor......... an inventor of BS

@Kindcaringsoulgentle 2 ай бұрын

so this was all faked?

@nikanoru13 9 ай бұрын

Hoax duh

@redfraggle77 10 ай бұрын

I think this is going to the subject of a musical with Catherine Tate.

@italianjesus99 10 ай бұрын

How dull.

@rayrussell1519 6 ай бұрын

in the year 200 something fell off our shelve in our house it was just after father funeral surely the dead still with us in sprit

@gaynortension2032 3 ай бұрын

Say what you like about Maurice he drives a tasty motor.

@thephilpott2194 2 ай бұрын

'You're only supposed to flush the bloody toilet'

@fritzdrybeam Ай бұрын

Fake.

@Adrian.Messenger 10 ай бұрын

I've got a video of a 400 year old free energy device that is still operating on the roof of an old church, if anyone is interested. Links pinned in latest video.

@redfraggle77 10 ай бұрын

Do you know how the energy is transferred?

@Adrian.Messenger 10 ай бұрын

@@colinwilson6942 No it isn't. Slow it down, zoom in on the device and have a closer look.

@Adrian.Messenger 10 ай бұрын

@@redfraggle77 No I don't. But you can see what's happening at the center. There's a long comment in the original video with more details.

@Adrian.Messenger 10 ай бұрын

@@colinwilson6942 Duh. I wasn't born yesterday. I know what a lightning rod is. Look at it again and this time look at it properly. Or just post some more laughter emojis, whichever will require less effort, and be less taxing for your brain.

@Adrian.Messenger 9 ай бұрын

@@colinwilson6942 You call that the highest point of the church even though it sits at the foot of a stone ornament that is at least three times taller than it. That's what the lightning would strike, and it is fitted with it's own lightening conductor. That's two things you didn't notice. The multi-pronged device is something else entirely and you clearly did not look at it properly because if you did then you would have seen what is HAPPENING AT THE CENTER of that device.

@pkz5800 10 ай бұрын

This is crazy, was this real or was it proven to be a hoax?

@hoptop77 10 ай бұрын

Recently the kids who are now adults said they made the whole thing up.

@theeggtimertictic1136 10 ай бұрын

@@hoptop77I dont think so ... where did you see that. How do you explain the police and the chair?

@original.dwornboy 10 ай бұрын

@@hoptop77 I think you are getting mixed up with The Cottingley Faires. Oh, and thanks for telling us the kids are now adults. I never would have known some 46 years after the event.

@francesco245 10 ай бұрын

*What the hell do you mean "proven to be a hoax"?* *You don't need to prove it's a hoax because **_ghosts are not real,_** so obviously these stories are just that, stories!*

@francesco245 10 ай бұрын

🙄🙄🙄🙄