Enfield Poltergeist

The reported episode began in the summer of 1977 when single mother Peggy Hodgson called the police from her council house at 284 Green Street in the Brimsdown neighbourhood of Enfield to report furniture moving. Reports in the sources place the onset of the claimed phenomena in 1977, initially affecting Hodgson's household and specifically centring on her children (two sisters aged about 11 and 13). The events continued to attract attention from investigators, journalists, researchers and later popular-media retellings through 1979 and afterwards, producing books, Society for Psychical Research (SPR) material, podcasts and television dramatizations.

Primary reportage and investigative summaries do not describe a single consistent corporeal form associated with the case; sources present the Enfield instance as a set of phenomena localized to a domestic setting rather than a visible, named entity. Later media and secondary materials sometimes use artistic depictions— for example an SPR page describing Lee Brickley's book cover that shows an 'artistic vertically levitating Janet partially surrounded by mist in a darkened bedroom'— but such images are media representations rather than consistent eyewitness descriptions recorded in the supplied sources.

Sources characterize the Enfield case as escalating and varied poltergeist activity concentrated in the Hodgson home between 1977 and 1979. Reported behaviours cited across the materials include moving furniture (the initial police report noted furniture moving), banging/knocking phenomena, vocal phenomena examined by investigators (voices are referenced in podcast episode descriptions), and claims in secondary retellings of levitation imagery as used in media. Accounts emphasize a localized focus on two sisters (Janet and Margaret Hodgson) and note that investigators and commentators described an escalation of 'new tricks' over the course of investigations. The supplied excerpts do not provide a definitive catalogue of every alleged event or a settled explanation for mechanisms, motive, or origin.