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This House Is Haunted
This House Is Haunted | Guy Lyon Playfair
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This is the Amazing Story of the Enfield Poltergeist On August 31st 1977, normal life ended for Mrs Harper and her four children in their modest council house in a hitherto quiet corner of the north London suburb of Enfield. Compared to what was to come, the initial phenomena were relatively minor - knockings on the walls, and pieces of furniture moving in ways that did not seem normal. The neighbours came in and searched the house, finding all in order, though they too heard the knocking. The police were called, and were able to witness a chair sliding along the floor. The disturbances went on, getting more intense and more frightening. They were eventually witnessed by at least thirty people. They included examples of everything a poltergeist can do - overturning chairs and tables, flinging things about, whipping off bedclothes, levitating one of the girls in full view of passers-by, making her speak with the voice of an old man and defying the laws of physics by passing matter through solid matter. Much of this bewildering and often terrifying activity was captured on tape and film by Maurice Grosse of the Society for Psychical Research and his colleague Guy Lyon Playfair, who were on the case within days of its outbreak stayed on it until it finally came to an end, with a twist as unexpected and surprising as in any detective story. No other case of its kind has been so well witnessed from start to finish or so thoroughly documented. Incidents are described as they happened, without embellishment, from some six hundred pages of transcripts of live tape recordings. The story of the Enfield poltergeist is already regarded as a classic in the annals of psychical research. It has been the subject of worldwide press coverage and several radio and television documentaries.
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AsYouWish
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This book took a minute for me to get into, but I am glad I stuck with it. It was quite the adventure and had twists and turns I was not expecting. I really enjoyed this book and am so glad that it was chosen for #TeamDracula to read. Can‘t wait to see what everyone else thinks.

(PS: I am late in posting this and I hope 🤞🏻 it has made it to Torie.)

#HorrorGoesPostalBookClub #hgpbc

sprainedbrain Glad you liked it! Is it bad that I actually forgot which book I sent? 😂 5y
AsYouWish @sprainedbrain Not at all. I only remembered that I hadn‘t reviewed it yet, when I found a bunch of my thriller books and was starting to pick one out in case we did a Round 3. I use to get a Thriller subscription box and I don‘t think I ever read a single one, but now some are appealing to me. (edited) 5y
TorieStorieS Yes- the book has arrived! Both of them! 🤗🎉👏 5y
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AsYouWish @TorieStorieS Yay!!! So sorry it took so long to get them to you! Hope you enjoy them!! 5y
TorieStorieS No worries! I‘m looking forward to them both! 😊 5y
AsYouWish @TorieStorieS I highly recommend both, I fell in love both of the stories and one of them stuck with me for a long time after I read it. 5y
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This House Is Haunted | Guy Lyon Playfair
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Whoops. You‘re too late. 😆

#DontHauntThisPlace
#TimbitTunes

TheKidUpstairs 😂😂😂 6y
Linda_Bloodworth_Author Ooooh! Looks interesting. 6y
Cinfhen 👻👻👻 6y
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Reggie Lolol 6y
Reviewsbylola This would be me. 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️ 6y
Reviewsbylola Also, have you read this one Leah? It sounds fascinating! 6y
LeahBergen @Reviewsbylola I haven‘t! I found it a couple of months ago for $2 and there are so many photos of the 1970s house interior that I had to get it. 😆😆 6y
Mistermandolin I researched another case not a mile and a half from where these events occurred. From 1945. It seems that they‘ve 4y
LeahBergen @Mistermandolin That sounds interesting! Unfortunately, the rest of your comment got cut off. 4y
Mistermandolin @LeahBergen The case I found was in Southfield Road, Ponder‘s End. About a mile and a half from the case Guy Playfair investigated. I came across it when I was researching a book I was writing on unusual lights. The Ponder‘s End case has never been published but I have a large file on it. Standard poltergeist stuff but other phenomena too. Playfair was at a lecture I gave and we discussed the case afterwards. 4y
Mistermandolin @LeahBergen I suggested to him that the two cases were linked: that the same entity had produced both sets of events. He wouldn‘t have it. He said that polt phenomena were always ‘person centred‘ but I disagree. They‘re ‘zonal‘. It‘s like the poltergeist actually ‘lives‘ somewhere and becomes active from time to time. 4y
LeahBergen Oh, wow. How fascinating! You‘ve made me want to bump up the tagged book on my TBR. @Mistermandolin (edited) 4y
Mistermandolin @LeahBergen Glad you found it interesting. One (rare) thing I found when looking at the Southfield Road events was levitation of the witness. Same with the instance Guy Playfair writes about. I came across the case when writing my book ‘Lightforms‘. I‘m at www.markfox.co.uk in case you want to have a look. 4y
LeahBergen @Mistermandolin Thanks, Mark. I‘ll check it out! 4y
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