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The Enfield Poltergeist Review

The Conjurng 2 was based on the happenings of the Hodgsons in Enflield London, a haunting of a poltergeist that traumatized this family.

The Enfield Poltergeist Available Exclusively on Apple+ Podcast Review

In 1977, there was a haunting in Enfield, London, England. The Hodgson family’s home in Green Street was plagued by a haunting from a polter

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Heroes of Ghost Hunting: Maurice Grosse

Maurice Grosse 1919 - 2006

Widely reknown for his involvement in the Enfield Poltergeist case, Maurice had not started out as an investigator. He was a British WWII Royal Artilleryman, evacuated from Dunkirk then after the war beame an avid inventor. His greatest invention being the revolving billboard. 1961 saw Maurice start up his own Engineering consultancy firm, managing to file many worldwide patents.

In 1976 his daughter was tragically killed in a Motorbike accident. Family members reported strange coincidences and Psychical happenings, this was the catalyst for Grosse's interest in the afterlife and Psychical research. Maurice would later join the SPR (Society of Psychical Research) and the Ghost club. In September 1977 Grosse heard about some alleged Poltergeist activity at a private house in Green Street, Enfield, London. This of course would later become the uber famous Enfield Poltergeist case. During the investigation Maurice, along with Guy Lyon-Playfair (another SPR investigator) offered the family support, often staying over at the house for long periods of time gathering hours and hours of Audio and Video evidence. 

Most notable evidence from the case were audible knockings, bangings, Crockery being chucked around, chairs moving of their own accord (multiple witnesses including a Police Officer) and the curious posession of an 11yr old girl in the family. Apparently the spirit of the former owner would posess the girl and change her voice not unlike the movie 'The Exorcist'. The former owner was a grumpy foul mouthed camugeon who, through the girl, would insult and offend the investigators. As this form of evidence was hard to correllate, it was shunned and questioned by some academics and Ventriloquists saying it was a clever trick. Grosse offered a prize of £1000 to anyone who could replicate the evidence. No-one came forward.

Further reading on this case.  This House Is Haunted (1980) by Guy Lyon-Playfair

In later years Maurice carried out many other investigations and became a committee member of the SPR as well as member of the Spontaneuos Cases Committee. At an investigation at Charlston House in 1995 Maurice was able to record flying Crockery on videotape. Again in 2000 Video evidence was made of Poltergeist activity at a private London residence. In addition to his mainstream work Grosse also embarked on cases involving Precognition and also amassed a large collection of psychic photographs. Maurice Grosse continued in his work until his death in 2006.