The House on Green Street
On the night of August 30, 1977, in a council house at 284 Green Street in Enfield, North London, single mother Peggy Hodgson heard strange knocking coming from her children's bedroom. She walked in to find the chest of drawers sliding across the floor — by itself. Her daughters, Janet (11) and Margaret (13), were terrified. When Peggy and a neighbor tried to shove it back, the dresser resisted them.
The next night it got worse. Desperate, the family called the police. Around 1 AM on September 1, WPC Carolyn Heeps walked into the living room, heard four sharp knocks on the wall — and then watched a chair wobble, tip, and slide three to four feet across the floor with nobody near it. She signed an official police statement saying so. A serving officer, on the record, about a chair that moved on its own.
What followed became Britain's most documented paranormal case. Over the next eighteen months: furniture hurled across rooms, toys flying at impossible angles (a Daily Mirror photographer took a Lego brick to the face), relentless knocking — and strangest of all, a gravelly old man's voice that seemed to speak through young Janet, claiming to be Bill Wilkins, a former resident who had died in that house.
Two investigators from the Society for Psychical Research, Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair, spent more than a year in the house, recording hundreds of hours of audio. The BBC covered the case as it unfolded. More than thirty witnesses — police, journalists, neighbors — gave their accounts.
Skeptics point out that Janet later admitted to some trickery. But the signed police statement, the tapes, and the sheer number of independent witnesses have kept this case alive for nearly fifty years.
Then, in 1979, as suddenly as it began — it stopped.
So here's my question for you: a police officer signed her name to a chair moving across a room by itself. What would it take for YOU to sign yours? Tell me your story — I'm listening. And sleep tight.
This story is: REAL.
Sources: BBC (1977 Nationwide report; Radio 4 documentary "The Reunion," 1978); signed statement of WPC Carolyn Heeps, Metropolitan Police, September 1, 1977.