On the evening of August 31, 1977, Peggy Hodgson's children did not go to bed. When 11-year-old Janet called her mother again from the bedroom she shared with her 10-year-old brother Johnny.
Peggy yelled for Janet to stop "fooling around" and burst into the room to end the pampering. However, upon entering the bedroom, the woman saw mortally frightened children, who told her about strange sounds and a moving bed.
At first, Peggy did not believe it and was even a little angry at the children who made a booth in the middle of the night, but to prove that her opinion was wrong, the chest of drawers moved away from the wall and began to spontaneously move towards the door. The woman tried to push him back, but could not budge.
Alarmed, she ordered her children to leave the room, and she herself asked the neighbors to search the house. No one found anything, but they all heard inexplicable pounding noises coming from the walls, which only added to the growing uneasiness.
Paranormal investigation
Thus began an 18-month episode marked by many strange events and the constant investigation of the Anfield poltergeist. A police officer summoned to the scene stated that he saw the chair slide across the floor under the influence of his own force, but he did not know what to do about it, so he decided not to include this information in the report. Two senior psychiatrist investigators, Maurice Gross and Guy Lyon Playfair, spent six months investigating the case and said they saw household items flying around the room and furniture floating, spinning and toppling over. Gross also heard thumping, repeating strange voices and dogs barking.
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Skeptics
Much of the activity seemed to be centered around little Janet Hodgson, who claimed that she was regularly thrown from her bed by invisible forces and forced into the air several times. It is not surprising that the main wave of indignation from skeptics was directed at her. This was due to the fact that all events in the house took place only in the presence of Janet. Moreover, the investigation several times caught Peggy and Janet bending spoons, which greatly undermined the credibility of this story. Skeptics were unanimous in the opinion that "poltergeist" was nothing more than the antics of "a little girl who wanted to cause trouble and was a very spoiled child."
Interest today
Although the strange activity in the house ceased in 1979, interest in the Anfield poltergeist is still high. Janet Hodges recently gave her first interview in nearly 30 years. She is now 45 and admits that some of the phenomena were fake, but insists that only 2% of 100 lies. Now Hodges says, “I don't care if people believe me or not. I went through it and it was true."
BALAN-SENCHUK ALEXANDRA