Did The Enfield Haunting Really Happen?

For more than a year back in 1977 and 1978, 11-year-old Janet Hodgson was supposedly plagued by a mysterious force in her home – a poltergeist that strangled her with a curtain and used her as his mouthpiece by forcing her to utter all sorts of obscenities in a rasping voice of an old man.

In the final moments of Sky Living’s dramatisation of the real-life events, The Enfield Haunting, we see a teenage Janet (Eleanor Worthington Cox), some time after the main events of the drama, doing what teenagers do, staring out of the window and having a crafty cigarette.

But then she turns to the camera – and gives an enigmatic smile… Is it the grin of someone who has finally rid herself of an evil supernatural presence? Or the cheeky knowing expression of a girl who had everyone fooled?

What really happened at 284 Green Street between August 1977 and late autumn 1978?

Source: Radio Times