Haunted Enfield

The London borough of Enfield is full of haunted locations, but only a handful of them have ever been featured in books. Haunted Enfield brings together all of the stories, legends and documented evidence of the supernatural from around the borough into one volume. Who are the ghostly figures that roam the corridors of Trent Park mansion, Forty Hall and Myddelton House? Why does the shade of a little girl haunt the King and Tinker pub? Where does the black coach and horses that haunts Enfield Highway and Ponders End go? From famous cases such as the Enfield Poltergeist and the Bell Lane flyer to places that have never been featured before, the book provides an alternate, hidden history of some of the borough's key locations.

A COLLECTION OF GHOST STORIES BOTH REAL & FICTIONALTHE ENFIELD HAUNTINGThe Enfield Poltergeist was a claim of "paranormal phenomena" that occurred in England between 1977 and 1979 involving two sisters, aged 11 and 13. It is one of the few incidents that renowned ghost hunters believe to be the genuine article of a real life haunting. While some stage magicians cried "hoax", the case nevertheless garnered attention from the mainstream press in England. Numerous witnesses, including investigating police, claim to have seen furniture being moved, toys thrown and the children themselves levitating. Was it an elaborate hoax or was there supernatural goings on?THE GHOST IN THE BARNWhen Elijah was fifteen he shares his first kiss behind a barn with Abigail, his troubled girlfriend. Wanting to escape from her abusive family, she tells Elijah of a door in the woods where she could escape the troubles of the world and in live in paradise. Abigail beckons for him to follow but he doesn't...she subsequently goes missing and he is the primary suspect but is never charged with any crime. Twenty years later, Elijah is depressed and down on his luck. He returns to the town and goes to barn at night. To his shock, Abigail emerges from the woods, beckoning him to follow her through a magical door...will he follow?COLD ANGELDaniel and Rachel are a married couple who are seeking to cope after the accidental death of their daughter, Kayleigh. The couple barely speaks anymore and blame one another for the Kayleigh's death. But soon Rachel begins hearing a voice in the home...a voice that she is convinced is that of her dead daughter...only she can hear it and soon Kayleigh tells her something that she doesn't want to hear...a horrifying secret....but is the voice real or just a figment of her imagination?GHOST PLAYERChloe is a teenage girl who sees ghosts ever since her father tried to murder her when she was seven years old. Numerous ghosts come and try to talk to her and she ignores them all...until she sees the ghost of a girl her own age who had been murdered across town. With the help of an older detective being forced to retire, the two work together to figure out who killed the girl...and realize that the killer is now after them.GHOST HOUSEThree pill heads living in the same half way house all suffer from the same nightmare. They each dream of a man hacking up his family with an axe. Their counselor is all too willing to chalk up the dreams to their collective drug withdrawal. But as their rehab draws to a close, the addicts realize that the house they are living in could be truly haunted after all.

It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history. The spirit, who quickly became known as 'Donald', began to communicate, initially via tapping sounds, but over time - and with the encouragement of psychical researcher Harold Chibbett, whose case-files appear here – by learning to write. Soon, the spirit had begun to make simply incredible claims about his identity, insisting that he was one of the most famous figures in world history – but what was the truth? Here, for the first time, is the full story, told by the woman right at the heart of it all – Shirley herself.

In the deep woods of Enfield, an autumn windstorm has unleashed a horror that has been trapped for over 100 years. For decades, the beast and its lair have hungered. Now the people of Enfield have to deal with a supernatural hunter with an insatiable appetite for humans.A hunter that is disturbingly good at what it does.As people start disappearing, Officer Tom Henderson finds himself thrust from the role of a rural police officer into that of a savior. Improbable eyewitness accounts tell him that the beast he has to face is merciless. And now, Tom will discover how deep his courage truly runs.

Do not buy this book if you want to read a biased account of the famous Enfield poltergeist case from 1977 through to 1978. Do buy this book if you want to know what really happened!

"Our first instinct was just sheer disbelief. We were trying to tell ourselves that it couldn't be real. It couldn't be happening. But it was." In December of 1982, when Tom Ross was thirteen years old, he took a week's vacation to Mammoth Lakes in California with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. Almost from the moment they arrived at their condo, they experienced a near-constant barrage of bizarre phenomena that escalated over their stay, and seemed to follow them after they left. Items moved around by themselves, shades flew open when no one was near them, bloody tissues appeared out of nowhere, words appeared on windows in empty rooms, a blue haze seemed to hover near the ceiling, a door chain was broken from the inside by what appeared to be a clawed hand, and disembodied voices emerged from corners. The family was simultaneously terrified and amazed. Thirty-two years later, the four witnesses decided to tell their story.