The Enfield Hauntings Other Stories

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.

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.

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.

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!

“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).

You leave us alone; we'll leave you alone. When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1982, they had no idea that they and their two young daughters were embarking on a thirteen-year nightmare. thin a few days of moving in, Elaine and her older daughter began to experience the sensation of being watched. Then came scratching noises and weird smells, followed by voices whispering, maniacal laughter, shadowy figures scurrying along baseboards, and small balls of light bouncing along the ceilings. From the beginning of the haunting, "suffocating dreams" were experienced by everyone except the younger daughter. These eventually accelerated to physical aggression directed at Elaine and both the girls. This book is the true story of how one family tried to cope with living in a haunted house. It also describes how, with the help of parapsychologist Dr. Hans Holzer and medium Marisa Anderson, the family discovered the tragic and heartbreaking secrets buried in the house at Grave's End. I struggle to open my eyes, but achieve nothing but frustration and failure. I am not asleep. I am fully conscious, in a state of panic unthinkable during the day intolerable in the dark of night, held prisoner by some tortured, invisible presence, insistent on abruptly invading my slumber. The more I struggle toward freedom, the more I am pushed into the mattress, perspiring, heart palpitating, a scream involuntarily silenced within my throat. Some nights I experience my skin being stroked while I fight to regain control of my body, my sight. Thank God, this was not one of those nights. Tonight it lets me open my eyes, shaken but unviolated, frightened, but not as frightened as I know I can become. First Runner up for the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for Best Biographical/Personal Book