Over the next 18 months, stories of increasingly strange phenomena emerged from the house.
– Why The Exorcist taps into our darkest fears Out of desperation, they rang the police, one of whom reportedly saw a chair move of its own accord. They called in the neighbours who were also disturbed by what they heard. The source of the sound could not be determined. Peggy Hodgson, a single mother of four, reported that her two young daughters – Janet, aged 11, and older sister Margaret – had heard strange knocking.
In August 1977, the police arrived at 284 Green Street in the north London suburb of Enfield.
