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Graham Morris, the Daily Mirror photographer who captured Janet Hodgson levitating in the “Enfield Poltergeist” case back in the 1970s swears the girl did not jump.
Janet, 11-years-old at the time, her mother Peggy Hodgson, and her three siblings, have been the subjects of one of the most debated and studied paranormal cases ever.
The family, who lived in a semi-detached home at 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, claimed to have been tormented by the spirit of the home’s former tenant Bill Wilkins, who died while living there.
The “Enfield Poltergeist” story has become the subject of numerous books, documentaries, and the horror film The Conjuring 2.
One of the more than thirty people who witnessed what appeared to be paranormal activities within the home was photographer Morris.
Morris, who was in his 20s when in 1977 he was tasked, along with a reporter, with visiting the home and documenting what was occurring there.
“Bang, things started flying all over the place,” Morris tells the Daily Mail. “I’m in the corner looking through my lens. I can see everything. No one is throwing this stuff. No one is doing anything. They’re not trying to do anything for fun or for laughs or whatever.
“They were all, particularly the kids, absolutely horrified.”
Over the next 18 months, Morris would regularly visit the Hodgson home.
It was on one of those visits that the Society for Psychical Research and Morris set up a camera on a tripod in the corner of the children’s bedroom.
That night he captured a photograph which he claims shows Janet Hodgson levitating.
“There is no way she was doing this for fun,” he said. “You have got to be mad to actually want to do something like that. It was a completely darkened room.
“If it were the case she were jumping she’d be launching herself at a brick wall or a door in pitch black.”
While Morris claims he does not believe in ghosts, he did admit, “I think this girl has some sort of force,” also calling it a “sort of kinetic energy.”
He added, “This wasn’t Hollywood. They didn’t have CGI. They weren’t faking it.”
After spending a year-and-a-half dealing with the “Enfield Poltergeist” and thinking about it in the decades since, Morris just says, “There is something going on in that house which we haven’t discovered yet. We haven’t worked out what it is or how it happened.”