1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This episode is adapted from a live episode that I 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: presented at the London Podcast Festival in twenty sixteen and 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: later released on this stream, so may be familiar to 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: some listeners. The town of Runcorn, located on the banks 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 1: of the River Mersey, fifteen miles east of Liverpool in 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: the northwest of England, was once a beating heart of 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: the British Industrial Revolution. Back then, the chemistry of soap 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: and alkali production were its most prominent industries. By the 9 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: mid twentieth century, however, it was the chemistry of societal 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: change that seemed to be working hardest on the town. 11 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: With much of its past industrial glory having dissolved or 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: moved on, it was only the dark and pungent tanneries 13 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: that still clung on the last remnant of a different 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: age in nineteen fifty two, despite the Second World War 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: having ended seven years previously, its shadow continued to linger 16 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: deep within the fabric of British society, and the communities 17 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: of Rumhorn were no different. Among the many from the 18 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: town who went off to fight one hundred and nineteen 19 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: did not return, and the ones that did were not 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: the same anymore. It caused significant upheaval to a great 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,279 Speaker 1: many families, families like the Glenn and Joneses of Number 22 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: one Byron Street, Like most typical working families of the region, 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: they had little choice but to keep calm and carry 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: on regardless, to just somehow find a way through it all. 25 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: But there was nothing that could prepare them for the 26 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: extraordinary events that were soon to engulf their lives. What 27 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: exactly happened to the family in that most peculiar year 28 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: has never truly been accounted for. You're listening to Unexplained, 29 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClean smith. In nineteen fifty two, Number 30 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: one Byron Street, a two story end of terrace house 31 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: in the north of Runcorn, was home to sixty eight 32 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: year old widower Sam Jones, as well as his widowed 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: sister in law Lucy Jones, his eight year old granddaughter 34 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: Eileen Glynn, and his seventeen year old grandson John Glynn. 35 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: Fifty nine year old Ellen Whittle, who'd been lodging with 36 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: the Glynn and Joneses since nineteen thirty seven, completed this 37 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: unusual quintet of occupants. The house was divided into three bedrooms, 38 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: with Lucy and Eileen sharing one room and Sam and 39 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: John sharing another, while the third, which led off from 40 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: Sam and John's room, was occupied by Miss Whittle. Things 41 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: became a little more crowded On Sunday, seventeenth of August, however, 42 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: when Sam, John, Lucy, and Eileen were forced to share 43 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: a bedroom together to accommodate Lucy's son and daughter in law, 44 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: who were visiting that weekend. It was by no means 45 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: a new arrangement. Yet for some reason that night Lucy 46 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: was having trouble sleeping. Lying in the dark, she was 47 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: convinced she could hear a strange noise that seemed to 48 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: be emanating from the dresser, like something gently clawing at 49 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: the wood. Did you hear that? She whispered. Irritated, Sam 50 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: got up and turned on the light, then whipped open 51 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: the drawers. Inside he found nothing but the usual odds 52 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: and ends of pencils, notepaper, and shaving implements. Pushing the 53 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: drawers back in with a huff, he switched off the 54 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: light and went back to bed. Moments later, the noise returned, 55 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: except this time it began steadily to get louder and 56 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: the clawing faster, until it started to sound as though 57 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: something were trying to get out of the dressing table, 58 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: staring aghast in the dark toward the sound. The family 59 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: hurriedly jumped up together and rushed from the room in 60 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: a collective terror. Suddenly finding themselves standing together in their 61 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: nightclothes in the cold of the hallway, they looked sheepishly 62 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: toward each other, feeling a little silly about the whole episode, 63 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: Laughing it off. One by one, they returned to the 64 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: bedroom to find the strange noise had now stopped, But 65 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: as they each slipped back under their respective sheets, they 66 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: soon found that something of the event had remained with them, 67 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: and no matter how hard each of them tried, neither 68 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: of them quite managed to reach the land of sleep. 69 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: The next night, Lucy and Eileen returned to their usual bedroom, 70 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: leaving Sam and John alone to sleep in theirs. No 71 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: sooner had their lights gone out, the scratching began again, 72 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: followed moments later by a terrific series of bangs as 73 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: the dresser draws were repeatedly slammed open and shut. Sam 74 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: hurriedly switched on the light and gasped the dressing table 75 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: was now standing well over a foot away from the wall, 76 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: thinking that perhaps some kind of practical joker had invaded 77 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: their home. Sam immediately called the police. A short time later, 78 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: two local officers and a sergeant arrived to find the 79 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: family in deep distress. As the police listened patiently to 80 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: Sam detailing the strange events, how they only happened in 81 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: the dark and stopped as soon as the light was 82 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: turned on, it was hard not to suspect that one 83 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: of Sam's own family was in fact responsible. Nonetheless, after 84 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: making a thorough search of the property, the police set 85 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: a series of traps to rule out human involvement, including 86 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: placing a tumbler on the dressing table and applying adhesive 87 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: tape over the drawers. Sam and John sat together on 88 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: the bed as the police kept watch. Then one of 89 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: the officers switched off the light. Moments later, the dressing 90 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: table was heard rocking wild back and forth, followed by 91 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: a furious rattling of the drawers and an almighty crash, 92 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: like the sound of a window being smashed in. When 93 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: the light was turned on. Seconds later, the smashed remains 94 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: of the tumbler could be seen on the floor, and 95 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: the dresser had once again been seemingly pulled from the wall. Strangely, however, 96 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: the tape remained intact over the drawers, and neither Sam 97 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: nor John had been seen to leave their bed. 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After a second fruitless night of tests, 121 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: the police withdrew from the property and later filed a 122 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: report detailing the unexplained activity at the house. As the 123 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: sergeant would go on to note, we tried every method 124 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: known to us, and believe me, the family and not 125 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: doing it. After four sleepless nights, seventeen year old John 126 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: was fast becoming a nervous wreck, not least because of 127 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: the growing sense among those in the house that the 128 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: disturbances were beginning to center on him. As word of 129 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: the events began to spread, a local self styled medium 130 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: named Phil France volunteered to help the family. Believing the 131 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: house to be haunted, France, together with fellows self described 132 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: medium and friend of the family, Missus Bousfield, offered to 133 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: conduct a seance to rid the property of any ghosts 134 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: that were located there. On the evening of Thursday, twenty 135 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: first of August, France and Bousfield gathered with John and 136 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: Sam in their bedroom. Then after asking for the light 137 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: to be switched off. France called out into the darkness 138 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: and asked for a sign. Just then, two bibles that 139 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: France had brought with him were flung from the dresser, 140 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: followed by a small clock that clattered to the ground 141 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: as the family shrieked in fear. In haste, the light 142 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: was switched back on. Sam gasped at the sight of Bousfield, who, 143 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: with a strange look on her face, was staring directly 144 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: to the side of the dresser. There's someone there, she said, 145 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: a man. As she began to describe him, It quickly 146 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: became clear to John that the man she was detailing 147 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: was his dead father, Michael, who died of cancer only 148 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: four months previously. Then France spoke suddenly and appeared to 149 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: double over in pain. It was a spirit guide coming through, 150 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: he said, with the message for John to pass on 151 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: to his mother Norah. A pained and tight voice came 152 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: from France's lips, saying that Michael's spirit had remained earth 153 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: bound after inadvertently becoming attached to an evil poltergeist. Once 154 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: John had delivered this message to his mother, it said, 155 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: Michael would be free to pass over. The following night, 156 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: with John having spoken to his mother. Just as France predicted, 157 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: not a sound was heard, and the family finally bedded 158 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: down for their first uninterrupted sleep in five nights. The 159 00:11:54,840 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: disturbances appeared to be over. With news of the events 160 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: at Byron Street spreading fast, the family became inundated with 161 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: interview requests from local press. Having first resisted them all, 162 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: when a series of unflattering rumors began to circulate about 163 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: the family, Sam decided to set the record straight. The 164 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: resultant article appeared in the Runcorn Guardian on August twenty ninth, 165 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: by which point there had been no sign of activity 166 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: in over a week. But any hope that going public 167 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: would settle the story once and for all proved to 168 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: be wildly naive. Certainly, for a town eager to be 169 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: distracted from the drudgery of the shipyards and tanneries, an 170 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 1: article proclaiming the existence of an evil poltergeist at the 171 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: home of one of their own was too much to ignore. 172 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: For one reader, especially, the story would prove to be 173 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: of particular interest. On the afternoon of the twenty ninth, 174 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: on the other side of the River Mersey, in the 175 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: town of Widness, Reverend William Stephens was settling down for 176 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: his tea when he came across the story of the 177 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: Byron Street poltergeist, now being referred to as the Runcorn Thing. 178 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: As a Methodist minister, it was perhaps unsurprising that Stephens 179 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: would take an interest in such speculative talk of evil spirits. However, 180 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: it was in a somewhat different capacity that his interest 181 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: had been piqued. In addition to his position as a minister, 182 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: Stevens had also for a number of years been a 183 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: member of the Society for Psychical Research, with a particular 184 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: interest in the paranormal and mediumship. Despite all his years 185 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: of interest, however, never before had Stephens had a case 186 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: land on his own doorstep, and it was too good 187 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: an opportunity to turn down. Meanwhile, back at the Glyn 188 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 1: and Jones's household, something was stirring. After two weeks of peace, 189 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: John and Sam had just settled down to sleep when 190 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: those familiar scratches darted up again in the darkness. Sam 191 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: had just enough time to duck as something large and 192 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: bulky flew through the air before clattering to the floor 193 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: at the far side of the room. Switching on the light, 194 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: Sam and John gasped at the sight of the chair, 195 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: now lying on its side against the wall, a large 196 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: dent in the plaster where it had hit the thing, 197 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: it seemed was back. The following day, Sam turned up 198 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: for work at near by Pool Farm, completely shattered. Seeing 199 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: the state of his employee, His boss, Harold Crowther, couldn't 200 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: help but ask if Sam was okay. Sam took a 201 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: moment as he tried to answer. Then a wave came 202 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: over him, and despite his best efforts to stop it, 203 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: he burst into a flood of tears. He couldn't take 204 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: it anymore, he said, all the sleepless and endless nights 205 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: of terror. As he wiped away at his eyes. He 206 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: begged Crowther to come and see for himself if anything 207 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: could be done. Back home, John was also struggling to cope. 208 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: Equally terrified and afraid for his life, He divided his 209 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: good friend, nineteen year old John Berry to stay with 210 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: him in the house. Happy to help, Berry promptly moved 211 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: into John's bedroom with Sam, by then preferring to sleep 212 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: downstairs on the sofa. On Monday, twenty second of September, 213 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: having been informed of a sick our barrage of violent activity, 214 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: occurring at Byron Street the night before, Reverend Stevens resolved 215 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: to go immediately to the property. That evening, he and 216 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: two associates, Reverend Stafford and Leicester, made their way to 217 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: the Glynn and Jones's home, only to find roughly three 218 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: hundred people gathered outside and the house crammed with visitors, 219 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: the result of an open invitation from Sam for anyone 220 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: who doubted his family's story to come and witness the 221 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: phenomenon for themselves. At eleven thirty pm, with the crowd 222 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: largely dispersed, the ministers were joined in the bedroom by 223 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: Sam's boss, Harold Crowther and one other of his associates. 224 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: With things only seeming to happen under cover of darkness, 225 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: the men had brought torches with them in the hope 226 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: of catching the phantom out. John Glynn and John Berry 227 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: got into the bed and the light was once again 228 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: switched off. The five men stood watch in the dark, 229 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: waiting patiently with their fingers poised over the switch of 230 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: their torches, ready to catch a ghost. Before long, the 231 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: dresser cracked and creaked into life and started rocking viciously 232 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: against the wall. The torches were hurriedly switched on, and 233 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: all activity instantly ceased. Stevens pushed the dresser back into 234 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: the corner, and again the light was turned out. If 235 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: you can hear my voice, knock three times, shouted Stevens, 236 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: as if in response, the dresser began again to shake violently, 237 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: but this time, when Stevens shone his torch at it, 238 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: all in the room reeled back in horror as the 239 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: dresser continued to rock on its own accord for over 240 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: three seconds. What followed was another night of violent bombardment, 241 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: with everything in sight dislodged. A chest at the foot 242 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: of the bed was repeatedly banged against it, moving four 243 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: men who were sat on it at the time, and 244 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 1: the bed itself across the room. At one point, something 245 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: even grabbed hold of John Berry and threw him to 246 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: the floor. Another time, Stephen's positioned a jigsaw puzzle box 247 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: behind him, making sure it was beyond any one's reach. 248 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: At the sound of a rattle coming from inside the box, 249 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: Stephens shone his torch on the two boys, but both 250 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: were lying completely still under the bed sheets. Moments later, 251 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: the box flew through the air, caught by the beam 252 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: of Stephen's torch and for a moment, it seemed almost 253 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: suspended in mid air, as if, as one of the 254 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,479 Speaker 1: witnesses described it, it were being carried with directional intent. 255 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: With the violence of the incidents intensifying, a second seance 256 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: was hastily arranged, led once again by Phil France. On 257 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: the evening of September twenty sixth, in a house on 258 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: Greenway Road, overlooking Runcorn Cemetery. John Glynn and his mother 259 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: Norah arrived to find a small crowd waiting for them inside. 260 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: In the center of the living room stood a cone 261 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: shaped trumpet coated at both ends with luminous paint. The participants, 262 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 1: including Reverend Stephens, two Methodist ministers, and a journalist, gathered 263 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: in a circle around the trumpet, and the lights were extinguished. 264 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: After a short prayer, came the soft hum of voices 265 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: breaking gently into song hymns to awaken the spirits. As 266 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: the singing grew louder, eyes glanced anxiously around the room 267 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: and back to the cone, but it remained fixed to 268 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: the floor. Suddenly, the calm was punctured by strange, garbled 269 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: voices emanating from the mouth of one of the mediums. 270 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: It was Phil France again. The words were unintelligible, but 271 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: was said by one journalist a little vaguely, and no 272 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: doubt stereotypically to resemble the tones of a native of Africa. 273 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: It is unlikely that phil France had much experience with 274 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: African dialects, either regional or ones that might somehow represent 275 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 1: an entire continent. However, he later claimed to have been 276 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 1: channeling the spirit of a member of the Southern African 277 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: Zulu tribe who was called Duca. Although there is little 278 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: credibility attached to this incident, the name Juca was often 279 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: used in reference to the apparent poltergeist. No other evidence 280 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: of supernatural activity was recorded at the seance, nor did 281 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: it bring an end to the disturbances. In nineteen fifty four, 282 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: Richard Whittington Egan, who would later become known as a 283 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: leading authority on the so called Jack the Ripper, wrote 284 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: a piece for the Runcorn and Witnessed Guardian detailing the 285 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: events that occurred at Byron Street. Years later, feeling that 286 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: his editor had opted for hyperbole at the expense of 287 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: sobriety and reason, Whittington Egan felt compelled to set the 288 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: record straight. Like everyone else from the local area, Richard 289 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: had read and heard much about the Runcorn thing, Although skeptical, 290 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: such was the sheer number of stories that appeared in 291 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: the press, he felt compelled to take a look for himself. 292 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: On Sunday, twenty eight of September back in nineteen fifty two, 293 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: he drove to Witness to meet with Reverend Stevens, who, 294 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: although he found to be of a decent and agreeable character, 295 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: he couldn't help but question whether he might have been 296 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: too willing to believe all that he'd supposedly been seeing. 297 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: At ten thirty pm, Whittington Egan arrived at one Byron Street, 298 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: parking up outside as a light drizzle began to fall. 299 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: Later that night, he watched quietly as the two Johns 300 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: clambered into bed in front of a group of twenty 301 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: people who'd somehow squeezed into the room with them. Again, 302 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: the light was clicked off, and barely a moment later, 303 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: the clock was hurled across the room, followed by a 304 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: colossal bang. There it is, said John. There it is 305 00:22:54,600 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: all right, said Stevens. A woman sung a hymn. Others 306 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: claimed to see ghostly lights appear in the room. Stevens 307 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: offered up the lord's prayer while John Glynn played haunting 308 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: strains on a harmonica in the dark. To Whittington Egan, 309 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: the entire thing was a ridiculous pantomime, and later on, 310 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: when the familiar pattern of events was repeated, something different occurred, 311 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: but the sound of one supposed knocking of a spirit. 312 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: Whittington Egan switched on his torch just in time to 313 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: see the arm of John Glynn rapidly withdrawing from the 314 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: direction of the chest at the end of the bed. Later, 315 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: when Whittington Egan finally stepped out of the house in 316 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: the early hours of the morning, with the rain falling harder, 317 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: he allowed himself a rye smile at the crowd of 318 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: onlookers huddled silently underneath the bedroom window, gazing up expectantly 319 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: for any sign of the phantom. A few days later, 320 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: a genuine tragedy would strike the house. On the evening 321 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: of Thursday, October sixteenth, the family's lodger, Ellen Whittle, was 322 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: out walking with her friend James Sutton. While making their 323 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: way over runcorn Hill, just above a disused quarry known 324 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: as Frog's Mouth, they inexplicably slipped and fell twenty four 325 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: feet to the ground. James Sutton was hospitalized for three months, 326 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: but Ellen Whittle was not so fortunate. She died of 327 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: her injuries the following day. By mid November, after three 328 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: months of unbridled destruction, the strange activity at Number one 329 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: Byron Street seemed to be coming to an end. On 330 00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: November twenty third, pioneering BBC documentarian Dennis Mitchell was sent 331 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,479 Speaker 1: to the house in the hope of catching a glimpse 332 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: of the phantom, but nothing unto ward occurred. Then a 333 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: few days later, Reverend Stevens, along with three journalists, caught 334 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: Sam Jones red handed launching a book against the bedroom wall. 335 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: To journalist Whittington Egan, it was the final nail in 336 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: the coffin of the Runcorn thing forever and Stephens, However, 337 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: like many of the other witnesses, it was proof only 338 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: that Sam, like John before, had merely succumbed to the 339 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: pressure of maintaining the disturbances so that people would continue 340 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: to believe their original claims. By mid December, however, the 341 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: press were no longer calling at Byron Street, while outside, 342 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,719 Speaker 1: the noise and bustle of expectant crowds had dispersed, replaced 343 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: by the more familiar quietude of small town suburbia. A 344 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: short time later, the disturbances stopped altogether. But then something 345 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: very peculiar came to light. At eight am on the 346 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: morning of Saturday, December thirteenth, roughly the same time that 347 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: the events at Byron Street were coming to an end. 348 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: Down at Pool Farm, where Sam Jones worked, his boss, 349 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: Harold Crowther, had just released his dogs into the courtyard 350 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: when he noticed something bizarre towards the back of the yard. 351 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: A small black cloud appeared to be hovering just above 352 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: the ground. The dogs had seen it too, and immediately 353 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: gave chase when it started to move away at a 354 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: rapid pace. 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With his assessment of the events completed, Reverend 382 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: Stephens submitted his report to the Society of Psychical Research 383 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: in April of nineteen fifty three. A short time later, 384 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: Stevens heard of a series of distressing events believed to 385 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: have taken place at Pool Farm. Intrigued, he contacted the Krouthers, 386 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: who eventually agreed to share their story, but only on 387 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: one condition that their names and the events they were 388 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: about to divulge be kept out of the press. The 389 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: Crowthers were pig farmers and had lived at the fifteenth 390 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: century farmhouse at Pool Farm for a number of years 391 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: without ever witnessing anything strange. On the morning of Sunday, 392 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: August seventeenth, the exact same day that trouble began at 393 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: Byron Street, Harold Crowther was approaching the pigstye when he 394 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: sensed that something was wrong. One of the pigs, in 395 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: a fit of terror, was trying desperately to jump the fence, 396 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: while a number of other pigs were fighting among themselves. 397 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: As Crowther neared the pen, he then saw three pigs 398 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: lying dead on the ground. It isn't uncommon for livestock 399 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: to die unexpectedly from time to time, but to lose 400 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: three in one night was a serious cause for alarm, 401 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: and this was only the beginning. A week later, several 402 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: more pigs dropped dead under the same mysteria circumstances. By 403 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: mid September, all fifty three of the Crowthers animals were dead. 404 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: At a complete loss to explain the deaths, the Crowthers 405 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: sent entrails and blood samples to be analyzed. Despite being 406 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: assessed by five veterinary surgeons, nobody could find an answer. 407 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: Rather disturbingly, the best they could do was surmised that 408 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: something had frightened the animals to death. Then, as Reverend 409 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: Stevens reported, one night, they found their cow in a 410 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: state of intense fear. Its eyes were bulging, the hair 411 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: on its back stood on end, and it was covered 412 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: in beads of sweat. While no cause for alarm could 413 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: be discovered, from that night on, the cow never again 414 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: gave milk. On the Wednesday, two days after the loss 415 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: of the last pig, mister Crowther saw the black cloud 416 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: for the first time. It was moving across the yard, 417 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: an amorphous mass about seven feet high with two prongs 418 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: sticking out of its back. When he approached it, it 419 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: moved off in the direction of the pigstyes, turned into 420 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: an outhouse and disappeared. Crowther told nobody of his experience 421 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: for fear that he would be ridiculed. So it was 422 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: with great surprise when his wife told him that she 423 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: too had seen it on the same Wednesday. Crowther later 424 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: claimed to have seen the cloud when he visited Byron Street, 425 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: but perhaps the most shocking account was from his wife. 426 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: It was Sunday, November ninth, and Missus Crowther was in 427 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: the kitchen when Sam Jones called by the farm. Missus 428 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: Crowther looked up in horror to see that the cloud 429 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: was following Sam. As it happens, John Glynn's father, Michael, 430 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: had also once been a laborer at Pool Farm, working 431 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: for the Crowthers. At some point, Michael had been accused 432 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: of a crime by the Crowthers, for which he was 433 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: later sent to prison. It wasn't long after Michael's release 434 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: that he was diagnosed with the cancer that would eventually 435 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: take his life, only four months before the strange disturbances began. 436 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: By the end of nineteen fifty two, the Runcorn thing 437 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: was no more for many in the local area. It 438 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: had provided endless hours of gossip and speculation, something of 439 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: color to leaven the day, and for the residence of 440 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: number one Byron Street, a moment in the spotlight orbit, 441 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: one that had come at a severe mental and physical cost. Interestingly, 442 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: despite what later came to pass, everyone that came into 443 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: contact with John Glynn, even Richard Whittington Egan, described him 444 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: as an honest and likable boy. In January nineteen fifty three, 445 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: he joined the Irish Guards to begin national service. Weeks later, 446 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: he would suffer a complete nervous breakdown, and after a 447 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: psychiatric evaluation, was granted an immediate discharge. He later married 448 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: and continued to live in Runcorn. Reverend Stevens remained convinced, 449 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: in spite of some strong evidence to the contrary, that 450 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: something inexplicable had taken place at one Byron Street, and 451 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: it is worth noting that Whittington Egan's criticism that Stevens's 452 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: faith had clouded his judgment was a little unfair. It 453 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: was never the case that Stevens believed the activity to 454 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: be the result of an otherworldly spirit communicating from beyond 455 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: the grave. He believed instead that the disturbances had in 456 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: some way emanated from John Glynn. It was a fashionable 457 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: idea at the time, having been posited by a number 458 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: of eminent academics, such as psychologist doctor John Layard, that 459 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: excessive vitality in the young, exacerbated by acute anxiety or neurosis, 460 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: might in some way be the cause of apparent poltergeist activity. 461 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: It was early in nineteen fifty six when Harold Crowther 462 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: wrote to Reverend Stevens, finally agreeing to allow his story 463 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: to be told. He hadn't wanted his name to be 464 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: published before, he said, because he was still getting over 465 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: the shock. As he explained, we are very slowly getting 466 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,439 Speaker 1: round the corner, but things will never be the same 467 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 1: again here. In May nineteen fifty eight, Sam Jones, who 468 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: was by then seventy four, had moved in with his 469 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: daughter in law in Stenhill's Cres. 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