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Speaker 1: sometimes that bad things happen on bright summer days, especially

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Speaker 1: for those of us who live in places rarely blessed

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Speaker 1: as we step from our various abodes into cool summer mornings,

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Speaker 1: Maurice and Peggy growth on that balmy August fourth morning

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, to the beach so jarring. It

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Speaker 1: was then for Peggy's day to be punctured by that

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Speaker 1: in the early afternoon. Looking back on it in the

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Speaker 1: weeks that followed, the couple from North London, who were

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Speaker 1: visiting relatives on the Island of Jersey at the time,

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Speaker 1: couldn't help but read more into it. Perhaps it was

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Speaker 1: nothing perhaps it was everything. The following morning, as they

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Speaker 1: they received the news that their twenty two year old daughter,

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Speaker 1: Janet had been involved in a motorbike accident. Janet and

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Speaker 1: in Wales when they crashed. Adam, who was driving at

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Speaker 1: dropping everything. Maurice and Peggy raced immediately to the University

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Speaker 1: of Cardiff Hospital, where their daughter was being treated. Janet

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Speaker 1: pm that afternoon. Having never regained consciousness, Janet died three

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Speaker 1: days later. Maurice awoke just after eight am with no

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Speaker 1: summer optimism again, only for reality to come quickly rushing

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Speaker 1: The strange incident of the wet roof was one of

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Speaker 1: eight unusual coincidences Marris noticed in the immediate aftermath of

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Speaker 1: Morris compiled a list of all the coincidences and sent

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Speaker 1: with the request for an expert of valuation. Though Marris

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Speaker 1: anything that might reveal the possibility of life surviving death.

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Speaker 1: In September the following year, Maurice was contacted by the

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Speaker 1: to investigate reports of unusual disturbances taking place at a

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Speaker 1: modest suburban house in Enfield, North London. To day, this

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Speaker 1: case is widely considered to be the most documented, compelling

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McClane Smith. I

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Speaker 1: won't tell you again, said Peggy as she pushed open

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Speaker 1: The Hodgsons lived at two hundred and eighty four Green

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Speaker 1: surprised to find the children's heavy chest of drawers had

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Speaker 1: Next Door, at the home of Peggy and Vic Nottingham,

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Speaker 1: the couple were watching TV with their twenty year old

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Speaker 1: as Peggy Hodgson did her best to explain what had

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Speaker 1: that Peggy and her kids were clearly too scared to

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Speaker 1: Vic and Garry made a quick sweep of the house

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Speaker 1: later having found nothing untoward. Feeling suddenly embarrassed by the

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Speaker 1: Back inside, a palpable sense of fear was beginning to

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Speaker 1: spread as the knocking continued. Make it stop, yelled Margaret.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, It's just the pipes, said Vic as he

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Speaker 1: he soon realized the knocking seemed to be following him

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Speaker 1: given no other information, The officers arrived at the house

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Speaker 1: the house might be haunted, said Peggy, sheepishly, well aware

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Speaker 1: it was probably nothing but the pipes. Piecy Hyams quickly

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Speaker 1: Then ten year old John suddenly froze. What is it,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden it slid across the room. Hearing

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Speaker 1: the living room. The chair just moved, said Heaps, in total,

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Speaker 1: police and the Nottinghams having departed, the Hodgsons were once

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Speaker 1: the evening of Sunday, September fourth, an operator on the

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Speaker 1: from a woman in Enfield claiming that her neighbor's house

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Speaker 1: that moment, Maurice could have sworn he felt a cold

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Speaker 1: loss to explain exactly what he'd seen so far, when

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Speaker 1: Finding a quiet moment with Peggy, Marris advised her to

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Speaker 1: she wasn't playing games with the more. He knew all

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Speaker 1: he said fondly. And as rumors of the peculiar activity

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Speaker 1: the minds of the family, while others made a point

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Speaker 1: local gossip would only intensify when, on September tenth, the

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Speaker 1: Hodgson story finally hit the news. In a front page

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Speaker 1: article in The Daily Mirror, written by George Fallows under

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Speaker 1: the title House of Strange Happenings, it went on to say,

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Speaker 1: ranging from hysteria through terror, to excitement and tension, it

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Speaker 1: has been difficult to record satisfactory data. Nevertheless, I am

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Speaker 1: satisfied the overall impression of our investigation is reasonably accurate.

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Speaker 1: To the best of our ability, we have eliminated the

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Speaker 1: possibility of total trickery. Later that night, Peggy Hodgson and

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Speaker 1: her neighbor Peggy Nottingham were joined by Maurice Gross on

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Speaker 1: returned to Green Street at two am, they found another

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Speaker 1: reporter waiting for them outside. Rosalind Morris was a producer

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Speaker 1: on the story. With nothing much else to report on

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Speaker 1: the room, stating later that whatever had happened that night,

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Speaker 1: she could not explain it. The following day, at his

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Speaker 1: home in London, Guy Playfair was listening to the radio

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Speaker 1: when he heard Roslyn Morris's report of what had taken

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Speaker 1: place the night before. Hearing the tiredness in Maurice Gross's voice,

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Speaker 1: he realized immediately that he and the family were in

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Speaker 1: desperate need of help. You've been listening to Unexplained Series six,

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