The Conjuring 2 vs the True Story of the Enfield Poltergeist. It lived off me, off my energy.

Call me mad if you like. Those events did happen. The poltergeist was with me and I feel that in a sense he always will be. Janet Hodgson, Daily Mail Online. Questioning the Story: When did the Enfield haunting begin? The Conjuring 2 true story reveals that according to the mother, Peggy Hodgson, the haunting of her Enfield home began on the evening of August 3. It was on that night that her daughter Janet told her that her brothers' beds were wobbling.

The next evening, Mrs. Hodgson heard a loud noise from upstairs. She entered her children's bedroom and saw a chest of drawers moving. She tried to stop the heavy oak chest as it moved toward the door, concluding that an invisible force was trying to trap them in the room."It started in a back bedroom, the chest of drawers moved, and you could hear shuffling," recalled the real Janet Hodgson many years later in a Channel 4 Enfield Poltergeist documentary. Thinking that it was Janet and her siblings making the noise, she said that her mother told them to go to sleep. We told her what was going on, and she came to see it for herself. She saw the chest of drawers moving.

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When she tried to push it back, she couldn't." - Daily Mail Online The real Janet Hodgson (left) and actress Madison Wolfe (right) as Janet in The Conjuring 2 movie. Did they hear a strange knocking coming from the walls? Yes. The knocking would fade in and out as it ran down the wall, supposedly frightening the family so much that they all slept in the same room with the light on. Vic Nottingham, a neighbor, claims that when he went into the home to investigate at the family's request, he heard a knocking on the wall and on the ceiling, leaving him somewhat frightened. The knocking can be heard during this Janet Hodgson interview that was conducted in the home. Daily Mail Online. Did dozens of crosses turn upside down?

No. In fact- checking The Conjuring 2 by comparing it to the real Enfield Poltergeist case, we found no evidence that crosses turned upside down on the walls of the Hodgson home. In fact, the upside down cross has not traditionally been a symbol of evil. It is the Cross of St. Peter, who was crucified upside down because he felt that he was not worthy to be crucified in the same way as Jesus. Unlike the movie, crosses did not turn upside down in real life, nor is it traditionally a symbol of evil. Did the mother, Peggy, go to the neighbor's house for help? Yes. While exploring The Conjuring 2 true story, we learned that single mother Peggy Hodgson took the family next door and pleaded for help.

The neighbors, Vic and Peggy Nottingham, offered to go into the home to investigate. I went in there and I couldn't make out these noises — there was a knocking on the wall, in the bedroom, on the ceiling," said Vic. I was beginning to get a bit frightened." - Daily Mail Online. Did Janet Hodgson really levitate? In The Conjuring 2 movie, Peggy's daughter Janet (Madison Wolfe) rises high in the air and finds herself pinned against the ceiling. This is a complete exaggeration of what allegedly happened in real life during the Enfield haunting. Photographs of the real Janet Hodgson "levitating" only show her a short distance above her bed (see below).

This, coupled with the way her body is positioned in the air, has led many people to believe that she simply jumped from her bed. The questionable photos were taken by Daily Mirror photographer Graham Morris after the family contacted the press (it should be noted that the Daily Mirror is a UK tabloid newspaper whose stories have often proven less than credible). The levitation was scary," recalled Janet, "because you didn't know where you were going to land."Supporting the family's claims were two witnesses, a baker and a lollipop lady, who were passing by outside and claimed to have seen Janet hovering above her bed as they looked through an upstairs window. The lady saw me spinning around and banging against the window," recalls Janet.

I thought I might actually break the window and go through it." - Daily Mail Online These combined photographs appear to show the real Janet jumping from the bed on two separate occasions. The 1st and 3rd photographs appear to be one instance, while the 2nd and 4th are another. Photos by Graham Morris. Did demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren really investigate the Enfield Poltergeist case? Yes, but to a far lesser degree than portrayed in the movie, which is somewhat misleadingly billed as being "based on the true case files of the Warrens." Paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren briefly investigated the Enfield Poltergeist in the summer of 1.

Hodgson's North London home on Green Street. Watch The Mighty Macs Online Full Movie on this page. Most articles about the Enfield Poltergeist case don't even mention the Warrens, leading one to conclude that their role in the case was significantly dramatized for The Conjuring 2. In fact, Guy Lyon Playfair, one of the original paranormal investigators on the Enfield Poltergeist case, came forward prior to the movie's release and said that the Warrens had showed up "uninvited" and only stayed for a day.

He also said that Ed Warren told him he could make him a lot of money off the case (Darkness Radio). Watch Move On Online IMDB there. Ed Warren touched on the case and its skeptics in Gerald Brittle's book The Demonologist, stating, "..

Now, you couldn't record the dangerous, threatening atmosphere inside that little house. But you could film the levitations, teleportations, and dematerialisations of people and objects that were happening there - not to mention the many hundreds of hours of tape recordings made of these spirit voices speaking out loud in the rooms." As the case became widely viewed as a hoax, some saw it as proof that the Warrens themselves were frauds. Unlike the movie, the Warrens (pictured) were not heavily involved in the Enfield Poltergeist case. Was 1. 1- year- old Janet Hodgson really possessed by a dead man named Bill Wilkins? While fact- checking The Conjuring 2, we discovered that this part of the movie was to some degree inspired by audio tapes of the real Janet Hodgson. In the recordings, she can be heard conveying a message via an eerie voice, which is supposedly that of Bill Wilkins, a man who had died in the living room of the house several years earlier. Just before I died, I went blind," said the voice, "and then I had a hemorrhage and I fell asleep and I died in the chair in the corner downstairs."An interview with Janet Hodgson at the time suggests that the idea of talking in a possessed voice may have been encouraged and planted in Janet's mind by paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse.

When asked when the voices started, Janet said that one night Maurice Grosse told them, "All we need now is the voices to talk." Almost immediately following this suggestion, they did (the voices had mainly growled, barked and made similar noises prior to this)."I felt used by a force that nobody understands," the real Janet Hodgson told the UK's Channel 4 years later. I really don't like to think about it too much. I'm not sure the poltergeist was truly 'evil'. It was almost as if it wanted to be part of our family. It didn't want to hurt us. It had died there and wanted to be at rest.

The only way it could communicate was through me and my sister." - Daily Mail Online. Did the man who allegedly possessed Janet die in the downstairs living room years earlier? Yes. In exploring the Enfield haunting, we learned that Bill Wilkins' son Terry confirmed that he had died in a manner similar to what Janet described when she was possessed (Wilkins had passed away in an armchair downstairs after suffering a brain hemorrhage). Daily Mail Online Like in The Conjuring 2 movie (pictured), the real Bill Wilkins (who allegedly possessed Janet) went blind as he died of a brain hemorrhage in his armchair. Did the paranormal activity begin after they played with a Ouija board?