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A : Reasonably recent first hand knowledge of the masjid. A place that is now defunct is 'A' if we've seen for ourselves it no longer exists. B : Well known masjid with plenty of corroborating information to support our data. C : Masjid with a single reliable source of information to support our data. D : Several sources of information about the masjid, but none of them recent and reliable.

E : Very limited information about the masjid, from an old or unreliable source. F : This place probably does not exist any longer. Or, "We've heard a rumour that there is a masjid around here somewhere.

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Provide Feedback If you do find any omissions or inaccuracies in the information above, please use this form to tell us. The case of the Enfield Poltergeist also involved levitation, furniture being moved through the air, and flying objects swirling towards witnesses. There were cold breezes, physical assaults, graffiti, water appearing on the floor, and even claims of matches spontaneously bursting into flame.

It became the centre of a media storm, however, many reports of poltergeist activity have ultimately proved to be hoaxes. According to research in anomalistic psychology, activity can be explained by psychological factors such as illusion and memory lapses.

Attempts have also been made to scientifically explain poltergeist disturbances that are not apparently fraudulent.

Skeptic and magician Milbourne Christopher found that some cases of can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off a wall, overturn chairs and knock over objects. Next came the objects. We're talking about pots and pans being thrown from a room that nobody was in,' said series expert Evelyn Hollow in an interview with the BBC. The house must have looked like a bloody warzone.

Mr Hitchings hired an exorcist and the media swarmed around the story. Shirley was interviewed on TV and some outlets claimed Donald was her 'ghostly boyfriend'.

People thought Shirley was behind the unexplained happenings, but she insists she had nothing to do with them. Shirley, who still remembers the events clearly, told how her grandmother Ethel thought she was possessed and threw holy water over her in a bid to exorcise the spirit.

She credits Mr Chibbett, who has been described as the 'Jay Gatsby' of ghosts, with helping to 'tame' Donald. He even made a bold claim about his identity, which is revealed in a later episode of the podcast. Determined to help the Hitchings, he made extensive notes about the case which were recovered by Shirley after his death and passed on to Danny and the team for the podcast. Fresh light: Presented by Danny Robins, pictured, the Battersea Poltergeist switches between a present-day investigation of the case, and a dramatisation of the hauntings.

Stars: Shirley, now 80, is voiced by teenage His Dark Materials star Dafne Keen left , while Toby Jones plays Harold Chibbett, a respected ghost hunter and First World War veteran who dedicated the latter years of his life to investigating the case. By the end of the series, the team put forward several theories about what actually took place at the property, which was demolished in the s. These have not yet been made public.

But in this case I find myself up against things I find hard to explain. Ghosts have been part of British culture seemingly since people first started telling stories. In art, songs and literature, and later on TV and film, ghosts continue to capture our imaginations, even while so many insist they don't believe.

Art historian Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History, which charts ghost stories from the eighth century to the present day, tells how the earliest incarnations of ghosts were the decomposing corpses that appeared in folk stories and manuscripts. Those who came back as ghosts were paying for something they had done in life. Later, during the reformation, there was a drive to rid ghosts from British culture. But despite the efforts they remained, lingering.

By the late 16th century, when more of the population could read, ghosts appeared in texts and plays. Shakespeare's Hamlet, written at the turn of the 17th century, depicts the ghost of the late king as someone seeking vengence. This was a common theme for the ghosts of the period. The Age of Enlightenment brought with it an attempt to rationalise ghosts. They were dismissed as figments of the imagination or optical illusions, particularly by the upper classes.

However interest ghosts and ghost stories continued. In the Cock Lane Ghost, later revealed as a hoax, drew widespread attention.

Two years later came the first Gothic novel. With The Castle of Otranto , Horace Walpole created a genre in which supernatural figures enter the lives of the characters and disturb the order of the natural world. Strange events start at an ordinary South London house, focused around teenage Shirley Hitchings.

Is it a poltergeist? Danny Robins investigates an intriguing paranormal cold case. The strange events focus around teenager Shirley Hitchings — but is it a haunting or hoax? Ghost hunter Harold Chibbett arrives to investigate. This series blends drama and documentary to explore an intriguing paranormal cold case. As we hear the original haunting brought to life, host Danny Robins begins his own present-day investigation — what really happened to terrify the Hitchings family 65 years ago?

Cast: Shirley Hitchings Dafne Keen Harold Chibbett Toby Jones Wally Hitchings Burn Gorman Kitty Hitchings Alice Lowe Ethel Hitchings Sorcha Cusack John Hitchings