Episode 1: 63 Wycliffe Road

The Battersea Poltergeist by BBC

Jan 21, 202130:57Society & Culture

63 Wycliffe Road is an ordinary house on a quiet South London street, but in 1956 it becomes famous as the site of an alleged poltergeist. The strange events focus around teenager Shirley Hitchings – but is it a haunting...

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