Episode 2: Shirley

The Battersea Poltergeist by BBC

Jan 21, 202129:06Society & Culture

Danny meets the only surviving witness to the haunting – the real-life Shirley Hitchings. What was it like living with a poltergeist? Back in 1956, Harold Chibbett begins his investigation of 63 Wycliffe Road, learning m...

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