Ep 252: The Battersea Poltergeist
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David Flora
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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- Find out more about the show on BBC Radio 4
- Visit Danny Robins' website
- Check out Danny's other series, Haunted
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Overcast, an independent podcast app that embraces the open world of podcasting instead of locking it down. |
| 0:08.0 | No exclusives, no premium content, no paywalls, just a great podcast app for everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | Get it for free in the app store. |
| 0:30.0 | Stories of the paranormal inevitably have something for everybody. Skeptic, believer, doesn't matter. |
| 0:50.0 | Tales of the supernatural, the restless deceased, the other side reaching across the veil to make contact, or worse. |
| 1:00.0 | They wrap an icy grip around our curiosity and drag us to hell with the search for answers. |
| 1:08.0 | For skeptics, it's a challenge and a mystery to solve. For believers, well, it's sweet, velvety confirmation. |
| 1:18.0 | But for a family in Battersea, South London, one ordinary day in 1956, turned into the beginning of a period of non-stop questions, fear, and torment that baffled skeptics and made believers wish they didn't believe. |
| 1:36.0 | If you take that fear, that bafflement, those questions, and boil it all down, you'll see the whole lot stems from one simple question. |
| 1:48.0 | A question here imposed by writer and journalist, Danny Robbins. |
| 1:54.0 | Do you believe in ghosts? Move? The chair? |
| 2:00.0 | If not, the Battersea Poltergeist might just change your mind. |
| 2:05.0 | Please? |
| 2:09.0 | Subscribe on BBC Sounds, if you dare. |
| 2:18.0 | On this episode of blurry photos, we'll speak with Danny to find out more about this BBC radio series, |
| 2:26.0 | paranormal investigating, and what happened to the hitchings family in 1956, when they were tormented by the Battersea Poltergeist. |
| 2:38.0 | I am yours. |
| 2:50.0 | Hello, and welcome to blurry photos. I'm your host, David Flora. How you doing? Hi. Hello. |
| 2:56.0 | I got a real hot tamale here for you. You might need oven mitts, because this episode goes behind the scenes of the new BBC Radio 4 podcast series, The Battersea Poltergeist. |
| 3:08.0 | It's a mix of investigative journalism, interviews, experiments, and dramatic reenactments, all based on the real 1956 case of Shirley Hitchens, and an alleged poltergeist problem. |
| 3:22.0 | I would tell you, I've been listening to this for a while, but I haven't. I binged it as soon as I heard about it. |
| 3:30.0 | It's a case I'd never heard of, but it was all over the papers at the time, and it was very interesting to find out more straight from the producer, writer, and presenter of the program, Danny Robbins. |
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