Terror on Clinton Ave

He told the officers about his dinning room. About how it and the kitchen were separated by heavy doors. Doors that shook violently at night as if someone was trying to shake them off their hinges. The officers looked at each other with yawning disbelief. However seeing how upset and shaken Edward had become while explaining his situation, Detective Price decided it was worth investigating. On a Wednesday night Detective Price, along with a few other fellow officers, went to investigate 136 Clinton avenue.

Four corinthian pillars stood before the Smith’s front door. A respectable entryway for a respectable, two story affair. But the men were not there to marvel at the the old colonial architecture, they were there to investigate the supposed phantom ringer. They first performed a visual examination of the doorbell, it revealed nothing unusual. Inside the residence the police were greeted by a nervous, almost panicked, Mrs. Smith. The couples young daughters were also present and like their mother, terrified with what was happening inside their home.

Price instructed one of the officers to stand by the front door and sit and wait for the bell to be rung. When it did, he was to clintondoorsimmediately open the door. He instructed the other one to hide and wait by the dinning room, ready to pounce on the would-be pranksters Price was convinced was behind the phantom noises. During the middle of the night, as the Smith’s daughters lay in bed and their concerned parents entertained their guarding guests, as it had done for the past few weeks, the front door bell rang. It’s metallic ringing echoed through the cold, dark house. Everyone froze.

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The deafening clattering and banging against the doors shook the house’s skeleton. Strong and loud enough to make Edward think that the once solid structure was about to collapse on top of them. However just as the thunderous ruckus appeared to be shaking the entire house off its foundation, it abruptly ceased. Like the creeping cold, a dead silence soon engulfed the nervous crowd.

Upstairs, the two girls had slept peacefully. Unaware of the bedlam below.

The men inspected the entire house and the outside and found no signs of another person, prankster or not, outside in the freezing cold. It was then suggested that they sprinkle flour and ashes near the doors to try and catch the intruder’s footprints. Once the trap was set, they all went back into the living room and waited.

Not long after that the banging and ringing broke the silence once again. Immediately the officers went to check on the traps they had set. They anticipated finding footprints that would lead them to the hidden prankster. When they neared the front door the ringing stopped. Again they found no one on the other side of the door. Inspecting the flour and ash mixture yielded no settling answers. The flour remained undisturbed throughout the house even though the ringing and banging of the doors sounded louder and more aggressive than before.

Detective Price threw his hands up in despair. “This is too much…it’s beyond me.”

Just then, in plain sight of the detective and everyone else, three loud knocks reverberated off the opened front door. The keen-eyed detective stared at the emptiness in front of him, trying to make out a silhouette or a hand of the phantom knocker he had come to believe in. It was then that a brick crashed through one of the living room windows, landing on the wooded flooring with a heavy thud. The two officers quickly ran outside and just like before, found not a living soul out in the streets.

The night sky dissolved into a crimson hue as the sun warmed away the frost. Inside the house Edward stoked the fire as his wife poured coffee for them both, another sleepless night had passed and the Smiths were on edge. The police had left just hours before and were of no help besides proving to the Edward and his family that they were not crazy. That something supernatural was occurring inside 136 Clinton avenue. That following night a small crowd had gathered outside the Smith’s residence. Curious onlookers stood outside for hours, hoping to catch a glimpse of the ghostly activities they’ve come to hear about the place.

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Mrs. Smith looked out her window to see neighbors, friends, and strangers all gathering outside her home. She saw a group of policemen part through the throng of onlookers and walk up to her front door. It was Detective Price with other uniformed men. The detective introduce Captain Mclaughlin and his squad to Edward and his wife. The captain assured the couple that they would do anything in their power to help them with the situation. An assurance that both the Smiths and the detective knew meant nothing. The captain’s words fell on listless stares.

Detective Price had noticed that Edward had muffled the bell next to the door by wrapping it and jamming it up with some cloth. It had been done out of desperation, a shoddy temporary fix from the master builder who by now was visibly overwhelmed by the unseen forces that fell upon his home.

Weeks passed and the poltergeist activity lessened around the house. Months after their terrifying ordeal started, the Smiths reported that only light tappings could occasionally be heard throughout their home. Neighbors and officers soon forgot about the haunting that reportedly plagued the Smith residence. The bell ringing, the shaking shutters, and the breaking windows soon ceased and tranquility once again fell upon Clinton avenue. No explanation was ever given for what happened inside the Smith residence.

To this day, the house stands tall with its prominent pillars facing Clinton street. Holding up the dark history behind one of Brooklyn’s classic poltergeist cases.

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>>17115203
This is a newspaper article from December 20, 1878 about the incident.

Is there any explanation for this?

>>17115215
Porn is rape, dude. Get off my thread.

>>17115215
That article is all the information I have. It offers no explanation.

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Anyone know of any similar events? Let's turn this thread into an active one. Copying from Wikipedia a case that may well be faked, but spooky nonetheless. And some details sound exaggerated, so take it with a grain of salt.

> TheEnfield Poltergeistis the name given to the claims ofpoltergeistactivity at acouncil houseinBrimsdown,Enfield,Englandfrom 1977 to 1979 involving two sisters, ages 11 and 13.[1]Some members of theSociety for Psychical Researchsuch as inventorMaurice Grosseand freelance writerGuy Lyon Playfairbelieved the haunting to be genuine, while others such as professors of psychologyAnita GregoryandJohn Beloffwere "unconvinced" and found evidence the girls had faked incidents for the benefit of reporters. Members of theCommittee for Skeptical Inquiryincluding stage magicians such asMilbourne Christopher,Joe Nickell, and Bob Couttie investigated the incidents and criticised paranormal investigators for being overly credulous, identifying various features of the case as being indicative of ahoax.[2][3][4]

> The story attracted considerable press coverage in British newspapers such as theDaily MailandDaily Mirror, and has been the subject of books, featured intelevisiondocumentaries, and dramatized inhorror films.

>>17117401
Cont. It's at this point that the claims begin to stink like horse shit
Claims:
> In August 1977, single parent Peggy Hodgson called police to her rented home in Enfield after two of her four children claimed that furniture was moving and knocking sounds were heard on walls. The children included Margaret, age 13, Janet, age 11, Johnny, age 10 and Billy, age 7. A police constable saw a chair slide on the floor but couldn't determine if it moved by itself or was pushed by someone. Later claims included allegedlydemonicvoices, loud noises, thrown rocks and toys, overturned chairs andlevitationof children. Reports of further incidents in the house attracted considerable press attention and the story was covered in British newspapers such as theDaily MailandDaily Mirror, until reports came to an end in 1979.[3][5][6]OnHalloween2011,BBC Newsfeatured comments from a radio interview with photographer Graham Morris, who claimed that many of the events were genuine.[7]

>>17117403
The prince of bullshitters, Ed Warren, joins the fray.
> Society for Psychical ResearchmembersMaurice GrosseandGuy Lyon Playfairreported “curious whistling and barking noises coming from Janet’s general direction." Although Playfair maintained thehauntingwas genuine and wrote in his later bookThis House is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist(1980) that an "entity" was to blame for the disturbances, he often doubted the children's veracity and wondered if they were playing tricks and exaggerating. Still, Grosse and Playfair believed that even though some of the alleged poltergeist activity was faked by the girls, other incidents were genuine. Janet was detected in trickery. A video camera in the room next door caught her bending spoons and attempting to bend an iron bar. Grosse had observed Janet banging a broom handle on the ceiling and hiding his tape-recorder.

When Janet and Margaret admitted their pranking to reporters, Grosse and Playfair compelled the girls to retract their confession.They were mocked by other researchers for being easily duped.

The psychical researcherRenée Hayneshad noted that doubts were raised about the alleged poltergeist voice at the Second International SPR Conference at Cambridge in 1978, where video cassettes from the case were examined.The SPR investigatorAnita Gregorystated the Enfield poltergeist case had been "overrated", characterizing several episodes of the girls' behaviour as "suspicious" and speculated that the girls had "staged" some incidents for the benefit of reporters seeking a sensational story. John Beloffa former president of the SPR investigated and suggested Janet was practicingventriloquism. Both Beloff and Gregory came to the conclusion that Janet and Margaret were playing tricks on the investigators.

American paranormal investigatorEd Warrenclaimed that Janet was once “sound asleep, levitating in midair” and concluded that the children were the subject ofdemonic possession.

>>17115197
Proof your work. Needs major editing

>>17117688
I didn't write it. Lol It's a ghost theory article.