Between 1956 and 1968, a quiet house in Battersea, South London became the center of one of the strangest and most disturbing poltergeist cases in British history. For over a decade, a young girl named Shirley Hitchings was plagued by unexplained knocks, flying objects, and chilling messages from an unseen force.
In this deep-dive documentary, we explore the terrifying true story of the Battersea Poltergeist — through real accounts, media coverage, and theories that still divide believers and skeptics to this day.
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Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime.
Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Artgrid, Epidemic Sounds, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and the youtube audio library.
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Chapters
00:00 The Battersea Haunting
02:42 Welcome to The Tape Library
04:05 The Key
06:31 Crash in the Night
14:21 It Speaks
17:02 He Has Arrived
28:13 Harold Chibbett
36:36 Leaving Notes
42:50 The French Prince of Battersea
48:47 Seeing the Future
53:13 James Dean
58:47 Farewell Donald
1:04:03 What Really Happened?
1:15:45 Wrapping Up
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