tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post796499779522498736..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The Enfield Poltergeist: General Skepticism (Part 2)Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-80467520458115762652019-08-21T18:51:08.751-04:002019-08-21T18:51:08.751-04:00The article also has a lot of material on the conc...The article also has a lot of material on the concealment issue.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-78153817423282275272017-12-14T13:43:20.296-05:002017-12-14T13:43:20.296-05:00For more interaction with objections to the voice ...For more interaction with objections to the voice phenomena, see <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-enfield-poltergeist-general_30.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-poltergeist-on-video.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-35072472808318835802017-04-30T06:15:50.002-04:002017-04-30T06:15:50.002-04:00Thanks for the encouragement, Steve.
I'll be ...Thanks for the encouragement, Steve.<br /><br />I'll be saying more about the levitation you refer to in a later post. There are several converging lines of evidence for it. There were more than two witnesses to it, and the two most often cited were skeptical of the Enfield case before they saw the levitation. Other people reported levitations on other occasions. Janet was reported to have been seen levitating on multiple occasions during the case, attested by several witnesses.<br /><br />Carolyn Heeps, the police officer whose testimony is most often cited (regarding earlier events, not the levitating mentioned above), was accompanied by another officer who also witnessed some of the phenomena. The officers were called to the house without being told what was going on (they only received a vague reference to a disturbance at the house), and they both looked for and couldn't find normal explanations for the phenomena they witnessed. Claiming to have witnessed paranormal events that you couldn't find an explanation for, especially at a time when skeptics are blaming children for the events, is something that would damage a police officer's credibility. It would be easy for critics to dismiss the officer(s) as gullible, incompetent, taken in by children's pranks, etc. Police officers usually don't involve themselves in such matters. The best explanation for why both officers who went to the Enfield house decided to get involved in reporting paranormal events is that they did experience paranormal phenomena, truly couldn't find a normal explanation for what happened after putting forward a significant effort to do so, and were highly convinced that they had witnessed paranormal events. The most substantial effort I've seen to undermine Heeps' testimony came from Anita Gregory, and I'll be discussing that effort in the last segment in this series.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-23798898166717384282017-04-29T22:07:27.410-04:002017-04-29T22:07:27.410-04:00Thanks Jason. There were a couple people who said ...Thanks Jason. There were a couple people who said they saw levitation. They were outside the house and weren't "primed" to expect anything (although I imagine they heard there were unusual doings at the house).<br /><br />I thought it was interesting the police lady who showed up before it became a cause celbre. The skeptics say she was a victim of suggestion but I don't think she was inclined to believe there was anything unusual going on. I imagine police get strange calls all the time.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm new to this and appreciate your hard work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224280484542390176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-72730688135187541242017-04-29T16:44:50.126-04:002017-04-29T16:44:50.126-04:00I'll be responding to each of the three skepti...I'll be responding to each of the three skeptics on that MonsterTalk program in three of the upcoming posts in this series. They made some demonstrably false claims on that program, and have done so elsewhere, and they've left a lot of the evidence unaddressed.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-24074403914155933152017-04-29T09:11:48.458-04:002017-04-29T09:11:48.458-04:00I hadn't heard of this case. I listened to th...I hadn't heard of this case. I listened to the Monster Talk shows. The skeptics weren't all that persuasive. It seems to me that if all of was a hoax that there had to be adults helping the children and there doesn't seem much evidence of that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224280484542390176noreply@blogger.com