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We all love a poltergeist story

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story Kate Summerscale

Bloomsbury, pp.352, 18.99

There are fashions in the paranormal as in everything else. Since the famous Enfield hauntings of the late 1970s, poltergeists seem to have gone quiet, or at least unreported; but before then they were everywhere. In 1938, poltergeists kicked off in Thornton Heath, Surrey, and a Jewish-Hungarian journalist and psychic investigator, Nandor Fodor, was alerted to strange happenings in the home of a 34-year-old housewife there.

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