As the BBC Sounds podcast of The Battersea Poltergeist nears its end, we chat with parapsychologist Ciaran O’Keeffe about the case – and wider implications.

This is a family that has come together to support each other in terms of all of this stuff that’s being thrown at them, excuse the pun, that they’re experiencing. They’re trying to also deal with rough nights in terms of sleep and sleep deprivation. Any of us will immediately turn to coffee or tea to keep us awake and we know from research on visual and auditory perception that even mild stimulants like that can influence our perception of events.

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