Horror writer, star and aficionado Alice Lowe plays Kitty Hitchings, mother of Shirley, in the Battersea Poltergeist’s dramatised sections, and she chatted recently with Paul Simpson about audio horror: I […]

The latest instalment of the Battersea Poltergeist investigation is now live, and sees some shocking behaviour in the 1950s – and links to an even older case… Why should one […]

The fourth episode of The Battersea Poltergeist sees one of Shirley’s father’s colleagues reveal his spiritualist background… If the intent was to put the listener at their unease from the […]

The interactive element of Danny Robins’ The Battersea Poltergeist is coming to the fore, with a bonus episode released today: I can’t recall a ghost-hunting case, either cold or hot, […]

The title says it all for this third instalment of The Battersea Poltergeist, which has been released today on BBC Sounds What is it with beings called Donald who don’t […]

A cold case from 1956 – the odds of there being too many witnesses still around in 2021 are quite steep. But Shirley Hitchings, the focus of the investigation, is […]

The Battersea Poltergeist podcast has begun on BBC Sounds and its creator, Danny Robins, had a revealing and indepth chat with Paul Simpson earlier this week. I made a promise […]

Sixty five years ago, the papers were filled with news of dreadful events in Battersea, as the Hitchings family came under assault from The Battersea Poltergeist. It’s now the core […]

BBC Sounds has released a trailer for the new podcast from Bafflegab, The Battersea Poltergeist. 63 Wycliffe Road is an ordinary house on a quiet South London street, but in […]