A haunted house in North London becomes the setting for one of the twentieth century's most argued-over cases in this docuseries, built almost entirely from audio recorded inside the home as the events were happening.
What is Enfield Poltergeist about?
Across four episodes, the series pieces together the Enfield case through the tapes made on-site at the time, letting the original recordings carry much of the narrative instead of dramatized reenactment. Director Jerry Rothwell uses that raw material to trace how the case unfolded for the family living through it and for the investigators who arrived to document it, moving between the mundane texture of a working-class household and the escalating strangeness that drew national press attention. The show leans on ambiguity rather than a tidy verdict, presenting the recordings and letting viewers weigh believer and skeptic readings side by side. Cast members including Olivia Booth-Ford, Christos Lawton, Daniel Lee, Paula Benson, Charlotte Miller and Anthony Ilott appear across the reconstructed sequences that frame the archival audio.
About the cast
The ensemble handles the reconstructed portions of the case rather than a conventional dramatic arc, with the performances kept deliberately restrained so the archival tape stays the emotional center of each episode.
Context & significance
The Enfield case has been revisited in film and television repeatedly since the 1970s because so much of it was captured on tape as it happened, which gives filmmakers a rare primary-source foundation instead of relying purely on secondhand testimony decades later. This 2023 series is part of that continuing interest, distinguishing itself by keeping the original recordings as the spine of the storytelling rather than treating them as supporting evidence for a scripted reenactment.
Watching Enfield Poltergeist on Ktime
The series streams on K-Time with a free account login, with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles both available so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow the case in their own language. No special setup is needed beyond signing in; the Farsi-first interface makes browsing and switching audio tracks straightforward for viewers across the diaspora.