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the first thing

you attempt to create

in any abstract shape

is a human face or form.

Okay.

All right, then, well,

I'm sorry to disappoint you,

but I'll tell you

what we'll do,

let's go back over to

Foxhill Drive

and learn about the toll

that living there

has taken on the children's

mother, Pamela Early.

SARAH:
Pam, I know

this has all been

a nightmare for you.

But what's been the worst

moment so far, do you think?

I'll show you.

I've got to get this

done properly.

My husband... My ex-husband

used to develop

his own photos in a darkroom

under the stairs.

A "glory hole", as we used to

call it when I was a kid.

Why have you boarded it up

like this then?

PAMELA:
Well...

(SIGHS) One night last January

I got it into my head

to try and find

one of my letter...

The solicitor's letters

about my divorce.

Erm, all of a sudden,

the door stuck.

Like somebody was trying

and pushing it from outside.

SARAH:
You were inside

by this time?

Yeah.

I shoved, I tried to get out,

and then I started to panic.

It was like a coffin,

I couldn't breathe.

I started screaming

for Kimmy and Suzie,

but all I could hear

was my banging.

And all I could hear was

Kimmy shouting,

"It's Pipes, Mum, Pipes.

Pipes is here."

SARAH:
That's awful.

The girls got

you out eventually.

The thing is,

when I was in there I swear,

as God is my witness,

I heard, I...

Felt this man in there,

with me,

breathing right up

against my face.

Like strong,

like rotten cabbage.

I nearly died.

And... And when I got out,

my head went, my knees went.

Pam, let's go sit down.

Come on.

Tell us what happened next.

Well, after glory hole,

erm, I wrote to the Council

to try and get us moved.

SARAH:
Mmm-hmm.

But they wouldn't

take it seriously.

You know, like I was lying.

Just don't want to

know really.

We saw a social worker,

and they said we should

all see a psychiatrist.

Tell me what happened

when the newspapers got

their teeth into the story.

That was a disaster.

-Look at these.

You got a lot of coverage.

-Yeah.

"'I believe in the Devil,'

says Spook House Mother."

Did you say that?

PAMELA:
(CHUCKLES)

No, I didn't, no.

SARAH:
Here's "Power of Evil."

PAMELA:
Everyone was

very friendly, but in the end,

they all made us look

even more like idiots.

So I went to the local TV.

-Can we have a look

at that, actually?

-Yeah.

Here we are.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

I told her

it was the central heating.

So ever since then,

she calls the noises "Pipes".

So, Kim, aren't you

a little bit afraid?

Sometimes.

MAN:
(ON TV) Why? Do you think

Mr Pipes has come to hurt you?

I think he's come

to hurt everybody.

I think he wants to do

nasty things.

MAN:
(ON TV) Okay.

Thank you very much.

Now...

Pam, thanks for letting us

see that.

They're ready for you now

in the other studio.

-All right.

-Yeah.

Pamela's just going to

make her way outside now

to our mini-studio.

She'll be there

waiting to take your calls.

In the meantime, let's go

back to our main studio.

And, Sarah,

thank you very much indeed.

Dr Pascoe, what was

your introduction to

the Early family?

DR PASCOE:
Well,

I saw that programme

that we've just seen

an extract from

and I offered to help

if I could.

MICHAEL:
When you met

Mrs Early then,

was she then at

the end of her tether?

Yes, I'd had

some experience of a fairly

violent poltergeist case

in Heidelberg, Germany.

So, I knew what it could do to

a family, emotionally.

I see. Well, I believe that

Mrs Early has joined us now.

Pamela, hello.

Thanks for joining us.

-Hello.

-MICHAEL:
Yeah.

And thanks also for allowing

our cameras into your home.

That can't have been an easy

decision to have taken.

Well, Suzanne was getting

fed up with the jibes

she was getting at school.

Erm, with the papers calling

us liars and everything.

And she said, "Mum, Dr Pascoe

wants us to do this BBC thing.

"So, let's do it.

And let's show everyone,

"and then,

they'll have to believe us."

Erm, Pamela, I understand that

you're quite keen to share

your experience

with our callers.

Yes.

And I want to tell

everyone that, erm,

they're not going mad like I

thought I was sometimes.

-That's right.

-All right.

Well, we've got some callers

on the line now.

Let's take our first caller.

Mike Smith, who is it?

This is Sandra Hughes

from Sussex.

Right. Let's pick up

the phones, Dr Pascoe.

Sandra, hello.

SANDRA:
(ON PHONE)

Oh, he... Hello.

This is just that

when I was a girl,

I was brought up in

a house in Brighton,

and we had a ghost.

And we'd often

find things broken

and, you know,

those sorts of things.

You're not alone,

Sandra, honestly.

SANDRA:
(ON PHONE)

And it's sort of coming out

about this boy who died there,

and how it's affected me.

Because at the time,

I didn't realise

how much it affected me.

That's...

That's all I wanted

to say, really.

Thank you, Sandra,

for your call. Thanks a lot.

Thank you too, Mrs Early,

for joining us.

Well, if you'd stay in

the studio, then we'll come

back to you in just a moment.

There are one or two

other things to talk about

first of all.

Thanks a lot.

Now, what I want to talk

about now, Dr Pascoe,

is this book of yours, which

I'll show to the camera there.

This is called

Angels of the Odd.

And it's a book

that you wrote,

your account of your

investigation into this case.

And you also made a film

at the same time.

We've got an extract

from the film.

Perhaps you could talk us

through what's happening here.

-MAN:
All right?

-Yeah.

DR PASCOE:
Well, we did

extensive interviews.

And we also used

the Ganzfeld technique.

MICHAEL:
That's what

we're seeing now.

And that's where

all the senses...

Sensory inputs are

blocked off.

DR PASCOE:
Deprived, yeah.

MICHAEL:
Deprived, yes.

And you just feed in

the white sound...

DR PASCOE:
Yeah.

MICHAEL:
White noise,

through the headphones there.

DR PASCOE:
Bright light.

MICHAEL:
Yeah.

DR PASCOE:
Now, that's when

we would hear the voice.

"The voice"? Well, we should

hear the voice actually.

Let's hear it now.

Because this is intriguing.

Across here.

I should say that this tape

is completely undoctored.

There's no edit

on it whatsoever.

All right. We should also

warn our viewers

of a nervous disposition

that there are things

on this tape that they might

find a little bit distressing.

At one point, we filled

Suzanne's mouth

with coloured liquid,

and we sealed her lips

with tape,

and the voice continued

with absolutely no change

in quality whatsoever.

Let's hear it.

(PLATES CRASHING)

WOMAN:
The window

above the sink's

just been shattered now.

There's no... Oh, my God!

Look, the chair has gone.

(GIRL SCREAMING)

GIRL:
She's coming

towards me, Mum!

WOMAN:
It's coming across

the kitchen floor.

GIRL:
Oh, my God! Mum!

(PANTING)

WOMAN:
It stopped.

It's suddenly stopped moving.

And everything seems

to have gone quiet now.

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