The incredibly famous Borley Rectory,the mecca of English apparition action.
Borley Parsonage was a house popular for being portrayed as"the most scary place in Britain "which was worked in 1862 by the exceptionally well off Waldergrave family to house the minister of the ward of Borley.
It is said that around 1362, a Benedictine Monastery was built in this area. Additionally, a monk from the monastery is said to have had an affair with a nun from a nearby convent, according to folklore. Nonetheless, after their issue was found, the priest was executed and the sister was purportedly hurled in the well in the grounds of the Parsonage and left amazing breaking her commitments of virtue.
In 1863, the first paranormal occurrences at Borley were documented. Four of the rector's daughters were playing when they saw what they thought was the ghost of a nun. They tried to talk to the nun, but she didn't answer their questions and just vanished as they got closer.
At Borley, a number of people claimed to have witnessed a nun, a young boy, and lights turning on and off in various rooms, which is strange considering the house was never connected to a gas or electricity supply.
There was likewise various sightings of a ghost mentor driven by two headless horseman. Abnormal lights would likewise show up in empty rooms and the sound of weighty strides repeated the unfilled structure. βDon't Carlos don'tβ could also be heard pleading from the blue room inside the house at night.
Reverend Guy Smith, Rector, and his wife Mabel, who lived in the Rectory, made the decision to contact the society for psychic research. Harry Price, a paranormal researcher, is going to Borley for the first time. Spirit messages were tapped out of a gilded frame of a mirror as soon as he arrived, and a new phenomenon like the throwing of stones and a vase among other things appeared.
The Smiths chose to leave Borley Parsonage after that supplanting them came Reverend Lionel Foister and his wife,Marianne moved into the Parsonage alongside their embraced little girl Adalaide. Lionel Foister composed a record posting the different odd episodes that occured during the time he inhabited the Parsonage and which was consequently shipped off the mystic researcher,Harry Cost. According to these accounts, their daughter Adalaide was locked in a room, windows were broken, stones and bottles were thrown, and wall writing was done. when the door did not have a lock.
Marianne answered to her better half an entire scope of Ghost movement that incorporated her being tossed from her bed,and on one event Adalaide was gone after by something terrible. The efforts of Reverend Foister to carry out an exorcism were unsuccessful. In the expulsion he was struck on the shoulder by a clench hand size stone at extraordinary speed.
The Foister's passed on Borley because of Lionel Foister's weakness. After the Reverend Foister left, Borley remained vacant for some time. After that, Harry Price entered into a rental agreement with queen Anne's bounty, the property's owners, for a period of one year. After placing advertisements in the Times newspaper and conducting personal interviews, Price recruited 48 official observers, most of whom were students, to spend the night of Borley, mostly on weekends, with the specific instructions to immediately notify Price of any occurrences.
After a thorough investigation, Helen Glenville, a woman, conducted a planchette seance in Stratham, south of London. Price reported that the woman had made contact with two spirits, the first of which was Sister Maria Laier, a young nun. Maria was a french nun who left her religious order and went to England to marry a member of the Waldergrade family, who owned Borleys, according to the Planchette legend. As retribution for breaking her vows, it was said that she was murdered in an older building on the Rectory's site. Her body was buried in a well. The second spirit to be examined identified himself as Sunex Amures. The spirit claimed that he would set fire to the Rectory at nine o'clock that night and that at the time the bones of a murdered person would also be revealed. The wall writings at Borley were alleged to be her please for help. One message read, "Marianne, please help me get out."
Borley Rectory was destroyed by fire one night, leaving only the solid brick walls after the flames had subsided. The actual fire stays a secret.
After that, Harry Price did a brief excavation in the Rectory's cellars, where he found two bones that he thought belonged to a young woman. After the parish of Borley denied permission for the burial, the bones were given a Christian burial in the Liston church yard.
The Rectory's former land has been divided into two areas, one with a farm and the other with bungalows built in the 1960s.