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Borley è un villaggio e parrocchia civile dell'Inghilterra, appartenente alla contea dell'Essex. Nota la Borley Rectory.
- Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory era un edificio di undici camere da letto più...
- Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory era un edificio di undici camere da letto più altre stanze costruito nel 1863 a Borley, villaggio della contea dell'Essex, 60 miglia a nord-est di Londra, e distrutto nel 1939 da un incendio.
Borley Rectory was a house located in Borley, Essex, famous for being described as "the most haunted house in England" by psychic researcher Harry Price. [1] Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, the house was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished in 1944.
Borley is a village and civil parish in rural north Essex, England close to the border with Suffolk. It is located near the River Stour. The closest town is Sudbury, Suffolk, approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) southeast of Borley; Sudbury is also the Post Town used by Royal Mail for Borley.
- Background: Origins, Legends, Occupants
- Claims of Paranormal Activity
- Harry Price’s First Investigation
- The Foysters
- Investigations by Harry Price from 1937
- Controversy and Scepticism
- Later Activity
- Literature
- Lexscien
- Endnotes
Borley Rectory was built in 1863 by Borley’s first rector, Rev Henry Dawson Ellis Bull (1833-92). It was a two-storey red brick building with twenty-three rooms and three staircases in grounds of nearly four acres. It was located opposite Borley Church, on the Essex side of the Essex-Suffolk border. Nearby was a cottage, part of the original stable...
Borley Rectory had a reputation for haunting phenomena at least from the time of the Bull’s incumbency in the late nineteenth century: 1. A servant of the Bulls, Mrs E. Byford, claimed to have heard footsteps when no other living person was present. 2. Mr P Shaw Jeffrey, a future headmaster of Colchester Royal Grammar School, stayed at the rectory ...
Finding that local people were reluctant to visit the rectory because of its menacing reputation, the Smiths asked the national newspaper Daily Mirror to put them in touch with someone who might provide assistance. The newspaper contacted Harry Price, the director of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, and a leading investigator of paran...
In October 1930, the Foyster family moved into the rectory. Phenomena of a poltergeist-like nature immediately started to occur, growing in intensity between 1931 and 1932. During this time Price claimed that at least 2000 inexplicable phenomena took place,10including: 1. sounds: footsteps, whispers, bells, raps and knocks 2. scents of perfume and ...
Between May 1937-38, Price rented the rectory in order to carry out a detailed investigation. Following an appeal for helpers in The Times on 25 May, 1937 he created a team of 48 ‘official observers’, including an army colonel, a doctor and an engineer, Sidney Herbert Glanville, who stayed at the rectory on many occasions and wrote up his experienc...
Acusations Against the Foysters
Many claims and counter-claims of fraud were made against Marianne Foyster. After a particularly dramatic evening in October, Price departed on bad terms with the couple having suggested that Marianne was responsible for the phenomena. In subsequent critiques, Marianne was accused of faking some of the incidents, for her own amusement or to cover up clandestine affairs (she ran a flower shop in London with Francois d’Arles and married Robert Vincent O’Neil shortly after the death of her husba...
SPR Investigation
Following Price’s death in 1948, the Society for Psychical Research initiated an investigation into Price’s activities. Its report, authored by Eric Dingwall, Mollie Goldney and Trevor Hall, was published in its Proceedings in 1956. The investigators found little reason to trust the veracity of Price, or the genuineness of the phenomena, which they concluded could have normal explanations:24 1. The apparitions could have been illusions or hallucinations. 2. The sounds could have been caused b...
More Accusations Against Price
Price’s credibility was further damaged when, shortly after his death in 1948, a Daily Mail journalist Charles Sutton accused him of having faked phenomena during one of his early visits to the rectory (for instance by throwing pebbles). Mrs Smith – wife of the incumbent rector G Eric Smith – wrote to Goldney and the Daily Mail (26 May 1949) condemning Price’s The Most Haunted House in England.27 However, this was surprising, since she seemed to have believed in the genuineness of the manifes...
After the rectory was demolished in 1944, paranormal activity allegedly transferred to the church opposite. Paranormal incidents are said to have continued during the latter half of the twentieth century: reports were made by James Turner, a resident of the cottage until 1951, and following his departure the Bacon family. Rev Henning maintained his...
Adams, P., Brazil, E., & Underwood, P. (2009). The Borley Rectory Companion. Stroud: The History Press. Babbs, E. (2003). Borley Rectory – The Final Analysis. Sudbury: Six Martlets Publishing. Banks, I. (1996). The Enigma of Borley Rectory. Foulsham & Co Ltd. Coleman, M. (1997). The Flying Bricks of Borley. Journal of the Society for Psychical Rese...
These articles are available to subscribers of the online archive Lexscien: Some Recent Investigations in the Borley Rectory Case (1943-46). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 33, 107-10. An update on Harry Price’s book The Most Haunted House In England giving the results of investigations to 1939. Gives an outline of noises (‘footsteps,...
In the close fellowship of British ghost hunters, whose passionate efforts to expose psychic hoaxes are coupled with an ardent desire to believe in the real thing, there was no more joy over the ...
30 giu 2006 · Seen on a bright summer day Borley, just inside the Essex border not far from Long Melford in Suffolk, is an unlikely setting for the scene of a haunting.
