A rectory was built in the English village of Borley, Essex in 1862. It was badly damaged by fire on February 27, 1939, and demolished five years later. So what you say. The Borley Rectory has the reputation of being “the most haunted house in England.” That’s what. Legend has it that a Benedictine monastery stood here in the 14th century. A randy monk from the monastery was supposedly fooling around with a nun from the next door nunnery, a no-no for the both of them. Their naughtiness was discovered, the monk was executed, and the nun was bricked up in the convent walls, Edgar Allen Poe style.
The first paranormal incidents began just a year after the Borley Rectory was built, mysterious footsteps moving about the building. In 1900, the rector’s daughters claimed to have seen a nun, standing about 40 yards from the rectory. They approached her, but she vanished as they got closer. Apparitions continued to come and go during the following years including, on one occasion, a ghostly coach with two headless drivers.
On that fateful 1939 evening, the new rector accidentally kicked over an oil lamp, and the building was consumed by flames. A woman from nearby Borley Lodge claimed to have seen a ghostly nun in an upstairs window during the fire (she did, however try to sell her story).
Psychic researcher Harry Price was the source of the most haunted designation after he visited the rectory and wrote two books about its paranormal activity. Ghost historians — now there’s an interesting occupation, their conventions must be a hoot — have pretty much discredited Price’s observations, suggesting they were imagined or made up. No need to call the ghostbusters one would guess.
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