Borley Rectory - "The Most Haunted House in England"
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- My annual Halloween Special - enjoy if you dare!
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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Having once worked as a grave digger and cemetery caretaker I can tell you it's the living not the dead you want to worry about.
Indeed it is!
At last someone who knows what he's talking about.
My mum used to tell me that when we walked through a graveyard, “Dead people can’t hurt you, it’s the ones that are living that you’ve got to watch out for”.
Aye, you got _that_ right...👍🏴
@@AtheistOrphan Sound advice from your mum. As the people of Gaza and the Ukraine can attest to.
@@o234 Oh, I merely picked two examples of menace from the living. There are countless others, of course.
I worked at a cemetery which had a crematorium and a mausoleum, and I never experienced anything paranormal. The one thing the cemetery did was it attracted a lot of weird living people.
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Cemetaries are probably the least haunted places to go overall cause all the dead didn't die there
´when i came to i was walking the perimmittäir. .? öhr sö ^ ^ wäredäim störeese??
@@overlord1295 Cemetery being one of the least haunted places on earth is probably because the dead have been duly arranged for their final resting places. For a similar analogy in the living world, we mistakenly find homeless people a menace to society because they sleep rough and steal life essentials out of desperation.
I've never witnessed a Mark Felton Halloween special before, that was a bloody hoot!!!!
I fully agree... the best lore I've heard in a while.
Yeah, this was fantastic fun.
The 'quirkiest' to me, was the 'Howling Woman'. Such an over acting actress, if I ever heard one. 😂 (Especially the little 'choke' at the end, priceless.)
Inspiration for Murder By Death. Falling gargoyles, screaming doorbells, fake storms.. 😅😅
Especially cause I was late noticing it was one of Mark's, rather than clickbait, I was still wondering if there was going to be a particular WWII military history angle to this. :)
My mum visited the church in the 1950s, with her parents. She said exactly the same.... there was a horrible, oppressive feeling and you felt the need to get out.
Church was open to all and as pleasant, if not more so, as many others, but very c o L D, even in mid summer.
oh please
That description is my definition of a church...
I live in the outskirts of Sudbury, only three miles from where the house used to stand. Walled up to Borely several times, they say though that when the house burnt down in 1939 the ghosts moved across the road to the church. I have stood in the church yard there. Did I feel anything, like uneasy, or spooked. NO, it was no different than a thousand other churches.. The times I have walked through the hamlet I got no hostility from the locals. In fact one old boy tending his garden even gave me a cheerful 'Afternoon' I did not feel anything in the hamlet (Calling it a village would be stretching it a bit). Borely lies on a major walking route, because the scenery on this part of the Essex Suffolk border is breathtaking, and the area is criss-crossed with public footpaths. Bortely lies on a hill, so the scenery there is worth seeing. Most of the people who walk up there are not interested in the ghosts, in fact I would say most of them do not even know the story of the Borely ghosts, but are simply enjoying a walk in the sun amongst pleasant surroundings and enjoying the peace and quiet that this part of the Essex Suffolk border has to often. I am 59 years old and was born in Sudbury and lived there all my life. The Borely Rectory legend has been hyped up out of all proportions. Borely offers the walker with a pleasant stroll among rolling hills and and well kept cottages, but as for ghosts no.
Maybe allow Felton a little dramatic license on Halloween? @@englishalan222
A proper Halloween tale would not be complete without a "case of the willies". Excellent video!
If my wife plays her cards right tonight ,i will give her a " case of the willies " 😂😂😂😂😂
@@cliveo3you’re wrong brother😂
@@cliveo3Well, one at least.
@@cliveo3You sound unusually gifted.
@@rovercoupe7104 Not the words my wife would choose 😂😂😂
You need to do more of these as a side project Mark, regardless of real or not they have and still play a significant part of our history and culture
I agree. The act of storytelling is both a way for information to be passed on generation to generation. It also a way for the following generation to pass on their own stories which added together form a part of the history of a house, a village, an area and a country and its people.
Maybe lose the cheesy loud sound effects tho
Not a good road to go down
Indeed I Agree As, They're Most Intriguing & Interesting !
I think it's great to hear Mark talk about he and a friend hopping onto their bikes to ride to see some spooky location. It's something that I did as well when I was that age as well. The States and England may be two nations separated by a common language, but we have more important things in common... teenage boys riding bikes long distances for adventure... the never come again good ol' days.
It happens to all of us when we were young. I remember back then when I was a junior high, in my hometown back in the 80s. One day me and my neighborhood buddies decided to bike along to somewhere. Then a couple miles later, at the highway crossing, we noticed a thick smoke billowing on the distance, and the sound of fire engine drove by. A new destination awaits! We raced toward that smoke, Minutes later, a view of burning warehouse and busy firemen made quite a spectacle to us, young adventurer. We can't get close, obviously, since the road is cordoned off. But we can still watch in awe from a comfortable distance, alongside the other onlookers. Quite an unforgettable adventure.
@@manchesterunitedno7 My best memory of high adventure is being 13 or so back in 83,me and a bunch of other kids rode quite a ways to an abandoned, flooded quarry. Between the flooded, possibly bottomless pits and so much abandoned machinery,it was great. Spooky, the machines seemed like dinosaurs that came from those bottomless pits. We were glad to have our BB guns. "It's a shame that youth is wasted on the young..." - Mark Twain.
I remember 60 years ago seeing my 12 yr old brother and his mate taking off on their bikes armed with a crucifix to hunt vampires in the old cemetery- they were back before it got too dark tho lol
@@CarolFremel-my4hs Nice! I'm so grateful that I grew up during a time when a cell phone was only a phone in a jail cell. Do kids even go outside anymore?
Kids riding off on their bikes into an adventure; sounds like an Enid Blyton story
This makes me recall once working on a house years ago. I had to paint the interior in the middle of the night to avoid the other contractors during the day. All week I kept hearing noises and voices and thought I was going crazy. The last night there I called out, "whoever is here show yourself!" Within a split second the only light on in the house burned out. Not the Borley Rectory, a much younger house in the States, but that made me a believer, and I knew I hadn't gone koo koo yet.
It seems you had harmless ghosts who did not inflict injuries upon you. If they were evil and hostile, they would have pushed you down the stairs, grabbed your ankles and caused your falls, tossed you to the wall and fractured your skull, etc.
No injuries, it means they are gentle and friendly. The most benevolent ones are the opposites of evil. When you twist your ankle on the stairs and be about to fall to your death, they come swiftly to break your fall and save your life.
True story, one builder in UK, for example, had lost his balance on the scaffolding and almost fallen to his death. A ghost behind him prevented his fall by placing his hands on the builder's back and helped him regain foothold on the scaffolding. A life saved.
A word of caution, please don't challenge any entity to show itself. Ever. It's dangerous.
@@drunkensquirrel7545 Yes, I know that now!
@@pinklady7184 Those are called guardian angels, and God has assigned His children with them.
I read a story about a haunted house.
And they used a torch /flashlight to communicate with the spirit.
They asked the sprint two flashes yes one flash no.
And they asked a few questions and it apparently worked!
Obviously anecdotal..
I'm not surprised the reverend heard footsteps with 14 kids running around! Great fun and fascinating story. Cheers Mark!
Any moaning heard could also easily be explained....
@@tacticalmattfoley 🤣👍
10 bedrooms and your kids still have to share with you siblings.
What a ride!
Enough siblings to have co-conspirators.
I installed the CCTV round the area and at the Church in 2003 because they were getting concerns about the huge numbers of people visiting.
Mark as soon as you said that Borley rectory had burned down my first thought was to wonder if a planning application to convert the rectory in to flats had been refused.
It's an Essex tradition.
I don't think that is just an Essex tradition. I think lots of the UK also practice this!
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@@peterlee5535 Not just the UK
Here around latest cultural enriching segment are often involved in such insurance scams. Old buildings with no issues during 60-80 years suddenly burns to the ground, when another pizza production in a tiny village apparently turned out having no economic basis 🙄💸💸💸
You produce some of the best historical documentaries on TH-cam. They are not only educational but also entertaining. Thank you for sharing.
You can tell Mark was an 80’s kid. All over the world we had our BMX bikes and we were unstoppable! 👍🏻
Just be home for supper.
@@MakerInMotion exactly !
Don't get into any strange Vans that say "Free Candy."
Yeah I had a BMX which were a generation on from my older Brother and Sisters Chopper and Grifter, BMX was then in turn superceded by Mountain Bikes, now it's electric bikes. Gotta love the disc brakes on these new bikes though replaces those old rubber pad ones that slipped when the wheel got wet 😂.
BMX was still huge in the 90's 💪
I found a book in my school library some fifty years ago that touched on Borley Rectory. It creeped me out so bad I had to go wake up my parents. Funny how things are. I watch everything Dr. Felton puts out as soon as possible but I waited several days before watching this. 😬
The kitsch jump-scare sound effects in the Halloween episodes are always perfect. Mark definitely enjoys making these at least as much as I enjoy watching them.
As soon as that sound effect played I chuckled.
Hilarious! Loved every one of them!
I'm looking forward to Mark's 1st April upload.
Honestly i always find those sound effects rather annoying.
Could be because of korean and chinese TV shows that are abusing various soundeffects and memes constantly.
Yeah, man-'scared ME! I'm driving, and have it playing through my speakers, have it up kinda loud, because my window is down and was NOT prepared for the "DUNH!!" Haha!😂
Great story done in Dr. Felton's typically impeccable manner! I absolutely loved all the sound effects - especially the anguished wail of the murdered nun!
Well done, Dr. Felton, well done!
That was some really anguished wailing wasn't it?!
Sounds like me on the toilet after a curry...
@@stuartd9741 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Marks Halloween uploads are as regular as dinner for one film at Xmas, something traditional.
Mark, you and I are the same age, and in the mid 80s I was also obsessed with Borley Rectory! My mother had a book of ghost stories, and Borley Rectory was my favourite chapter. Unfortunately, I didn't grow up 8 miles from it (more like 10,500 miles away in Sydney Australia). I'm so glad you did this episode. A real flash back to a story I still often think about :)
Was it the 80s big book o' Spooks?
'A Gazeteer of British Ghosts' ?
I’m from Essex. I live in Newcastle NSW now. My husband is an Aussie, born on the central coast. It’s a small world really. We used to venture to an old manor house called “copped hall” and according to legend (I don’t actually know how much legend was true) and every time the manor, or hall, was rebuilt, it burned down again. It was near a place called High Beech, outside of London. We got chased out by security, and never went back again. It had tunnels with all sorts of scary graffiti. I was around 15 years old then. I’m 50 now lol. I often wonder if the hall is still there.
There appears to be a number of "most haunted houses" in England. In 1975 my wife and I stayed at Wymering Manor near Portsmouth when it served as a Youth Hostel. Not knowing of it's reputation we were not visited by unworldly apparitions. Upon subsequently learning of its history, I felt rather disappointed not to have been contacted by its ghosts.
That's just rude isn't it? Some ghosts are so inhospitable.
Maybe you 'out-spooked' them? Ooooooooooo, scary thought 😂
Because it’s not real lol
Not even the ghosts could stand spending time with you.
When are people going to understand, ghosts don't do command performances.
14 Kids ,that's a nightmare in itself !
I've always been so fascinated by Borley Rectory, I just love stories about ghosts, poltergeists, pretty much anything paranormal.
Have you heard about the 'supposedly' haunted room, 1 of 160, at the Chateau Tongariro Hotel on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand. (Sadly now closed) Apparently some 'sensitive' guests were greeted with a woman sitting on the bed combing her hair, if I recall correctly. The staff never revealed which room it was and were trained to just apologise to the 'sensitive' guest for the 'double-booking' and would assign them another room. They never mentioned the woman was an apparition. Also, the lift would go to the ground floor without anyone in it at random times.
Got to love these 'mystery' stories. I believe people can see a 'ghost', but I don't believe a ghost can make sound or move an object. I think people see with the visual processing part of the brain, I don't believe their eye's see a physical ghost. But I am only 64, so what do I know.
Great story Mark when I was a kid in the 1970s a pestered my Dad to buy me a cassette tape about Borley Rectory he did and I have been fascinated about it ever since living in Sydney Australia it’s a long way to go but in 1989 I finally made it to Borley saw the church and the house love it all.
I was fascinated by this place as a child. It was in every ghost book I owned.
Shame it's gone now.
Where were the bricks taken?
@@HighWealder No idea.
Thinking of souvenirs?
Visited the church in 77, twas wide open to any callers back then, yet c o L D within despite hot summer day outside.
Waldegrave family tomb in the corner.
I honestly believe that this man has no limits when it comes to educating us
I've been watching Mark since he had under 50K subs. His Halloween specials are always a hit!!
I think I’ve been watching longer fanboy.
@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks I think I’ve been watching longer fanboy.
I wish YT would list when we 1st subscribed to channels! I'm not sure if it was 2020 when we hand loads of time indoors when I subed
@@dangleecock6704 ah man back in march 2019 I think for me.
@@CaymanIslandsCatWalksI’ve been watching longer fanboy
Had to smile when Dr Felton said he got the ‘Willies’ in the old church.
I can just imagine the reaction of the beleaguered Borley residents upon seeing this TH-cam posting : "Oh dear - here we go again!"
I have spent the night in a haunted house and have had my experience with a poltergeist. The locked door flew open 3 times before I said screw this and got out of there. My friend saw the apparition of a little girl on another night. I was 18 at the time and was a complete non believer in ghosts etc before that night. Cheers Mark.
Thank you so very much for this documentary about one of the most famous hauntings in modern history. The BBC made a superb radio documentry about the rectory and church back in the 1970s also.
Thank you!!!
TV documentary.
Point of fact. Almost every Parish Church in England now firmly locked because people will pinch anything that isn’t nailed down.
That's not my experience.
That failed to stop them they just smashed stained glass windows to get in
Good morning Dr. Felton, thank you so very much for the upload! It’s always a treat to have a history lesson first thing in the morning!😊
Very suitable episode considering the holiday today.
1939, a very active year. I was not aware of the fire at the rectory. The barracks I was stationed at in Erlangen, (West Germany) were former Wheremacht Barracks and was haunted as well.
We're in the afternoon, but whatever!
@@frontenac50839am here!
@@frontenac5083 Well knock me down with a feather, clever Trevor! You haven't heard the world is bigger than your house! Haven't heard of 'Time Zones'? Unbelievable! And spoooooky 👻
For some reason Mark’s poorly edited sound effects are actually charming.
Absolute nonsense, did you not hear Mark scream?
Oscar winning performance displaying real dedication .
How dare you say anything against Mark Felton!
Right? I was about to comment that the sound effects are sending me 😂
When telling a tale of mystery spiritualism & ghosts. It's
_de rigueur_ to use sound effects to enhance the ambiance - to create chills down one spine....
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I was there in the early 90's. The thing I thought was interesting was the fact that the house opposite the church had it's windows blacked out not just curtains. It would be very interesting to know if the modern occupiers have actually had any situations? Great work as usual Dr.Felton.
Borley property attracts well-to-do London escapees. I'm guessing blinds keep out the riff raff looking in windows.
I believe that the Church is supposed to be haunted and that residents have spoken of a phantom cat in the ground s and bungalows , plus the cottage mark mentions had a history of ghostly goings on well into the late 20th century if not still, mainly footsteps, poltergeist activity and phantoms
Visited there about 17 years ago,we went onto the field that is nuns walk,if i remember rightly,people gardens back onto it & we took photos around the church,it is a creepy place & the locals dont take too kindly to people traipsing about,thank you for this. 👌👌❤️😊
More of this please good Doctor. Far too much history is occupied with war and military affairs. And whilst I am equally, as many, fascinated by those events there are so many non military events like this that have been forgotten to history. Thank you Mark.
Agree! I hope Mark will do more mysteries..
Some twenty plus years ago I was made aware of the stories of Borely Rectory and made a brief visit there after reading the book to which I recommend reading.
Only a few weeks ago after a visit back to Essex did I think of returning and taking another drive out to Borely. I had forgotten about this until this evening when TH-cam subscription alerted me to this Video by Mark Felton. Having watched the recent video of his visit to the Eagle's nest and several other of his videos and as a follower of his videos , what a great joy it has been to watch this video by him of the story of Borely Rectory. As always, another great presentation, Well done Mark.
P.S. For the future if you dare look into some ghost stories, there are few going with the Ghosts of RAF Bradwell Bay.
I remember back in the 80s having a really great ghost stories book that included this story and its fascinated me ever since, great video!
Professor Mark Felton is a pure genius. Through all of the years that I have watched and listened to every wonderful video, I shake my head and smile like a Cheshire Cat at their completion.
God Bless Mark Felton.
A rare and very sharp brain.
Having seen a ghost when with my mates and a dog that literally froze while at Hampton court palace during the night next to the Thames pathway in the 80's, i cannot dismiss any ghost story i watch or read .
Tell the story
I first read about Borley Rectory in a book, I borrowed from the library. I must have been eleven years old. Then I was fascinated!
Great haunted story Dr Felton. I had a my first ghost experience in early morning in November 1st 2017 me my mum and other groups went to the Tanners Hatch in Surrey dorking to do paranormal investigation. One time not only we heard the sound of knocking voices and footsteps but me and the women heard what sounded like a flute playing across the dark woods as clear as day which was coming from behind me. My mum and other groups didn’t hear it but only me and and women heard the flute playing in the dark woods. Happy Halloween everyone
I remember reading about this place as a child in elementary school. The way it was written scared me to death.
🎃Oh wow! This could be the real-world Screaming Shack! #halloween #harrypotter #ghoststory
Thank you for such great stories Dr. Felton!
I visited Plainfield Wisconsin a few years ago by motorcycle. Plainfield was where the most creative man in Wisconsin, Ed Gein, called home. I could feel the eyeballs on me. It is not a pleasant experience. Also unpleasant were the sounds of disembodied boots storming down the hallway in my military barracks in Bad Kissengen Germany. Happy Halloween Dr. Felton.
I can hear violin music . And I'd avoid showers in Plainfield , Wisconsin.
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I read Harry's book " The Most Haunted House in England " as a child in the 60's and found him to be a really good narrator , apparently while he was there doing his studies the BBC did a few live Radio Broadcasts from the Rectory .
I cannot thank you enough Dr Felton for this incredible addition to your body of work. HUZZAH!
So they found a human skull in a paper bag and nobody thought to investigate?
I never know which recycling bin to put those in whenever I find them. I think it goes in the green one with food waste, that's where I normally put them.
I enjoyed this history, and the corny music and sound effects you added to the video. Gave me some good chuckles. Good job!
Thoroughly enjoyable. A wonderful spooky bit of history. Happy Halloween Mark & fellow viewers!
I loved this, Mark. I remember ready about Borley and 19:12 Harry Price years ago. Fascinating, thanks for sharing and jogging my memory. 😊🏴
Love to see Mark's Tradition of Halloween Classic Haunting Stories Continues! Bring us more Sir!
I think the otherworldly feeling of the church environs came through in the video. Not just because of the windy desolation, but also those weirdly shaped topiaries have a very unsettling effect.
Well done Mark.
We have plenty of haunted homes in Canada, however, we cannot compete with the dates as far back as England.
Rest in peace to the deceased and long life to the living.
Cheers!
Seeing a Japanese soldier in full uniform walking around in the Yasukuni Shrine museum, then immediately going to that room to find no doors/exit other than the one that I had entered- that spooked me
A 36 mile round trip on a BMX shows some dedication!
Mark, old chaps, your cinematic, historical productions know no bounds, as so finely exemplified in this most unusual offering, and notably, a work so not in keeping with your more normal catalogue, and yet wonderful to behold, with sound effects and all. Thank you.
I must say, the initial description of Borley reminded me of Royston Vasey. "This is a local shop for local people".
Perhaps the creators of the League of Gentlemen visited Borley and received a similar hostile reception?
This might be my favorite part about Halloween.
Mark, you are still my favorite TH-cam creator. Your videos are always fascinating and extremely well done. Thank you for all that you do.
Looking forward to another Halloween special!
I remember being absolutely thrilled by the photo of the brick floating in the doorway! I'm sure Harry Price backfilled a lot of the legend surrounding the place, but it still makes for a great mystery. As always, Dr. Felton covers it better than any other source.
The floating brick photo was in a number of books about ghost legends and stories in the US, it along with the photo of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, captivated me as a kid. Loved reading about the rectory.
What a Halloween treat for, as you say, the generation of 80s kids that undoubtedly also had the Usborne book of the 'Supernatural World'! You covered the story with excellent maps and footage from the area and let the viewer decide whether hoax was at play. Great stuff.
I read that book so much! I used to get it out at my local library all the time in the early 90s as a young kid. I loved, and still do, spooky stuff....and military history too... Dr Felton, a perfect host!
I had a massive craze on this place as a child in the early 80s ! Nightmares and imagining shapes of toys in my room in the dark were black monks and nuns i think indicates it got a bit out of hand ! Still fascinates.Handsome Victorian interiors this building had.I seem to recall the marble fireplace shown in one of the photos with figures of monks, had been exhibited at the great Exhibition of 1851.
Spookiest place Ive been is the Napoleonic hospital in Western Heights Dover, thousands might of died a painful death in there
It's the audio effects that really cap this wonderful overview of Borley Rectory's history and "hauntings". Well done Dr. Felton.
Thank you very much Mark for this most interesting story! Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃
Very cool video! I’ve always found this place interesting! I like the floating brick picture.
I visited the tiny Village of Borley some seventeen years ago and I found it to be an idyllic place. However, I did feel an 'eerie-ness' near to where the Rectory once stood. When I visited the churchyard I also felt as though I was being watched.
An artist - Mrs Wilson - told of a strange creature - the 'Borley Bug' - that approached her while painting the rectory building. Later she drew a sketch of the insect; creature in drawing is similar to an elongated (and very dead) bug I once found in a box while working in a warehouse. The box had been shipped from somewhere outside of the U.K.
This could be a Scooby episode! Thanks Dr. Felton, this was fun.
Dr. Felton. thank you for this. You bring the same objectivity to the controversial paranormal arena that you do with World War II military subjects. Please do more. They would be very interesting and there are many such allegedly haunted places in England.
Thanks from the USA.
It's 13 miles from where I (mostly) grew up, I had NO idea!!!
Myself and friends used to visit Borley church at night usually on LSD and dare each other to walk around the church building 3 times by yourself. Going round the back was absolutely terrifying! Such was the early nineties 😅
Lots of fun, especially the sound effects.
Not seen it, but there was a 2020 film called 'The Banishing' which dramatised the whole story of the wife and the lodger. Doesn't get great reviews on imdb though.
About four years ago I happened to pass through a village called Everton, in Bedfordshire. Which only has two hundred houses. A sign outside the church there said it costs £7000 a week to keep said church open and running. So you might think Borley would cash in on it's notoriety, as that might help with running costs.
It's fascinating to see the Daily Mirror's 1938 style of reporting. Nowadays the wife and lodger would sell their story to the press and claim that the ghost had spied on . And either the Star or the Sport would run the story under the headline 'Sex shame Vicar's wife and Lusty Lodger saw pervert peeping tom ghost.' They would also claim it to be a WORLD EXCLUSIVE. The two would get to appear on big brother as a result
Anyone else think of Benny Hill during the speeded up walk through the churchyard😂😂 I also grew up in Colchester at the same time and my brother was obsessed by Borley. I’m sure he rode there on his bike, or drove there as soon as he could!
I can understand the feelings of the residents near Borley Rectory. Tourists can be annoying. I live near Centralia, PA, aka Silent Hill. Like the Borley residents we just want to be left in peace.
I was interested in the story for years and in 1986 was fortunate to visit the Borley Church on my own, and in a complete peasoup fog! The church is quite beautiful, and I didn't see anyone in and around the building. I also had the feeling of being watched, and didnt stay long.
This whole saga reminds me of the Genesis album Nursery Cryme. An album steeped in Victorian violence and sexual repression. I just listened to it again for the first time in 20 years. And then stumbled upon Mark Felton’s tales of Borley Rectory. Happy Halloween indeed!!!
Sadly Borley Rectory is much like Pluckley (where some of the locals are also starting to get tired of spook hunters) there's so much embellishment has gone on over the years that it's hard to tell what really went on, if anything at all.
Happy Halloween to you Mark & to all the good people out there!
Yup. So much sensationalism, but yet not as haunted as is made to believe. And it draws in too many folk than is necessary. Respect goes out the window.
Never been to Borley, but have driven through Pluckley dozens of time at all times of the day and night, but never spotted anything unusual 😉
I live not far from Pluckley and have heard many of the stories over the years. Odd how it never came up on the 'Spooky radar' before the mid 1980s? Have a feeling there's just a very good storyteller behind its notoriety....
Hi Mark !
Great Video ! Im a Colchester girl , and I grew up with the same stories ! I work in a Drs Surgery in the town now , that is haunted . Its a bizarre place ! 👻
I just listened to those church recordings, and they're creepy!! Thanks Mark!! I love a good haunting story!
Anything you touch is gold Mark ✨️ 💛
14 children. That is scary!😮
Absolutely fantastic! 👻 Really enjoyed the sound effects too 🦇 empty churches in rural areas can be spooky and I’d never want to live in one that’s been deconsecrated and turned into a home. Certainly strange and unsettling noises outside my own home (a flat in central London), but that’s explained by youths letting off fireworks 💥
This was a nice break. I love this channel!
Your Halloween episodes are fun! Great research and photos as always.
"Bovine Excrement" Thanks Mark, for adding this to my regular vocabulary.
Mark Felton Haloween special. Nice!
That "young, French nun" looked amazingly like Lillian Gish.
Thank you Mark, for this extremely entertaining video. I enjoyed it so much. You’re the best.
Great Halloween episode!! Thanks for putting these out, I always enjoy the holiday features.
Two friends were driving home from a night out near the town where I live. All of a sudden an old lady appeared in the headlights, it was too late to swerve or brake and they hit her. They stopped and even a thorough search with the aid of a torch they couldn't find anything or anybody. They phoned the police and they drew a blank too, despite using powerful torches and looking in ditches and hedge bottoms either side of the road. Then one of the cops said "Oh you've probably had an encounter with 'The Grey Lady', this road is haunted you know?" and off they went. Afterwards they did some research and indeed there have been similar sightings on that road. They were pretty shook up about it I can tell you, they both saw it and were utterly convinced at the time that they'd hit someone.😮
That's a shame. I always thought somebody should rebuild Borley Rectory exactly as it was and turn it into a hotel. I bet they'd get full bookings year round!
My sister used to work in an old house that looked just like that one mentioned. It was a huge old mansion near Huntingdon, just 1hr drive from the Rectory. She experienced hair blowers turning themselves on or creepy sounds as if someone was walking on her floor. I've been in this house, it's weird to roam alone in such a huge house with 7 bathrooms. Your brain can definitely play tricks on you but still there are some unexplainable phenomena
Must have been a lovely house in its time. Id love an house with lots of hallways and rooms.
Its funny how these stories usually include a nun.
I am hiding behind my couch right know with just my eyes peering over the top..
That’s a 90 minute bike ride from Colchester. Impressive, that drive to go there. I only biked that long for visiting air bases 😉
its chewsday innit
As Mister Peabody (of Sherman and Peabody cartoons) said: "Every dog should have a boy."
Great photo to include. Good dog.