My late father was born in Borley Rectory in 1922, his parents were in service there until the second reverend Bull left. My grandparents were interviewed in the 70’s but never saw or heard anything. My grandmother returned to the church at around that time and the following day it was reported that items in the church, candles etc, were found on the ground
Let's not forget that it was Chris Halton who exposed the *UTTER FRAUD* perpetrated by the TV show, "Most Haunted" about a decade ago. Well, done, Chris!
Thank you for this Chris. Borley (rightly or not) has been an interest of mine since the 1960's and I have visited the place on a couple of occasions. The first time was in the late 80's with my (late) Father and we enjoyed our time looking around the church (although in those days I had no idea where the Rectory would have been). The second time was with my partner who is sensitive to certain things and could not continue her walk along the church path. No smells or sounds, just a foreboding and an urge to get away quickly.
It is a beautiful yet at times beguiling place with the feeling you are not alone. I`ve even heard footsteps behind me in daylight with obviously nobody there!
Very Informative and accurate. A lot of stuff these days isn't. I have a vast collection of material on Borley spanning 30+ years. I have books and material which is very rare, Including Vince O Neill's book which was never published. I live in Nova Scotia and recently visited Amherst, where the Foyster's were from. I need to re visit to find out more about them, as my visit was to the vets with our dog. It's about a 2 hr drive from where we live.. Vincent was another 'adoptee' of Marianne's and he went back with her. I have no idea if he's alive and I will look up parish records. I have loads of photos from our visit to Borley, mainly black and white which shows up 'anomalies' and 'back in the day' you were then allowed in the church. I have a letter from Peter Underwood. My visit was probably around 1986. If I were to sell my collection it's probably worth around 30,000 plus GBP. There are some bungalows which were built on Hall Drive in the 70's and the Nun allegedly walks through garage walls etc.
An excellent look back into one of the 20th century enigmas. Covering Borley Church at the same time was critical and often missed. It was never about just the Rectory.
Another great watch my friend. I've been aware of, and indeed have watched many times, the BBC investigation evidence and it appears, on face value to be very active. I've heard that the villagers of Borley aren't overly keen on people / groups pitching up to investigate as some make a nuisance of themselves. This is a crying shame a major investigation is warranted. Thanks for the vid. I think that your group, you, Pat and Eddie would give a sympathetic and reasoned investigation. Harry Price is a divisive character and a lot of his evidence has been questioned vigorously and the "press" intrusion didn't help for a truthful investigation. All in all another winner from Haunted Earth and my mate Chris Halton. Well worth the watch folks....
It is really tiny place, Ian. Even the church car park is chained off and the church have posted that it isn`t haunted! They wouldn`t even allow me to take photo`s inside the church! Thanks, Ian :)
A insightful look back, much thanks for all your time & effort in compiling and sharing with us Chris. A++. Rather interesting when you look back and reflect on how times & means may have changed, but the human personality still persists rather unchanged in nature. Regardless, thoroughly enjoyed it; much thanks again!
Excellent video again Chris. I started laughing as you were coming up the path, my mind flashed to the video years ago when the birds kept acting up each time you tried to do your opening. Great history on a beautiful location. As I said years ago you should be a teacher of history.
Biggest amazement for me is the sheer quality of this superbly cognisant documentary made for TH-cam. You could've made it about the Borley Rectory roof guttering and it still would've been enthralling. And just too add: I think you're spot on with your summing up of Price. I appreciate at that period (at least in the earlier years) seances and the paranormal were quite accepted. Especially in the Victorian eras new found love for the sciences, and the catastrophe of WWI with so many young lives cut short with so many families never having the chance of goodbyes and the like. But these were for the general public. You can't help but feel that Price considered himself a "scientist", but without any academic achievement and with the paranormal sciences realistically being at the periphery, Price was probably shunned by the community he was so desperate to be recognised with. And as you're well aware in the medieval to renaissance era nobody even rode a wagon. They all went by horseback, coaches didn't exist, wagons were monstrous furniture removal things, Elizabeth I riding horseback on her interminable tours of the Realm would barely manage 10 miles a day. Basically what I'm saying is your assessment of a pack of headless coachmen with a pack of nuns on tour is exactly what you say: very much a Victorian invention. Without TV and Radio it'd be either a night of exciting stories of ghostly apparitions or scrabble again. Or you could pretend to be a ghost nun with a few of your 14 siblings... Mysterious footsteps at night? With 14 kids all wandering around in the middle of the night trying to nick biscuits?
Very interesting take on the most famous ghost in Britain ; just as the Loch Ness monster was a early 20th C newspaper circulation boost - this corner of Essex and its legend interwove fact with fiction plus some fascinating character's and there is a perfect situation for a great story . Well done indeed for giving us all the background and a trained eye to point out discrepancies and questionable incidents A really entertaining video ; thank you .
Excellent reportage Chris, which brings to the fore your superlative detective skills honed during your time as a policeman. You painstakingly sift the wheat from the chaff concerning the truth and fiction behind the paranormal history of this famous location. I hope that you can gain access to the church at some stage to conduct your own investation in the company of Pat and Eddie.
Very interesting documentary. The way I see it is your either a believer or your not. It all depends on whether you are open and receptive. Me personally I am a believer. I have had my fair share of experiences with ghosts in the past. It’s something that can never truly be explained. There isn’t always an explanation for everything. But it’s a very good documentary and the history is amazing. But your right, the church has been overlooked by the rectory.
I visited Borley church one evening in September, during the eighties. As we arrived, a cotton wall fog crept over the whole site from the direction of the field, behind the church. We made our way to the porch and sat down. Two of us with our backs to the house, and one opposite. The fog was so thick, that visibility outside the porch, was no more than five to six feet. As we sat there, after a while, a number of bats started to fly inside the porch, and then fly straight out again. This suddenly stopped, and then, after a while, there was the sound of birds screeching, becoming louder, as if they were approaching the porch. From behind us, in the direction of the house, in between the porch and the hedge, there was the sound of a human voice, letting out a loud roar, as if it had become frustrated with the noise of the birds! Sure enough, the screeching stopped. I've never ever heard or witnessed anything so frightening! Strangely enough, only two of us heard the noise, even though it pierced through the air! I remember my friend turning to me and saying: "what the fuck was that?" Because of the fog, we were too afraid to go out and investigate, and the atmosphere became very daunting and unpleasant! We stayed for around another hour, before returning to the car, which was parked by the gate. It's something I shall never forget.
Okay, I was a year out, this production completed in 2021. But earlier than that I recall you saying you were departing TH-cam to upload on a different platform(probably Amazon).
@@HarryKenyon yes your right ✅ i had no idea until I just did an Internet search for Borley Rectory..it burnt down in 1939 and got demolished in around 1944 i think 🤔 so it looks like I won't be visiting it after all .. 😅
As a boy I can tell you the stories of Borley and H.P.Lovecraft gave me a few sleepless nights. And of course the "floating" brick picture : www.borleyrectory.com/photos/brick.jpg
@@HauntedEarth You probably have a better knowledge of cameras than me but if the brick was falling it would have taking a pretty quick shutter speed/fast film even if the camera was tripod mounted. While I'm not discounting it (especially as there was a practiced conjurer on site) I'm more inclined to think it was stationary. Suspended by wires would be my guess.
You may be right, I trust your police detective instincts. It is…haunted…the church for sure. If you would stay one night there…you…Pat and Eddie…it would be…even for you…a frightening night …and none of you scare easy.
@Nature Witch Agreed, that is today so. In the mid 70‘s when I was 10 years old, I bicycled there one late afternoon and….th-cam.com/video/YPvQjezNcGg/w-d-xo.html
Dear Chris, originscognisant of this. The late Peter Underwood who investigated Borley in the late 1940s said that there really was no, evidence that Price had played false at Borley. I have seen all of your videos on TH-cam and I find them very interesting, however I still find it hard to believe in what you call a Ghostbox. Paul Johnstone
Apparently sometime during one of its periods of abandonment and the time it burned somebody wrote the word "CHEERS" on the wall of the fireplace room! 😁
Interesting "COINCIDENCE" that the story of the cause of the "haunting" was the illicit sexcapade between a MONK and a NUN;and there was a sculptured figure of a bare-headed MONK and of a hooded one, suggestive of a NUN'S appearance, at each side of the fireplace visible in the old photograph of the man standing in front of it. 🧐🤔
Headless" coach pulled by headless horses 🤔🤔they won"t see were they go, even worse is when the couch driven by headless men.... stupid. """"Jack Crow""""
Quality presentation, indeed, but who's the boney Borley babe biding her time on a closet shelf w/her head in a bag? Whose hands came to tuck her away there, and why?
@@HauntedEarth I recall a story about a male "screaming?" skull discovered in in a church or manor closet somehow connected to a lord who died upon returning from battle. Once he was buried near his remains, the household hauntings ceased. Strictly from memory here, hope I have my stories straight & haven't juxtaposed them by accident. My point, tho, was that this is the 1st instance I've heard of, altho there are prob more undiscovered or untold, of a woman's skull turning up bagged in a closet. Curious no one's providing answers to her identity. Once those involved have passed on, tracing her becomes harder, but not impossible. Perhaps if she starts raising a ruckus nightly, the prop owners shall be more motivated to at least lay her to rest properly, even if they fail at identifying her.
That’s an interesting question. Two observations: how were they certain that it was female, just from the skull? It’s not an exact science to sex the deceased purely from a skull. Secondly, the rectory was near a churchyard, which has had generations of bones buried there. However, the question remains why someone from the rectory, especially Christians who believe in the sanctity of burial in holy ground, would move it to a cupboard. Perhaps it was the Bull girls, to bolster their tales of a nun, a monk and a horse drawn carriage which, if memory serves me right, they took directly from a popular Harrison Ainsworth tale to give a more interesting history to what was then their modern home?
@@sarahmillard6401 Good points. I did not think to question the methods or veracity of whomever made that call. That struck me as strange, too, such handling of the bones, given beliefs/traditions of the time. Interesting to find that they were snatching sources to shore up their story.
They didn't pay taxes, and being land holders, collected the money from leasing out their land. My father,at the moment,is (temporarily) living at a care home in an out of the way place (so remote,that Shakespeare wrote about it whenever he wanted to give the feeling of a backwater!).The care home is a massive vicarage!The Church,even now,is an incredibly wealthy concern,so vicars,even in quite remote areas,were able to have the most incredible houses,with staff, don't forget,built for them, and,their sometimes,huge families!My Dah (I've always called him that,I'm partly Welsh,but found out ages after that this is what what the Welsh call their fathers) can't get over the fact that the vicars lived in such luxury.If, an out of the way place, can have such a massive vicarage,no wonder Borley's was ginormous! It always tickles me that my maternal grandfather was called Harry Price!He died ages before I was born, but, apparently,he was VERY chapel!No ghost-hunting,etc for him!,🤣🤭🤣Interesting documentary,thank you for posting.👍👍👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
I’ve been to borely loads of times but years ago before they made it too hard to park.it’s such a beautiful place but has a really weird aura to it especially after dark
The place is haunted. Visited back in the 90s with friends, we walked along the field along the original rectory garden, at night, there was a big hedge that run parallel with the field. We all stopped, and heard footsteps on the other side. I jumped on my friend's shoulders to have a look over the other side. Nothing there. As we walked and stopped again it continued. It is a very haunted place.
I think that in your summing up you should have paid far more attention to the church. Unless the 70s experiences were fabricated, it seems to me that the interest and mystery lies there, not in the long-gone rectory and the dubious characters associated with it. You suggested that there's no possibility of going back to the church and reopening investigations there. Why?
because you can't go in the church anymore. Only if your a parishioner. I feel very sorry for the people of Borley who have had to put up with a lot of vandalism.
@@juliearch1 Back in the 1970s it got so bad that the Police were often called out to move people on who turned up in cars in large numbers late at night making a general nuisance of themselves and no doubt keeping the Villagers awake.
Some interesting analysis in your video, although it seems that you have a predisposition to believe in the paranormal, so it's hard to know how open minded you are about Borley. Anyway, I have visited there a number of times, and enjoyed your film. Thank you!
There are ghosts, I saw the apparition of a Alsatian dog when I was 10 at school. I am now almost 58, and I have seen nothing else, but that dog was not only seen by me but also another person.
Perhaps not at Borley, but my family & I lived in a haunted house, we left him alone & he us, there was also a black cat, both were as solid as you or I. Not only we saw them, but visitors, even those who believed in nothing saw them & searched the house & garden for both. We lived in a remote 15th century blacksmith's & this man & cat had never left.
This was absolutely one of my favourites. Loved hearing about the history and the characters and those BBC voices (when they had that BBC voice 😂)
Jolly well absolutely, old bean! :)
My late father was born in Borley Rectory in 1922, his parents were in service there until the second reverend Bull left. My grandparents were interviewed in the 70’s but never saw or heard anything. My grandmother returned to the church at around that time and the following day it was reported that items in the church, candles etc, were found on the ground
Wow that's amazing 👍😎
The best doc about Borley so far. Well done.
I grew up as a kid reading and been mystified by the rectory and fascinated by the stories.Pleased you did this one chris cheers.
Thanks, Paul!
Well done, man! A real pleasure, thank you for your hard work!
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks :)
Let's not forget that it was Chris Halton who exposed the *UTTER FRAUD* perpetrated by the TV show, "Most Haunted" about a decade ago. Well, done, Chris!
You`re welcome :)
@@HauntedEarth Cheers, Chris! Good to see you're still active in one way or another!
Excellent video. Well researched and presented. The BBC footage. i saw that repeated in the early 90s (i recorded it)
All the Best
Glad you enjoyed it
@@HauntedEarth Brilliant and i enjoyed the Dillinger videos too ver the last couple of nights
All the best.
I have visited Borley quite a few times, I live not far away. It's always been a calm and peaceful place whenever I visited.
Thanks, Alan. It is a very tranquil and beautiful place. :)
This was very informative and non bias.
Refreshing to watch.
I have subscribed .
Great work 👍
Welcome aboard! Thank you very much.
Just found this Chanel by chance.. looks interesting..have subscribed..
Thanks, Annie I hope you`ll enjoy my shows! 🙂
Thank you for this Chris. Borley (rightly or not) has been an interest of mine since the 1960's and I have visited the place on a couple of occasions. The first time was in the late 80's with my (late) Father and we enjoyed our time looking around the church (although in those days I had no idea where the Rectory would have been). The second time was with my partner who is sensitive to certain things and could not continue her walk along the church path. No smells or sounds, just a foreboding and an urge to get away quickly.
It is a beautiful yet at times beguiling place with the feeling you are not alone. I`ve even heard footsteps behind me in daylight with obviously nobody there!
@@HauntedEarth yep especially round the back of the church and near the crypt.
Just watched again. Superb. Wish I was there with you! Miss you so much!
Miss you too, Ursula!
Hi Chris. Very interesting history. You do an excellent job in presenting and narrating.
Thank you, deeply appreciated. All the best for 2024!
my mum had a first edition book about haunted borley church.I have it now
Loved this!
The research, about the History, and the people that have lived in the Rectory is extensive, and well narrated.
Thank you, Tony!
Great historical history, such a lovely church.
It is a very beautiful church and churchyard, Susan. :)
Thank you so much Chris for This informative Video on Borley Rectory its a Shame its Gone it should of been Restored been a historic Building.
Thank you. It is sad that it has gone.
Very Informative and accurate. A lot of stuff these days isn't. I have a vast collection of material on Borley spanning 30+ years. I have books and material which is very rare, Including Vince O Neill's book which was never published. I live in Nova Scotia and recently visited Amherst, where the Foyster's were from. I need to re visit to find out more about them, as my visit was to the vets with our dog. It's about a 2 hr drive from where we live.. Vincent was another 'adoptee' of Marianne's and he went back with her. I have no idea if he's alive and I will look up parish records. I have loads of photos from our visit to Borley, mainly black and white which shows up 'anomalies' and 'back in the day' you were then allowed in the church. I have a letter from Peter Underwood. My visit was probably around 1986. If I were to sell my collection it's probably worth around 30,000 plus GBP. There are some bungalows which were built on Hall Drive in the 70's and the Nun allegedly walks through garage walls etc.
I have everything including first edition books.
An excellent look back into one of the 20th century enigmas. Covering Borley Church at the same time was critical and often missed. It was never about just the Rectory.
Thanks, Tony. :)
Another great watch my friend. I've been aware of, and indeed have watched many times, the BBC investigation evidence and it appears, on face value to be very active. I've heard that the villagers of Borley aren't overly keen on people / groups pitching up to investigate as some make a nuisance of themselves. This is a crying shame a major investigation is warranted. Thanks for the vid. I think that your group, you, Pat and Eddie would give a sympathetic and reasoned investigation.
Harry Price is a divisive character and a lot of his evidence has been questioned vigorously and the "press" intrusion didn't help for a truthful investigation.
All in all another winner from Haunted Earth and my mate Chris Halton. Well worth the watch folks....
It is really tiny place, Ian. Even the church car park is chained off and the church have posted that it isn`t haunted! They wouldn`t even allow me to take photo`s inside the church! Thanks, Ian :)
Well done and a pleasure to watch as always! Stay well!
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the old BBC footage,this is very in depth thanks.
A insightful look back, much thanks for all your time & effort in compiling and sharing with us Chris. A++. Rather interesting when you look back and reflect on how times & means may have changed, but the human personality still persists rather unchanged in nature. Regardless, thoroughly enjoyed it; much thanks again!
Thank you, Gaylene!
Excellent video again Chris. I started laughing as you were coming up the path, my mind flashed to the video years ago when the birds kept acting up each time you tried to do your opening. Great history on a beautiful location. As I said years ago you should be a teacher of history.
Lol! Those darned pheasants, Kari! :) Appreciated.
Have read several articles about Borley Rectory. Very interesting story.
Thanks, Marna :)
Biggest amazement for me is the sheer quality of this superbly cognisant documentary made for TH-cam.
You could've made it about the Borley Rectory roof guttering and it still would've been enthralling.
And just too add: I think you're spot on with your summing up of Price. I appreciate at that period (at least in the earlier years) seances and the paranormal were quite accepted. Especially in the Victorian eras new found love for the sciences, and the catastrophe of WWI with so many young lives cut short with so many families never having the chance of goodbyes and the like. But these were for the general public.
You can't help but feel that Price considered himself a "scientist", but without any academic achievement and with the paranormal sciences realistically being at the periphery, Price was probably shunned by the community he was so desperate to be recognised with.
And as you're well aware in the medieval to renaissance era nobody even rode a wagon. They all went by horseback, coaches didn't exist, wagons were monstrous furniture removal things, Elizabeth I riding horseback on her interminable tours of the Realm would barely manage 10 miles a day. Basically what I'm saying is your assessment of a pack of headless coachmen with a pack of nuns on tour is exactly what you say: very much a Victorian invention.
Without TV and Radio it'd be either a night of exciting stories of ghostly apparitions or scrabble again.
Or you could pretend to be a ghost nun with a few of your 14 siblings...
Mysterious footsteps at night? With 14 kids all wandering around in the middle of the night trying to nick biscuits?
Very interesting take on the most famous ghost in Britain ; just as the Loch Ness monster was a early 20th C newspaper circulation boost - this corner of Essex and its legend interwove fact with fiction plus some fascinating character's and there is a perfect situation for a great story . Well done indeed for giving us all the background and a trained eye to point out discrepancies and questionable incidents
A really entertaining video ; thank you .
Thank you very much for your comments, Jonathan. Very much appreciated by me.
lovely Peter Underwood a very honest ghost hunter, thanks Chris💗👻
Appreciated, Grazia :)
Well done sir. This version is a lot clearer than the one you made 4 years earlier.
This was excellent, thanks!
You're very welcome!
I want a chris halton t-shirt with "i digress" on it.
So do I....
I`m afraid I`ll have to digress on that! :)
Quality watch as always 👌🏻
Much appreciated!
A great presentation Chris
Thanks, Paul!
Excellent reportage Chris, which brings to the fore your superlative detective skills honed during your time as a policeman. You painstakingly sift the wheat from the chaff concerning the truth and fiction behind the paranormal history of this famous location. I hope that you can gain access to the church at some stage to conduct your own investation in the company of Pat and Eddie.
Thank you my friend. But we`ll never be allowed inside.
That was just so interesting thankyou x
Thank you!
Haunted or not, seeing that image of the brick in the doorway as a child has me fascinated in ghosts to this day!
I can imagine.
there is an explanation to that..see my post above
This was well done!!!, and I was curious about the past History of this place!
Very interesting documentary. The way I see it is your either a believer or your not. It all depends on whether you are open and receptive. Me personally I am a believer. I have had my fair share of experiences with ghosts in the past. It’s something that can never truly be explained. There isn’t always an explanation for everything. But it’s a very good documentary and the history is amazing. But your right, the church has been overlooked by the rectory.
That was really interesting x
Thanks, Bee. :)
I visited Borley church one evening in September, during the eighties. As we arrived, a cotton wall fog crept over the whole site from the direction of the field, behind the church. We made our way to the porch and sat down. Two of us with our backs to the house, and one opposite. The fog was so thick, that visibility outside the porch, was no more than five to six feet. As we sat there, after a while, a number of bats started to fly inside the porch, and then fly straight out again. This suddenly stopped, and then, after a while, there was the sound of birds screeching, becoming louder, as if they were approaching the porch. From behind us, in the direction of the house, in between the porch and the hedge, there was the sound of a human voice, letting out a loud roar, as if it had become frustrated with the noise of the birds! Sure enough, the screeching stopped. I've never ever heard or witnessed anything so frightening! Strangely enough, only two of us heard the noise, even though it pierced through the air! I remember my friend turning to me and saying: "what the fuck was that?" Because of the fog, we were too afraid to go out and investigate, and the atmosphere became very daunting and unpleasant! We stayed for around another hour, before returning to the car, which was parked by the gate. It's something I shall never forget.
There seem to be many things relating to Harry Price which mirror the claims made by Charles Dawson. I wonder if the two new each other?
May well be so. I only scratched the surface here.
@@HauntedEarth Thanks for replying Chris: I should have written "knew".
a great vlog chris
Very informative Chris. Thank you.
superb, thank you!
Okay, I was a year out, this production completed in 2021. But earlier than that I recall you saying you were departing TH-cam to upload on a different platform(probably Amazon).
Amazon stopped small fry like myself from hosting videos. :(
@@HauntedEarth That's Amazon's loss!
I must visit Borley Rectory at some point..i would even like to stay the weekend to see if any Ghostly events happen 😊
It burned down didn’t it
@@HarryKenyon yes your right ✅ i had no idea until I just did an Internet search for Borley Rectory..it burnt down in 1939 and got demolished in around 1944 i think 🤔 so it looks like I won't be visiting it after all .. 😅
As a boy I can tell you the stories of Borley and H.P.Lovecraft gave me a few sleepless nights. And of course the "floating" brick picture :
www.borleyrectory.com/photos/brick.jpg
That brick was actually caught in mid-flight (as I discovered) falling from the rectory.
@@HauntedEarth You probably have a better knowledge of cameras than me but if the brick was falling it would have taking a pretty quick shutter speed/fast film even if the camera was tripod mounted. While I'm not discounting it (especially as there was a practiced conjurer on site) I'm more inclined to think it was stationary. Suspended by wires would be my guess.
Is the ☠️💀 skull still around today can't you use DNA on it to test it to find out who it was
I've always wondered why these 'ghosts and spirits' should wear clothes. Do shoes, dresses and underpants have spirits too?
You may be right, I trust your police detective instincts. It is…haunted…the church for sure. If you would stay one night there…you…Pat and Eddie…it would be…even for you…a frightening night …and none of you scare easy.
@Nature Witch Agreed, that is today so. In the mid 70‘s when I was 10 years old, I bicycled there one late afternoon and….th-cam.com/video/YPvQjezNcGg/w-d-xo.html
Dear Chris,
originscognisant of this. The late Peter Underwood who investigated Borley in the late 1940s said that there really was no, evidence that Price had played false at Borley. I have seen all of your videos on TH-cam and I find them very interesting, however I still find it hard to believe in what you call a Ghostbox.
Paul Johnstone
Thanks for commenting, Paul.
Amazing content! Great research!
Apparently sometime during one of its periods of abandonment and the time it burned somebody wrote the word "CHEERS" on the wall of the fireplace room! 😁
Interesting "COINCIDENCE" that the story of the cause of the "haunting" was the illicit sexcapade between a MONK and a NUN;and there was a sculptured figure of a bare-headed MONK and of a hooded one, suggestive of a NUN'S appearance, at each side of the fireplace visible in the old photograph of the man standing in front of it. 🧐🤔
Wasn’t there suppose to be a big budget movie about Borley?
I think a few movies have been shot there. Some good but many dire. Have a great new year!
A Reverend riddled with syphilis why am I not surprised?
Lol! Indeed, Eric.
Of course there are ghosts, as ubiquitous as those who experience them, cheerfully ensconsed where they have always lurked : inside the human mind!
I think many of the people were already haunted before they encountered Borley.
Could well be, Susan.
❤ thx so much! Great investigative work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Headless" coach pulled by headless horses 🤔🤔they won"t see were they go, even worse is when the couch driven by headless men.... stupid. """"Jack Crow""""
You've heard of the headless horseman
The image you used as H.D.E. Bull is actually of Harry Foyster Bull, son of H.D.E. Bull.
Yes, I`ll put my hands up to that. My bad.
Quality presentation, indeed, but who's the boney Borley babe biding her time on a closet shelf w/her head in a bag? Whose hands came to tuck her away there, and why?
Thank you! :) Good question on the skull. I never did find an answer there.
@@HauntedEarth I recall a story about a male "screaming?" skull discovered in in a church or manor closet somehow connected to a lord who died upon returning from battle. Once he was buried near his remains, the household hauntings ceased. Strictly from memory here, hope I have my stories straight & haven't juxtaposed them by accident. My point, tho, was that this is the 1st instance I've heard of, altho there are prob more undiscovered or untold, of a woman's skull turning up bagged in a closet. Curious no one's providing answers to her identity. Once those involved have passed on, tracing her becomes harder, but not impossible. Perhaps if she starts raising a ruckus nightly, the prop owners shall be more motivated to at least lay her to rest properly, even if they fail at identifying her.
@@TheSWolfe DNA might nail it!
That’s an interesting question. Two observations: how were they certain that it was female, just from the skull? It’s not an exact science to sex the deceased purely from a skull. Secondly, the rectory was near a churchyard, which has had generations of bones buried there. However, the question remains why someone from the rectory, especially Christians who believe in the sanctity of burial in holy ground, would move it to a cupboard. Perhaps it was the Bull girls, to bolster their tales of a nun, a monk and a horse drawn carriage which, if memory serves me right, they took directly from a popular Harrison Ainsworth tale to give a more interesting history to what was then their modern home?
@@sarahmillard6401 Good points. I did not think to question the methods or veracity of whomever made that call. That struck me as strange, too, such handling of the bones, given beliefs/traditions of the time. Interesting to find that they were snatching sources to shore up their story.
A very big rectory for a country priest! How could the reverend pay for that?
No proper heating and no mains water.
They didn't pay taxes, and being land holders, collected the money from leasing out their land.
My father,at the moment,is (temporarily) living at a care home in an out of the way place (so remote,that Shakespeare wrote about it whenever he wanted to give the feeling of a backwater!).The care home is a massive vicarage!The Church,even now,is an incredibly wealthy concern,so vicars,even in quite remote areas,were able to have the most incredible houses,with staff, don't forget,built for them, and,their sometimes,huge families!My Dah (I've always called him that,I'm partly Welsh,but found out ages after that this is what what the Welsh call their fathers) can't get over the fact that the vicars lived in such luxury.If, an out of the way place, can have such a massive vicarage,no wonder Borley's was ginormous!
It always tickles me that my maternal grandfather was called Harry Price!He died ages before I was born, but, apparently,he was VERY chapel!No ghost-hunting,etc for him!,🤣🤭🤣Interesting documentary,thank you for posting.👍👍👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
Thanks, everyone. The Bull family were very wealthy. Especially paying for the upkeep of that large rectory, plus all those kids!
Bures Nunnery ¿?
I was 11 when I saw this didn't sleep for months 😳😳
Its a creepy place.
I’ve been to borely loads of times but years ago before they made it too hard to park.it’s such a beautiful place but has a really weird aura to it especially after dark
The place is haunted. Visited back in the 90s with friends, we walked along the field along the original rectory garden, at night, there was a big hedge that run parallel with the field. We all stopped, and heard footsteps on the other side. I jumped on my friend's shoulders to have a look over the other side. Nothing there. As we walked and stopped again it continued. It is a very haunted place.
I think that in your summing up you should have paid far more attention to the church. Unless the 70s experiences were fabricated, it seems to me that the interest and mystery lies there, not in the long-gone rectory and the dubious characters associated with it. You suggested that there's no possibility of going back to the church and reopening investigations there. Why?
because you can't go in the church anymore. Only if your a parishioner. I feel very sorry for the people of Borley who have had to put up with a lot of vandalism.
@@juliearch1 Back in the 1970s it got so bad that the Police were often called out to move people on who turned up in cars in large numbers late at night making a general nuisance of themselves and no doubt keeping the Villagers awake.
This should be titled destroy the reputation of Price.
If you've read about Harry Price, he said many hauntings were genuine when they weren't, but elaborate hoaxes
that's already been done re Trevor Hall and SPR. read the books.
Some interesting analysis in your video, although it seems that you have a predisposition to believe in the paranormal, so it's hard to know how open minded you are about Borley. Anyway, I have visited there a number of times, and enjoyed your film. Thank you!
Great documentary. !
Either a slew of hoaxes,or suggestion.Ghosts are the most illogical of human constructs.
I dont buy your point of view. People in the church have even seen strange things. No sale here
there are neither gods nor ghosts.
There are ghosts, I saw the apparition of a Alsatian dog when I was 10 at school. I am now almost 58, and I have seen nothing else, but that dog was not only seen by me but also another person.
Thanks, Jet :)
Perhaps not at Borley, but my family & I lived in a haunted house, we left him alone & he us, there was also a black cat, both were as solid as you or I. Not only we saw them, but visitors, even those who believed in nothing saw them & searched the house & garden for both. We lived in a remote 15th century blacksmith's & this man & cat had never left.
You don't know that, nobody knows that.Nobody knows 100% what happens after death( including you).