The Haunting of the Borley Rectory

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Hey weirdos, I'm Alina. I'm Ash. And this is morbid. Yeah, it is.

I think it's like spooky addition morbid. It is spooky addition because you know, it's the month of October and I figured where I mean most of the time we do true crime. Yeah, but every now and then we'll do like a little haunted haunted area of the world. Yeah, we've only done like a handful of those.

But sometimes there's so much fun. Yeah, and I feel like so because we do two episodes a week like we'll be just going to start dirt off my shoulder real quick. Not totally kidding. But because we do two episodes a week, we figured the month of October, we could kind of switch it around and do something fun and do one like murder case a week like true crime.

Yeah, and then one paranormally spookier case a week. Yeah, just the month of October. For spooky season. So for the next couple of weeks, you're going to get one spooky thing and one true crime.

Yeah, because why not? It's fun. Ghosts are Halloweeny. So let's do it.

I mean, most of our listener's tales are like paranormal. It's like nine out of 10 times together. And they're fun. And they're hella fun.

And you know, maybe we could do witches, ghosts, you know, something paranormal. We could do something. So just look forward to that. Something morbid.

Yeah, you know, and then I think this week we also dropped like just a random extra episode with that was ad-free. That was the Sowin episode. No, no, Sam Haynes. And the origins of Halloween.

And we will just do that every now and then whenever we can. Yeah, there's not going to be a schedule for it. We're not going to promise anything. We're just going to tell you everyone's in a while.

We'll try to drop an ad for you one in there whenever we can. We'll just be like, whoo, here you go. And you know why? Because we love you and we cherish you and we appreciate you and we want to stroke your hair.

We do. I ran out of things to say, but we do want to stroke your hair. We do. So we hope you it seems like everybody enjoyed that one.

That was a fun one. It was fun to research and it was really fun to talk about. So I'm pretty excited to like do ad yolks with you. Yeah, there you go.

And people were telling us about this. And also a lot of people requested the day of the day at the day at the day at the day. Day of day loss more toast. Oh, good job.

And I think that's a great one to do. Yes. So I'm like, do it. Are we going to do it next week?

I think I should do it next week. I think so too. So you do that for like the creepy like haunted episode and I'll do a true crime episode. Exactly.

There you go. Just planning on the air. And who? I mean, yeah, we'll see what happens, but you're going to get it.

Yeah. October is fun because we can kind of like switch around what we already had planned and fit out some more spooky stuff. So thank you guys for recommending that and suggesting that and we're excited to do it. Yeah.

So without further ado, boom. So it's the spooky episode time. It is the spooky episode time. I have to tell you where I came up with the idea to do this.

You do. It all started at Target. Sure it is. As most great ideas start.

As most of my great ideas. So I was at Target in the checkout line and Annie was like buying all our stuff and I was like, oh my god, it's so nice. And then I saw this magazine. And normally I don't buy myself magazines because they're ridiculously overpriced.

Sure. But I said, Annie, we buy me this life magazine with the 15 most haunted places in the world. Oh, love. And she said yes.

And so I got it. And she said yes. And then I was reading through it and I found this place that I'm going to talk about. And it's England's most haunted home.

Oh, I'm ready. So I'm here. I was like, I have to tell the weirdos about the office. Oh, so excited.

You might already know. So the Borley Rectory, like I said, is often referred to as England's most haunted home. We love the most haunted anything. So it was built by this reverend named Henry Dawson Elisable because everybody back then had four names.

Yes, I trust him immediately. Do you? No, there's really no reason not to trust him because I felt trusting him. Well, he built this home and was completed in 1863.

So we're in the way back machine. Wow. Henry was the rector of Borley Church nearby. And he was a husband and a father to just 14 kids.

Oh, just a little handful. Just a couple of kiddos running around. Just a strong handful of children. So they needed a big old house to fit the heart.

So they were like constantly adding more rooms and more construction. But like I said, it was finally done in 1863. It's like the Winchester mystery house. That makes it harder.

That makes it harder. Less upside down things. Yeah. The home itself was built on the grounds that used to be home to another rectory.

That was the Herringham rectory. I probably said that wrong. I like it. Thanks.

And before that, it was said to have been another building. And then nobody like remembered before. We didn't get a shit about that other building. You'll fuck out the way.

Fuck you on the building. And before that, well, nobody really knows. Oh. But there were rumors that the grounds were also once home to a monastery where this really good looking monk was living.

We love a hot monkey. Oh, so hot. We love it. Oh, monks.

So hot right now. So hot right now. Well, down the street from the monastery, monastery happened to be a nunnery because the olden days, oh shit's about to get wild. And wouldn't you know it, Elena?

Oh, I know it. There was also a good looking nun who went to there. We love a hot nun. So the two of them crossed paths one day.

And they were like, holy shit, we're both so attractive. Also, we're nice people. So we're in love. Oh, I love that.

Isn't that so sweet? I want them to work out. And then they were like, well, they were like, let's run away and get married. I love that.

I mean, they had a few like rendezvous in the woods before that whole marriage talk. But you got the point. Hell yeah, they did. Yeah, they rendezvous in the woods.

They both were hot and then they're like, let's get married. Let's get it. It is not a ghost story or a haunting without a monk, a hot nun, and some rendezvous in the woods. Hot, hot rendezvous recipe for a beautiful.

So the whole they make this whole plan together. And they actually got like this friendly coachman who was going to whisk them away into their new life. And they would have lived happily ever after. But some shit went down because it's haunted.

So there's a few different accounts of what happened. One is that they got in a fight and at the monks strangled her. Oh, hey, that. And then he got caught and was hanged for his crimes.

But I don't believe that because love because they were love and monks are known to be like very chill people. So I feel that way. I feel like he didn't like strangle her. Yeah.

And love. Another version of the story is that they were caught together and because neither of them was supposed to have a love life. No, the monk was hanged for his crimes. So either way, he gets hanged.

And then the nun was boarded up in the cellar of the monastery. Holy shit. Like they just like boarded her up Edgar Allen Post style. I mean, that's the story I'm going with.

Oh, yup. Because it involves them like getting caught in their love, which I'm like, you still love each other. Yeah. And no matter what it ends with love and someone else screams, someone who did something terrible.

Yeah. And I love a good aground po like H.H. Homes, born up in the wall kind of situations. I'm surprised that you didn't just yell at me for saying catacombs.

Yeah, I just was going to let it go. The catacombs. So yeah, so she was boarded up in the wall and that's sad. That's a bummer.

But there's like a big problem with this entire story because there's no record of a monastery ever being on the grounds ever. And then there's no record of a nun being killed that way. They're like sentenced for anything. So I don't know.

Blah, blah, blah. But there is a record of a nun haunting the shit out of the Borley Rectory. I bet it's her. So we're back to the home.

I told you it was huge. It had more than 20 rooms. There were stables on the ground, a cottage, and everything was on nine acres of land. So I bet he had a great office.

I need an office. He did have a great lot of rooms. I didn't even think of that. He made a really great office without any room.

He was cool as shit. So Henry Bull was rumored to have built a cottage facing the woods and like to this particular path that the family referred to as Nunswalk. This is amazing. So he built this specific thing to look at this place that they called Nuns walk because he wanted to communicate with the ghost of the nun.

Yes. He literally just wanted to talk to her so bad. This is great. On multiple occasions, he had seen her walking along the path of the woods, but he was never able to talk to her.

Oh, man. He tried all the time to talk to her. I should have put an ad in that like missed connections thing. I know, right?

If I was his wife, I'd be like, Oh, sweet, none. Why do you want to talk to this nun? So bad. What's this nun got that I don't?

Mm. But you have 14 kids. I think I gave you all of those. What she got an eternal afterlife.

I don't. I love it. So he would see her and she would just disappear and he never got the chance to talk to her. Wow.

And his four daughters saw the nun for the first time when three of them were coming home from a party. So Ethel Mabel and Frida, I think, were walking up to the house when they saw her and they thought that she was like a real life alive nun. They're like, Oh, a lot of none in the woods. Exactly.

But they noticed that she didn't seem to be walking and she was like kind of floating. And she didn't it is different. You don't see that every time. And she was she was floating and she didn't look very happy.

All right. So they got freaked out a little bit. I definitely would. And they ran inside to get their older sister Caroline and Caroline was like, You guys, it's fine.

It's probably like, remember, they're in a rectory. So it's not crazy to see a nun on the ground. No, definitely not. And they're like, it's probably a sister of Mercy, like running in our room for the church or she needs something from dad.

Like levitating. It's all good. She's just levitating hashtag non-shit. You probably just get your fee and you guys just got back home from a party.

So who knows? So you might have got turned. You got turned like 1900 style. They're at this point, 1800 style.

Whoa. So different kind of turn. They were probably drinking a hooch back then. So Caroline ran out to see what the nun needed because she was a good Samaritan.

No. And as she was running out to talk to her, she was running up to her, she sees her. The nun just disappears. Poof.

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And they told their dad and he was like, Oh, yeah, that's the nun that I built that whole fucking cottage out there to look at. He's like, Oh, that's my girl. You see, too. So everyone who had been to the Borley Rectory had something to say about it.

And it was known in town as a haunted place to avoid. Nobody wanted to go there, which makes everybody want to go there. I know. Cause I found stories about parents not letting their kids walk past the rectory after dark stories of people seeing the nun leaning over the gate in the front of the property, almost like she was waiting for someone.

Oh, her monk. Oh, or people saw a man standing up in one of the windows of the home, but there was like not supposed to be a man up in that window. Oh, it wasn't like one of the kids or Henry himself. It was her monk.

Yeah, I don't know who it was. It was a man up in the window. And the sightings of the man became so frequent and the family was like getting freaked out with the man watching them, like from the upstairs window. So they boarded up the window.

Holy shit. They just straight up boarded it up and like left it and they were like, okay, okay, do what you got to do. Right. So in 1916, a man named Edward Cooper and his wife moved into the rectory cottage and Edward was working for the family as a gardener and a coachman.

And a coachman, if you don't know, it's just somebody that like drives the horses, were you? Yeah. Or like he's he's a goose that turns into a man and then drives you to the ball. And then he says, kind of a goose.

And if anybody just jumped up the entrance, you don't have kids. And you're not actually in the real. So you can't have your goose. So they only lived there for four years because things got weird right off the bat.

I'm ready. I'm ready. Oh, I'm ready. So they'd get into bed at night and this Cooper right away thought that she was hearing voices and footsteps above the bedroom.

And for a while, she chopped the footsteps up to like road and step broken or like a cat somehow in the attic room. So she was just talking it up to all that. But one night, the noises were super loud and really disturbing her sleep. And they continued into the next afternoon.

So she was like, okay, like what the fuck? Yeah. So she and Edward went out to see what was making all the racket. And when they got up there, they found nothing out of place.

No sign of any cat or rodent or anything at all to suggest that anything had been up there. Uh-uh. So everything was untouched and completely fine. That's like when we heard recently the noise and went up there, I was so thankful to see something on the ground.

That's what it reminded me of. I thought of you. You want to see things amiss. Yeah.

So you're like, okay, the wind, an animal, a cat, just that. Yeah, nothing for them. And then another day, Edward came home and he said to his wife, he was like, Oh, like, did you see a nun walking about the rectory today? And she was like, nah.

And he was like, cool, cool, cool. So I'm going crazy. Oh, fun. I'm going awesome.

I'm nuts. So because that day he saw a nun and it looked like she was headed toward the road, but she had come from the back of the rectory. So like the wife would have seen her. Yeah.

Like if she had taken that path and he said when he saw her, her movements, like there was something really strange about them because she was fucking floating probably. And he's thinking of like those horror movies where the ghosts are like something will make those jerky weird, like almost like glitchy movements. That's what I was just thinking of. It freaks me out or it just makes me think of the craft when they start to levitate and they're like, like, it's like scratching against the floor.

It's weird because I wasn't freaked out when I was like researching this in my brand new apartment, but because we're in your old house home with like a boarded up wall right there. And it's from 1860. It's from like the same time that this all started over in England. So that's good.

So he was like, wow, that nun looks like strange. I should follow her. Where is she going? And he followed her to the road, but she just disappeared while he was following her and he was like, I think I lost my mind.

Yeah. And they weren't the only ones who saw things. The family kept seeing the nun walking about the property. They would hear banging, crashing sounds.

They'd see, quote, eerie black shapes in the house out of the house. A maid who worked there said she woke up on her first night, first night ever in the house because she heard slow, deliberate footsteps coming toward her bedroom and they stopped. Like, and when they stopped, they would have been right in front of her door, but there was no, but she didn't see anybody. So the next morning she woke up and like asked the other maid.

She was like, Oh, I bet they were playing a trick on me because it was my first night, like initiation into the maid. And everybody was like, no, like this place is haunted as hell. Bitch, no, bitch. I would have been like, and I quit and I'm done.

So they were like, that's probably one of the Borley ghosts. Then in 1892, Henry Bull passed away. RIP. RIP.

I know you're trusting son of a bitch. I know. Just trying to communicate with these ghosts out here. Well, no fear, his son Harry took over as the rector.

So the family still got to look at her. Harry lived another 35 years in the rectoring and the hauntings continued. Nothing stopped. One of his friends would like spend time in the rectoring if he was vacationing.

And he remembered seeing stones falling from nowhere, objects moving by themselves, the nun herself and the coach driving by with headless horses. Oh, that's amazing. Imagine seeing that. Holy shit.

I wouldn't say I'm that side. Be like, Holy shit, I done seen this. I would paint a watercolor painting of that immediately. Like from memory.

I would have to have that for all time. I like our very different reactions. I'd be like, I've seen that. And you'd be like, I'm going to paint a watercolor from direct memory of this exact moment just so I could hang out on my wall and be like, I saw that shit.

I'd just be running around going, I saw it. I saw it. People would be like, I'm just crazy. I'm just like, bust out of portable easel.

Just like quickly doing it. I call this headless horses. I call this I'm going insane and I want to record it. I call this from memory.

Yeah, he lived another 35 years there. And then he passed away because he was old. And the rector, he was offered to 12 different clergy. Is it clergy or clergy?

clergy. clergy. It was offered to 12 different clergymen and they all took a hard pass. So 12 different people were offered this for free.

Like, take me, you can live here because it's a rectory. And they were like, nah, I'm good. No, thank you. Thank you though.

So the rectory was just empty for six months. Oh, an empty rectory. And I don't know why, but I feel like that creeps me out more than all the shit that happened when people were there. Because it's just an empty, yes, rectory.

It's not empty. No, ghosties. It's full to the brim. Full to the brim.

So finally, this other reverend, his name was Guy Eric Smith. He had recently moved to England with his wife and they were both like an older couple, like not in the best health. But they were offered the rectory and they didn't know anything about it. And they didn't believe in ghosts.

Uh oh. And like nobody told them anything about it. Yeah, nobody told them. So he was like, let's move in.

So like I said, they were an older couple. Did I tell you they'd been living in India before this? No. So big change.

They were living in like a warm climate and then they moved to this like creepy ass house in England. That's haunted as hell. That sounds so cool. That sounds like the beginning of every single movie ever.

It sounds like my ideal. And like I said, neither of them were believers, but I'm pretty sure as soon as they moved in, they became believers. Yeah. Because almost right away, they started hearing voices in the home.

She walked by a bedroom one day and she heard the phrase. Carla or the like somebody say, Carlos don't. Don't do that. Right.

And it was in the blue bedroom and I guess the bedroom is said to be like the most haunted bedroom. I would have been like, please don't Carlos. Listen to whoever that was. This is the person.

And it was just the two of them that house like it was just them. So nobody else should have been there. Carlos wasn't there. No, Carlos was no boy.

He was there, but he should have been there. Yeah. It was made here footsteps like that. Made did again when it was just them.

The sightings of the nuns started and all of that like wrapped around the facts that as soon as they moved in there, everyone in town started telling them how haunted this place was all that drove them to they wrote to the daily mirror newspaper asking for help dealing with all this paranormal activity. I know. So. Oh, and while Mrs.

Smith was cleaning one day, I read a couple of different like setups for this. She was either cleaning in the kitchen or the basement, but either way she was clean. Like this cupboard that hadn't been used in a while. Okay.

And she found just a casual woman skull wrapped up in a paper bag. That is rad. It's so funny because telling you this story is just like, you'd be like, yeah, I want to do that. Yeah.

I'd be so cool. I heard that crazy footsteps and anybody else would be like, huh. She found a woman skull in her bag. So gnarly.

So gnarly. Holy shit. So this guy named Harry Price. So they're at in the paper and he wanted to help.

Oh, Harry Price. Harry Price, if you don't know, was a paris psychologist and a magician. Uh oh, fun stuff who wanted to help the Smiths and he also just wanted to investigate the property in general. So he brought this guy who was a reporter also at the daily mirror, Vernon Hall with him and Vernon was a writer, but also was just going to act as somebody to like cooperate all the findings.

It's like better if two people find it than just. Duh. So Vernon and Henry decided the first place they wanted to check out was Nuns Walk. Duh.

That would be my first stop. Double, double, double. So they had out to the cottage and they tried to spot the none or maybe even the light upstairs, like from the man who was man- It's worked it up, but you could still see the light come through. Like it was still coming through.

So creepy. So they're like, I want to see something. Um, and while they were out there, Vernon thought he saw the none, but Harry was like, I don't know if I saw her. Like you're being a little crazy.

Yeah, I think you just want to see her. But what did happen right away, like right after they had that conversation where Harry was like, Oh, I don't think I saw her. A fucking half of a brick smashed through the roof and fell to the ground next to them. Oh.

And then it was like, Oh, you didn't see me motherfucker? See that? Here I am. See that right there.

Wow. Isn't that nuts? What about that? So it smashed us to the ground and they headed upstairs to investigate to like see like where that came from.

And they hear this loud crash and then a glass candlestick came flying down the stairs at them. What? Yes. So Harry Price was just kind of used to this activity because he's a paranormal investigator.

And he was like, OK, what we have to do is head down. As he wind down this evening, that number seven prime forever serum be your secret to aging at the speed of a glacier, helping to pause the visible signs of skin aging. Number seven prime forever serum works to dramatically reduce skin aging activity while you sleep. Find the numbers seven prime forever range at selected food stores and boots.

Subject to availability, consumer testing, dramatically reduces skin aging activity from antioxidant protection against surface oxidative stress. Stairs, we got to turn all the lights off, obviously, because he wanted to pick up even more activity and goes love the dark. So, of course, duh. So they're waiting for more activity after they turn the lights off and Vernon complains that someone hit him in the head.

As soon as they turn the lights off, he's like, I just got hit in the head. Somebody said me. And then they started hearing something roll down the stairs. Oh, and it was a mothball, but nobody else was there.

It was just them. So a mothball rolls down the stairs and then the servant bells just start fucking ringing. What? But they're not attached to any of the like they weren't used.

So normally they'd be attached to something and that would be how they run, but they weren't. So they're just wringing and on their own. What? And and Miss Smith had told the investigators that the bells had been doing this the whole time.

So they were like just waiting for this and then keys that had been in the locks of doors, you know, like in old houses, normally they'll be in there. Stay in the doors. They all fell out of the keyholes at the same time. Ed and Lorraine Warren wish they could never.

That could never. Holy shit. Isn't that crazy? I'm into this.

So this is probably like needless to say, but the older couple had enough and they moved out of the house in 1929. Good for them. So they had barely lived there full year. Yeah, no thing.

They're like, peace out. So when the Smiths left the church again had a hard time getting anyone to move into the home and the rectory was empty for another six months. And then a cousin of the Bull family, the original Bull family moved in with it was this guy named Lionel Foyster, his wife and their daughter Adelaide. So Lionel Foyster's wife was Marianne and they had it the absolute worst in the house.

Oh no. Like shit went nuts. As soon as they moved in, shit was going crazy. There was crashing sounds, footsteps, more bell ringing, even though they were still disconnected.

Apparitions. Now there were strange odors in the house. Oh, and that's like some ghost bus. That's like demon shit.

Physical assaults, including Adelaide being locked in a room on her own and she was two and a half years old. I know. And something new messages on the walls that were addressed to Marianne. Get the fuck out of here.

And they said things like Marianne, help, please get. And then another one said, Marianne, light mask handles. I don't. OK.

I don't know. What do you need to do? So a lot of skepticism started to surround this particular family. Oh, do we have a lot's family?

Oh, like shut the fuck up. Do we have the lotses? Yes. And I wrote that.

So it was going to be. I was like, oh, yeah, exactly. That's what I wrote. And I'm just going to read it.

I'm still reading it. So the haunting was getting worse. The message had never happened before. Yeah.

That's weird. And I think people thought it was an Amityville horror type deal when the family moved in and started exaggerating an already creepy story. I immediately started thinking that. Because that's the thing.

It's like this is already creepy as hell. You don't need to make it worse. Don't add to it because it's just going to ruin it. And when you're making it seem like your family has it the worst of everybody, it's like, no, they're probably equal opportunity.

Honters. I don't think they're really like, oh, let's get these ones worse. Like what did you guys do? Yeah.

So there were people though who still did believe the family. This guy named Edwin White House was a neighbor. And he confirmed that while he spent time there, he had quote, seen more than enough to convince him that the phenomena at the Borley Rectory was predenatural. I mean, I definitely think it's for sure.

I think it's like haunted. And I believe that like old couple and everything. Oh, hell yeah. But I think these ones might be exactly right now.

Well, the message is I don't buy. I don't buy the message either. And let me just get into it. Oh, shit.

I'm going to tell you so much stuff. He went on to say that he had never seen any member of the family set up any tricks and he didn't have any reason to believe that they would. OK. So Harry Price, remember he helped out the Smiths and he went about his day life, whatever.

And then he was like, and then he finds out that this new family moved in and everything's getting worse. So he returned. He came in October, 1931. And he brought a couple members of his national laboratory with him.

Hell yeah. Because he's cool as hell. And after some time investigating, he came to the conclusion that a lot of the new homps in the home were Mary Ann's doing. I knew it.

And there was later rumors that Mary Ann was having an affair with a guy named Frank Perles. And she was creating some of the craziness in the house as a distraction. Holy shit. Right?

What an asshole. I know. So I mean, she's a true asshole. If she did it, she's an asshole.

Yeah. We don't know. I don't know what she did. I don't know.

But I'm blaming you, Mary Ann. Mary Ann. She wrote a book about it later. Anyways, Harry Price told Lionel about his findings and that Mary Ann was probably doing all this shit, or most of the shit.

And Lionel was furious. Yeah, I would be. Because he was furious with Harry Price. He was a conspiracy.

Because he's like, well, you're accusing my wife of doing this. Oh, see, yeah. My wife isn't doing anything. So he asked Harry to leave.

Hold on. And he wouldn't let him back. And Harry Price was actually really bummed. He wrote to Guy Smith about it.

And was like, I really just want to go back there. I just want to go back there, man. He said, some curious things have been happening at Borley during the last 12 months. Two to three of us went down a few weeks ago.

Bottles were thrown at us. Inc mixed with wine, et cetera, et cetera. I formed a conclusion as to who I think was doing these things. But of course, we had no proof.

I should like to go back there again, but the foisters will not permit it. See, I believe him. I do too. Because he was saying that it was haunted before.

The writing's on the wall and stuff like that. Like a really intense thing. Yeah. He was like, some of this is Marianne.

I know it is. Yeah, I would think that too. But he just didn't have a way to prove it. So while Harry was bumming that he couldn't get back to the rectory, a ton of stuff was going on.

They were doing exorcism ceremonies there. Harry Bull was popping up everywhere. Damn. Harry Bull, because he was dying in the house, the original owner.

Oh, shit. So he just came back and was like, I'm here too. Yes. He would hang out in the suit.

Remember I told you about the blue bedroom? It was like really super haunted. Yes. He would hang out there.

And he would wear his favorite plum colored dressing gown. Hell yes. And then eventually two of the sisters that you still live in a house, like the Bull Sisters, they went into the silence there. And there was like tapping on the mirrors.

And they said it was their brother. And they could tell it was him. Oh my god. So the dad haunted the house and the brother did too.

That's amazing. We both died there. I thought that was so cool. Yeah.

Keep in the family. Of course. Keep the haunt in the family. People were seeing dark figures in the driveway and inside the home.

Like before the passerby were still freaked out by all the creepy vibes given off by the rectory. And Lionel actually had been keeping a diary of his findings and experiences since day one. And he kept them until the family moved out of the home. Oh geez.

And he had filled three diaries with experiences and later published them. But he published them as fiction. So I think he added to some of them. Oh, OK.

Like made it like a generalized. Yeah. But Marianne said that Harry Price had asked to read one of the diaries while he was there. And like investigating the home.

And that he never returned it to the family. Oh. So that's what Marianne says. So we're pointing fingers left.

Oh, there's a lot of shady business going on here. So we're going to get to more shady business at the end. So the four sisters were the last family to live in the rectory. And they left in 1935.

OK. When they left, Harry Price wanted to come back and do more investing at this house. I would. So he rented the home and lived in it for a year.

Holy shit. Isn't that so cool? That's bad. So he put an ad out in the local paper and was asking for recruiters to come like stay to and like write down their experiences.

I mean, I'm the one. Yeah, you would have gone. And once people responded to that ad, he would give them a manual of instructions. And Harry said the reason that he got all the recruiters and gave them the manual of instructions is because he wanted reliable and impartial witnesses.

It sounds like Host on Honsato Till. Oh, yeah. It sounds like the basis for that film. Maybe it's like a guy like recruits people to come stay in this house.

Shit. I wonder if it was. Yeah, it really does. Well, we'll have to talk to you out there.

So he said he just wanted impartial witnesses and like reliable people. But a lot of skeptics accused him of putting suggestions into the mind of these people and that the manual they got was just like a blueprint of what they were supposed to find. I could see people saying that. So I get that.

But this guy, Ela Cow went with Harry to set up like an operations room and he goes to hunt you got to set up an operations room. You need a war room, obviously. Of course. So they go and they're setting everything up there.

They were like chocking up, like literally like marking up with chalk and he like objects that could move in the house. Oh, yeah. And they're taking note of anything. And while they're setting up, they heard like two loud thumps above them.

And that was followed by a couple of short tapping noises, but they couldn't determine where the tapping noises were coming from. And then in upstairs door, slam shut like slam shut, but there was no one in the house and no breeze or open window or anything like that. Oh my. And Alex said that there was absolutely no way Harry could have engineered any of these incidents and he believed that it was just the haunting of the house.

Damn. This is like in the 1930s. It's not like they had like tons of technological advances. That's the thing.

Like I believe that now people do that. I'm sure for sure. The like ships and giggles and there was ways to like set certain things up. And you know, some magician.

Yeah. Well, that was the thing. And not because there's anything wrong with magician. No, they know how to make an illusion.

That's kind of their job. I just feel like I believe Harry. I feel very strongly that Harry is telling the truth. Actually, my soul, I don't know.

And that's why we drink. And that was what I was telling you before we started. I'm telling the listeners. We love you.

And that's why we drink. We do. Hi. And I texted M and M said that they are a big fan of Harry Price.

Oh, really? They did a whole episode just about Harry Price. I love that because I feel okay. I'm glad because I was feeling very like I was like, I really, I believe him.

Literally. I just sort of so bad. I feel like connected. Yeah.

I just feel like he's telling me the truth. And was like, Harry Price is my dude. I trust him. So when you're finished with this episode, we'll listen to it.

That's why we drink episode about Harry Price. Do it. I think it's a couple of parts actually. Do it.

Back to this little rendition. So from May of 1937 to May of 1938, all the investigators stayed at the Borley Rectory doing table tipping, planchett sessions, seances. It sounds like a fucking damn good time. I was going to say, count me in.

And there was this guy named, it was one of the recruiters, Sydney H. Glanville. And he took notes of everybody's experiences the whole year that they were there. And when they were finished, he gifted it to Harry Price.

So it was like this book of everybody's experiences. That's incredible. And that's so cool. Wow.

And during the seances, a nun who had lived on the grounds in the 17th century came through in one of these seances. She said her name was Marie Larry. It looks like Mary Larry, but it's not Mary Larry. Mary Larry.

Marie Larry. We're going to say Marie Larry. Yeah. She said that she had traveled to England from France and that she was murdered.

And she asked for prayers to be said for her at Borley Church nearby. So the murdered nun. That's her. Hello.

She's here. Halloween is going to be a little different this year. I know. It's really sad.

And it makes me real sad. But it can still be scary and fun. That's right. You know how that's going to be?