Often remembered as the most haunted house ever, Borley Rectory celebrated the 68th anniversary of its own death this year. In 1939, this beautiful, but thoroughly frightening red brick home burned to the ground after a ghost identified as "Sunex Amures" claimed he would set fire to the building on the night of March 27, 1938. He apparently waited until February before starting the fire, when it was claimed that an oil lamp inexplicably fell over and torched the place. As it was burning, someone watching the spectacle claimed to see the figure of a nun in one of the upper windows of the fire-engulfed rectory. An investigation by the insurance company, however, concluded that the fire was intentionally set. Unfortunately, it didn't elaborate on just who set the fire.  Borley rectory was host to numerous paranormal events, including ghost writing on the walls, poltergeist activity that went so far as to throw a large rock at a man and injure his shoulder, and a spectral nun that was frequently seen around the home. Even after the place burned, sightings of the ghostly nun continued. Claims that the ghost has been seen hovering in the air, as if standing on the long-gone upper floor of the rectory, are still occasionally reported.   Borley seems to have been haunted from the beginning. Built in 1863, stories immediately surfaced of people hearing unexplainable footsteps coming from upstairs. Presumably, something about the ground itself was causing the hauntings. After the fire, excavations under the rectory did turn up a few human bones, and a female skull was also supposedly found in the rectory hidden in a paper bag.

Unfortunately, Borley Rectory is also tainted with claims that the investigations done there were questionable, particularly in the case of that done by the somewhat discredited paranormalist Harry Price. Further, legends about the ghostly nun's history appear to have been completely fabricated by the daughters of one of the early residents.

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I would love to see Ghost Hunters go there. I there there is soemthing that is definately there in my opinion. I would loe to visit there.

Borley is like Mecca for parapsychologists. I first got interested in hauntings and the paranormal after seeing a reference to Borley in Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House. If someone offered me a trip in a time machine I'd want to go back to the 1930s and get in on Price's investigation there.

There have been a lot of people with a lot of theories about Borley, some trying to explain what happened there and some trying to explain it away, but I think at this distance it's impossible to ever say exactly what happened. I do believe there was something, though.

Incidentally, the report that "discredited" Harry Price was later itself discredited. Price had something of the showman about him, certainly, but whether that affected the validity of his reports is very much an open question. Peter Underwood was writing a book about this using The Ghost Club's vast collection of material on Borley, but I've never heard if he ever finished it and I don't even know if he's still alive. Last I knew he was and was still the president of The Ghost Club. Seemed he was pretty old, though.