29 February 2004 BGS Newsletter Issue 68
Welcome to the sixty-eighth edition of the Borley Ghost Society Newsletter.

Train lights?

Seeing as Andrew says the line was raised above the watermeadows i beg to differ. Here is a pic to ponder. No doubt mr clarke knows the area better than i.But i think this shot shows that the cutting, although not substantial was indeed a cutting.And that the line,at least the section by Rodbridge corner was not as he surgests - Eddie Brazil

I had a great e-mail yesterday from the chairman of I think a local train museum (local to Borley) with the information on the running of the Stour Valley line during the time that the Rectory was standing which I was after. It is pretty conclusive that the idea that the trains causing the window lights is a non-starter. I shall include it in Part Two which will also cover the possibilities that the lights were caused either by rotting wood in the window frames or the degradation of the paint used on the windows. - Paul Adams

Associate activities

I must say that the web site is superb, a credit to open mindedness which I feel is all important with regard to Borley. I was born in 1955 at Farnborough, Kent; and have been interested in Borley and the paranormal for about 35 years. I am a member of the Society for Psychical Research, the Ghost Club, the Borley Ghost Society. I became interested [in Borley] through my father, also reading books by Price, Underwood, Tabori etc. My father is Edward Babbs (Final Analysis). - Phil Babbs

I first became interested in the Borley story 10 years ago, and have been unable to put it down ever since! I'm 26 years old, a modelmaker and designer by trade. I've always been interested in the paranormal, but I also have a love of transport, animals, web design, flight simulator and nice sussex beer! I've visited Borley on several occasions, always very discreetly and respectfully, and on every visit I was struck by the eerie silence and stillness of the place. I'm currently working on the paranormal section of my website. As a modelmaker, I was very interested to see photographs of a really impressive model posted on your site, and sad as well to find it no longer exists - I'm thinking of making a model myself, I'd be delighted to email you any images of it when it's finished. . . . I have produced a CAD model of the lawn front of the rectory. It is literally just a facade at the moment (which is why if you look carefully you can see garden through the windows) but I hope to recreate the whole rectory in this way eventually, as well as of course the real model. It's not perfect but it does give an idea of what the house might have looked like from a few new angles.....it really is very spooky indeed walking down the kitchen passage......I thoought the views out of the windows were quite spooky! Thanks for the book [The Most haunted House in England]by the way, it arrived today - It's great - a good bit of bedtime reading by candlelight I think! - Tim Faithfull

: I have always found Borley to be a fascinating microcosm and have read everything I could find on the subject. Having grown up in a house with a resident ghost, I view Borley as the ultimate mystery. I live in the USA, Tennessee to be exact and have been married to a Methodist minister for over 30 years. We have a grown daughter and I currently a Senior Executive Assistant at a large health care system. - Marilyn Neenan

Bibliography

Marden, Gina. "Uncovering Borley's supernatural secrets." Essex Enquirer, Thusday 30 October 2003. p. 13. Photo of church by Eddie Brazil. (Visit by reporter and medium Sandy Wilkinson, who felt presence of a monk. "None of us could say we saw or felt anything untoward.") ** photocopy

Letters to the editor

I am the regional secretary of a psychic and occult organisation. i am 31 yrs old in feb, and am interested in everything paranormal. -Catherine Fearnley

I LIVE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, AND WAS A FOUNDER MEMBER OR N.I.S.R.A, Nireland supernatural research assc. I have never been to borley but have been reading/researching it for 10 years now. I would like to go to borley sometime. - glenn matthews

I am currently accumulating information about my GLANVILLE ancestors and received an email from someone who used to live in a farmhouse in Devon which had ghosts and a curse.She had references to a Judge John Glanville,from Tavistock,Joseph Glanville,clergyman from 17th c. who wrote a book about witchcraft and a Sidney Glanville who investigated the haunting at Borley Rectory.Do you have any info.on this Sidney Glanville? Marilyn Horner

I had a spot of luck & managed to buy a copy of one of Harry Price's National Laboratory of Psychical Research Bulletins from the early 1930s which came up for sale on Ebay (of all places) early on this week. This copy was owned in the past by Dom Richard Whitehouse who gave it to the seller back in the 1960s. I have no reason to doubt the integrity of the seller & the answers to the questions I mailed him make me very certain that this document once belonged to Dom Richard. Quite a find! The guy I bought it off, Nick Fagan lives in Sandwich in Kent & was apparently taught by Dom Richard who gave him this volume 38 years ago. It is Bulletin IV from Price's National Laboratory of Psychical Research & covers a series of sittings he had with the medium Rudi Schneider in the early 1930s. It includes the famous photograph which Price maintains shows Rudi cheating by having one hand free from the control which was imposed on him during the sitting. I already have a copy of this Bulletin along with several others but the Whitehouse connection was enough to make me want to get it again. While I'm on, I was thinking the other day how many copies of Price's Blue Book of Instructions on Borley must still exist - any ideas? - Paul Adams

From Our Guestbook

USE TO GO TO BORLEY IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, HAD A FEW EXPERIENCES, MAINLY IN THE LANE JUST PAST THE CHURCH, ONE QUITE BAD!! WOULD LOVE TO GO AGAIN TO SEE IF IT HAS CHANGED AT ALL. GRAET SITE, REALLY INFORMATIVE A+ - Paul Evans

i'll be back on this web site. Thx. - Greta Sproul

I have read for years about the Borley Rectory, having been a fan of the paranormal ever since I can remember. What a thrill to discover that there is a site not only devoted to it, but presided over by the daughter of Marianne, whose name figured so greatly in those early accounts of the hauntings! I am so pleased to add my name to this guestbook. - John Horne

I have always been interested into the goings on at Borley Rectory, only for the interest of whta it was like to live there, with all those goings on, but nothing else, I was wondering will this ever be made into a film, because if so iot would give us a big insight to what went on there and make a good chilling film - helen laplante

Good web site. I had never heard of borley rectory before. Very informative and interesting. Thank you - Helen laplante

it was a really good web site and it gave me all the info i need to learn about borley - caitlin

loved the site... Trish

I love your website! Nice site. Good work. - Sonnerie

Your site is very interesting and useful for me. Good work. - kiev

I would love to know as much as I can about Borley, I have collected many books on this subject. I find it all very interesting as well as exciting to explore all sides and ideas concerning Borley. I would love to see more pictures than are currently available. - cathy

good website, BUT, im part of a parapsychology course at my college and i have the job of finding a place quite local, to visit witht he group. finding this place and actually visiting it would be gr8. is it possibel for someone to leave contact details on here for the rectory so i can give them a shout. thanks, keep up the quality!! - tel

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