This is probably the room the Foysters referred to as the hauntedroom. (Given that people experienced disturbances in many other partsof the Rectory, such a distinction for a particular room is ratherinteresting.) Room 7 was upstairs in the southeast corner of the wingthat the Bull Family occupied. Behind the wall to the left wasanother original bedroom, room 8 on S. H. Glanville's plan. Followingthe hall past that bedroom you would then enter the Rectory'saddition which was built approximately 10 years after the Rectory wasbuilt.

Behind the fireplace to the right was the Blue Room, the Rectory'smaster bedroom. Looking due north through the door you can see themain stairwell window in the background. (This would be the secondwindow to be bricked up.) To the left behind the camera, a singlewindow in that wall overlooked the south part of Borley Village. Thisview consisted of farm buildings in the foreground and farmland inthe background. Behind the camera to the right, a single window inthat wall overlooked the Rectory's tennis courts and long garden inthe forground with the Stour River with Sudbury beyond it in thebackground. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bull's occasionally lookedout this window to the right and saw the ghost nun walking(floating?) along the long southwest edge of the garden.

Also visible through the door is the landing of the mainstairwell. This landing is the highest point of the cold whichevident ran straight up what was possible an abandoned well in thecellar two floors below. Marianne Foyster had also been punched inthe eye by an invisible fist at this point. This is also the placewhere Reverend Eric Smith heard a woman moaning, "No Carlos, no".Mariane Foyster probably also nearly bumped (if one can bump into aghost in the first place) into the apparition of the late Harry Bullin this area as he came up the stairs.

I believe that this above picture was taken from behind the placewhere Edwin Whitehouse was sitting (his back would have been to thecamera) while he was talking with Marianne the time the "stiletto"fell on his lap. Marianne was resting from a chronic fever on a guestbed against the wall to the left. (It is not known if the head of thebed or the side of the bed would have been against the wall.) At onetime Edwin had just left Marianne to go downstairs to see who was atthe front door (Lionel Foyster had returned from the Church).However, Edwin had just started going down the stairs visible throughthe door when Marianne screamed as she was thrown to the floor fromthe bed. Edwin returned to the room immediately, noting at one timethat Marianne was on the floor with the mattress on top of her.Indeed, Marianne was reportedly tossed out of this bedthree timeson 8 June 1931.

But were the stiletto incident and Marianne's "unstable" bedpossibly related in some way? TheCunninghamReport examines a possible relationship as these allegedparanormal happenings perhaps reflect the last tragic days of a nunwho is thought to have lived Borley Village centuries earlier.

Getting back to room 7, in my opinion this room probably belongedto Harry Bull, Henry Bull's oldest child. (Indeed, Harry Bull died inthis room.) Harry Bull possibly let his college friend P. ShawJeffrey stay in the room out of courtesy the summers(1885& 1886) that Mr. Jeffrey visited the Rectory. If so, thenthis is the same room where Mr. Jeffrey's boots were mysteriouslymoved to the top of a wardrobe as he slept, regardless that the doorwas locked. At a perhaps later time during that summer Mr. Jeffreyswas trying to get to sleep when his "misplaced" French dictionaryfell to the floor from out of nowhere in the darkness of this lockedroom. The French dictionary is thought by some Borley Rectoryresearchers to be the ghost nun's way of indicating that she was fromFrance.

Note that the drawing below depicts the dropped dictionaryincident that might have taken place in room 7. But does this drawingindicate that the tabloids overlooked a possible connection betweenthe dictionary and Mr. Jeffrey's moved boots? Indeed, do theseseemingly unrelated happenings actually complement each other in someway with respect to the tragic death of a nun that possibly tookplace in this same area centuries earlier? TheCunninghamReport looks at a possible relationship.

Journal information also indicates that one guest of the Bull'swas a bit upset after sleeping in some unspecified room. AssumingHarry Bull was occasionally asked to let a guest use his room, one ofthe better bedrooms in the Rectory, I wonder if this unspecified roomwas room 7?

Finally, there was a large room in the far end of the Rectory'saddition which was used as a classroom. Room 7, at the other end ofthe hall, was later used as the classroom perhaps because it was moreaccessable to the rest of the Rectory. It is interesting to note thatMabel Smith had seen a light in the window of the old classroom whileothers had seen lights in the windows of room 7; what an approriateparanormal phenomena for rooms which were used as classrooms!