BORLEY RECTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Miscellaneous

annotated


CALENDAR

Mason, John. Ghosts of England. 1999 calendar. (September features a beautiful picture of the church and grounds. Black and white. Excellent.) **

COLLEGE COURSE

Paolucci, Peter. "Ghosts." York University. Toronto, Canada. Alternate years. (Discusses most famous cases world-wide, including Borley.)

COMIC BOOKS

Boyette, Pat. Art and script. "The Devil's in Borley!" Sorcery. New York: Red Circle Productions (Comics), October 1974. Four pages. Cover illustration probably connected. ("No actual person is named or dileneated in this fiction magazine." While some of the legend is fairly accurate, other portions including names, are pure fantasy.) ** complete scan

The Real Ghostbusters Annual. Publishing information unknown,1990. (One page reference. "The ghost busters visit the rectory and fall asleep there. When they wake up it isn't there.")

RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! TRUE GHOST STORIES. "The Most Haunted House," Feb. 1974 Issue #45. (A one-page written overview of the Borley story with one illustration and a reference to Marianne.)

Strange Adventures #207. Sparta, Illinois: National Periodical Publications. DC National Comics. December 1967. No page numbers. "Strange But True - the great ghost hunt." No author credit. (Full page recounts selected parts of the legend. Makes critical error - repeated in other reports - that "This edifice is a charred ruin." This may tempt ghost-hunters to visit. Focuses on Price tenancy saying, "He had long scoffed at its reputation." Declares a "large number of tenants, mostly clergymen, who had been driven out by the manifestations." No one said they were "scared" out. Assumes the Price investigators "promised to maintain a 24-hour vigil," when they only agreed to periodic visits. Makes it sound like all 40 observers were present at once when they "were startled upon hearing a heavy chain being dragged down the back staircase. They all raced to the rear of the house, and although they continued to hear the deafening sound, they could see nothing to explain it." There is no record of such a sound. At no time were more than a handful of observers present at one time. It would have been difficult, and dangerous, to "race" through the ruins. Refers to Dr. Joad's article in Harper's Magazine wherein he apparently concluded "that some supernormal agency was active in the building.") **

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Andresdottir, Hildur KolbrunAndresdottir. Submission to Raynet Internet Competition, June 2003. (Computer created image of room based on those in the rectory.) Entry information

The Hauntings at Borley Rectory. Surrey: Demon Company. 40 minute audio CD. (Complete overview told in a very melodramatic fashion. For example, where Price describes the overheard sentence, "Don't Carlos, don't" as "slightly louder than would be used in ordinary conversation," the dramatization turns into a long, agonizing scream for mercy. Historically, Lionel continued to write long after leaving Borley, but the narration claims his writings, "petered out after 15 months as the manifestations had become too many and frequent for his arthritic hands to continue chronicling." Other oversights include placing the age difference between Marianne and Lionel as 30 years instead of the more accurate 21 years. As with other works, it appears the authors used second and third generation sources, which muddied the facts as originally presented. Putting historical accuracy aside, and if the listener can withstand the constant shrieks, this would be a fairly decent horror story for late at night with the lights off.)**

Nash, Phillip. Ghosts. London: Media Design Interactive, 1994. CD-ROM computer game to be played on Windows "486 processor," so it will not play in later operating systems. (Stars Christopher Lee as host. Other video clips include interviews with Tony Cornell and Maurice Grosse, among others. Brief synopsis. Calls Price a phony. Great Photo. Some screenshots are available on the Internet, as is a walk-through, but none include mention of Borley. In the game, Borley is described in “The Book of Hauntings” found in the library, along with over 200 other ghost stories.)**

O'Neil, Vincent. Fifteen Months in the Most Haunted House in England CD-ROM, 2000.

O'Neil, Vincent. The Ghosts That Will Not Die CD-ROM, 2000.

O'Neil, Vincent. The Most Haunted Woman in England CD-ROM, 2000.

O'Neil, Vincent. Things My Mother Tried To Teach Me. CD-ROM, 2000.

Silent Hill 3. Konami. Playstation 2. ("The part in the game that has to do with Borley is when the main character (Heather) comes to a place called Lakeside Amusement Park. While exploring the place Heather comes upon a haunted house (not a real one, just one that would be in an amusement park) named Borley Haunted House with a sign that reads 'If you have a weak heart or a pregnant please refrain from entering.' [Here] is the clip of information that introduced me to your site and story that I found in a walkthrough for Silent Hill 3." - "Didn't think much about [the warning] the first time through, but it's quite funny in light of subsequent events! The name at least of Borley Haunted Mansion seems to be based on Borley Rectory, claimed to be the most haunted place in England. Check out their (sic) website for more info." - Matthew Maziasz, age 15) By coincidence [?] a main character is Father Vincent. Wikipedia describes him as "a high priest of the Silent Hill cult." Several online guides. One web site says, "You're now at the Borley Haunted House. Use the save-point on the ticket booth. Enter the house. In the first room, a man will tell you about the house. Enter the next door and watch a scene involving a table covered in blood. First the male voice tells you that a family was murdered here, and then he says that that was a lie, and the only thing that happened here was a suicide. Enter the next room. An old man is sitting in a chair. Walk around him. Right before you reach the door, a body comes falling from the ceiling. The voice tells a story about the body, which appears to be real. Turn around and enter the black door. In this room, the ceiling will come down. Press R2 when the camera focuses on the ceiling, and carefully walk. You should be fine. Enter the door that the voice says is the exit. Of course, it's not. In the next hall, you'll be chased by a red mist that instantly kills you. So run as fast as you can. After another hallway with red mist, you'll be outside of the haunted house.. . . . Don't forget the key in the cookie tin.") **T

INTERNET

Since this web site was initiated in 1994, a growing number of Internet references to Borley has occurred. In 1994, only two sites mentioned Borley - both in reference to genealogy. Now, dozens of sites mention Borley in part or in whole.

The Foxearth Historical Society has an ever-expanding list of Borley-related material.

Andrew Green wrote an article for the Ghost Club titled "Time to Bury Borley Rectory?" A excerpt of the Autumn 1998 article has appeared on the Internet. Green wrote, "Freed from the restraints of libel law and the sensitivity of relatives, revelations have poured out concerning some of these witnesses. In its history the Rectory contained at least two people suspected of murder, a serial bigamist, and a fascist inclined arsonist, the last owner Captain Gregson." The writer is referring to the Robert Wood effort, The Widow of Borley, and also mentions Enigma of Borley Rectory by Ivan Banks. "With this racy literature emerging, it might be thought the whole Borley story is now beyond the pale and is best consigned to history." Complete text.

Alice Pilch's plastic model of a shire colt called 'All Hallows Borley Ghost' won third prize in the October 2002 TOPSA competition (Draft Breed Class). TOPSA is an organisation that allows model horse enthusiasts to exhibit their work on-line. I've been in touch with Alice Pilch and she confirms the horse is named after Borley Rectory. Apparently, shire horses turn spectral white as they grow old. - David Green.
[This is even more fascinating because my mother collected china horses, and wished to have a real horse some day!]

Paul Finch discusses the case in his e-article 'Tales of True Life Horror'. He concludes: "For all this, Borley Rectory - long vanished though it is - still stands as the heavyweight champion of haunted houses; photographs of the gloomy old structure still strike you with awe; the name alone is sufficient to induce shudders." - David Green.

Deary, Terry. "The boy who haunted himself." Internet. "A mystery of the supernatural for 8 - 16 years olds." (Stylized etching of rectory. Borley not featured in first installment.)

INTERVIEWS

Garrett, Eileen J. Interview with Marianne, 1958. (Conducted in New York after the Swanson interviews in Jamestown.)

Swanson, Robert. Interviews with Marianne, 1958. (American private investigator hired by Eileen Garrett. Conducted in Jamestown.)

Goldney, K.M. Interview with Mrs. Smith, 1949. (She said almost all of the phenomena were "normally produced." She and her husband knew nothing about hauntings before arriving.)

LECTURES

O'Neil, Vincent. "The Most Haunted House in England." September 20, 1997. With transparencies. Elizabeth Hotel, London.

------. "The Most Haunted House in England." September 24, 1998. With transparencies. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.

------. "A Visit to a Haunted House." May 15, 1997. With transparencies. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.

Price, Harry.. "Ten years Investigation of Borley Rectory." 1939. With lantern slides. London.

-----. To the Ghost Club. April 18, 1939. With lantern slides. London. Reviewed April 20,1939 in The Times.

Randall, John L. "My search for Harry Price." March 7, 2000. Victory Services Club, London. To the Ghost Club. ("My dismissive opinion of Harry Price was . . . based almost entirely upon the work of. . . Eric Dingwall, Mollie Goldney, and Trevor Hall." Dingwall and Goldney later "came to regret that they had ever had anything to do with [Hall]." Robert Hastings "had written a brilliant refutation of the critical Borley Report in 1969." The researches of Ivan Banks "were very thorough, and his book [The Enigma of Borley Rectory] provides a valuable source for those who are interested." Banks suggested that Hall "had used underhand tactics to obtain material from the Harry Price Library to which he wasn't entitled. One such item, the famous "Locked Book" of Borley [by Glanville], he was said to have sold to an American for £1,000." After investigating Hall, "it now seemed likely that he was guilty of the very same deceptions of which he had accused Harry Price!" Randall found Price to be "a man of enormous energy," and "very kind.") ** Entire speech

LETTERS

Baines, Mrs. C.C. c. 1968 to John - - - - recalling that before the publication of The Haunting of Borley Rectory by Dingwall, Goldney, and Hall, Trevor Hall asked her to "trace Marianne Foyster, on the grounds that she had done a bunk via Dublin to the USA to marry a G.I. and left several children - inference being they were illegitimate - in the care of the Suffolk County Council." (Baines explains, "I was so angry I never answered that letter which in any case was a bit of utter nonsense, and a very stupid attempt to deceive me, quite apart from anything else. First, the Suffolk County Council would have had no jurisdiction over Mrs. Foyster - or whoever she became - in the USA for most certainly no one would have found it worth their while to apply for an extradition order IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY CRIMINAL OFFENCE which would have had to be proved. Second, the Suffolk County Council with all its resources and legal powers did not need the offices of any outsiders and amateur enquiry agents to do their own work in this respect." Emphasis original. Baines continues, "Only recently did I learn from Dr. Gauld that Hall is willing to show anyone and everyone with pride four or five typescript bound volumes of these researches [into Marianne] WHICH HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH PSYCHICAL RESEARCH OR BORLEY BUT WERE THE VILEST FORM OF DIRT-DIGGING POSSIBLE." Indicates Mrs. Goldney went to see Dom Richard Whitehouse "immediately after the publication of HBR evidently disclaiming her part, and fearing an action for libel, which Dom Richard told me his abbot had considered, but wiser reflection prevailed." Tells how she will resign from the S.P.R. if Hall joins, and will encourage others to do the same. In her opinion, "All this was a typical Trevor Hall 'smear' - and this has become his speciality. But I am now attacking him hard and strong as (a) a lazy, superficial, and arrogant so-called researcher who even cannot give facts. . . . (b) as a far greater suppressor of facts, or able to have slanted them to suit HIS THESIS, than Price, attacked on those grounds, ever was. In fact, highly dishonest intellectually - ergo most limited intellectually - and as a person, an absolute horror.")** photocopy of excerpts.

Baines, Mrs. Cecil. To Tom - - - -, 1963 (In discussing Borley, mentions Trevor Hall and his research into Marianne.) ** photocopy of surviving pages.

Banks, Ivan. April 11, 1986 to Guy Lyon Playfair. (Reflecting on his work creating The Enigma of Borley Rectory. Among other things, discusses his distrust of Trevor Hall, and his restrained support for Harry Price.) ** original courtesy of Guy Lyon Playfair

Banks, Ivan. c. 1996 to Guy Lyon Playfair, Dr. Vernon Harrison, and Andrew MacKenzie thanking them for help with writing Enigma. ** photocopy courtesy of Guy Lyon Playfair

Banks, Ivan. June 1996, June 1997, and April 2000 to Vincent O'Neil. (Personal notes expressing understanding for Marianne, caution to visitors.) ** transcripts

Bull, Ethel. September 22, 1954 to Peter Underwood. (Said Mrs. Smith"used to shriek with fright," and "I honestly don't think Harry Price tried any tricks.")

Cornell, A.D. to Philip Paul, 1956 explaining, "At no time was it suggested that Mrs. Paul had been guilty of any deliberate fraud." End of correspondence precipitated by Cornell's article "The lesson of Borley: It is time for researchers and Spiritualists to cooperate," published in the Psychic News. 1956. Exact date unknown. ("I understand that some seances held in the old coach house have produced a certain amount of highly dramatic trance-styled acting upon the part of a well-known recent investigator's wife - other than that 'Marie Laire' has not put in an appearance lately." The investigator and his wife were Philip and Joan Paul. Paul had been digging on the site for a couple of years and had been part of the BBC program "Panorama"shown October 31, 1956. Paul wanted to sue Cornell over the "slur," but gave up after receiving the letter.)

Crocker, William Charles. April 1, 1948 to Dr. Harold Deardon reviewing settlement to Capt. Gregson. (Only copy of this letter is in the possession of Stewart P. Evans, who was gracious enough to provide a photocopy. "For sheer cockeyed nonsense I would refer you to the illustration opposite page 134 [in The Most Haunted House showing strange insect with large google eyes]." Continues to decry Price with, "You can, in fact, search the book from end to end without finding any statement of fact of a supernatural character which anyone, having a respect for evidence, could accept without question." Of the fire, he declares, "I have little experience of psychical investigation, but I have an almost morbid curiosity about fires. I had the pleasure of investigating Capt. Gregson's fire in collaboration with Col. Cuthbert Buckle, a very skilled assessor. We concluded after a very careful consideration that the lamp had not been pushed over by a ghost. . . . Gregson had bought the Rectory with a borrowed œ600; his claim for rebuilding after the fire was œ5357 plus surveyor's fees. In addition, he made a claim for contents. . . .[He] had insured a collection of coins for œ50. He said there were about 450 of them. Burning with a desire to recover Gregson's beloved coins for him, we passed the whole of the fire debris through a quarter-inch mesh sieve. All we recovered was one Victorian farthing." Investigators concluded, "the said fire was occasioned by the wilful act of the claimant Gregson. His claims totaled over £ 7000 and for the sake of peace we paid him £ 1000")**photocopy

Foyster, Lionel. September 2, 1937 to Glanville saying Marianne was psychic.

Glanville, Sidney H. October 28, 1937 to Price, asking if wall writings should be retraced in order to be photographed more clearly.

Goldney, Mrs. August 25, 1950, to Peter Underwood suggesting Adelaidewas too "backward at that time" to have done wall writings.

Hopkins, Thurston. 1976 to Philip Paul refusing to accept theory that weeds caused blur in Picture Post photo of January 1, 1955. "[The blur] simply doesn't resemble plant life, and is clearly much further back in the picture plane." One of several letters the two exchanged.)

Jeffrey, P. Shaw. February, 1942, to Harry Price recounting stays at Borley in 1885 and 86. ("I had lots of small adventures at the rectory. Stones falling about, my boots found on top of the wardrobe, etc. But the big adventure that would have been worth your while recording was onetime when I missed a big French dictionary which I had been regularly using for some days. Nobody could find it, but one night I was awakened by a big bump on the floor, and there was the dictionary. . . . My bedroom door was locked.")

Love, Alison. A series of letters and documents in researching the whereabouts of Waldegrave's body. ("Please find enclosed information. . . .[regarding]. . .. My interest with Borley after having read The Enigma of Borley Rectory by Ivan Banks. I have also been to Langenhoe in Essex. Peter Wormell has the parish records, and there are no Waldegraves buried there. The Waldegrave tomb at Borley, according to records at the ERO, is only a monument. No one is buried there, even though it states on the tomb, "Here lies Edward and Frances." I would be pleased to find Sir Edwards final resting place as I was going to write a story, but I want it to be true to life. If you have any information about Sir Edward Waldegrave, I would be interested. Also, do you know anything about his time in Fleet Prison? And whether or not he may have been at the hands of the Rack Master, as he was seldom idle in Mary's reign.")
Alison Love
Enclosures:
Letter from the Tower - September 1998
Letter to Lord Petre - October 1998
Letter from Lord Petre - October 1998
Letter from Earl Waldegrave - October 1998
Letter to Earl Waldegrave - November 1998
Letter to the Tower - November 1998
Letter from the Tower - November 1998
Waldegrave bio.
Martyrs under Queen Elizabeth
Copped Hall description

O'Neil, Marianne. July 3, 1956 to Peter Underwood (?). Says she did not "haunt the place."

Price, Harry. April 27, 1939 to Dom Richard Whitehouse describing reconciliation with Foyster.

----- Three months after October 13, 1931 visit describing wine changing to ink, bottles being thrown, to Reverend G. Eric Smith.

----- October 29, 1937 to Glanville agreeing that wall writings should be retraced for clarity.

Rayner, Leonard. 1956 to Philip Paul complaining the diggers names weren't mentioned during BBC show "Panorama" shown October 31 of that year. "It is my intention not to do anymore digging at Borley." Paul explained there wasn't enough time in a reply, but Rayner did not acknowledge. Paul says Rayner did not abstain from further digging in Some UnseenPower.

Scherman, David. March 15, 1956 to Michael Coleman regarding the floating brick. "To be quite frank, I saw the workman throwing stones out of the window of the Rectory as it was being wrecked and myself decided it would be fun if we put the camera in such a way as not to see him, but only the stones he threw. Let me hasten to say that in so doing no attempt was being made to hoodwink our readers - as I recall the caption was jokingly written to imply that this was the sort of thing poltergeists were supposed to do, if poltergeists existed. When we later discovered that Mr. Price, who was in on the joke, had the effrontery to pass off the episode as gospel proof of poltergeists we were delighted at his adventurous spirit."

Shaw, Ian (Greenwood). February 12, 1956 to Trevor Hall. Said "the whole business [at Borley] was founded on a mass of falsehoods and deceptions."

---- March 20, 1956 to Trevor Hall. "I believe [spiritualism] is a sure means of attracting weak-minded people and relieving them of their capital."

Smith, Mrs. October 1945, to the Church Times,.....

----- May 1948 to the Daily Mail, saying Borley was not haunted.

----- November 19, 1940 to Price saying her fictional book Murder at the Parsonage was a sequel to Most Haunted House.

----- November 14, 1937 to Glanville, suggesting he "take the mirror that tapped' to Borley in order to promote demonstrations."

----- November 29, 1937 to Glanville discussing shutters "making peculiar noises." One night, they are "pulled together, seemingly by no one."

Smith, Reverend G. Eric. August 7, 1929 - November 20, 1929 - February 22, 1930 - March 14, 1930 to Harry Price (?) asking case be published.

----- 1937, to Glanville, suggesting reconciliation with Price. "It would indeed be a great pleasure to renew the fellowship of sight and hand with Mr. Price, so do please tell him to come."

Sutton, Charles. May 23, 1956 to Michael Coleman attempting to clarify accusation that Price threw stone that hit him. "I had a suspicion that Harry Price had thrown a stone which caused the second window to break, but I did not see him throw a stone. A large pebble hit me on the head in the dark when we were in the Rectory, but I did not see from whence it came. The act of a half-brick flying down the staircase impelled me to drop the hurricane lamp I was carrying, seize Harry Price and accuse him of throwing it. I found two of his coat-pockets full of stones, but I did not see him throw the half brick that went down the staircase."

Thurston, Herbert. To Lord Charles Hope disclaiming any "competence about Borley," and refusing to "give a verdict." Jesuit priest who investigated ghost and poltergeist stories. See Books.

Underwood, Peter. September 15, 2004, to Vincent O'Neil, describing new testimony by relatives of Edith Evans. **

MISCELLANEOUS

Farrar and Company. Post card. London, 2001. (Front shows photo of the book The MostHaunted House in England floating in air. Caption on the back reads, "In 1940, Harry Price, the psychic investigator, became famous for his book 'Borley Rectory - the Most Haunted House in England.' Price ran his investigations from his laboratory at 16 Queensbury Place.") **

Garner, Sara. "Borley Rectory." School report. 8 June 2001. (Inside her quotation marks, she indicated her sources. "Ravenscroft" refers to the Ravenscroft Mansion web site. Garner quoted Louis Mayerling as saying the words "Let us pray" were heard there. Unfortunately, Mayerling was making it up. Mayerling also made up the phrases, "Don't, Charlie, Don't," "Any letters today" and "Carry on, man.")

Ghost Club. Itinerary of visit 16-17 October 2004. photocopy courtesy of Phillip Hutchinson

Hall, Trevor H. "A Catalogue of Books, Documents and other items relating to Borley Rectory in the Library of Trevor H. Hall" Leeds 1957 (Catalogues his Borley collection through that year. Inside the 67 entries are interesting notations and some might find insights into the prejudices of the compiler. Under Lionel Foyster, Hall has written that his copy of "Fifteen Months" is illustrated! No other record indicates photos were attached. Another revelation describes an original letter, ". . . .from Mr. Underwood stating that the papers referred to in the penultimate sentence were found by him in Mr. Price's files." What exactly is the "penultimate sentence?" Points out fourth edition of The End of Borley Rectory used names not printed in the first. Mentions fictionalized account of Death at Borley Rectory by Hall that was never published. Mentions an unpublished play by Frank Harvey. When the collection was indexed, Hall had collected over 600 press cuttings. Indicates MHH did have a second printing.) ** photocopy

Lewis, Verity. "Borley Rectory." Poem. 1999.

Hooper, Missy. "Borley Rectory." School talk. 2002. (Used the school report by Sara Garner and thought "Ravenscroft Mansion" was a previous name for the rectory. "Ravenscroft" actually refers to the Ravenscroft Mansion web site. Also uses Garner report to quote Louis Mayerling as saying the words "Let us pray" were heard at Borley. Mayerling was making it up. Mayerling also made up the phrases, "Don't, Charlie, Don't," "Any letters today" and "Carry on, man.")

McKay, Jodie. "CASE STUDY - BORELY RECTORY." June, 2000. Murdoch University in Western Australia, tutorial presentation of the theme, "The truth is out there." (posted)

Olding, Joseph. "The Mystery of Borley Rectory." School essay, 1999. Illustrated. (Lengthy and well-done re-telling of the complete legend including bibliography, list of rectors, and over a dozen pictures. At the time, the author was a 13 year-old student at Pope Pius X Catholic school in Wath upon Dearne. posted)

Pocket Histories of Essex Parishes. No. 73.- Borley. Five-page pamphlet reprinted from the Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury, June 4th, 1937. Six photographs; Church, Waldegrave tomb, bench end in the church, thatched cottages in the village. History of the village and Church. 10½ inches x 8½ inches. photocopy courtesy of Philip Hutchinson.

Church stitching Porter, Mrs. Pat. East Anglian Xstitch Designs. 2000. ("Borley Church, just on the Essex side of the Suffolk/Essex border, is famous for it`s association with it`s Rectory (burned down in 1937) BORLEY RECTORY - "The Most Haunted House in England". When I was taking the photograph I didn`t realise how recently the ghost of a nun was seen wandering through those watchful, ancient yew trees! Inside the church is a wonderful old tomb of the Waldegrave family.")

Rathbun, Kristy. "Borley Rectory." The Other Side: Borley Rectory and other paranormal phenomena. Self-bound, June 2000. pp. 1-9. (School project featuring Borley as one of four chapters on the paranormal. Several photos including the wall writings and floor plans.) ** Rough drafts: "Introduction to Borley Rectory," "The Destruction of Borley," and "Never An Absolution: The Aftermath."

Taylor, Troy. Essays on "Harry Price" and "Borley Rectory" as part of a periodic newsletter for his Haunted America web site.

MOVIES

An Urban Ghost Story. Living Spirit Pictures, 1997. (The movie is"Based upon several documented poltergeist cases in the UK," including Borley Rectory. It also draws upon the Belmez Faces On The Floor, and The Enfield Poltergeist. The screenplay is available for download.. The star is Heather Ann Foster as LIZZIE FISHER - an odd coincidence since Marianne married a Fisher just prior to leaving Borley. Other cast members include Jason Connery as JOHN FOX, Stephanie Buttle as KATE FISHER, Andreas Wisniewski - DR QUINN, James Cosmo - THE MINISTER, Nicola Stapleton - KERRIE, Elizabeth Berrington - MRS ASH, and Alan Owen - ALEX FISHER. The name "Kate" is also part of the Borley Legend - and this writers own history (his bio-mother was Kate). Part of the plot sounds familiar - "Kate's only help is a newspaper journalist from the local press with his own hidden agenda - he brings in all manner of 'experts' - parapsychologists, spiritualists, Christians - all of whom offer their services whilst championing their own individual theories for the unexplained phenomena.")

The Haunting. MGM,1963. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Black and white. Based on The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. (While Borley is not mentioned specifically, several incidents are similar, including wall writings, a cold spot, and a psychic investigator who recruits observers and leases the place for a time.)

O'Neil, Vincent. The Most Haunted House. Not produced. 1998

O'Neil, Vincent. Marianne. Not produced. 1995.

Price, Harry; Sinclair, Upton. Most Haunted House. Screenplay based on Borley. Lilly Library, Indiana University. Date unknown. 156 pages. (Listed under "Price" in The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Guiley as Hauntings." Originally mentioned by Tabori in Harry Price, the Biography of a Ghost Hunter. No other information given. Thirty eight page Scenerio has extensive corrections/notes. Wikipedia: "Aside from his political and social writings, Sinclair took an interest in psychic phenomena and experimented with telepathy, writing a book titled "Mental Radio", published in 1930. According to Sinclair, a 34-pound table was once levitated eight feet over his head by a young psychic in a seance.") **T - NOT SCANNED.

Spotlight on Spooks. Rayant Pictures, 1951. (Short feature film includes report of James Turner hearing lame footsteps of Lionel at Borley Church August 2, 1947.)

PAINTINGS

Clements, Barbara. "Marianne at Borley." Original oil, 2002. Color painting of Marianne on the verandah with the ghost of Harry Bull in the Blue Room. Shows "Monkshead" fireplace through window. 22 x 30" Gift to Vincent O'Neil.

Glanville, Sidney H. "Borley Rectory." Described by Hall in his 1957 Catalogue of books, documents, and other items relating to Borley Rectory in the library of Trevor H. Hall,as "A framed oil painting 16" by 12" of the Rectory by night, reproduced by permission of Mrs. Glanville on the dust-wrapper of The Haunting of Borley Rectory. Mr. Glanville was an accomplished artist, and presented this picture to T.H.H. in September, 1953."

PLAYS

Owner James Turner hosted a play in the "last days of 1947." It was performed by the "Egoists," an amateur dramatic club from London. Written and directed by Mr. Shepard, it was staged on the nun's walk in hopes she would join in. Turner and a friend "stood at the front gate, armed with hoes, to drive off unwelcome visitors." Period costumes, music, and lighting were all part of the production. "The story of the Waldegraves was unfolded for us in a most expert way but, alas, as a finale, no Nun."

"Die Frau in Schwarz," which means in English, "The Woman in Black" deals with a malevolent ghost woman who haunts the old spooky Eel Marsh House, standing in a godforsaken area on England's bleak East Coast, overlooking the salt marshes of the Nine Lives Causeway, a place which incites fear and terror in the occupants of the nearby village for reasons which become only too clear throughout the course of the play. I bought a programme in the theatre and suddenly I saw the word 'Borley' under a picture which shows a ghostly coach. "Also in Borley, Essex, a phantom coach was heard." - Birgit Brenner.

RADIO BROADCASTS

Baker, Danny. "After All." 1993. (Played tape from church originally broadcast in 1975 on the BBC program "The Ghost Watchers.")

Bestic, Alan. "News of the World." August 25, 1976. (English radio broadcast that includes story describing appearance of ghost nun on pony.)

Burgess, Alan; Eton, Peter. "The Haunted Rectory." BBC Home Service, June 29, 1947. (The BBC visited for interviews and to watch the digging for treasure belonging to the church. Underwood reports in The Ghosts of Borley that Herbert Mayes was once chauffeur to Rev. Henning, and told story of mysterious ghost horses on this broadcast. Burgess and Eton helped Henning during one of many digs on property. They heard rappings, which were recorded and played during the broadcast. At the time, James Turner owned the upper half of the property containing the cottage, and Tom Gooch owned the lower half. They told of their experiences which they explained away.)

Burroughs, Joe producer for the BBC. "The Haunted Rectory." Broadcast twice September 10, 1956, and once September 12. (Pre-recorded September 4th, using previously recorded interviews with Charles Sutton, Mrs. Goldney, Mr. W.H. Salter, Peter Underwood, Ellic Howe, Major Henry Douglas-Home, Gordon Glover, attorney Cuddon, Trevor Hall, Mrs.Henning, and Eric Dingwall. Goes back and forth in the debate before deciding "the haunting of Borley Rectory remains non proven, but affords a moral worth consideration: what we need is. . ..more research without publicity and without practical jokers.") ** transcript only

Elelman, Montague. "My Chip Off the Old Borley Block." April 1963. B.B.C. Reported in The Listener. (Describes phenomena witnessed after Elelman took a piece of wood from the grounds in 1946. Included was a visit by the nun to a London home.)

"The Ghost Watchers." 1975. (BBC program that played the church audio tape for the first time. This was the tape on which several sounds were recorded while no one was in the church. In addition to doors being opened or closed, the most remarkable sound is that of a man groaning.)

Gregson, Captain W.H. "In Town Tonight." BBC radio program April 15, 1939. (Described by Underwood in The Ghosts of Borley.Owner of rectory when it burned down. Reported to the BBC his dog was scared and ran away.)

Groves, Mark. "The Chill Factory," interview with Vincent O'Neil. 105-3 FM, KYNG, Dallas, Texas. May 27, 2000, 5 p.m. (O'Neil mispoke, and meant "Library" cupboard instead of kitchen cupboard.) Audio files copyright Mark Groves, 2000. Part one. Part two. Part three.

Harding, Mike. "Three Walks with Mike Harding." BBC Radio 4. 1979-1982 exact date unknown. "Comedian who came to prominence in the 1970s, styling himself The Rochdale Cowboy. Well-known musician on the folk circuit, he presents the regular folk review on BBC Radio 2. He is one of the patrons of the Wensleydale Railway, a group that has been set up to re-open the mainly derelict line between Northallerton and Garsdale in Yorkshire, near where he now lives." imdb bio ("In one walk he strolls along the dissused railway line between Sudbury and Long Melford. At one point in the show he detours up to Borley with his companion, Chris Somerville, who retells the story of Borley." - Eddie Brazil) **T cassette/CD audio

L'Strange, Guy P. Radio broadcast on Borley, December 1936. Unknown.

Price, Harry. Various English radio broadcasts on Borley; 1935, 1937,1938, 1941, 1946, 1947.

----- "Borley Rectory." November 1, 1938.

----- "Do You Believe in Ghosts? The Haunted Rectory of Borley."March 13, 1946.

Price, Bob. "Radio For You." April 1 2000. WPZZ 95.9 FM Indianapolis, Indiana. 1030 PM. (70 minute interview with Vincent O'Neil)

Price, Harry; Hole, Christina. "Close Up." London. December21, 1941.

Stanfield, Kevin. "KSL TONIGHT." KSL-AM Radio 1160, Salt Lake City, Utah. Friday, October 30, 1998. (Half hour interview with Vincent O'Neil. Incorrectly states Marianne was raised at Rectory.) Part Two.

Stine, R.L. host. Mortimer Kane, narrator. Mark Groves, production director. Radio Disney- US syndication. Goosebumps Gallery "Stinetingling Tale:Borley Rectory." Friday night and Saturday night, December 11 - 12, 1998 at 8:30 and 10:30 PM Central. (Two minute, fifteen second dramatization for children. "Many people believe [the story] is true, of course no one knows for sure, but it has been told for years and years." Condenses everything so that Henry Bull family finds the bones in 1900 instead of Harry Price in 1943. Smiths incorrectly experience "showers of coins." Quite dramatic considering the time limit.) live**/demo**

"What's New? The Most Haunted House in England." W.E.V.D.New York. January 18, 1941.

RECORDINGS

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HAUNTING OF BORLEY CHURCH Blackwood audio tape, 1994. Roughly 30 minutes. Details history of the rectory, then moves across the road to record sounds inside the sealed church in 1974. In addition to the sounds of footsteps and doors closing, a male groan is clearly heard.

GHOSTS Llewellyn. Compact Disk. New World Music, 1998. ("Music inspired by true ghost stories of the British Isles. It comes with a booklet with pictures of the places and the story of each ghost. (Including Borley Rectory) The music is varied and so melodic." - Ann Trott. "From my own collection of books and clippings, I have embarked on my most ambitious music project ever, to produce an album based on several of my favorite true ghost stories." -Llewellyn. Nine cuts running just over 50 minutes. Each song has a different ambiance, and "5-Borley Rectory" has its own distinct melody. "The Piper" is about Inveraray Castle, and features bagpipes. "The Hooded Maiden" is inspired by Loch Craignish, and features pan pipes. An occasional choir drifts through the background of some tunes. This CD has a gentle lilt to it - defiantly nothing hokey like Halloween sound effects -and provides a comfortable atmosphere with only an occasional "haunting" flavor wafting through. Nothing obtrusive, as one would expect from this genre, but it is still delightfully unique. The blurb about Borley in the booklet has a slight error when it indicates "Many of the house's occupiers kept records," when only Lionel Foyster (quoted in Most Haunted House) and Dodie Bull (unpublished) wrote journals. Other hauntings are Bisham Abbey, Ludlow Castle, Knebworth House, and Hinxworth Place.) **

THE MYSTERY OF BORLEY RECTORY. England: Ivan Berg Associates Limited. USA: Communications Institute, Arlington Virgina. 1976. Cassette audio tape. Roughly 50 minutes long. (Not a documentary, but a dramatization with sound effects and exaggeration. Part of GHOSTS AND HAUNTINGS series, John Canning editor. Michael and Mollie Harwick key actors. Insert from case.) **

"Light, Mass Prayers." Porcupine Tree. One instrumental on the CD, audio cassette and record, SIGNIFY. 4 minutes, 28 seconds. ("Light Mass Prayers" is a short piece of atmospheric music with no lyrics that was inspired by my interest in Marie Lairre and Borley and I wanted to create something that was ethereal, sad, & ghostly. I multi-tracked my voice singing simply "ah" on different moving notes to sound 'choir-like' and 'Churchy' and played a cymbal to create a church-bell sound and a bass-drum to create 'thuds' which often have been mentioned being heard at the site over the years. It fades very gradually leaving all but the 'bells' & 'thuds'to disappear and I felt that "light Mass Prayers" said it all as a title and to most people buying the record not knowing the connection it would express the atmosphere of the music though I hoped they may be curious to know why of all the tracks on the album this one's title was written inside inverted commas. The answer is of course that if one believes in the wall writing then this is a quote of a ghost's appeal! - Chris Maitland, drummer.)

"Welcome To The Rectory." Borley Rectory. Extended Play Compact Disk with four songs. The manager of the group is "Harry Price." A press release is posted, and the heavy metal songs are available for downloading from this site or from MP3.com

TELEVISION BROADCASTS

"About Religion." Independent television program. London: February 11, 1962.

Burnett, Hugh, location producer. Michael Henderson, reporter. Terry Hunt, cameraman. Richard Dimbleby, live interviewer. "Panorama." BBC. Halloween, October 31, 1956. (Fifteen minute segment includes film from the site and an interview with researcher Philip Paul who said, "I am satisfied that strange things happened and are still happening." Interviews with Brigadier C.A.L. Brownlow, the Coopers, Terry Bacon, and Henry Williams. Williams did not appear full face because of anonymous letters he received following publication of an earlier interview. Ethel Bull was also interviewed, and the 88 year old witness recalled, "I was so scared when I last saw the nun on July 28, 1900, that I took to my heels and fled." Quotes a Paul article published in Two Worlds: "It is and has always been my contention during my seven years of investigation at Borley that its story does not depend on Price or the two books in which he sets out the experiences of some 200 witnesses. . . Three [of the witnesses used in the show] saw and heard strange occurrences before Price ever set foot in Borley, and the other three witnessed inexplicable events there after Price was dead and buried." )

Cranston, John. "The Ghosts of Christmas Past." Look East. 20(?) December 2000. (Three minute BBC news feature covering Mayerling contoversy during which he admits, "I have exaggerated here and there." Challenge by Vincent O'Neil via very short phone interview. At least two promotions several minutes before the segment tease: "Still to come; The Ghosts of Christmas Past, or, was the haunting of the spookiest house in Britain an elaborate hoax?" Introduction by "Stewart" and "Cindy." Photo of rectory gives way to recreation. Two other original photos - after the fire, and Marianne in her later years.) **

"Divine Magic." Discovery Channel. 1995?

"English Ghosts." Narrated by Edward Mulhare. 1989. Part of the Secrets of the Unknown television series. (Brief interview with photographer Simon Marsden as part of 30 minute video. Mulhare introduces the Borley segment by saying, "For over a decade, Simon Marsden has photographed haunted abodes seeking proof of ghosts, but rarely finding it, save for one time when his camera captured an unexpected image at a place called Borley Rectory." Marsden says, "Borley was one of the places I can say I was genuinely frightened. . . .I went there with two friends and they asked to leave very quickly after arriving there. I went around taking pictures, and on one of the negatives was the shape in the sky which I didn't notice until I blew up the actual picture." He then tries to look into the camera and says, "I swear to you that this is genuine and this shape was not there when I took the picture." While I was in England in September of 1997, I heard a rumor that he said the picture was a hoax, but Sir Simon has since written to me to deny any such comment.)

Ffitch, George. Independent Television. Late 1956. (Interview with Philip Paul upon the conclusion of his digging)

Finch, Felicity - narrator. "Several Careful Owners." Dennis Jarvis producer/director. BBC2. Thursday, September 2, 1999. 8:50 p.m. Repeated at several times. (10-12 minute program. This episode highlighted the Rolls Royce owned by Harry Price, which he drove to Borley. The current owner took 18 years to restore it, and may have repainted it to its present white color. Because the boxy, four-door "Roller" looked so splendid, the owner ended up hiring out to 375 weddings. The show ends with a picture of the rectory burning as the narrator intones, "In 1939 the infamous rectory was partly consumed in fire, and in 1944 it was completely demolished. Harry Price and his ghosts are now long laid to rest - [sotto voce] or are they." Prior to filming, the BBC contacted the current rector, Revd. Captain Brian A. Sampson, C.A. "They rang me to explain what they wanted and to ask to be allowed to video it outside the Rectory. I had to explain that the Rectory was not there and that I lived in another village altogether. This they didn't believe and said they would come anyway. When they did, there was much head-scratching and the producer went away saying they would have to think up something else. They duly did, with a shadowy figure walking through 'fog' in front of a Victorian house that had to do duty for the rectory." Television listings: Daily Mail, September 2, 1999. p. 52. "The life of a 1931 Rolls-Royce which once belonged to leading British psychic investigator Harry Price." Night and Day, August 29, 1999. p. 60. "A 1931 Rolls Royce. Last in series.") **partial tape

“From Beyond.” Original title, “Journey Beyond.” Simitar Entertainment, 1995. (Five minute section on Borley, along with other stories about English “Ghosts, Poltergeists, Demons and Spirits.” Clairvoyant Lorraine Warren describes how she psychically saw the monk holding a huge book at the church. He was short, and the book was of parchment. Along with others, she saw the nun come down the aisle. A murky, color photo of the nun is shown. No date of the visit. Warren theorizes the church is made of flint, which has the same qualities as quartz -namely, they hold vibrations or frequencies just like microchips. The stones are then able to trap and replay images.)**T

"Hauntings" documentary by Meridian International Consultants1992 .

Peterson, Heather, production manager. Veronica Rhinehart, director.Picture This. "Haunted." BBC-2 television program. October 18, 1994. (How Kevin Taylor found his natural mother, Astrid Fisher, in Australia. Taylor relieved he is not related by blood to Marianne. Mother and son reunited.)**

Price, Harry. Interview. British Movietone News. Date unknown. Posted on YouTube by the Psychic Times. (Identifies Price as "Honorary Secretary of London Council for Psychical Research." Does not mention Borley. Tours lab. Reviews various tools for tracking ghosts, etc.) YouTube video 10:49 long

"Stately Ghosts of England." NBC(?) 1966(?) (Two hour news program on various hauntings.)

"Strange But True." ITV television program. November 26,1994. (Last 15 minutes devoted to Borley. References to Harry Price. Interviewwith Peter Underwood. Actors play Marianne and Lionel, etc.)

Underwood, Peter. "The Ghost Hunters." BBC television documentary:December 4, 1975. (Underwood as guest. Promoted in Radio Times. Hugh Burnett, producer. "Is was during filming there that members of the film crew saw the nun walking at dusk along the nun's walk." - John Burrows)

--------- "Ghosts." BBC: July 31 and August 1, 1976. (Underwood as guest. Referred to in Hauntings. Describes technical experiments at Borley.)

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