About seven years ago [1996] I drove past Borley Rectory knowing nothing about it being haunted at all. I was about 21 at the time and was being shown around the Braintree District by a colleague at Braintree District Council.
As I passed the Church, there was a man and woman standing near what I remember as a wall fronting the church. They both looked right at me as I drove past, the man was wearing black and looked very upset, his face very red/pink around the eyes. I assumed it was a funeral or something, although the lady with him was completely dressed in white and I thought it was a bit strange.
I didn't discuss it with my colleague and he did'nt think anything of it at the time either.
When I told my parents what I had done that day at work, my Dad told me that I may have seen ghosts. On reflection, I beleive I have too as there were no other people about at all, no cars, nothing. And I beleive that we may have been more open to seeing something as we hadn't gone to purposefully look for ghosts and as I said before, I didn't even know about Borley's past.
I would love to hear from you, particularly if anyone else has reported the same thing in the past.
Kindest regards,
Dean Fisk, - Braintree, Essex