It was one night in the summer of 1990, a few friends and I set out to go to borley. When we got there we parked up and went in to the church grounds. I had been to Borley on several occasions before this night, but this time I took a camera with me. I took several photographs outside and inside the grounds, it was dark and I had only got a very basic camera so the photographs weren't much good.
We walked around in the church yard for awhile, then someone walked past the security light in front of the church entrance. It is common knowledge that the security light is linked up to the Sudbury police station, or so we are led to believe, so we all ran back to the car. On the way back my friend Kelvin tripped on the chain at the church entrance. He hurt himself quite badly, cutting his hands on the gravel. I went back to help him when a strange smell came in to the air, the first thing I said was, who is smoking hash? because at first this is what the smell reminded me of, my friend Tommy was with us, he has M S and he smokes it all the time. But he was already back at the car. Then Andrew spoke up and said, that's not hash that's lavender, the smell got stronger and we could all tell he was right. About a week later, Andrew said he had gone to Ipswich library and taken out a book on Borley. He told us the librarian said the book hadn't left the library for about 17 years, we looked at the stamp in the back of the book and she was telling the truth. In this book we found some very interesting facts about the rectory, one of which was that some strange smells had been experienced especially lavender.
I now wonder if we disturbed something with the flashes of our cameras. I've been back since but I have never experienced anything quite like that again.