Harry Price

By most accounts, Borley Rectory in County Essex, England, was a large, unattractive brick house built in 1863 by Henry Bull, a minister. Bull's family inhabited the house for about sixty years. After Bull's death, his son Harry took over the home and the rectorship. For a short time after the younger Bull's death there was no rector (minister) for the parish, and the house was empty. Supposedly, local people avoided the building, believing it was haunted. In 1928 G.E. Smith (also a minister) and his wife moved into the home, but left it within a year. During their stay there, a prominent newspaper, the London Daily Mail, published an article detailing supposed hauntings at the rectory. The article described a phantom nun and a phantom four—horse coach. According to local legends, the...