Eric J. Dingwall, Kathleen M. Goldney, and Trevor H. Hall

For many years, Borley Rectory was known as "the most haunted house in England." This was due largely to the publicity generated by Harry Price, an investigator of the paranormal who spent ten years investigating the supposedly haunted rectory and wrote extensively on the events that purportedly occurred there, most notably in his bestselling book The Most Haunted House in England.

In 1929, when Price first heard of Borley Rectory, he had been involved in investigating mediums and paranormal phenomena for several years and had founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London. He read an article about the rectory that claimed that strange things happened there and that people saw the ghosts of a medieval nun and a four—horse coach traverse the grounds. Intrigued, Price made...