How often do you hear confirmation of the presence of the beyond in our lives from scientists and skeptics? You could have just swung it off as fiction. However, the house in Borley (Essex, England) has gained fame as a record-breaker in the number of ghosts is not due to rumors - unexplained phenomena testified by individuals of spiritual rank, officials and scientists, whose opinion is quite credible. They did not need to fantasize, it would be desirable, on the contrary, to keep silent about what was happening in the priest's house.
Embarrassed love.
The village of Borley, a hundred kilometers from London in the 14th century, was known for its convent of women. It was within its walls that a tragedy took place, the story of which was passed down from generation to generation. One of the nuns accidentally met a monk passing through Borly from a nearby monastery. The young men began to meet, and the lovers had a plan of escape, which at the last moment snapped. Listeners were expected to be severely punished: the monk was killed in prison, and the nun was buried alive in the wall of the monastery as an edification to all the other sisters.
Since then, the Borlians have seen the nun's ghost many times. It did not disappear even after the monastery was looted and destroyed in the 16th century during the War of the Aloi and White Rose. Only the nearby church, built in the 12th century, remained.
The tragic love story and ghosts were told in 1861 to the new priest Henry Bull. He considered it all superstition and a year later built a house on the site of the former monastery, partially using the preserved foundation.
Alas, the pastor soon became convinced that the stories of the inhabitants of Borli had the groundwork. In the new house now and then foreign sounds were heard, there was a crackling, sometimes from the shelves fell dishes and the furniture moved by itself. Besides, Henry's father and his family periodically watched the nun's ghost. In particular, the eldest daughter, 22-year-old Ethel, told how on a walk through the alley of the garden, along with sisters Frida and Mabel saw a nun. Moreover, the girl even approached her and asked her if there was anything she could do to help, but the ghost disappeared without answering. From the easy hand of the girls, the path was called Nun's Alley.
However, with a ghost, the priest's family, however, got along quite peacefully. And when 30 years later the house was inherited by his son - Harry Bull, also a parish priest, anomalies were reduced to the same small pranks: falling things, beating dishes ...
Harry also died in 1927. The coffin was placed with him in the same room where the coffin with Henry Bull's body once stood. For some unknown reason, the temperature there was always six degrees lower than in the rest of the rooms. This paradox could not be explained by anyone, including the heater.
The family finally decided to move out of the house when Harry Bull's ghost started walking around...
Nights of restlessness.
In 1930, the owners of the house became a new priest, a cousin of Harry Bulla Lionel Foyster, and his wife Marianne. The latter had heard of the strangeness of the mansion and resisted moving, but her husband insisted. Apparently, it was too impressionable and noisy Marianne did not like the ghostly inhabitants of the house in Borly. Now at night, someone invisible was taken to insistently ring the doorbell in the room where once stood coffins with the bodies of the previous owners of the house, heard the steps and moans on the bed of the couple Foyster in the middle of the night suddenly began to drip water.
Not only the owners of the house but also their guests witnessed the anomalies. For example, in winter 1932, Justice of the Peace Guy L'Estrange came to the Feusters. As soon as he arrived home, he noticed a female figure in a black jacket, who was looming in front of the entrance and then moved into the garden. However, there were no traces on the snow cover.
Next - more, that's how the guest describes what happened at lunch:
"I was afraid of the rumble that came out of the hall".
- Here they are again! - The pastor sighed heavily.
I hurried to the door and saw that the floor of the hall was covered with shards of broken dishes. The pastor looked at them sadly:
- These were plates from the kitchen cupboard. You realize that no one could have left them here, and then hid instantly.
And yet I thought it was some kind of prank.
After the hall was tidied up, we went back to the table, but the rumble came out of the hall again.
to be continued in the next part...