It was impossible to ignore, and we rushed there. What we saw there made me question the reality of what was happening. Bottles flew in all directions in the hall, and whoever could throw them was not visible. Suddenly, they flew through the air with a whistle and then crashed against the walls...
In the evening, falling asleep in his room, L'Estrange suddenly felt cold. It was strange to see a furnace drowned here for the night. L'Estrange stood up to see if the window was well locked. But he noticed a light in the corner as if a small candle had lit up. The space she illuminated began to increase, and he was able to discern the very female figure in the black jacket. Her face was hidden under the hood.
L'Estrange, a man of courage and determination, called out to the guest, but she slowly dissolved.
In the morning, the guest did not tell the hosts about the nightly incident - they already had enough excitement. Memories of the justice of the peace about this visit appeared in the press only five years later, when the Foysters moved out of the bad house.
Bad "heredity".
In 1938, the owner of the house was retired Captain William Gregson, who was skeptical about all this "devilry". If he sometimes imagined something, he thought it was the result of a whiskey overnight. Once again visited the mansion, the famous researcher of paranormal phenomena Harry Price held a séance of spirituality and predicted to Gregson that he expected a strong fire. He just smiled, but 11 months later, on February 27, 1939, he accidentally dropped a kerosene lamp in the library, and the fire immediately enveloped the house. By morning, the mansion had only walls left from it...
In August 1943, Harry Price and his assistants dismantled the building, including the foundation. It was there that he discovered the remains of a woman. The researcher concluded that it was the skeleton of a nun who had been murdered in the 14th century.
Scientists were interested in the discovery. A specially created commission headed by Professor Arthur Robertson of Cambridge University spent almost a year exploring the ruins of the mansion. Among others, they conducted the following experiment: for one or more nights they left the house, members of the commission and volunteers at the place where the house once stood. So two-thirds of almost 60 people described the phenomena whose origin could not be explained: foreign sounds, sudden cold snap, the appearance of ghosts. After the experiment, the ruins were demolished and taken away - a few years later, the typical English lawn has already turned green at this place.
Scientists agreed on a version of a geopathogenic zone, which was burdened by "heredity" at home - the murder of an unknown woman here.
Meetings at the Nun's Alley.
When the story of the house had already begun to be forgotten, locals and visitors began to come to the Alley of the Nuns. The trees grew up, gave a good shade, and the path seemed to attract people for a walk.
In the summer of 1951, two friends walked along the alley and argued about something. Suddenly, one of them stopped as dug in and, unable to move his hand, just nodded aside. The comrade looked and also stopped: literally in one and a half tens of meters they saw a ghost of a woman in a white cloak with a hood. The silhouette was quite clear, though it was shining through - trees and bushes could be seen through it. The woman turned into a garden, and friends clearly heard the cracking of branches and the rustle of grass...
Even later, people witnessed anomalies both in and around Borly. Thus, on Sunday evening in August 1977, the husband and wife returned by car from London and in front of the village saw an unusual procession: four in monastic clothes carried an expensive ancient coffin decorated with silver. Instead of faces, all four had skulls. A woman who could draw well immediately made sketches. When the spouses made inquiries from historians in London, they confirmed their assumptions: such coffins were made in the XIV century.
Despite the fact that the house has been burned down for 76 years, Borley still attracts tourists who are fond of mysticism. The church next to the pastor's house and the alley where the nun walked have been preserved. Of course, many of Borli's guests would like to see it, but the locals advise to stay with them for three or four days, as if then for sure. Some of the visiting thrill-seekers, who were awake for several nights in a row, said that they actually saw the nun's ghost, and some daredevils even filmed it. However, then, when trying to view it turned out that the shooting failed - the screen was just interference.