Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion which gained fame as "The Most Haunted House in England", before it was destroyed by fire in 1939.
Located in the village of Borley, Essex, the big Gothic-style rectory had been the scene of occasional alleged hauntings ever since it was built. But these reports multiplied suddenly in 1929, after the Daily Mirror published the findings of paranormal researcher Harry Price.
This prompted a formal study by the Society for Psychical Research, which rejected most of the sightings as either imagined or fabricated, and threw doubt on Price's credibility. As he was not only a professional conjurer, but the author of two books that supported many of the most dramatic claims, he is generally discredited by ghost-historians.
But some of the stories attaching to the rectory still carry conviction, and new books and TV documentaries continue to satisfy a wide public interest in the Borley phenomena.
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