Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion that gained fame as "the most haunted house in England". It was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished in 1944. Located in the village of Borley, Essex, the large Gothic-style rectory had been the scene of occasional stories of hauntings ever since it was built. But these reports multiplied suddenly in 1929, after the Daily Mirror published an account of the visit to the rectory of paranormal researcher Harry Price. Price went on to write the two most famous books that supported the most dramatic claims of paranormal activity. The continuing uncritical acceptance of the truth of these reports over the following twenty-five years prompted a formal study by the Society for Psychical Research, which rejected most of the sightings as either imagined or fabricated, and cast doubt on Price's credibility. Harry Price's contributions are now generally discredited by ghost historians. Neither the SPR's report, nor the more recent biography of Harry Price has quelled public interest in the stories of haunting, and new books and television documentaries continue to satisfy the fascination in the Borley Rectory story. A short programme commissioned by the BBC about the alleged haunting, scheduled to be broadcast in September 1956, was cancelled owing to concerns about a possible legal action by Marianne Foyster, wife of the rector. Wikipedia [ - ]

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