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The picture you're watching now is coming to you out of thin air.

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You can't see the signals that transmit television, but you can tune into them.

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A century ago the whole idea would have been extremely far-fetched.

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This contraption was devised by one of the greatest investigators of the paranormal.

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Harry Price, that's him over there, wanted to make sure that in silences with the spirits

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mediums couldn't cheat, so he wired up their hands and feet. One false move and caught in the act.

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Tonight we'll be telling the story of Harry Price's biggest job, the case of the most haunted

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house in England and how some claim it's still going on. We'll interview witnesses and reconstruct

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what they say they heard and saw. Do you believe in life after death? Some people not only believe,

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they say they know it exists. They are the one in four people who after traumatic accidents,

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operations or cardiac resuscitation all describe the same thing, dying and coming back to life

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and in between glimpsing a world beyond. What have become known as near-death experiences

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were recorded long ago in the ancient Egyptian and Tibetan books of the dead and by the Greek

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philosopher Plato too, but they cross all cultural boundaries. They can't of course be proved,

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however sincerely they're reported, but what can be proved is that those involved have had a

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close brush with death.

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He was pretty close to death because he had severe hypotermia, he had severe injuries. On the records

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he had multiple fractures in the pelvis, fractures in the left wrist, fractures in the left leg and

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multiple fractures in the jaw bones and also multiple fractures in the ribs.

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I was so shocked that I couldn't recognise it as my husband. I looked at this person lying on the

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bed and I thought no, no, that's not my husband. Doesn't look anything like him. We have this

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life support machine breathing.

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I think we'll have to get the horsepade out there.

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Ron Bell had already survived two heart attacks. After the second one he had to give up work

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and became virtually housebound. Upset and frustrated he became impossible for his family

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to live with.

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So I sort of decided to split up. We split up and I took two of the children and left

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two with him.

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The situation with my parents, my mum, split up with my mum at the time, coping with looking

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after me. I think a lot of things had got him down, he was quite depressed.

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But Ron's health was improving. One of his sons was about to get married and he'd begun

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to get out and about again. One evening he set off for a walk at Old Hartley on the Tyneside

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coast, a favourite spot of his. A friend dropped him off.

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Are you sure you're going to be alright?

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Yeah, I'll be alright. I'll have a good walk. I'll see you later.

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I went down to Hartley because it's a peaceful place, it's a lovely place. I needed time

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to think, to sort things out. It's a place where I was go and I just like it. It's my

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place. I was feeling really good. I was walking along the Kryftob path and it was a cool night.

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I could hear the waves beating on the rocks below. And I got this excruciating pain come

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from my chest. Having had two heart attacks before I realised I was probably taking a heart attack.

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And it just pulled me over and I found myself over the cliff edge.

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The cliffs at Old Hartley are a sheer drop of 60 feet. There is no fence, nothing to save

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Ron. The coastline here is fairly dangerous. The cliff is unstable. Anyone getting too close

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to the cliff edge has taken a chance that the edge will crumble. Clearly falling from that

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height, anybody surviving would have to count themselves fairly lucky.

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Ron was one of the lucky ones. Though he bounced on the rocks several times and suffered a

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pauling injury, he was still alive. But only just.

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I was in the sea and I couldn't move. Nothing would move. So I must have lost consciousness

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and when I came to I was further out to sea. And I thought I was probably going to die.

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And I called out my wife's name and my children's name and just want to resign myself to wait.

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Suddenly I felt warm and at peace. Then it just seemed to happen.

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I found myself in this tunnel with a very bright light at the end of it and I was walking towards it.

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At the end of the tunnel when I arrived there, there was a bridge. At the far end there was human

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shapes, shadows and I said, I'm coming across.

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The arms were back in the middle and the voice in my head said, you can't cross the bridge.

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It's not your time yet. Then suddenly I was rushing backwards away from the bridge, away from the shadows.

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It wasn't until the next morning that a passerby walking his dog on a beach found Ron in shallow

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water. He called an ambulance.

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My pythomere is the danger. That time of year when the sea temperature is about 6 or 7 degrees celsius,

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half an hour is a good survival time and the average person probably wouldn't survive much more than

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two and a half hours in the water.

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Ron was in the water for 14 hours but amazingly when the ambulance proved God to him, it was a glimmer of life.

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Breathing.

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When he arrived at the hospital, Ron was clearly in a critical condition, made even more serious by his medical history.

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He had heart attack in the past and he was in extremely poor state. He had extensive injuries practically in the

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whole body. His chances of survival was pretty poor and similarly the chances for leading a normal life was

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extremely poor as well.

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But had Ron Bell really been at death's door, did he literally come back to life and if he did, what did he go through?

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Dr Peter Fennick of the Institute of Psychiatry studies altered states of consciousness in the brain.

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Ron Bell's case is one of 400 near death experiences or NDE's which he's collected.

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Do people make up stories about NDE's? No I don't think they do. My reason for saying this is that there is a very clear set of

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features. If you haven't had the experience, it's very difficult to get it right.

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Dr Fennick argues that because the accounts of Ron Bell and others are so similar, they must be real.

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But Dr Susan Blackmore of the West of England University disagrees. She's been investigating near death experiences for 20 years after having

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won herself.

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I'm convinced that it isn't because we all go to another world, but it's because of what's happening in the brain.

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Because near death or under stress there's kind of random firing of all the cells going on in the brain.

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It could be lack of oxygen which disturbs the balance of firing or it could be the brain's own morphine-like chemicals that is

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experienced as lights, tunnels, hallucinations and feelings of presence.

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So I now believe not that the experiences are all the same because we all have a soul or spirit that goes to heaven,

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but they're all the same because we all have similar brains.

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So the imagination of a dying brain or as Dr Fennick believes, the mind leaving the body to go elsewhere.

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It's that the brain isn't functioning. It's not there. It's destroyed. It's abnormal.

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But yet it can produce these very clear experiences.

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I thought, I died. I honestly thought I died.

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Thank God you're back.

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Ron's nurse hadn't expected him to recover. When he did she remembers clearly what he described to her.

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I was very pleased and surprised that he'd recovered. He told me of a dream that he'd had about the tunnel and the shapes and the light.

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And he was going towards it.

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It's very convincing and other patients have told me of the same dream and experience they've had when they've been in that state.

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As Ron Bell was to discover, there's something else which those who claim near-death experiences usually find.

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Most people lose their fear of death. A lot of people feel that they have a mission that they have to go through.

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There's something for them to do in this life. And many people are more social.

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That is, they think more about their friends.

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My father was probably quite a selfish person. Rather inconsiderate.

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He never had a great deal of time for us when we were children.

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He was around but never for us. Since the accident I think he's definitely become more responsible towards his family.

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The experience also brought about a reconciliation with his wife. They decided to give their marriage another try.

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Ron's son Robert got married too. After the ceremony the couple visited him in hospital.

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I think he's got more of a sanctity for life. He's got more of a...what would you say? A zest for life really.

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He's got more of a caring person than he was.

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I realised I'd been given another chance. But if I was to die tomorrow, I would not be afraid.

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I'm not afraid of death. This is where we all go eventually. I know because I've been there.

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Near-death experiences are being taken so seriously that tests are now being carried out in the cardiac units of hospitals around southern England.

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Objects are being hidden high out of patients' view. And if those who've been near-death can later describe the objects,

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it follows they must have left their bodies.

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It lasted for decades. It became a national legend. And investigating it was the case of a lifetime for Harry Price,

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Ghostbuster Supreme. Bollie Rectory in the tiny East Anglian hamlet whose name it bears,

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was once known as the most haunted house in England. Many people, five successive rectors, their wives and families,

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neighbours and visitors all apparently saw things there. And the legend lives on.

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I've been involved with Bollie for over 40 years, 27 years as editor of the local paper.

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And in every year of those 40 years, something has been reported as happening at Bollie.

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There's nothing there. There's no shop. There's no pub. In fact, the last place that you'd expect to see a streaming business.

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So how and why has the quiet of the English countryside been so disrupted?

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Ever since Bollie Rectory was built in 1863, reports have abounded of strange whispering, a ghostly presence and mysterious so-called accidents.

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It all began with the daughters of the first vicar and a truly haunting vision.

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At the end of the garden, they saw a figure, its head bowed as if in prayer.

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One of the sisters stepped forward, but as she did, it seemed to vanish into thin air.

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Peter Underwood, who's been investigating Bollie for 40 years, recalls meeting the sisters.

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They were much-travelled and intelligent and educated people. They weren't fools, and they certainly wouldn't allow themselves to make stories up to impress other people.

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The legend established claims continued of strange happenings at Bollie Rectory.

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Two decades later, it was the turn of the reverend Eric Smith and his wife.

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They described more voices, footsteps and servant bells ringing of their own accord.

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Then, while tidying and cupboard, Mrs Smith made a gruesome discovery, wrapped in brown paper, a skull.

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Beginning to doubt their sanity, the Smiths asked a national newspaper to investigate.

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This story could run and run. It seems everyone around here has seen or heard of something.

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Harry Price. You mean the psychic expert?

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The newspaper called in the ghostbusting services of Harry Price.

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The reverend Smith and Mrs Smith.

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Harry was a former engineer who's married to a rich wife meant he could spend his time and her money delving into the paranormal.

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Mostly, he set out to expose psychic frauds. But were the events the Smiths described a fraud?

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And you see, you cut the wires and the bells still ring.

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If he had any doubts about Bollie, Harry Price soon experienced strange events at first hand.

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Did you see that?

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It came from upstairs, but there's no one there.

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Harry and the reporter had a narrow escape from a flying candlestick.

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But there was something of the showman in Harry Price too.

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He left his paranormal collection to London University.

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Alan Wesemcraft, who looks after it, met the man himself.

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I think Harry Price's enthusiasm did lead him into making exaggerated claims.

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He's had a fertile imagination and this would take charge, I suppose.

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Harry Price told his story to the world, but the Smiths had had enough. They moved out.

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Several vickers turned down the job before a new one could be found.

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The reverend Lionel Algernon Feuster was old enough to be the father of his wife, Marianne.

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Lovely day and the lavender looks beautiful.

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Yes, it is a nice day, isn't it?

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Quite quiet around here after London, though, don't you find?

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Life in this backwater was hardly her style, but the paranormal events were.

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The poor girl really craved something a little bit more exciting.

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And she found excitement, I think, by playing up the idea of the horns.

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Lionel, look at this.

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What is it?

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Pebbles under my pillow. How dirty they get there. You must write this up in your diary.

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Suspisions that the old vicker was fooled by his wife might have been justified.

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First my collar, which I'd taken off for comfort, is thrown at me.

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Then a stick and a piece of coal thrown across the room.

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But what about the testimony of independent witnesses?

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A local headmaster and magistrate, Gaila Strange, wrote about taking tea with the foisters.

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The other day, the servants' bells started to ring all on their own.

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What was that?

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Jumping up, I hurried to the door and found the floor outside littered with broken crockery.

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It's starting to happen all over again.

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Mary!

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Yes, will you see, you can never tell what's going to happen in this house.

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Still a sharp tea while our cups are still intact.

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Still not fully convinced, the magistrate returned to his seat.

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No sooner had he done so.

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An appalling series of crashes took us back to the doorway.

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And this time Gaila Strange couldn't believe his eyes.

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Bottles were being hurled about in all directions in the hall, though nobody could be seen throwing them.

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Good God!

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When the foisters left, Harry Price's big moment arrived.

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He took a year's lease on the rectory and moved in.

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He placed an advertisement in the Times, inviting people of leisure and intellect to assist in his investigation.

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Charles Wintour, later a distinguished newspaper editor, was one of those who took up the invitation.

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I went to the board of rectory with an entirely open mind.

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I was just curious what was happening there.

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I was convinced that Harry Price was egging it up a bit.

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There was something occurring, but he was making it more so.

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I'll get a proposition.

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Let's have a look in here.

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Yes, this looks interesting. I think you can seal this one up.

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In order to make certain that nobody was interfering with the house,

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we would place cotton thread across the doors and across the passages so that nobody could sneak up.

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When they returned, they found the seals intact.

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But on inspecting the rooms, Charles Wintour and his friend found marks had appeared.

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On the walls, scratches and indecipherable messages.

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On one occasion, I thought one of the pencil marks was actually moving as I saw it.

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It seemed mad, but I think that's what I saw at the time.

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Harry Price reaped the rewards of his research.

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His findings were published in best-selling books.

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BALL ERECTORY became famous as the most haunted house in England.

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Until one night, there was a fire.

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The rectory was reduced to a ruin.

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Arson was suspected but could never be proved.

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With the rectory gone, the haunting was thought to be over.

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In any case, for many, Harry Price's exaggerations and Marianne Foistar's confessions,

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made to investigators like Peter Underwood, had discredited the story.

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But was there still more to it?

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There were things going on at BALL ERECTORY long before Marianne wasn't there.

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There were things going on at BALL ERECTORY long before Harry Price went there.

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And there were things happening at BALL ERECTORY long after Marianne left

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and long after Harry Price was dead.

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The new vicar buried bones found during the rectory demolition

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and began to claim new happenings across the road at BALL ERECTORY church itself.

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He was the one more than anyone else who moved the ghost from one side of the road to the other.

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He was the man who said, you know, that strange things are happening in my church.

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I've seen things in my church. I've heard things in my church.

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And because he was the vicar or the rector, people believed him.

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It's in the medieval church that Ron Russell and other psychic investigators

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have continued Harry Price's work.

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One night, he and a small team set up tape recorders there.

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To our surprise, we received a series of strange, unaccountable noises on the tapes.

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I've no doubt in my own mind that these sounds were paranormal.

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And the stories of unexplained incidents continue.

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I just heard what sounded like an organ playing from inside the church.

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But as we went in the church, it suddenly stopped.

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To our utter amazement, there was not a soul in the church.

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The organ console was closed and padlocked.

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Once we were inside the church, we carried on looking round.

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When I was aware of the sound of pebbles falling down on the ground,

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I looked, but I couldn't actually see any pebbles.

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Like all the other claims surrounding Borley over the years,

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there is an explanation, but an incomplete one.

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Some local boys confessed that they'd been hiding in the church.

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One had pumped the organ up and the other had played a few bars

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and they'd then died behind the pears.

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Since then, in recent times, the church has been locked

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and still people are saying they're hearing the organ.

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What do you make of that?

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Harry Price died nine years after Borley Rectory was destroyed.

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Almost immediately, books were published tearing his work to shreds.

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But expert opinion is divided.

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Though they agree his claims were exaggerated, many still back him.

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And to this day, a special library is dedicated to him at London University.

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And of course, Harry, wherever he is now, can't be accused of interfering

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in events since his death.

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At least not if he's sitting in one of these.

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Good night.