, bells which rang even after wires were cut, crashes, and heavy footsteps in empty areas of the building. Initially, much of this centred – as so often in poltergeist cases – on their young daughter, Ethel, whose door was singled out for rapping each night, and who once had her face slapped as she lay in bed. In 1886 a new nursemaid, Elizabeth Byford, initially made light of the supposedly haunted room allotted to her. But around two weeks later she woke at midnight to the sound of slippered footsteps outside her door, and presently gave notice. The Bull family did not scare easily. The first Henry Bull kept up his duties until his death in May 1892, and was immediately succeeded by his son, Henry Foyster Bull, who held the living until he died in June 1927. Henry Foyster seems outwardly to have been a jovial, energetic figure, who liked running between church and Rectory on sermon days. He did not sound like the kind of person fond of imagining ghosts; and the same probably went for his dog, Juvenal. Yet out in the garden one day, the retriever began howling and cowering at something behind the fruit trees. Following the dog's gaze, Bull saw a pair of legs. When these moved out of cover of the foliage, the body){kind=link}
Borley Rectory in Suffolk is known as one of England’s most haunted buildings with tales of spooks including a headless horseman, a nun and a poltergeist which attacked a child
Ghostly tales from a building known as England’s most haunted house tell of a spectral nun, an eerie silent coach and horses led by a headless horseman as well as a grumpy poltergeist.
Borley Rectory in Suffolk earned the moniker after a number of terrifying encounters reported over nearly 200 years, with the first reported sighting on the grounds coming in 1819. The manor was built between 1862 and 1863 and the large family of the Reverend Henry Dawson Bull were almost immediately disturbed by the sound of rushing water in the house (which had neither mains water nor interior pipes), bells which rang even after wires were cut, crashes, and heavy footsteps in empty areas of the building.
Initially, much of this centred â as so often in poltergeist cases â on their young daughter, Ethel, whose door was singled out for rapping each night, and who once had her face slapped as she lay in bed. In 1886 a new nursemaid, Elizabeth Byford, initially made light of the supposedly haunted room allotted to her. But around two weeks later she woke at midnight to the sound of slippered footsteps outside her door, and presently gave notice.
The Bull family did not scare easily. The first Henry Bull kept up his duties until his death in May 1892, and was immediately succeeded by his son, Henry Foyster Bull, who held the living until he died in June 1927. Henry Foyster seems outwardly to have been a jovial, energetic figure, who liked running between church and Rectory on sermon days.