Borley Rectory - 'The Most Haunted House in England'

My annual Halloween Special - enjoy if you dare!

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[ravismcromarty]

Having once worked as a grave digger and cemetery caretaker I can tell you it's the living not the dead you want to worry about.

[RADIUMGLASS]

I worked at a cemetery which had a crematorium and a mausoleum, and I never experienced anything paranormal. The one thing the cemetery did was it attracted a lot of weird living people.

[Frank-qspe]

You can tell Mark was an 80’s kid. All over the world we had our BMX bikes and we were unstoppable! 👍🏻

[markwilson]

My mum visited the church in the 1950s, with her parents. She said exactly the same.... there was a horrible, oppressive feeling and you felt the need to get out.

[seahamdesigner]

I've never witnessed a Mark Felton Halloween special before, that was a bloody hoot!!!!

[Plysdyret]

I first read about Borley Rectory in a book, I borrowed from the library. I must have been eleven years old. Then I was fascinated!

[Joseph-zsb]

I think it's great to hear Mark talk about he and a friend hopping onto their bikes to ride to see some spooky location. It's something that I did as well when I was that age as well. The States and England may be two nations separated by a common language, but we have more important things in common... teenage boys riding bikes long distances for adventure... the never come again good ol' days.

[antonchristian]

This story has always facinated me, In 1982 I was fortunate enough to visit the church, ( It wasn't kept locked in those days ) Me and a friend camped adjacent to the church grounds in a well hidden place. Through an already broken window we dangled a microphone linked to a cassette player, and recorded, we did pick up some noises from inside, but nothing un-usual. The noises we recorded could easily have been made by some small animal like a mouse etc, We left the following morning a bit dissapointed at not having recorded anything more concrete. Thank you for this post Mark ! I'm a big fan of your WW2 posts. Keep up the great work !

[Angelwing]

I'm not surprised the reverend heard footsteps with 14 kids running around! Great fun and fascinating story. Cheers Mark!

[ThePersian]

Three friends and I did some wild camping there in the mid 90s and camped in a field close to the Church. We got there late evening and left early in the morning, we didn't see one person throughout the whole time we were there. We were daring each other to walk round the church yard after night fell and in the end we all went. I will say, that it was extremely eerie and felt like a void as there was absolutely no sound whatsoever - I also noted what I thought were pillars at the front of the church but upon seeing the church the next morning, there were no pillars or anything like them. I will always remember that night as it was the same night Princess Diana died.

[mithras]

A proper Halloween tale would not be complete without a "case of the willies". Excellent video!

[philliphudson]

14 Kids, that's a nightmare in itself !

[davidsirett]

Mark as soon as you said that Borley rectory had burned down my first thought was to wonder if a planning application to convert the rectory in to flats had been refused.
It's an Essex tradition.

[Jlevin]

Learned about this place from a tv show on NBC when I was about 8 yrs old. I am 68 yrs old now!I have always been fascinated by it and have read a lot about it!

[HurricaneOK]

The kitsch jump-scare sound effects in the Halloween episodes are always perfect. Mark definitely enjoys making these at least as much as I enjoy watching them.

[MrKinglizzie]

I remember back in 1981 reading of this in the "Unexplained" soft cover and the article made it clear that the rectory happenings were fake orchestrated by Pryce. But the church had the genuine hauntings with one team recording rapping, the sounds of a large heavy wooden door squeaking, shutting when no door of that type existed and, a voice like the actor Lee Marvin singing somethin that resembled, "I was born under a Wandering Star". That is what stuck with me all this time.

[whiteonggoy]

Marks Halloween uploads are as regular as dinner for one film at Xmas, something traditional.

[pablojose]

This makes me recall once working on a house years ago. I had to paint the interior in the middle of the night to avoid the other contractors during the day. All week I kept hearing noises and voices and thought I was going crazy. The last night there I called out, "whoever is here show yourself!" Within a split second the only light on in the house burned out. Not the Borley Rectory, a much younger house in the States, but that made me a believer, and I knew I hadn't gone koo koo yet.

[brianmilthorp]

There appears to be a number of "most haunted houses" in England. In 1975 my wife and I stayed at Wymering Manor near Portsmouth when it served as a Youth Hostel. Not knowing of it's reputation we were not visited by unworldly apparitions. Upon subsequently learning of its history, I felt rather disappointed not to have been contacted by its ghosts.

[tonybarrett]

You need to do more of these as a side project Mark, regardless of real or not they have and still play a significant part of our history and culture