Harry Price was born in 1881 and later became a British psychic researcher and author, fueled by early boyhood experiences with poltergeist activity. By all accounts, he appeared as a short, bald, arrogant man who would introduce himself to complete strangers by asking them if they had read his latest book; he wrote 12.
In 1922, he successfully exposed the spirit photographer William Hope as a fraud. In 1925, thanks to the London Spiritualist Alliance, he founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, that aimed “to investigate in a dispassionate manner and by purely scientific means every phase of psychic or alleged psychic phenomena.” He was also appointed foreign research officer to the American Society for Psychical Research, though this organization usually considered him to be a fake.
He became famous during his investigation of Borley Rectory that was built by the essentric clergyman Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull in 1863 for Borley Church. In 1863, the first paranormal events were documented. People began hearing phantom footsteps throughout the house, but no one was able to find the cause. On July 28, 1900, the first written record of a Lady in White was mentioned. She was believed to be the ghost of a nun who had eloped with a bishop, but was found and returned to the building where she was murdered for her “crime.” Soon after, visitors reported seeing a ghostly coach driven by two headless men pull up the the Rectory. Henry died in 1892, and his son, Reverend Harry Bull moved into the house. In 1927, he died and the next year, Reverend Guy Eric Smith and his wife moved in. The story goes that his wife was cleaning out a cupboard one day and found a skull in a paper bag. Since then, the family expereinced polterguist activity, such as: bells ringing, windows shattering, phantom footsteps, etc.
