Danny Robbins

OK, well, let's get this paranormal party started.

We're going to travel back to the 12th of June, 1929, as Harry Price and his secretary, Lucy Kay, set off by road for his first visit to Borley.

A blink and you'll miss it village on the Essex-Suffolk border in the east of England.

Lucy, 27, blonde and stylish, contrasts with 48-year-old Harry, bald, hollow-eyed and constantly puffing away on his pipe.

It's a 60-mile drive from London and they've packed everything they will need for their investigation.

Cameras, a thermometer, notebooks, torches and a bottle of brandy for emergencies.

They have heard stories about the goings-on in Borley that suggest they may need it.

But right now, they're slightly lost, so they stop to ask a local for directions to the rectory.

Oh, he says, looking these foolhardy strangers up and down, you mean the most haunted house in England?

Because rumours have been flying around about Borley Rectory for decades by this point.

It was built in 1863 by the Reverend Henry Bull, a clergyman from an impressively wealthy family.

But a young carpenter working on the build drowned during a lunchtime swim nearby, and the rectory was said to be cursed even before it was finished.

Over the years, further extensions have made the house Warren-like, full of creaking floorboards and shadowy passageways.

Henry Bull had 14 children and a large retinue of servants, but none of them ever felt comfortable there.

Stories circulate of odd things seen and heard, until in 1892, Henry Bull dies, aged just 59, and is succeeded at the parish by his eldest son, Harry Bull, a sporty man fond of amateur boxing.

He lives there with his sisters and on a sunny afternoon in July 1900, three of those Ball sisters are returning from a tennis party.

Entering the garden, one of them stops and points.

Look, there's a nun walking there.

But there's something that feels both sinister and unreal about this dark figure who drifts down the pathway towards them, and the sisters flee to the house in fear.

They're met by a braver sister, Dodie, who goes out to confront the visitor, but as she does so, the nun disappears in front of her.