Danny Robbins

It has now acquired such a reputation, thanks to the supposedly spectral apparitions and the untimely deaths of both Henry and Harry Bull, that the church cannot easily find enough a vicar to take it over.

And it sits empty for a long time, until the Reverend Eric Smith walks into the picture.

Eric has just moved to England from India, and he's desperate for his own parish.

He's surprised that people aren't competing to take up the post at Borley.

But soon...

He will discover why.

He and his wife Mabel arrive at the rectory along with a maid that they bring with them from London.

On only their third day in Borley, the maid decides to head off for a bike ride around the village.

But minutes later, she is back, hysterical and covered in mud.

She says that she has seen a nun by the front gate and that she could see right through her.

The smiths try and reassure the maid.

She must have imagined it.

But the girl is so terrified, she hands in her notice that day and returns to London.

Eric and Mabel are disappointed in her.

They're well-travelled, well-educated people.

They dismiss her fears as common superstition.

There is no such thing as ghosts, right?

But they've got a problem now.

No maid.

And in the time since Harry's death and Ivy moving out, the rectory has fallen into a terrible state.