Danny Robbins

It's dirty, disgusting, infested with rats and death beetles.

So Mabel rolls her sleeves up and gets tidying.

Whilst cleaning out a cupboard in the rectory's library, she discovers a pile of rubbish.

And amongst it...

A human skull, later identified as a young woman.

And then, in the cellar, amidst some empty wine bottles, she finds a small bottle labelled poison.

It's not a great start, but things soon get worse.

At night, she and Eric hear heavy, muffled footsteps outside their bedroom.

One afternoon, whilst alone, Eric hears whispering above him as he walks from the master bedroom onto the landing.

The whispers seem to follow him.

Suspecting a prank played by some locals who've broken in, he waits on the landing, armed with a hockey stick.

The whispering begins again, but when he rushes out swinging, no one is there.

One evening, alone in the house, Mabel hears the gate open.

She looks out and sees what appears to be two headlamps and the outline of a carriage in the drive, though it makes no sound on the gravel.

And this is not the only thing that sounds horribly reminiscent of what the Bull family experienced.

Because those old servants' bells start ringing constantly throughout the house.

In frustration, Eric cuts many of the wires, yet the bells continue to sound.

After just six months at Bally Rectory, worn down, Eric and Mabel no longer think that their maid was crazy for running away.

In fact, that is what they try to do now.

asking the church authorities if they can move parish, but their request is denied.