Danny Robbins
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They suggest to Lymore getting that other Harry back, Harry Price.
Price takes the call and he's delighted to get a chance to investigate the house again.
So on 13th October 1931, the great Harry Price returns to Borley Rectory, this time accompanied by members of his group, the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.
Marianne Foister is feeling poorly that first evening when they arrive and soon after dinner, she faints and is taken to bed.
As Harry's team prepare to investigate, suddenly a claret bottle is thrown down the stairs, smashing in the kitchen below.
Bells ring by themselves again, pebbles rain down the stairs, and they hear a cry from Marianne's room.
They find her bedroom door is mysteriously locked and can only, it seems, be opened by the power of prayer.
Marianne, exhausted, begs Lionel to send their guests away.
The next morning, Harry Price returns to the rectory to give Lionel his conclusions, fully expecting Price to be astounded by the previous night's events.
Lionel is speechless when Harry instead announces that he believes the phenomena the previous evening was trickery, fake activity staged and orchestrated by a human hand, and that the culprit...
is Lionel's wife, Marianne.
What the flip is going on here.
Evelyn, it's a mic drop moment from Harry, isn't it?
Do we feel this is an unfair accusation towards Marianne or does he have a point here?
We were talking about the couple earlier, how they were potentially controversial figures in this area.
For anybody who's read about Borley, and there's lots of interesting books out there.
There's a great book by the writer Sean O'Connor that came out a couple of years ago.
If you read those kind of books, you will know that she is a really controversial figure.
So you feel she could be being demonised here, potentially?
Right, it's interesting.