Danny Robbins

Then, in 1932, the Foysters are contacted by a group of spiritualists who offer to help, led by the brilliantly named Guy Lestrange, literally Guy the Strange.

The group of mediums hold a seance and claim to make contact with the spirit of the famous poorly nun.

Lestrange claims that the nun was walled up alive, dying from starvation, and says that he has helped her spirit to move on.

The next morning, incredibly, all the paranormal activity at the rectory seems to cease.

The Foysters live at Borley for another three years until Lionel's continued ill health finally causes them to leave.

And Borley Rectory stands empty once more.

It is just too tempting for a certain individual who has had a very large hand in building this house's reputation.

Harry Price seizes his chance and is granted permission to rent the house for a year.

At last, his investigation into Borley Rectory can recommence 24-7.

But he's going to need help.

So in May 1937, he places a classified advert in the Times newspaper, asking for volunteers to investigate Borley.

48 candidates sign up.

Working in shifts, they spend many nights at the rectory, alone and in complete darkness, jotting down everything that they see.

Though the activity is not as intense as during the foister's time there, they diligently report unexplained noises, objects seemingly moving by themselves, and cold spots throughout the house.

The walls of the rectory are still littered with those alleged ghostly messages from the foister years, that writing on the walls, which has never been erased.

And the researchers discover that if they respond to the writing by posing their own questions beneath it, the spirits will seemingly eventually reply.

Some of the researchers organise a series of seances with immediate and spectacular results.

They call forth the spirit of Henry Bull, the original director, Harry Bull's father, who first built the house, remember.

In a seance, it seems that he confesses to the death of a maid.

They then say that they speak to that dead maid, who says that she was impregnated by Henry and murdered by him.