Evelyn Hollow
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He wrote several books about Boreley Rectory.
They were the Da Vinci Code of their time.
So this structure was built in 1862.
There was a previous structure on the grounds that had burnt down during a fire.
Now, we know that there's no convent on the ground, so why is there a nun?
But it is, after all, a rectory.
It is connected to a church, so who's to say that, you know, a nun or nuns, plural, haven't visited?
And then the next question is, why the carriage being pulled by headless horsemen?
That's the sort of thing we would expect to see in old Irish mythology.
You have the Dullahan, who is the headless horseman.
When we think of things like Sleepy Hollow, the Johnny Depp film, with the headless horseman, that's where that comes from.
It's not something we would expect to see in this era in this part of England.
But there are lots of incidents in this case that can't be explained simply by groaning noises or the structure of the house.
We've got that a visiting friend claimed to have seen a phantom carriage sweep down the adjoining lane.
One of Henry's daughters saw a man standing by her bed and she was so scared that she insisted in sharing a bed with her sister every single night from then on.
We've also got that every night afterwards, between 9 and 10 o'clock at night, the girls would always hear three raps on their bedroom door and when they opened it...