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Despite the Borley haunting being well in
the public eye for over sixty years, there has still not been a
full-length, detailed and accurate documentary made about the 'most
haunted house in England'. Enthusiasts of the case have had to
make do with short Borley-related films which have been included as part
of other paranormal programmes. The two best films are The
Ghost Hunters, made by the BBC in 1975, which included a large
Borley segment, and the 1994 Strange But True? which also covered
the case.
Thanks to the Youtube website which
carries postings of both these programmes, I have been able to link to
them and include both on this page. No copyright infringement is
intended by including these clips on this website.
The Ghost Hunters
(1975)
This is a well respected documentary in
which producer Hugh Burden, a sceptic where the paranormal was
concerned, carried out a series of interviews with both ghost hunters
and people who claimed to have seen ghosts themselves. The main
part of the Borley-related section of the programme is an extended
interview with Peter Underwood which took place at Borley church.
As well as discussing the haunting, Underwood also takes Burden on a
tour around the church where they both listen to a recording of a vigil
held inside the building in the early 1970s by ghost hunter Geoffrey
Croom-Hollingsworth and film cameraman Denny Densham.
The Ghost Hunters - Part 1
The Ghost Hunters - Part 2
Strange But True?
(1994)
In the early 1990s, Michael Aspel hosted a
series of documentaries which looked at various well known and not so
familiar paranormal cases. Each episode covered two separate
topics and included hauntings, premonitions, phantom hitchhikers and
mysterious creatures, and featured reconstructions as well as interviews
with where possible the actual people involved, both witnesses and
investigators. The Borley haunting was included in one programme;
those interviewed included Peter Underwood again, Charles Wintour, one
of Price's Official Observers from the 1937-38 tenancy investigation, and the late Alan Wesencraft, Curator of the Harry Price Collection at the University of
London.
Strange But True
- Part 1
Strange But True
- Part 2
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