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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm editor Candice Keene. You're joined by fellow editor Katie Lambert.

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Speaker 1: Hello Candice, Hi Katie, I see you have a piece

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Speaker 1: of correspondence in your hand I do. It's from Vince

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Speaker 1: in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and he had a suggestion for us,

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Speaker 1: which actually he titled a burning question and it says, Hi, there,

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Speaker 1: Candice and Jane. I am a fervent listener of your podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I have noticed Candice's pensiant for the macab I

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Speaker 1: thought of a cool topic for your podcast, the Boardly

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Speaker 1: Rectory in England. I remember reading about it in a

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Speaker 1: book when I was in grade school and being utterly terrified.

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Speaker 1: I severely enjoy your well researched and thoughtfully recorded podcasts,

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Speaker 1: so I know you will enjoy this topic. And we

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Speaker 1: like that you severely enjoy this How could we say no?

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Speaker 1: And again a perfect addition to our Ghost of History

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Speaker 1: multipart series. We were delighted to cover the Boorily Rectory

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Speaker 1: and um before we get into the history of the

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Speaker 1: place that the most haunted house in England, we can

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Speaker 1: start with the basics defining rectory, for instance, which is

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Speaker 1: the residence of a clergyman. And if you're anything like me,

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Speaker 1: your interests may be piqued by the fact that a clergyman,

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Speaker 1: a man of the cloth, the man of God, would

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Speaker 1: be so spooked by a ghost. It just doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: to add up, But in fact there were several clergymen

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Speaker 1: who were scared off by the notorious ghost of the

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Speaker 1: Boily Rectory. And as I understand the diverging tales of

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Speaker 1: the house, this is either going to be a ghost

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Speaker 1: story about forbidden love or ghost story about spousal abuse.

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Speaker 1: And will start with the legend that the Boiley Rectory

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Speaker 1: was built where a monastery used to be, and in

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth century a monk and a nun tried to

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Speaker 1: elope together, but they were caught and he was hanged,

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Speaker 1: and she worthy of an Edgar Allen po tail was

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Speaker 1: bricked up within the convent where she died, and the

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Speaker 1: Boardly Rectory was built on this place in eighteen sixty

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Speaker 1: three for the Reverend Henry Bowl, who actually somewhat enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the hauntings and built a summer house so he could

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Speaker 1: watch where the nun was supposed to walk while he

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Speaker 1: was smoking his cigars. And while the Bull family didn't

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Speaker 1: mind the nun's ghost so much, others were really frightened

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Speaker 1: by her. Her face would sometimes appear in windows, and

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Speaker 1: in broad daylight. And when Henry's son Harry took over

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Speaker 1: at the rectory, the hauntings increased and she was seeing

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Speaker 1: more frequently, and there were more strange noises and and

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Speaker 1: haunting like things of this sort. The Bulls weren't particularly

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Speaker 1: um he used a whip on his parishioners, and um

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Speaker 1: that he possibly was involved with a Dahlia in a

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Speaker 1: the Blue room of the Boily Rectory, which then became

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Speaker 1: known as one of the most haunted places within the house.

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Speaker 1: So it seems like the ghosts are multiplying in fact,

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Speaker 1: And in nineteen twenty seven, the Reverend Eric Smith took

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Speaker 1: the afore mentioned Harry Price, to determine whether the hauntings

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Speaker 1: set up this character for you because he is such

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Speaker 1: a character. He was known for being a prankster and

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Speaker 1: showing off with his parlor tricks, and he would perform

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Speaker 1: bluff him. So, in a time when people were capitalizing

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Speaker 1: off wartime tragedy to make money by climbing they could

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Speaker 1: June nineteen twenty he was elected to Society for Psychical Research.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to make the business more honest. He wanted

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Speaker 1: saw a stranger in the top hat. And when Harry

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Speaker 1: Price came in June of nine nine, he called the

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Speaker 1: day sixteen hours of thrills. That was a direct quote.

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Speaker 1: up the polter geists for sure. And he arrived on

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Speaker 1: because of the violence inflicted on poor Marianne. These events

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Speaker 1: and he advertised in the local newspaper for help conducting

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Speaker 1: and Katie to death. Really, here we go, Haunted House colon.

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Speaker 1: Responsible persons of leisure and intelligence, intrepid, critical and unbiased

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Speaker 1: Night and Day Investigation of alleged Haunted House and home Counties.

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Speaker 1: the bones of Arabella Waldgrave or Murray Lair. And they

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Speaker 1: not supposedly. Even today, there is still supernatural phenomena observed

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Speaker 1: And even when the house was being demolished, Life photographers

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