| Show New book series 9 Haunted houses murdered lovers and other mysteries of the unknown Jon Morrison Staff Writer B BUILT across the road from the twelfth century Borley Church the Borley Rectory in Essex England was just your typical century clergyman clergyman clergyman cler cler- gyman living establishment with a few exceptions The phantom coach drawn by two headless horses horses horses hor hor- ses and driven by two headless ghosts a nun who would appear and disappear in broad daylight and the audible whisperings of tormented souls were some of the more notable exceptions The Most Haunted House in England by the famous English Harry Price Pricer chronicles his ten year investigation into the legends and bizarre occurrences occurrences occurrences oc oc- oc- oc at the house That according to one psychic was inhabited by as many as 18 disembodied disembodied disembodied bodied spirits Another psychic correctly predicted the fire that destroyed the rectory in 1939 alleging th that t she received the message in a s ance and that one of the ghosts had done it to expose the evil that had taken place in earlier times According to legend a nun and a laymen had fallen in love and had decided to elope The young lovers were caught the laymen and his driver were decap decapitated and the nun was bricked up alive The site of the rectory was also the site of a fourteenth century monastery that was victimized by a brutal slaughter of several monks Many other legends surround the area dating back to the time of th the e Cel Celts ts The Most Haunted House in England is just on of the books available through Time-Life's Time new series The Collectors Collector's Library o of f the This series goes far beyond Times Time's popular Mysteries of the Unknown series The CLU series offers original books on spiritualism ESP UFOs UFO's psychic and of course ghosts The series includes books such as Harry Houdini's A Magician Among the Spirits The Edge of the Unknown by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Author of Sherlock Holmes and The UFO Experience by J. J Allen Hynek the man who was in charge of the US Air Force Project Blue Book Many Voices by Ellen J. J Garret is the autobiography of a psychic medium while Louisa Rhine leads you through the Hidden Channels of the Mind The CLU series requires the reader to have a serious interest or belief in the unknown because unlike the Mysteries o of f the Unknown these books are not written objectively Most of the books in the series were written in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century when spiritualism was at its peak Each book is a hard-bound hard unabridged copy of f the original book and with shipping and handling handling handling han han- costs about 23 a book |
