Título: Harry Price
Seção: Borley Rectory
Background: Although Price claimed his birth was in Shropshire he was actually born in London in Red Lion Square on the site of the South Place Ethical Society's Conway Hall. He was educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School. At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic Society and wrote plays, including a drama, about his early experience with a poltergeist which he said took place at a haunted manor house in Shropshire. According to Richard Morris, in his recent biography Harry Price:

Conteúdo: Price was most famous for his investigation into the Borley Rectory, Essex. The building became known as "the most haunted house in England" after Price published a book about it in 1940. He documented a series of alleged hauntings from the time the rectory was built in 1863. He lived in the rectory from May 1937 to May 1938 and wrote of his experiences in the book.  The psychical researcher John L. Randall wrote there was direct evidence of "dirty tricks" played upon Price by members of the SPR. On 9 October 1931, a past president of the SPR William Henry Salter visited the Borley Rectory in an attempt to persuade the Rector Lionel Foyster, to sever his links with Price and work with the SPR instead. After Price's death in 1948 Eric Dingwall, Kathleen M. Goldney, and Trevor H. Hall, three members of the Society for Psychical Research, two of whom had been Price's most loyal associates, investigated his claims about Borley. Their findings were published in a 1956 book, The Haunting of Borley Rectory, which concluded Price had fraudulently produced some of the phenomena.  The "Borley Report", as the SPR study has become known, stated that many of the phenomena were either faked or due to natural causes such as rats and the strange acoustics attributed to the odd shape of the house. In their conclusion, Dingwall, Goldney, and Hall wrote "when analysed, the evidence for haunting and poltergeist activity for each and every period appears to diminish in force and finally to vanish

user: Is Borley Rectory a place?

assistant: Price was most famous for his investigation into the Borley Rectory, Essex. The building became known as "the most haunted house in England"

user: How did he become aware of this building?

assistant: Price published a book about it in 1940. He documented a series of alleged hauntings from the time the rectory was built in 1863. He lived in the rectory

user: What type of hauntings did he experience?

assistant: He lived in the rectory from May 1937 to May 1938 and wrote of his experiences in the book.

user: What can you tell me about the hauntings?

assistant: The psychical researcher John L. Randall wrote there was direct evidence of "dirty tricks" played upon Price by members of the SPR.

user: What kind of dirty tricks?

assistant: William Henry Salter visited the Borley Rectory in an attempt to persuade the Rector Lionel Foyster, to sever his links with Price and work with the SPR instead.

user: What is SPR?

assistant: the Society for Psychical Research,

user: Is there evidence that the hauntings were fake?

assistant: three members of the Society for Psychical Research, two of whom had been Price's most loyal associates, investigated his claims about Borley.

user: What were the findings?

assistant: Their findings were published in a 1956 book, The Haunting of Borley Rectory, which concluded Price had fraudulently produced some of the phenomena.

user: Did he do this for money?

assistant: Price's literary executor Paul Tabori and Peter Underwood have also defended Price against accusations of fraud.