The diocesan Bishop then joined two parishes so that a new rector would have no need to live in the haunted house. In the summer of 1937 the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation took the place for twelve months, and during that period a body of observer maintained a day-and-night vigil with remarkable results.
Mr. Price produced the rector's diary. The writer, here called for convenience "Mr. Robinson," came to the house in October, 1930. At once the trouble started. The rector's wife thought that she heard him calling her name, "Marianne dear"; on several occasions people—including a workman in the house—heard the sound of footsteps Then Mrs. Robinson declared that she saw the apparition of a former rector—who had died in the house—wearing a peculiar coloured dressing-gown. Both Mr. Robinson and his wife noticed certain smells, one "wonderfully delicate" like lavender: an odd odour of cooking would come through the bedroom window between 11 and 12 at night; crockery would disappear and reappear; old books were thrown about mysteriously; bells that had been disconnected rang suddenly in disused bedrooms.
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