On one occasion, the Rev. Henning and his wife, and Mark Kerr-Pearse conducted a seance in the Rectory and in response, there came from the direction of the kitchen a series of thumping noises which proceeded along the passageway towards the Base Room (library), where the seance sitters were, but as they stood up to see what might be causing the noise, it stopped.

During Kerr-Pearse's sojourn at the Rectory, he found a piece of rotten timber in one of the fireplaces, the odd thing being that whereas the chimney was badly in need of sweeping, there was no trace of soot on the piece of wood.

Mark Kerr-Pearse was also, once, locked in the library. He was alone in the house but fortunately, the key was on the inside, otherwise he would have had to decamp via the French windows.

About this time, there was a repetition of the noise heard by the Coopers in the stable cottage during the First World War, namely a tremendous crash, as of pots and pans or crockery being thrown around or smashed.

Another odd occurrence concerned the installation of an electrical contact breaker which had been made by Doctor H.F. Bellamy. It was placed on the dining room mantelpiece, beneath some books and was so designed that if anything on it was moved, a bell would ring. The operation of this gadget was carefully checked and the books put in place, after which it was left untouched while Dr. Bellamy and those accompanying him moved off to examine the rest of the Rectory. At about ten to one in the early morning, they were disturbed from resting in the Blue Room, by the response unit's bell ringing. The sound stopped suddenly before they could reach the dining room, but when they entered they found that the books had all been moved, one of them right off the contact. What was even more odd was that with the contact upset by the moving of the books the bell should have kept ringing. Instead, it stopped quite suddenly.

It may interest readers to learn that there had been more than one occasion on which there has been odd interference with electrical equipment during investigations at Borley.

I have learned of two such incidents that occurred long after all trace of the Rectory itself had vanished, and were it not for this fact, the reader could well be forgiven for thinking that Dr. Bellamy's contact breaker was malfunctioning. In 1961, during an investigation at Borley, both battery torches and car headlamps all failed without obvious cause. More recently, during an investigation involving the adjacent church, a tape recorder cut out of its own acord. On one occasion just after the war, a motorbike rider passing the Rectory corner, had his engine cut out. Upon checking to see the reason, he found that something had turned off the ignition.