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Borley Planchette Transcript

8. Will you please try again? Ind. 9. Will you please try once more? Ind. 10. Are you ever in Borley House? Yes. 11. Do you know Jane? No. 12. Do you know Caldebec? No. 13. Do you know any people called Bull? Yes. 14. Please spell their name? Henry 1. Can we speak to Henry Bull now? Yes. 2. What does Henry say? Ind. 3. Please spell his name? Ind. 4. Mary, are you speaking for Henry? Ind. (Possibly no.) 5. Are you Mary Lairre? (This was crossed out and the planchette wrote - Question me.) 6. Who are you? Henry. 7. Are you happy? No. 8. Who caused you unhappiness? (Uncertain but apparently 'My wife' 9. Do you mean your wife? Yes. 10. Did you know Katie? Yes. 11. Please spell her surname? Boreham 12. What year did she die? 18 8 9 0 13. Please try again. 1888 1. Can you tell us the month? April 2. Where did Katie Boreham die? Kitchen 3. From what? Child 4. Was the child's father there? Yes. 5. Have you written on the walls? No. 6. Who did? Harry 7. Do you know Mary the Nun? Ye or no (hesitant) 8. Do you know Caldebec? No. 10. Do you know Henry? Yes. 9. Do you know Jane? No. 11. Where are you now? Borley 12. Do you know about the latin message? Yes 1. Will you write the first word of the latin message? Ind. 2. Can you spell each letter alone in english? Ind. 3. Do you mean you don't know what the message is? Yes. 4. What is your wife's name? Jane. 5. What was her maiden Name? Brackenbu 6. When were you married, the date? 1899 or 1889 7. Where? Borley 1. Will you repeat the date you were married. Important. 1889 2. In which month? March 3. Which day of the month? 13. 4. Which day of the week? Friday. 5. Do you mean Friday? Yes.

“Ind.” = “Indecipherable”

“The Alleged Haunting of Borley Rectory,” The Planchette Scripts, pg. 7, Book 22, Box 3, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

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