The Original Ghost Hunter: The Terrifying Cases That Made Harry Price Famous – Page 2

As he grew older, he became convinced that many mediums and spiritualists claiming to communicate with the dead were actually con artists.

And Harry Price made it his mission to expose them.

The Spirit Photographer Who Fooled Thousands

One of Price’s most famous investigations involved a man named William Hope.

Hope claimed he could photograph the dead.

Grieving families paid money to sit for photographs. When the pictures were developed, mysterious ghostly figures supposedly appeared beside them.

Many people believed the images proved life after death.

Harry Price wasn’t convinced.

In 1922, he secretly marked photographic plates before a session with Hope.

When the photographs were developed, Price discovered that the original plates had been switched.

The ghost images had been prepared in advance.

Price publicly accused Hope of fraud.

The scandal exploded across Britain.

Some praised Price as a hero who protected vulnerable families.

Others accused him of attacking people’s faith.

The controversy made him famous overnight.

Nothing, however, would make Harry Price more famous than one terrifying location.

Borley Rectory.

A large Victorian building in the English countryside.

Locals claimed strange things had happened there for decades.

They reported ghostly footsteps.

Unexplained voices.

Objects moving on their own.

And most chilling of all…

The apparition of a nun silently walking across the grounds at night.

Stories spread so rapidly that the building gained a reputation as the most haunted house in England.

When Harry Price heard the rumors, he knew he had to investigate.

Price arrived at Borley Rectory in 1929.

According to reports, strange events began almost immediately.

Stones appeared to fly through rooms.