Was Borley Rectory Really the Most Haunted House in England?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tucked away in Suffolk, more than 60 miles from London, the tiny village of Borley is a 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' spot on the map of the UK countryside. Yet despite its size, this little community was infamous for being home to one of England's most haunted places: the Borley Rectory. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel discover the murky origins of the Rectory... and how one controversial man may have created the legend out of whole cloth.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.5 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.9 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.0 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:31.6 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:36.0 | Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes |
| 0:39.6 | this the stuff they don't want you to know. And what better way to get into this than a classic |
| 0:47.4 | piece of what I would call internet folklore at this time. You guys remember Riker from Star Trek the next generation? Which one was he? Did he? Number two, the one with the bearded man? He was the bearded man. Sometimes he had a beard. Yeah, he looked. Jonathan Frakes. Yes. Frakes? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, so there's this great clip. While you're tuning in with us on Netflix or your podcast platform of choice, get yourself |
| 1:14.1 | over to YouTube. |
| 1:15.2 | There is this fascinating, hilarious compilation of Riker of Freaks from various introses to |
| 1:24.9 | an unexplained paranormal phenomenon show he did. |
| 1:29.0 | And the funny one, the pro tip is some genius on YouTube slowed down his speed of recording. |
| 1:37.1 | So the compilation of him introducing everything with a question sounds like a drunk guy at a bar so he's walking around like |
| 1:45.9 | hey what's the tallest man you've ever seen do you like to go all wandering right yeah or very stoned |
| 1:54.0 | right yeah another uh version of that is the nil de grass tyson comes off that way if you slow him down |
| 2:00.5 | significantly and unrelated to fracas but um there's another great that is Neil deGrasse Tyson comes off that way if you slow him down significantly. |
| 2:01.7 | And unrelated to Freikus, but there's another great YouTube compilation of Star Trek clips |
| 2:06.8 | where they're like supposed to be being thrown around by space, you know, collisions. |
| 2:12.0 | But someone has like taken after effects and image stabilized all the footage. |
| 2:16.1 | So it just looks like actors just flinging |
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