I’m going to introduce overlapping theories concerning Borley Rectory’s cold spots somewhat quickly so please hold onto your hats.
If you have browsed through the unfinished “Haunted Borley Rectory: Do you see what I see?”, hopefully you at least got the gist that I think that Borley’s ghost nun was repeatedly charading her memories of the last days of her tragically ended life in various ways. The Rectory’s cold spots may have related to her tragedy in the following way.
The cold spots were basically vertically aligned to each other over three floors in the Rectory, the lowest known point of this column being some sinking ground in a corner of the cellar. I now suspect that the sinking ground was what was left of an abandoned well in the Rectory area mentioned by Mr. Andrew Clarke near the bottom of page.
Given the cold spot phenomena was related to this sinking ground, I also suspect that if this sinking area was an abandoned well then it was was possibly the well that Borley’s nun “fell” into. Given the sinking ground was actually the lowest point of the cold spot, I now regard the Rectory’s cold spots as possibly the ghost nun’s way of psychically letting certain people experience her persisting memory of the cold water that she may have fallen into in the well shaft.
The point of suggesting such cold spot “mechanics” is that I presume that this cold column was not only present before the Rectory was built anyway but I have no reason to believe that this mysterious cold column disappeared when the Rectory burned down and was subsequently demolished.
Consider that there is now a concrete drive that goes right through the area where the Rectory used to be. If the cold column survived the Rectory, is there a curious patch of grass somewhere along this concrete drive where the morning dew takes longer to evaporate than the area around it? Or perhaps if one was walking across the yard on a summer evening, would one suddenly see one’s own breath if one stepped into the cold spot? Perhaps someone has already questioned why snow perhaps takes longer to melt at one particular spot near the drive after a light snowfall?
Indeed, with respect to the alleged cold spot, note that Ivy and Constance Bull hid the cream from Harry Bull at the cold spot in the cellar as the bottom part of this page shows.
The question, however, is did the cream really last longer at this spot? If not, this would suggest the cold spots were only perceived as being cold because of a psychic experience. On the other hand...
Also, maybe the “right” people need to be present for unusual things like i just suggested to happen. Indeed, I think that the increase in paranormal activity that allegedly took place at the Rectory when the Foysters lived there was because an excited ghost nun was perhaps trying to tell the world that she was just like Marianne Foyster in many ways.