My name is Ian Jarvis, a firefighter living in West Yorkshire, and the following happened
in the early summer of 83 or 84.
A friend and I were visiting close to Borley and, knowing something of its paranormal
history, we called early one morning to take a look around the church and what then remained of
the rectory site. On driving up the lane we found a large coach filling the patch of gravel that
passes for a car park and a group of Americans on a tour of haunted Britain being escorted into
the building. The tour guides turned out to be - of all people - Ed and Lorraine Warren (of
Amitiville fame) and, out of curiosity, we tagged on behind and listened to their lecture.
After Mrs Warren had narrated the Borley story and the party had dispersed to explore
and take photographs we began chatting and found her to be a very pleasant lady. As we were
talking a shout suddenly went up from one of the younger men (the one in the photo) who had
spotted a coin only a couple of yards from our feet gleaming in the morning sunlight that streamed
through the church windows. It lay to our left, in the centre of the red aisle carpet - a spot where
neither of the Warrens had been and a spot which I can definitely vouch had been empty only
moments before.
It was an old halfpenny, something I personally hadn't seen for over a decade since they
were withdrawn from circulation in Britain when we changed over to decimal money in the early
seventies. Mrs Warren picked it up (it felt cold, I seem to remember) and claimed it was a sign
from Harry Price and that she could feel his presence in the church. This was rather creepy as, on
looking at the date, we found it to be 1940 - the same date Price published his famous book.
If anyone knows of other psychics handling the coin or whatever became of it after this photograph, please drop me a line at ian@jarvis100.screaming.net