Borley Rectory—myth vs reality. Let's settle this once and for all

I've been researching Borley Rectory for my dissertation (paranormal history, not as serious as it sounds) and I'm genuinely frustrated by how much of the "haunting" has been debunked or exaggerated. Harry Price was a brilliant investigator but also a showman who needed sensational stories to sell books. The poltergeist phenomena? Could've been the residents themselves, or rats in the walls, or just old house creaks.

BUT - and this is important - there's still genuinely unexplained stuff. The automatic writing, the consistent witness testimony from multiple independent sources, the documented incidents that even sceptical investigators couldn't explain away. So what's the truth? Is Borley a genuine haunting with some embellishment, or is it mostly Victorian hysteria and attention-seeking?

Proper discussion welcome. No "it's all made up" dismissals without evidence, and no "every incident definitely happened" claims without sources. Let's actually think about this.

The problem with Borley is we're working with Harry Price's notes as the primary source, and Price had a vested interest in sensationalism. That's not me dismissing the location - that's acknowledging that our evidence is filtered through someone with commercial motivations. We need to strip away Price and look at what locals actually reported before he showed up.

Proper discussion welcome. No "it's all made up" dismissals without evidence

I've visited Borley multiple times (there's not much left but the land is definitely eerie) and I felt something. Whether that something was genuinely paranormal or my own psychological response to the location's reputation, I honestly can't say. The location has presence though, undeniably.

The automatic writing stuff really intrigues me. Even if you dismiss 90% of the Borley phenomena, you've still got multiple instances of educated people producing writing they claimed was outside their conscious control. That's worth investigating properly instead of just handwaving it away.

Borley is the perfect case study for how folklore develops. The more people talk about it, the more "evidence" appears. It's a feedback loop. Doesn't mean nothing happened - just means we can't trust the narrative anymore. The building's gone now anyway, so we'll never know for certain.