Harry Price

Harry Price was a British ghost-hunter, psychic researcher and author who achieved fame through his investigations into paranormal phenomena and for exposing fraudulent mediums.

- Danny Robins

Renowned for his investigation into Borley Rectory - "the most haunted house in England" - he died of a heart attack at his West Sussex home at the age of 67.

When did you first hear about Price?

I was obsessed by ghosts from an early age. When I came across Price he was already something of a mythical figure, thanks to cases such as the Borley Rectory ‘hauntings’ that loomed large in my childhood.

What kind of man was he?

He had a Walter Mitty quality: he was constantly fictionalising his life and pumping out fake versions of himself - partly, I think, because of his humble background [his father was a travelling salesman]. He lied about where he was born and grew up, and faked archaeological finds and ‘artefacts’ that he’d knocked up in his shed.