0:00:54 > 0:00:57Anderson, you say?
0:00:57 > 0:00:58Professor Anderson.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Oh yes, here it is.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02I've put you on the top floor.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Nice views of the cathedral up there.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07You stayed here before, sir?
0:01:07 > 0:01:08I haven't had that pleasure.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Oh! One of the oldest buildings in the town, is this.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14I can tell you a bit of the history...
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Yes, well, perhaps once I've settled in.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Right.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Well... Best take you up, then.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42No, no. I'm sorry, this is no good!
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Too many steps.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Weak knees, I'm afraid.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Perhaps one on a lower floor?
0:01:57 > 0:01:59This one to your liking, sir?
0:01:59 > 0:02:02No, not unless there's a desk hiding somewhere.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17You won't get the same views.
0:02:17 > 0:02:23I'm not interested in views. I simply require somewhere to sleep and work.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25What about this one? Number 12.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36You see, now?
0:02:36 > 0:02:39This is perfect.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53- Will you be taking supper tonight, Mr Anderson?- I suppose so.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55I dare say it's the safest prospect.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Sir. Could I ask if you wouldn't mind...
0:03:15 > 0:03:18settling the bill for your stay in advance?
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Really!
0:03:24 > 0:03:27I don't know, it's...most unusual.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28I understand, sir.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31But you see, the problem is, from time to time,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34we've had guests disappear without paying.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Surely not respectable guests?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Oh, I'm afraid so, sir.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40There was a Mr Entwistle.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43College man, like yourself. Seemed nice enough, then...
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Boof! Gone one night without settling his bill.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Well, I'm sure I don't intend to disappear.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Much obliged, sir.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- This is quite a hoard.- Yes.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23Some of these manuscripts date from the eighth century.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Things were in rather a jumble.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29A Cambridge man helped us for a short while.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32But we are gradually imposing some order.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Making discoveries, it seems.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Well, that's for you to judge.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44So, where exactly did these turn up?
0:05:45 > 0:05:50They were found hidden in a hole in the wall, would you believe?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Extraordinary.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Anything significant?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Hm-mm. No. Usual stuff.
0:06:18 > 0:06:24Objections to the prayer book, painted glass, popish ornaments...
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Although the complaints against the Bishop Walgrave seem a little, um...
0:06:27 > 0:06:30- Unusual.- Really?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Oh, yes.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36They get quite worked up about his house.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39"Curious lights... Unnatural cries...
0:06:39 > 0:06:42"A stranger who comes and goes in the night-time."
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I'm surprised I've never come across any record of him.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50He does seem a rather unpopular bishop.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46OMINOUS UNLOCKING
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Nicholas Francken.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03CREAKING
0:08:11 > 0:08:13I'm afraid I have to close up for the night.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Ah, you must be my neighbour.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- Going down to dinner?- Yes.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- Not many guests! - I really have no idea.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Edward Jenkins.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05It can be a bit dull this time of year.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07I expect we'll all be dining together.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Marvellous.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17< NOISY SLURPING
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Mmm...
0:09:28 > 0:09:31HE SLURPS NOISILY
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Here on business, then?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- A scholarly matter.- Cambridge man.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49My firm does a lot of work with your lot. Colleges, dons.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Dare say you've heard of us.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- I doubt it. I'm from Oxford.- Ah!
0:09:53 > 0:09:57The cathedral archivist turned up some Cromwellian era documents.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58I'm authenticating them.
0:09:58 > 0:10:04- Roundheads, eh?- I'm considered to be rather an authority...- I'm sure.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07If you ask me those Puritans were a grim lot. Dressed all in black.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Telling everyone what they can and can't do.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12I'd sooner have been a Cavalier, me.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Far more fun.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Well... That's that, then.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Fancy a cigar in the lounge?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Not for me.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31Thank you!
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Goodnight.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47'Nicholas Francken.'
0:11:14 > 0:11:17MAN LAUGHS
0:11:21 > 0:11:24WOMAN LAUGHS
0:11:28 > 0:11:31LAUGHTER CONTINUES
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Jenkins...
0:11:48 > 0:11:51SILENCE
0:12:27 > 0:12:30BIRDS SING AND CHATTER
0:13:06 > 0:13:07- Good morning.- Morning.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15You're missing 13!
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Never mind.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Still interested in the Bishop?
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Yes...
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Do you think he's mentioned anywhere else in the archive?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08You never know.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11And how about...
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Nicholas Francken?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16You don't recognise the name?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Can't say I do. Who is he?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21I'm not sure...yet.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Another mystery.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38I must say, you're a superstitious lot round here.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41I thought things may have improved since Cromwell's day.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43What makes you say that?
0:14:43 > 0:14:47My hotel doesn't list a room number 13, for one.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Ah, yes.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Yours won't be the only establishment
0:14:52 > 0:14:55not to have an unlucky number 13.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Remarkable.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03So, if you could point me in the direction of the diocese records,
0:15:03 > 0:15:08I'll see if I can track down your much maligned Bishop, and his house of ill repute.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Ha!- Found something?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51In the most surprising of places.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54The record of the 1647 witch trials,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57testimony of an Ann Mundy.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02Aside from confessing to the drowning of children and the suckling of a giant rat,
0:16:02 > 0:16:07she claims to have been taken to a local house to go before the Devil's emissary.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10"A foreign man", she calls him.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15"Where he did conjure evil spirits and bade me make covenant with the Devil".
0:16:15 > 0:16:19Amazing what these poor wretches would say under torture.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Yes, I agree. The house in question...
0:16:23 > 0:16:25belonged to the Bishop.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Extraordinary.
0:16:32 > 0:16:37I've been looking to see if she puts a name to this "Devil's emissary".
0:16:58 > 0:17:02A WOMAN'S LAUGHTER ECHOES
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Thank you!
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Hello!
0:17:26 > 0:17:32- Anyway, it was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life!- Really?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37HE WHISPERS What?
0:17:39 > 0:17:45- WHISPERS: - As I as telling you before I never had occasion to go back there again,
0:17:45 > 0:17:53- but, since she's still there, y'know, married to that old bore... - Oh, dear.
0:17:57 > 0:18:03Those really are remarkable stones.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- What are they?- Sapphires.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Ah! Yes. Quite so.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28OWL HOOTS
0:19:44 > 0:19:46UNEARTHLY VOICE SHOUTS
0:19:52 > 0:19:55SILENCE
0:19:59 > 0:20:02WOMAN'S LAUGHTER ECHOES IN ROOM
0:20:03 > 0:20:06UNEARTHLY VOICE BREATHES
0:20:06 > 0:20:09WOMAN'S LAUGHTER
0:20:10 > 0:20:14SILENCE
0:20:17 > 0:20:20HIS BLOWS ECHO BACK
0:20:20 > 0:20:23UNEARTHLY VOICE HISSES
0:20:25 > 0:20:29CLAWING AND SCRABBLING
0:20:40 > 0:20:44LAUGHTER ECHOES ROUND ROOM
0:21:07 > 0:21:11MULTIPLE VOICES WHISPER AND CHATTER
0:21:34 > 0:21:37MAN HUMS TO HIMSELF
0:22:06 > 0:22:09KNOCK ON DOOR
0:22:14 > 0:22:15No... Come in.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20I want to have a word with you.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24What have you done with my portmanteau?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27My case.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31The large square piece of luggage you carried up. Hmm?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49I... I didn't see you bring it back in.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I... I thought it was a different room.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Wait! You didn't think it was...
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Hmm.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Good morning.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41- Mr Harrington! - I was on my way to see you.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Good.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48Because I think we need to talk about what exactly WAS sealed up in that wall.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55The parchment signed by Nicholas Francken...
0:24:55 > 0:24:58The one I found and put back.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01The one that went missing the very next day.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04I really have no idea what you're talking about.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11It would be a shame if I had to go to the dean.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14I was talking to the dean last night.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18He's a little concerned about where your inquiries are heading.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I'm sure you are a serious scholar, Mr Anderson,
0:25:21 > 0:25:23no axe to grind against the Church.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27But we do think it wise to know exactly what's in our archive,
0:25:27 > 0:25:31before we open it to prying eyes.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Are you telling me to stay away?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37For the time being.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39For heaven's sake, man!
0:25:39 > 0:25:43This is ludicrous! I'm an historian.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46I'm not trying to prove the Bishop really was in league with a fiend.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50- Surely you don't believe that? - What I believe, is not the point.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54This is largely a rural community, Mr Anderson.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56As you know, superstition is rife.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01Half of our flock still swear by the Black Shuck and Jack O'Lantern.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05The last thing they need, is the rumour of a witch house in the town.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12You mean... the Bishop's house still exists?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Go back to your dreaming spires, Professor.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Leave the Church to deal with its own nightmares.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30'The Bishop's house...still exists?
0:26:30 > 0:26:36'"Where he did conjure evil spirits and bade me make covenant with the Devil."
0:26:36 > 0:26:41'Amazing what these poor wretches will say under torture.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44'This is largely a rural community, Mr Anderson.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48'Half of our flock still swear by the Black Shuck and Jack O'Lantern.'
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Be wanting some supper?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17No, no. I'm... I'm not hungry.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30It's quiet tonight.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32No Miss Goddard and her mother?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Checked out this afternoon.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42What about Jenkins... the lawyer fellow?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Feeling "unwell".
0:27:47 > 0:27:51- Can I get you a drink, sir? - No, no, no. I'm fine.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58You know, what I'd like, is to hear some of your local history.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01You offered to tell me when I first arrived.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Erm...
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Well, I am rather busy, sir.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11I am very, very interested.
0:28:14 > 0:28:19Well, I... I really only know a few bits and pieces.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23Like... Hmm...
0:28:23 > 0:28:27There was a house on this site mentioned in the Domesday Book.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Was there? That's fascinating.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35Oh, yes. It was in the hands of the Walgrave family for generations.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Changed hands a number of times in the last two hundred years or so.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Let me see, there was...
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Wait a minute, Walgrave family?
0:28:44 > 0:28:47That's not Bishop Walgrave, is it?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Yes, that's right!
0:28:49 > 0:28:53The parliament men threw him in the Tower then they stormed this place,
0:28:53 > 0:28:57looking for some foreigner who he'd been harbouring.
0:28:57 > 0:28:58Er...
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Francken, that was his name.
0:29:01 > 0:29:06And the story goes, he vanished into thin air when they fired at him.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11Look, why don't you call up to my room, once you've finished your accounts?
0:29:11 > 0:29:13I can make a few notes, then.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29BANGING AND SCRAPING
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Oh...
0:29:45 > 0:29:48The porter!
0:29:50 > 0:29:53CHILD'S LAUGHTER ECHOES IN ROOM
0:30:01 > 0:30:04WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
0:30:09 > 0:30:12MULTIPLE VOICES MURMUR
0:30:20 > 0:30:24< 'I confess to the sin of witchcraft, murder and drowning of several children...'
0:30:30 > 0:30:33SILENCE
0:30:33 > 0:30:36VOICES RESUME
0:30:40 > 0:30:45< 'Under the demon's spell that I did suckle a giant rat unto mine breast, for to give succour...
0:30:46 > 0:30:49< 'It was he, Nicholas Francken, who bade the Devil rise!'
0:30:51 > 0:30:56PIERCING WHISTLING TONE
0:31:01 > 0:31:04'It was he, Nicholas Francken, who bade the Devil rise!'
0:31:04 > 0:31:07SILENCE
0:31:51 > 0:31:54DOOR CREAKS
0:32:01 > 0:32:05I've brought us a little nightcap.
0:32:07 > 0:32:08Anything the matter?
0:32:09 > 0:32:13- D'you think it's funny, do you? - Mr Anderson?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15Playing tricks on outsiders?
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Scaring them half to death with your idiot shadows?
0:32:19 > 0:32:21I thought you wanted to know about the hotel.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26The only thing I want to know about is room 13!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Mr Anderson, please!
0:32:28 > 0:32:30I've seen it.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33I know it's there.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36I just don't know how you do it.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38You're overtired.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41Perhaps a good night's sleep, eh?
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Well, that would be a fine thing.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Oh, it's the staff, isn't it?
0:32:54 > 0:32:56I suppose they found out about my work,
0:32:56 > 0:32:59about Nicholas Francken.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02You know they creep in here to rearrange my things?
0:33:02 > 0:33:04Oh, I don't think so, sir.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07All right, you tell me where my portmanteau's gone?
0:33:07 > 0:33:10It's not the first time.
0:33:10 > 0:33:12It's that porter.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14He's a surly fellow.
0:33:14 > 0:33:15Is he the one in number 13?
0:33:15 > 0:33:16Mr Anderson!
0:33:16 > 0:33:20For the last time, there is no number 13!
0:33:20 > 0:33:23GHOSTLY LAUGHTER ECHOES There!
0:33:25 > 0:33:26You... You heard it!
0:33:27 > 0:33:30Sometimes, it's like there's hundreds of them in there.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33It must be Mr Jenkins, drunk again.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36- No, mad, more like.- Gentlemen...
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Please. This noise.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44Drink, by all means, but...
0:33:44 > 0:33:46Let me sleep!
0:33:47 > 0:33:49ECHOING: Let me sleep!
0:33:49 > 0:33:52GHOSTLY LAUGHTER
0:33:57 > 0:34:01LOW DEMONIC BABBLING
0:34:14 > 0:34:18I see it. But I can still hardly believe it.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37Mr Gunton...
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Fetch your man to break it down.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47I noticed this room before, but I always put it down to the brandy.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49I get a bit carried away, sometimes.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53I'm not surprised. It's the only way to get any sleep here.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56I thought I was seeing things...
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Or that someone was playing an elaborate practical joke.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02Maybe they are.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06Then they've found the perfect pair to make asses of.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16FIZZING AND CRACKLING
0:35:16 > 0:35:20DISCORDANT FREQUENCIES
0:35:51 > 0:35:54GHOSTLY LAUGHTER No! No!
0:35:54 > 0:35:58No! No! Help me!
0:35:58 > 0:36:01MOCKING LAUGHTER
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Help me!
0:36:17 > 0:36:20- What's happened?- The thing in 13...
0:36:20 > 0:36:21It tried to snatch him.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Thomas!
0:36:27 > 0:36:28No!
0:36:29 > 0:36:30You'll let it out!
0:36:33 > 0:36:36GHOSTLY VOICE EXHALES
0:36:36 > 0:36:39SILENCE
0:36:39 > 0:36:40The door!
0:36:54 > 0:36:57CLOCK CHIMES
0:37:06 > 0:37:09BIRDS SING
0:37:17 > 0:37:19- Jenkins!- Mmm?
0:37:19 > 0:37:20Your foot.
0:37:22 > 0:37:23My apologies.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Ugh... What time is it?
0:37:28 > 0:37:31I've slept the sleep of the dead.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33You were quite alive.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35- I could tell by your snoring.- Ha-ha.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42You know, this was the room the landlord originally offered me.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Imagine if you'd taken it.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47All the excitement you would have missed.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55WOOD CREAKS AND SPLINTERS
0:37:57 > 0:37:59They must be taking up the floorboards.
0:37:59 > 0:38:03Gunton's determined to find a trace of number 13.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08Don't look so glum. It might be good for business having a ghost room.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10What is it?
0:38:10 > 0:38:11What have you found?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20"G Entwistle."
0:38:21 > 0:38:24The Cambridge man.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27The one I thought had gone without paying.
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