Oct 21, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 9 segments
Welcome back to HOT GIRL STOMPS. A paranormal podcast where 2 childhood best friends chat sh\*t about life and the afterlife. We are breaking down the life and times of Matthew Hopkins, the self…
It's my episode today, although I know you're going to have input to put into this.
So we're talking about the witch friar, the witch egg friar general, the witch finder general, Matthew Hopkins.
So Gemma and I went with our friend of the podcast, Sam, Okay, so we have to...
Technical difficulties, sorry.
We're at technical difficulty there.
So if the angle of this has slightly changed, if you're watching on YouTube, that's why.
And just to let you know, if it sounds a little bit weird when I start up again, we stopped at a certain point and I'm picking back up from there.
So...
What we were talking about was we were going down to do this ghost hunt.
So we stopped off at Borley Rectory on the way because Borley Rectory is literally en route to where we were going.
We're staying in Colchester.
were the two, like, locations, like, the main locations that are attributed to Matthew Hopkins.
So, on our way down, it seemed right to stop at Paul Erectory, with it being kind of, like,
the
biggest... starting point sort of like logical paranormal investigations and things like that harry price being sort of like widely known as the godfather of like modern paranormal investigation and stuff like that so for me although the house isn't there anymore it burned down in like 20s i think um and it's just private land now you cannot get like anywhere close to sort of like where where it was um the church is still there and the church was a big part of the story of Borley and it's all connected like under like tunnels so it just felt like right to stop by because it was maybe a 10 minute detour for us yeah and it was a beautiful day as well it was lovely so we pulled up There's not really anywhere to pull up, so we kind of had to just abandon the car on the road.
basically.
Would you call it
a hamlet? Probably.
Yeah, I would say it probably was.
Yeah, I don't know what the classification is.
I think you have to have a church for it to be classed as a village, though.
So I think maybe it is classed as a village.
It was
It's my episode today, although I know you're going to have input to put into this.
So we're talking about the witch friar, the witch egg friar general, the witch finder general, Matthew Hopkins.
So Gemma and I went with our friend of the podcast, Sam, Okay, so we have to...
Technical difficulties, sorry.
We're at technical difficulty there.
So if the angle of this has slightly changed, if you're watching on YouTube, that's why.
And just to let you know, if it sounds a little bit weird when I start up again, we stopped at a certain point and I'm picking back up from there.
So...
What we were talking about was we were going down to do this ghost hunt.
So we stopped off at Borley Rectory on the way because Borley Rectory is literally en route to where we were going.
We're staying in Colchester.
were the two, like, locations, like, the main locations that are attributed to Matthew Hopkins.
So, on our way down, it seemed right to stop at Paul Erectory, with it being kind of, like,
the
biggest... starting point sort of like logical paranormal investigations and things like that harry price being sort of like widely known as the godfather of like modern paranormal investigation and stuff like that so for me although the house isn't there anymore it burned down in like 20s i think um and it's just private land now you cannot get like anywhere close to sort of like where where it was um the church is still there and the church was a big part of the story of Borley and it's all connected like under like tunnels so it just felt like right to stop by because it was maybe a 10 minute detour for us yeah and it was a beautiful day as well it was lovely so we pulled up There's not really anywhere to pull up, so we kind of had to just abandon the car on the road.
basically.
Would you call it
a hamlet? Probably.
Yeah, I would say it probably was.
Yeah, I don't know what the classification is.
I think you have to have a church for it to be classed as a village, though.
So I think maybe it is classed as a village.
It was
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