Not just your typical Family Home.
Home to the Black Monk or Fred, the worlds most aggressive Poltergeist
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The Pritchards moved into Number 30 East Drive, Pontefract in August 1966. Almost immediately, during a hot summer, Phillip and his Grandmother first witnessed a baffling phenomenon – a fine layer of chalk like dust falling not from the ceiling, but from a level below head height.
​Shortly after, Mrs Kelly (Phillip’s Aunty) had gone to the kitchen whereupon she slipped on a pool of water that had mysteriously appeared.
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This was the beginning of several years of incredible, inexplicable events such as cupboards shaking violently, an endless list of levitating and thrown objects and shadow-like figures walking past the mirrors.
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The family referred to the poltergeist simply as ‘Fred’, perhaps as a way of normalising ‘It’ as no number of initiatives could persuade the entity to leave the family in peace and house-proud mother Jean refused to be terrorised out of her house. Exorcisims were met with indignation; walls would seep holy water, faces were slapped, people were shoved down the stairs and ‘Fred’s’ hands would appear from nowhere and conduct the Christian songs aimed at shooing him off.
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Late on in his residency, when both Phillip and Diane (Phillip's sister) were beginning to exit adolescence, the activity reached a new climactic height with Diane’s long hair suddenly standing on its end, followed by her being dragged kicking and screaming up the stairs, an event that left her seriously traumatised and with clearly visible finger marks on her throat.
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This one is for the brave...
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