The 'Black Monk' house: This is the most violent (real) haunting in the world

There should be a separate category here for poltergeists or supernatural! After watching the Conjuring 1 and 2, I was sort of freaked out, so I decided to make this thread because they tried making a movie about it. Do you believe exorcists work?

Do you have an experience to share in which you experienced a haunting of some kind? Please share!

WARNING: This thread contains descriptions of rape, murder, and paranormal activity:🧵


30 East Drive, Pontefract, is known as the most haunted house in the UK, possibly the world.

Only 2 families have ever lived there: the Farrars (1954-1955) and the Pritchards (from 1955).

Below: A picture of Jean Pritchard holding Colin Wilson’s book Poltergeist.


The Farrars experience:

Their baby Jane’s face was constantly cut and bleeding. Even when wearing mittens. It was as if ‘something’ was abusing her (example pic not Jane).

Objects would go missing and reappear. Odd phenomena continued until the family had enough and left.


In 1966, chaos erupted for the Pritchards.

While the family vacationed, son Phillip stayed home.

A strange white powder mysteriously appeared, and water pooled on the floor (from nowhere), and almost comically, green slime seeped from taps.

But that was just the beginning.

From there, things escalated fast:

• Lights began to flicker
• Tea was thrown around the kitchen
• Cupboards slammed open and shut

It was mischievous initially, almost funny, but things started slowly becoming cruel and aggressive.

he entity poured milk on a skeptical aunt and even danced around in a fur coat and gloves once.

But soon, heavy boards were thrown at walls, family photos were slashed and torn apart, and cupboards would shake violently.

The local priest was eventually called for an exorcism.


The entity went crazy! Water started to pour from the walls, and it began to abuse and attack them:

• Slapping and pushing people
• Carving upside-down crosses on doors
• Throwing things at people (including knives)

The exorcism scene from When The Lights Went Out.

Joe Pritchard, the father, dismissed the activity—until it came for him.

One day, in the coal cupboard, Joe was locked inside by the entity and viciously attacked.

Joe’s friends, who he confided in, said he was never the same afterward. The entity severely tormented him.

Diane, the daughter, was next!

She was often woken up and thrown from her bed, once she was suffocated with a mattress and even pinned down to the stairs by furniture.

Worst of all, she was choked by the neck and dragged up the stairs, leaving visible handprints on her neck.

Joe died of a heart attack in the house. The children moved out, and eventually, the place was sold.

But the haunting didn’t stop. Visitors report:

• Slaps, scratches, and even bone fractures
• Sickness resembling radiation poisoning
• Shadowy beings, whispers, growls…

One paranormal investigator was scarred for life. He was in the coal room for barely a couple of minutes.

When they opened the door, his body was frozen in place, freakishly contorted, and he was crying and shaking uncontrollably.

He never investigated another haunting again.


Theories about the entity vary. The most popular?

An evil monk who (hundreds of years earlier), kidnapped, raped, and murdered young girls, dumping their bodies in a well beneath the house.

Because of this, many people refer to the entity as ‘The Black Monk of Pontefract.’



Other theories include:

• Demonic forces
• Interdimensional entities
• Aliens or Non-human intelligence

Or ghosts of fallen soldiers from past battles. The English Civil War (1642-1651) was fought on the very grounds underneath the house.


30 East Drive remains a magnet for paranormal activity, investigators, and thrill-seekers.

This unnerving story has inspired books, movies, and documentaries.

The Black Monk (or whatever it is) continues to terrorize and bewilder people in this infamous house.

Now I will leave you with this, the most scariest scene ever.

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Building a house on an ancient grave site or a battle field is a no-no. But over time, ancient records are lost and people would never know what transpired in the past.

Imagine living in a villa (if Israel indeeds builds such things in Gaza) built on a site where hundreds of people were bombed to death and their remains are still buried.

Catholic priests have success sometimes, but often fail and run away from certain haunted places.

There were paranormal happenings in a house in Michigan and a Native American medicine woman was engaged. By word of mouth, ABC in Detroit heard of the scheduled event and their TV crew were there to film the ceremony.

The medicine woman only had one helper. She played Native American drum music on a casette player and cleansed the house, garden and yard, using her eagle feather.

Turned out the house was built on an ancient sacred site and the family sure enough didn’t know about it. The TV camera didn’t catch any anomaly, but the owner of the house said her contact lenses popped out of her eyes during the ceremony.

After the ritual, no more paranormal happenings.

One time when I was in college, I was dating this hippy chick who was into Tarot Cards, Yoga, smelled like Pachulli, and had jingling ankle bracelets. She was into a thing called smudging using sage to cleanse a space. Anyway, her and few friends who shared similar interests in the paranormal went to a house that was known to be haunted. It was a summer day in New York and I remember the day when she told me they were going to spend the night there in order to expel the bad spirits. Needless to say they wouldn’t spend the night and ended up back within a few hours sitting on the front lawn talking about their experiences in exasperation and disbelief. My girlfriend along with her friends was visibly shaken up as they shared their experiences with me as they nervously smoked their cigarettes, drank some beer while contemplating what had just happen. She was telling me that some spirit in the house was dropping pennies down the stairs and at times on them that gradually got more aggressive the longer all of them stayed in the house. My girlfriend also at the time stated that when she started to smudge the house with sage, one of the spirits somehow ended up putting ash on her face to which her face looked dirty when they finally left the house in a hurry. I will never forget the look on their faces and their expressions while I was listening to their stories.

The yarn goes on and on. If you hear the first few minutes, you get the gist.

If you rent an apartment, the landlord and real estate agent are not obliged to tell you what transpired to previous tenants. But I certainly don’t want to live in a house or apartment where somebody committed a suicide.

In Rome there are stone houses where people continously lived from the Roman period! No, thank you.

I think Oraibi in the Hopi Reservation is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America but the situation is not the same. The Hopis are aware of spirits and there are always shamans.

Yes I agree. RW said he experienced weird things while staying at various AirBNB while in Italy last year.

I like staying in old haunted houses. Drinking parties are more interesting that way. Got any suggestions on where I can stay in America?

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I don’t think I ever experienced weird spiritual phenomenon, at least not that I know of personally.

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That is a pretty interesting list, especially the Masonic Temple in Detroit. On the latter, something struck me odd about reading that and wondered if certain sacrifices of little children took place there.

I read through that list to see if two others were on it: The Winchester House and The HMS Queen Mary. Sure enough they were.

One place I would like to go is Gettysburg as I am very certain that there are spirits forever roaming there.

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I thought I saw some moving spirits one night in NO, but that was after a few drinks of Absynth in the French Quarters. Could have been the green fairy that I was seeing for all I know. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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There are some ghost stories from New Orleans.
Never buy antiques there.

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Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man just dropped—January 2025.

Did you know the legend of the werewolf goes back thousands of years?

The real story of werewolves is even darker and weirder.


The first known werewolf stories date back over 4,000 years.

One of the earliest? The Epic of Gilgamesh, where a shepherd is turned into a wolf after angering the goddess Ishtar.

Werewolves have haunted humans ever since and it only gets stranger from here.


Ancient Greece: King Lycaon of Arcadia tested Zeus (King of Gods) by feeding him human flesh. The punishment? Zeus transformed him into a wolf.

This is, in part, where the word ‘Lycanthropy’ (the belief that one is turning into a wolf) comes from.


1589 Germany: Farmer Peter Stumpp was executed after confessing (under torture) that he had a magic belt from the devil that turned him into a werewolf.

Stumpp confessed to killing and eating 14 children and 2 pregnant women. He ate the hearts, brains, and babies from the womb.


Fear struck Europe, and the werewolf trials began. Hundreds were executed as “werewolves” between the 15th and 17th centuries.

The most well-known?

Nicolas Damont, known as The Werewolf of Châlons (France). A tailor who hunted and lured children before killing and eating them.


Here’s the creepy part: there might be a scientific explanation behind werewolves.

Some historians believe cases of lycanthropy were actually due to mental illness.

Others blame a terrifying disease…

Enter rabies: Rabies can make humans act like literal werewolves.

• Hyper-aggression
• Fear of water (or silver; water served in silver vessels)
• Biting people

And even foaming at the mouth! Rabies was always fatal before modern medicine.

Other possible causes?

• Ergot poisoning, mold that causes hallucinations
• Ambras Syndrome, genetic excessive hair growth
• Mental health conditions, bipolar, schizophrenia

But what about the modern werewolf?


Most of what we know today—full moon transformations, werewolf bites, silver bullets—didn’t come from folklore. It came from Hollywood.

The 1935 film Werewolf of London introduced the idea that werewolf transformations happen during the full moon.


The Wolf Man (1941) popularized the silver bullet as the ultimate weapon against werewolves.

Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf adapted into the movie Silver Bullet (1985), introduced supernatural and religious elements.



So… are werewolves real?

Common sense would say no. But then, have a look at this case of clinical lycanthropy below.

It is absolutely terrifying.

2016 Florida: Deputies found 19-year-old Austin Harrouff on top of a bloodied man, gnawing his face & growling. He had already killed his partner.

He believed he was half-man, half-dog. Despite tasers & a police dog, he resisted. He was diagnosed with clinical lycanthropy.


While we don’t have proof of shape-shifting humans, the fear of becoming something wild and uncontrollable has haunted people forever

Maybe that’s why the legend refuses to die. What do you think? Are werewolves just superstition, or something genuine?

Other unexplained phenomenons such as Skin Walker ranch which wild reports came in on the outskirts of Native lands in the west such as Utah have reported sightings of strange wolf like creatures that can shape shift. Whether these are true or not is up for debate, but sightings of these creatures have been reported on more than one occasion and from multiple sources.

There was a lot of Voodoo going on there.