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.
