Check out the trailer for the horror film inspired by the eerie happenings below, called When the Lights Went Out (2012):
The house has since become something of a pilgrimage for paranormal investigators.
Although exorcisms and ouija boards are strictly prohibited at the property - so as not to 'exacerbate the situation' - curious ghost hunters continue to experience the foreboding presence of this hellish monk.
Personally, no mortal sum of money would be enough to tempt me over that shadowy threshold. But there are some plucky individuals with the stomach to take on The Black Monk Of Pontefract.
I spoke with 24-year-old Ben, a camera operator for Ghost Quest. With a lifelong enthralment with the paranormal, he has been looking for ghosts for a number of years.
His findings so far have led him to believe there is something out there, walking among us long after their physical remains have crumbled to dust.
Ben told UNILAD what made this deceptively hum-drum house so unusual:
30 East Drive is an interesting location. It is a must on any investigators checklist as the stories and activity people have reported to have had experienced in that building is phenomenal.
The strangest aspect of it for me was, in all honesty, how original the house is. It is still stuck in a time period of a bygone age.
That’s what I found the strangest. Paranormal-wise, I found it strange because why would a spirit be haunting this ordinary house and on such a great scale. This made us look into the history of the land the house sits on.
Ben also discussed some of the strange happenings which occurred the night of the team's visit, some which are genuinely shudder-inducing:
We had knocking on a door that was in front of us and it was doing it on command. That was pretty incredible, we searched all around the door to look for a logical explanation but we couldn’t find one.
Craig had a figure walk up on him captured on the SLS camera. The structured light sensor camera used an Xbox Kinect. It fires millions of small dots out into the room and maps back what it sees.
In this case it was a figure actually walking towards him with leg movements and everything which is the best capture we have ever had with it.
There was also creaking floorboards and footsteps upstairs. Whether they were explainable as next door or not is debatable. We didn’t include it in the episode for that very reason.
As none of the team are spiritual mediums - their focus is on evidence gathering through audio and video recording - Ben feels it would be impossible to speculate as to the nature of the infamous ghoul.
However, he was able to offer UNILAD his own opinion on the notorious resident:
I’m not going to claim the property is haunted and I’m not going to say it’s not either.
There is something there for sure in my opinion, but if it’s dark and malevolent or not I wouldn’t be able to say.
The way I look at it is, the spirit that haunted the Pritchards, seems very dark and sinister.
Ben added:
And what some people still witness is exactly that. So it very well could be! The thing with 30 East Drive is, that it’s down to luck.
Some days the spirits want to cause havoc and frighten people to death, and others the place is eerily quiet. We had it somewhere in the middle.
Fearless Ben even spent seven hours being the only waking person in the house with his fellow investigators having fallen fast asleep.
While a wuss such as myself would be paralysed with fear at this prospect, Ben whiled away the hours packing the equipment away and tidying the house.
Well, that's me sleeping with all the lights on tonight..
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