00:0030 East Drive in Checkerfield Pontefract may look like just an ordinary 1950s council house.
00:09So all the kids are desperate to come in with me into the most haunted house here in the
00:14UK but apparently even Yvette Fielding left this place crying so we'll see if there really
00:21is the most aggressive spirit living here.
00:25After doing an article on the property a few weeks ago I was invited inside for a cup of
00:31tea with the proprietor Bill Bungay.
00:35Bill used to run an advertising agency in London and now he's a serial entrepreneur.
00:42Arguably one of his biggest successes is purchasing 30 East Drive for a small sum of £80,000
00:51because he said nobody wanted it 14 years ago.
00:55Bill had actually brought it to promote his film which is based on the house on the tale
01:00of the family called the Pritchards who moved in in the 1960s and then fled the property
01:07in the 1970s.
01:10This was due to one of the most aggressive poltergeists who live here.
01:16Everyone knows him as the Black Monk but locally he's simply called Fred.
01:23Now Bill has refurnished the property to its 1970s state and he says it's booked up
01:31for the next two years with paranormal investigators and groups coming here night after night to
01:40communicate with whatever may lie within this property.
01:46As I said the most haunted Yvette Fielding said that this property left her crying and
01:52there's even broken glass in one of the door frames from when one of her film crew fell
01:58into the door.
02:03This really is a place of many stories, past, present and I'm sure that there'll be many
02:12more stories to come in the future.
02:16Bill warns that those who want to stay the night do need to sign a waiver and he would
02:22actually warn people not to stay over.
02:25He admits that he's never slept the night at his own property for fear of what might
02:31happen when the lights go out.
02:36Fortunately the kids and I visited in the daytime so it didn't feel quite so eerie although
02:42the ambience really did.
02:45The old carpets, the musty smell, the cold bathrooms, it really did feel like something
02:55out of the past and the scary dolls did not help us feel comfortable at home with Bill
03:04at 30 East Drive.
03:08Sophie Malan, Mail In, reporting for the Yorkshire Post in Pontefract.
Comments