58. The Black Monk of Pontefract

Scary Stories from Camp Roanoke

Katy Wiggins and Morgan Campbell

Society & Culture, Scary Story, Supernatural, Halloween, Haunted, Tv & Film, After Shows, Paranormal, Ghost Story, Campfire, Haunted House, True Ghost Story, Spooky, Comedy, Horror

4.3 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Morgan is traveling, so enjoy this newly edited, absolutely hilarious, and absolutely terrifying episode. Katy covers this famously violent and wild location from the occurrences that made it famous in the 60's to the Most Haunted team's fateful recent investigation that left physical and mental scars on some who participated. So listen, if you dare, to the horrifying story of the Black Monk of Pontefract! All knocking, all banging, all screaming, all dancing!Patreon is paused! Get ama...

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello. You're listening to scary stories from Camp Roanoke.
0:23.9	My name is Katie Wiggins, and I'm Morgan Drisco.
0:27.0	And this is a podcast where we tell each other true scary stories.
0:32.0	And this week, I have a terrifying one, which I'm really, really excited about.
0:36.8	The Black Monk of Pontefract.
0:41.1	Pontefract.
0:42.7	Pontefract.
0:43.9	Pontifract is a bizarrely named town in Yorkshire, England.
0:50.3	You know this wouldn't be my story unless you got a little bit of ancient English history, so let's begin.
0:56.1	Hell yeah.
0:57.6	Pontefract is an ancient town in Yorkshire, with history stretching to when the Romans occupied Britain.
1:07.2	For more information on such things, feel free to check out the podcast that I absolutely
1:12.0	love, History of Britain. Now, from 1090 to 1539, it was home to a monastery, housing
1:21.7	supposedly, specifically violent monks. Violent monks? Yeah, I don't know how they group them or why that happened.
1:29.0	They're the only ones.
1:32.0	Aren't monks supposed to be very pacifist, chill, kind of just...
1:37.3	Yeah, monks are supposed to be chill, generally.
1:40.0	I thought so.
1:41.3	I don't want to generalize, but I thought that was kind of their game.
1:44.1	Well, no, I think that's literally their vows.
1:46.8	I think you're allowed to generalize.
1:49.2	You can say that monks are pacifists because that's supposed to be their whole gig.
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