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Astonishing Legends

The Black Monk of Pontefract Part 3

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

You might not believe in ghosts, but it would be difficult to ignore all the furtive and orchestrated actions that were going on throughout the years at 30 East Drive, which continue to this day. Certainly, in some famous poltergeist cases, incidents could have been manipulated to gain attention for the prankster. However, unless you're contending that pre-teens have somehow gained Hollywood Special Effects level skills in every case, then some of the more bizarre and baffling examples of poltergeist activity would be worthy of investigation. Then what exactly, are the defining factors between a run-of-the-mill poltergeist and other types of spirit activity? Is a poltergeist more paranormal than supernatural? What are the rules? There are theories that poltergeist activity may be a physical manifestation of intensely directed energy emanating from people, mostly youth. As "fringe" as that may seem, then in some cases it might possibly be explained by science one day, that is, if enough scientists would be willing to endure the ridicule and ensuing damage to their reputations from their peers. However, the strange activity at 30 East Drive seems much more than that, not only because it continued long after the Pritchards left the house, but also because this energy appears to have a personality behind it, and there are indications that there's more than one spectral personality residing around the property. Whatever you think The Black Monk or "Fred" is, whether disembodied spirits or mischievous kids, this "Mr. Nobody" might not be anybody, but it sure seems like it's something.

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0:00.0

Estonishing legends would like to thank the Great Courses Plus,

0:02.6

Harry's, Bombas, and our supporters at Patreon

0:05.2

for making tonight's show possible.

0:07.8

With the first two parts of our series

0:09.4

in the Black Monk of Pontifract behind us now,

0:12.3

we hope that you're feeling familiar

0:13.7

with the contemporaneous aspects of the story,

0:16.0

the players, and the events.

0:18.5

Now it's time to take it a step further

0:20.4

and look underneath the events

0:22.0

at what may be happening at 30 East Drive.

0:26.3

At Estonishing Legends, we call this type of show

0:28.8

the analysis episode, and this is where the rubber

0:32.5

meets the paranormal road.

0:34.8

There have, of course, been more recent investigations

0:37.6

done at the house, some with startling evidence.

0:41.2

We'll talk about those tonight,

0:42.8

as well as the idea and nature of poltergeists

0:45.6

versus ghosts and even demons.

0:48.8

We'll also discuss the possibility of a hoax,

0:51.1

which every good investigator in a story's like these

0:54.1

must consider.

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