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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Benjamin Lynch

Chilling Monk of Pontefract who terrorised a family by smashing eggs and eating butties

From a Yorkshire town comes an intriguing and scary tale of the supernatural and a lurking poltergeist.

Film director Pat Holden grew up in the West Yorkshire town during the 1970s and said his mother Rene would tell some spooky stories about a poltergeist known as the 'Black Monk or 'Monk of Pontefract'.

Pat told the BBC : "It did everything a poltergeist does normally. I say normally. Throwing things around, freezing rooms down, creating water puddles and making noises. And he did a lot of unique things as well."

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