Pictured: British mother, 66, found stabbed to death in picture postcard Italy home as police hunt for her. It was typical poltergeist activity, objects would be thrown around the house, loud crashes and bangs. I began taking photos like usually do at a new location and I took quite a few of the hallway near the stairs.

Perhaps worse for the Pritchards, the activity continued, and seemed to be getting more often and more aggressive. The local press reported, at the time, but the number 30 East Drive’s paranormal events were not investigated properly at the time.

Drinking venues include The Red Lion, the Green Dragon, the Tap and Barrel, The Broken Bridge ( Wetherspoons), the Malt Shovel, and the Ponty Tavern (formally The Blackmoor Head) or Blacky in local terms.

A new hospital was built on Friarwood Lane and opened in July 2010, with the new name of Pontefract Hospital; there is now a modern hospital building. When Rene's sister-in-law's sister Jean told her about the supernatural happenings in her otherwise unremarkable Pontefract council house, Rene became a regular visitor to watch the supposed paranormal activities. These days Fred will often steal unattended keys, and on one occasion, the house keys showed up inside the vacuum cleaner – which does not work and is simply a prop!He published a full account of the paranormal events in his book “ Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings“. Novelist Jack Vance, in the " Demon Princes" cycle has named the capital of Aloysius, the main planet in the Vega system, after Pontefract. The more time that passed, the more the family began to think that there must have been a “rational” explanation for the events. Little is known of the precise nature of his demise; in particular Shakespeare may have "adjusted" the facts for his own purposes. He was the director of the movie “When the lights went out”, a story of the Pritchard’s account with the Blank Monk of Pontefract.

Unravel the mystery of the unknown at 30 East Drive, as you and your friends take on this spooky ghost hunt challenge, with a reward of a complimentary sleepover at the end. The haunting at the house was the subject of the 2012 horror movie When The Lights Went Out and was investigated for the Halloween special of Most Haunted Live in 2015.As the exorcist sprayed “holy water” throughout the family home, upside down crosses appeared on the walls. On October 18, 2015, the reality paranormal TV show “Most Haunted” aired the episode “30 East Drive – Part 1”.