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- Sat, 17 FebDerby17 Feb 2024, 19:30 – 18 Feb 2024, 08:30Derby, 50-51 Friar Gate, Derby DE1 1DF, UK
- Sat, 06 AprPontefract06 Apr 2024, 20:00 – 07 Apr 2024, 08:00Pontefract, 30 East Dr, Pontefract WF8 2AN, UK
- Sat, 27 AprSunderland27 Apr 2024, 19:30 – 28 Apr 2024, 00:00Sunderland, North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, Washington Road, Sunderland SR5 3HZ, UK27 Apr 2024, 19:30 – 28 Apr 2024, 00:00Sunderland, North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, Washington Road, Sunderland SR5 3HZ, UKPriced at £30pp - we invite you to join us at this highly active location. Aircraft regularly vibrate after being long since decommissioned, unexplainable sounds of wartime music played from unknown sources.....
- Sat, 18 MayHarehills18 May 2024, 20:00 – 19 May 2024, 01:00Harehills, 141 Beckett St, Harehills, Leeds LS9 7LN, UK18 May 2024, 20:00 – 19 May 2024, 01:00Harehills, 141 Beckett St, Harehills, Leeds LS9 7LN, UKPrevious investigations have never disappointed us. Shadow figures caught on camera, guests physically scratched. This location dates back to its former uses as a workhouse and hospital and is one of the most active locations we have ever investigated.
Mon, 15 Feb
|30 East Dr
SOLD OUT - 30 East Drive, Pontefract (with optional sleepover)
Veritas Paranormal invite you to spend the night with us at this infamous house.


Time & Location
15 Feb 2021, 19:00 – 16 Feb 2021, 07:00
30 East Dr, 30 East Dr, Pontefract WF8 2AN, UK
About The Event
Veritas Paranormal UK invite you to spend the entire night at the infamous 30 East Drive.
Tickets are priced at £50pp with just a £25pp (plus a Helm ticket booking fee) deposit required to secure your place.
The charity for this event will be chosen by one of the 10 guests who book to come along with us.
The History
Jean, Joe, Phillip (15) and Diane (12) Pritchard moved into Number 30 East Drive, Pontefract in August 1966. Almost immediately, during the hot summer Bank Holiday, Phillip and his Grandmother first witnessed a baffling phenomenon – a fine layer of chalk like dust falling not from the ceiling, but from a level below head height.
In an effort to clean up before Phillip’s holidaying parents returned, Mrs Kelly (Phillip’s Aunty who had been fetched by her mother to observe the falling dust) went to the kitchen for some cleaning implements, whereupon she slipped on a pool of water that had mysteriously appeared. Her efforts to mop up the water were thwarted by more pools appearing on the linoleum in front of her and Phillip’s very eyes.
This was the beginning of several years of incredible, inexplicable events; green foam appearing from taps and toilet even after the water was turned off, the tea dispenser being activated resulting in all the dried tea cascading onto the work surface, lights being turned off and on, plants leaping out of their pots and landing on the stairs, cupboards shaking violently, photographs being slashed with a sharp knife and an endless list of levitating and thrown objects – including a solid oak sideboard.
Dubbed ‘Mr Nobody’ by the local press in 1968, the family preferred to refer to the poltergeist simply as ‘Fred’, perhaps as a way of normalising ‘It’ as no number of initiatives could persuade the entity to leave the family in peace and house-proud mother Jean refused to be terrorised out of her house by an entity. Exorcisims were met with indignation; walls would seep holy water, faces were slapped, people were shoved down the stairs and ‘Fred’s’ hands would appear from nowhere and conduct the Christian songs aimed at shooing him off – whilst wearing huge women’s fur gloves. In fact, many of Fred’s antics were both amazing and often highly amusing, like when he calmly poured an entire jug of milk he removed from the fridge over a sceptical aunt, leaving the kids in stitches.
Ordinarily poltergeists aren’t known for causing grievous bodily harm, and although Fred caused a few bruises and scrapes and lot of heart stopping scares, in particular to Diane – seemingly the focus of the haunting – it is rare for a poltergeist to become excessively violent and cause physical harm. But in the case of Fred, that indeed became the case. Late on in his residency, when both Phillip and Diane were beginning to exit adolescence, the activity reached a new climactic height with Diane’s long hair suddenly standing on its end, followed by her being dragged kicking and screaming up the stairs, an event that left her seriously traumatised and with clearly visible finger marks on her throat.