Fred, You Need To Chill: Gef The Holy Ghost Mongoose & The Black Monk of Pontefract

Brews With Boos · Mar 11, 2026 · 1h

A talking mongoose that demanded snacks… and a violent monk haunting a British council house. This week gets weird.

This week on Brews with Boo’s, Krissy dives into two of Britain’s strangest paranormal cases.

First: Gef the Talking Mongoose, a bizarre 1930s phenomenon where a voice in a farmhouse wall claimed to be an extra-clever mongoose, a ghost, and possibly the Holy Ghost… while demanding biscuits and bananas.

Then: The Black Monk of Pontefract, one of the most violent poltergeist hauntings in British history, where a family reported flying objects, scratches appearing on skin, and…