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The \\textit{branch set} \\(B_f\\subset X\\) is the set of all points in \\(X\\) at which \\(f\\) fails to be a local homeomorphism. The map \\(f\\) is \\textit{proper}, if the pre-image of every compact \\(K \\subset Y\\) is compact in \\(X\\). The deck transformation group \\(\\mathrm{Deck}(f)\\) is the group of homeomorphisms \\(g:X\\rightarrow X\\) such that \\(f = f \\circ g\\). The function \\(f\\) is an \\textit{orbit} map if the induced map \\(h:X/\\mathrm{Deck}(f) \\rightarrow Y\\) given by \\(h([x])=f(x)\\), \\([x]\\) the orbit of \\(x\\) under Deck\\((f)\\), is a homeomorphism. A covering map is a \\textit{normal} or \\textit{regular covering map} if it is also an orbit map.  Classical results imply that if \\(f:X \\rightarrow Y\\) is a proper branched cover between connected manifolds, then \\(f\\) is surjective, the branch set \\(B_f\\) is of codimension at least 2, and the restriction \\(f'=_{def}f|X\\setminus f^{-1}(f(B_f)) \\rightarrow Y\\setminus f(B_f)\\) is a covering map between open connected manifolds. Consequently, for such a branched cover \\(f\\) there is a triple \\(\\left(X'_f,p',q'\\right)\\) where \\(X'_f\\) is an open connected manifold, \\(p':X'_f \\rightarrow X\\setminus f^{-1}(f(B_f))\\) and \\(q'_f:X'\\rightarrow Y\\setminus f(B_f)\\) are normal covering space maps with \\(f \\circ p' = q'\\), and the deck transformation group of \\(q'\\) is isomorphic to the monodromy group of \\(f'\\).  A triple \\((X_f,p,\\bar{f})\\) is the \\emph{monodromy representation for \\(f\\)} if the following hold: \\(X_f\\) is a locally connected, locally compact, second countable Hausdorff space so that there is an embedding \\(\\iota:X'_f\\rightarrow X_f\\) with (1) \\(\\iota(X'_f)\\) an open dense subset of \\(X_f\\), (2) \\(X_f \\setminus \\iota(X'_f)\\) does not locally separate \\(X_f\\), (3) \\(p:X_f\\rightarrow X\\) and \\(\\bar{f}:X_f \\rightarrow Y\\) are branched covering orbit maps with \\(f \\circ p = \\bar{f}\\), and (4) the covering maps \\(p'\\) and \\(q'\\) as above, factor as \\(p'=\\iota \\circ p\\) and \\(q'=\\iota \\circ \\bar{f}\\). The space \\(X_f\\) in this triple is called the \\textit{monodromy space}. Points in \\(X_f\\setminus B_{\\bar{f}}\\) are manifold points. Thus, it is natural to ask what \\(X_f\\) looks like around the branch set \\(B_{\\bar{f}}\\) of \\(\\bar{f}\\).  In particular, one hopes that there are reasonable conditions on \\(f\\) under which the points in \\(B_{\\bar{f}}\\) are also manifold points of \\(X_f\\). A version of this question was originally posed by \\textit{R. H. Fox} [Princeton Math. Ser. 12, 243--257 (1957; Zbl 0079.16505)]. He asked whether or not the monodromy space \\(X_f\\) is a manifold when the original function \\(f:X\\rightarrow Y\\) is a simplicial branched cover between piecewise linear manifolds. Fox answered this question for closed orientable 2 dimensional manifolds in the affirmative. By moving to up to dimension 3, the author is able to answer Fox's question in the negative.  \\textbf{Theorem 1.1.} There exists a simplicial branched cover \\(f:S^3 \\rightarrow S^3\\) for which the monodromy space \\(X_f\\) is not a manifold.  The author also constructs a branched covering which is piecewise linear in the complement of a point, but for which the monodromy space is not even locally contractible. 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