Most Haunted

[David Brent]

We're just getting to see the MOST HAUNTED television series here on our pay network.
Although the camera's do not appear to catch much i must say i have been impressed by the work of medium Derek Acorah on the show.
I believe there have been special LIVE shows done of this series in Britain, although we havn't seen those yet.
I'd be interested in the pro/con views of our members on this series and how the general reaction to it has been in the UK.

Dave.

[Jim]

I was at East Kirkby (a one time bomber airfield of WWII) in Lincolnshire 2 years ago when the filmcrew of Most Haunted were there. I was with my older brother, who was ex-Fleet Air Arm.

They were there all day and there were about 15 of them, all young-uns. There is an old Lancaster bomber there, non operational; but I think that it never saw action.

Is this series only ever shown on Sky, etc., and will we ever be able to get it on terrestrial tv?

There must be 'something' lingering at these old airfields when you consider the high mortality rate in those days. Who knows?

[Steve Crook]

Get Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford) down there. She'll soon sort them out ghostly

Steve

[DAVID RAYNER]

I’ve never seen Most Haunted, only having terrestial television, but I reckon Gordon Smith runs rings around Derek Acorah for being a medium. I remember once hearing Derek on a radio phone-in and he was telling this bloke who had phoned in that his dear late wife was constantly around him and that the bloke was to “watch for the tingling in your hair”, as this would be a sure sign that she was around him. “I can’t”, said the bloke, “I’m bald.”

But if the Most Wanted team want to go somewhere very unusual to do a programme, I suggest the Manchester Museum of Transport, as apparently, they have there a 1951 Stockport Corporation Crossley double decker bus that is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a six years old boy who was knocked down and killed by the bus in Reddish, Stockport, in the mid-1950’s. It’s said that the reason that the bus is so well preserved is that after the fatal accident, crews refused to take it out on the road, claiming it was haunted and so it stood in a corner of the bus garage for years until bought by the museum.

Many people have claimed to have seen the boy, who they say is dressed in short grey trousers, shirt and 1950’s style sleeveless pullover. Apparently, as far as this earthbound spirit is concerned, the year is still 1955 and he is still six years old.

I have often thought of looking through the coroner’s files the next time I visit Stockport in order to find out the identity of the little boy. After all, there must have been an inquest at the time and there can’t have been many six years old boys knocked down and killed by double decker bus in Stockport in 1955.

[David Brent]

Thats an amazing story Dave. I often wonder why such 'haunted' area's are not blessed by those people who can help guide the earthbound spirit onto the other side. Although medium Derek Acorah often states that not all spirits seen are earthbound, some are in visitation, visiting areas that were known to them in life.
I have seen the East Kirkby episode Jim and i think it was one of the best in the series so far.
I wont give too much away but the medium was able to contact a Canadian airman who was killed at the airfield during WW2 when his plane crash landed after being refused permission to land by the tower.Apparantly the airman is not at rest and needs to know why the tower refused his permission to land at such a vital time.
The airman's plane wreckage and personal items are kept at the airfield's museum.
As you say Jim there does appear to be lots of 'activity' around these old airfields. It's not too difficult to imagine that so much human emotional energy released during those turbulent times would still be imprinted in and around those old buildings today.
A very interesting topic.

Dave.

[DAVID RAYNER]

Apparently, Dave, accidental death can sometimes be such a shock to the spirit that they stay where the tragedy occured...kind of trapped between this world and the next, if you like...unable to move on. Hence, the little boy stays with the bus that knocked him down and, in our time scale, he's been there now for fifty years!

[Marky B]

I don't know if I have ever mentioned this before on this site (because I know I have mentioned it dozens of times to other people),but I have seen a ghost ghostly ghostly ghostly
Ta Ta
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[David Brent]

My dear Marky....more details please.

My mother often related the story of the time in 1942 when she saw the ghostly figure of a soldier in full battle dress standing at the bottom of her bed early one morning. She was fully awake with the sun shining through her bedroom window.
The vision shocked her and she turned away thinking she was seeing things but when she looked again he was still there.
The soldier was holding out in one hand the silver framed photograph of a a young man who was dressed in RAF uniform.
Mom did not recognise the soldier or the man in the photograph. It really scared her and she turned away again. When she summoned enough courage to look again he had vanished.
Mom told no one of this experience as she thought she would be ridiculed.
Two days later she attended a male cousin's wedding and at the reception held at the bride's family home she happened to see on the sideboard the exact same photo and silver frame of the RAF officer as had been shown to her by the phantom soldier.
When she asked the bride whose photograph it was she was told that it was the brides brother. The same brother wearing civvies was actually at the reception and mom got to meet him - but to her long time regret she never told him of the apparition she had seen.
She always believed that the soldier she had seen had been recently killed in the war and was somehow trying to get a message through to his friend/relative in the photo.

Dave.

[Marky B]

Are you sitting comfortably,then I shall begin.
It was the late 1980's and I was working in the Synthonia Club in Billingham. The time of year was approximatley January,it was Friday and early evening.
I had been told in the first year that I worked there in 1981,that the club had a ghost,as footsteps were heard on the dancefloor when the lights were out and various other things.
This Friday evening in particular,I went upstairs for something,but as I knew my way round,I never put any lights on. On getting what I wanted,I went down a corridor to check a door was shut. Having done that,I turned back but heard the sound of what was cloth rubbing together. I thought there was someone upstairs with me,but as I had no alternative to continue in that direction,I carried on walking along the corridor. I passed an office and heard the sound of cloth rubbing together again,the sound of a deep breath inhaling and the sensation of a hand on my shoulder. I looked around and saw the image on something against a wall eek! . It was dark,no light at all,no moonlight coming through a window - therefore no shadow.
Well,I ran like hell down the stairs.
The duty barmaid said I looked like I have seen a ghost ghostly ,in which replied "I think I have!"
Later on that evening,I described what I saw to various people and there was a general consensus I had seen a monk shocked2
Now it turned out someone else had seen the same thing years before in the exact same spot,also a couple of years later,I was talking to an old lady in the club and we began talk about the ghost. I had never relayed my story to her,but she did tell me that there was a monastery hundreds of years ago in a nearby village,and a monk was on his way there in a snowstorm,but died of the cold at the very site where the club was built.
To add spice to my story,in 1995 or 1996,there was a charity evening held in the club and it was held by a clairvoyant society (don't ask,I wasn't on duty that night) and whilst they tried to "get out",they couldn't because of a "presence".
To cap it all,the club has a theatre school and one of the pupils had her photograph taken in the concert room with her two younger sisters. On the photograph,behind them,stood in front of the stage was no shadow - but it was an image of a monk!! ghostly
Ta Ta
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[Freddy]

An Monk fan being touched by a ghostly monk.

This calls for Monk to investigate shocked2

[DB7]

MH is rumoured to be the product of creative editing. I've not seen any but apparently cut footage has leaked into the public domain and exposes some of the show's wheezes.

It makes me chuckle they way (ex-Blue Peter presenter) the presenter nearly jumps out of her skin or bursts into tears at the sound of a mere creak. She's like an extra from the Blair Witch Project. ghostly

[Marky B]

I thought I might get a remark about Monk. Sure,let Monk investigate and I'll look after Sharona wink (his sidekick).
Ta Ta
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[David Brent]

Reading recently about that great old British actor Sir C. Aubrey Smith who was gifted with many talents.
Apart from the obvious - acting,cricket ect.. he was a natural water diviner and psychic.
He once refused to live in a beautiful house on the South Coast of England because he believed it was haunted. In fact it was later found that two murders had taken place at that very house & previously organised exorcisms had failed to clear the hauntings.

Dave.

[David Brent]

DB7: MH is rumoured to be the product of creative editing. I've not seen any but apparently cut footage has leaked into the public domain and exposes some of the show's wheezes.

It wouldn't surprise me DB7. Most 'reality' television programs have scenes staged to make them more interesting to viewers.The truth isn't always entertaining enough for television.

Dave.

[daisymum]

There is an awesome, awesome book from the early/mid 70s called "Our Haunted Kingdom" by Andrew Green(e?) which is well worth seeking out if you're interested in haunted sites in the UK. What it is, is a guide book to authentic haunted sites which had been "active" at some point in the mid 20th century. It goes county by county with a thoroughly researched backgound & description of each site, directions on how to get there by car or public transportation, whether the site was private property or open to the public, what sorts of paranormal activities went on there, etc. etc.
It really is worth picking up if you come across a copy.

My copy has...disappeared. But I remember one of the entries describing a "This Is Your Life" type television show back in the late 50s where whoever was on television & joyfully reuniting with all of her long lost friends & loved ones. After the show a friend of whoever's who had caught the show on television asked her about the handsome RAF Officer who was standing next to her, but never introduced. And of course, it turned out there was no handsome RAF Officer in the studio during the broadcast; that the only handsome RAF Officer that this person had known was her brother, who had perished during the War. ghostly

Sarah Siddons is supposed to haunt her old digs in London. (There was also an entry about a haunting in Penny Lane. Very strange.)