Most Haunted

[tiggerblue10]

Did anybody watch Most Haunted last night - what did you think? It took place in 30 East Drive, Pontefract, and the house is allegedly haunted by one of the most violent poltergeists ever.

I found it quite frightening and can't wait till part 2 next week. Also looking forward to the return of Most Haunted Live on Halloween.

[tiggerblue10]

No one is asking anyone to believe in anything they don't want to believe in. I was just asking for opinions from any who watched it. I think football is the most boring pretentious pile of crud ever invented but I don't feel the need to go into a thread in Sport and start slating it.

[RATTER15]

I agree about the football, silly nonsense as well!

[tiggerblue10]

Glad that we agree about football :)

[Hypognosis]

The MH of yesteryear was quite funny, on a regular basis. Grown adults scaring themselves witless, in the pitch black (we're told it's pitch black but only have their word for that).

Which came first though: Blair Witch Project or Most Haunted, in terms of night vision footage?

[Hypognosis]

Was it something I said?

[Old_Geezer]

If you're not prepared to discuss football why post here ?!?

"The Blair Witch Project" was in 1999. "Most Haunted" started in 2002.

[Mosaic]

Hypog - the tropes of the Blair Witch Project are much in evidence in MH. Personally I love the old fraudsters. I finally got round to watching the episode in question here, and my evaluation is:
Quite clever acting interspersed with a constant drip-feed of suggestion for viewers who want to 'see things'
Not a single inexplicable event occurred on camera or on record.
It is most noble of Carl and Stu to whack a hot curling iron on their forearms - truly a hit for the team. But I'd suggest taking things a little far.
Which is probably why they quit at the end ie it was getting too hard to make up material without going totally Amityville.
The final footage was interspersed with semi-subliminal 'spooky' shots from Haworth churchyard, cheap trick.
On the other hand, close examination of the areas geological maps confirms the area is riddled with faults and in all likelihood has old unmapped mineworkings. The settling of these and seepage of toxic gases would account for drowsiness, feelings of unease, and creaking.
Be interesting to see if any other parts of the estate are affected by settlement damage.

[Hypognosis]

Thank yous to Old_Geezer and Mosaic for setting out the chronology. That was genuine curiosity, on my part, not a knowing effort to show up MH as a 'derivative work' but the similarity was uncanny.

No harm done, in entertaining people, of course and the disclaimer, in that vein, is clear for all to see, so we cannot label them as frauds (except in a tongue-in-cheek manner). They clearly have a real hoot making these shows and it shows through in their drive and enthusiasm for the subject. I wouldn't begrudge them that.

I only which they took a more scientific approach, looking into the reasons why buildings make noises (for example) when noone is there; all the things which need to be eliminated in order to prove a ghost is properly inexplicable.

The episode where a barn owl hissed at them was a case in point.

[Mosaic]

Lordy lord - I well remember Yvonne going off on one prompted by the red light on a cona coffee machine! Hilarious...then there's Derek's classic, Mary loves Dick....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8H_v8cM9CQ