"Most Haunted" - One Thing I Never Understood

[Tulin]

So the various "ghost hunters" are tramping around some old manor or derelict castle, taunting unseen phantoms to show themselves, sometimes even using profanities and challenges to lure them out. Then(and always off camera)we hear what sounds like a pebble fall off a shelf and they all scream and shout while hand held cameras veer madly.

The point of this show, as they always tell us, is to capture a ghost LIVE(oxymoron?)on film.

I suspect if they ever did, half of them would collapse dead from fright.

Not that I am saying I would be any more brave, mind you. I have been in a couple of situations where things got a little out of the ordinary and, to quote Draal, it gave me the screamin' willies, but I am not shooting a tv show in eight hundred year old castles, taunting spirits to come and scare me and then screaming like a little seven year old bitch when a bird flies through a window.

 

[Amaris]

That show is a joke of a show. At least Ghost Hunters attempts some level of legitimacy. Most Haunted never fails to find something, every time, but always off camera.

J.

 

[Tulin]

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are never going to believe this but I SWEAR it's true.

After posting the above initial rant of mine, I started watching a MH episode from season six, "Tretower Court". After spending about eight minutes discussing how frightened of bats Yvette is, they wind up in some dark corridor and hear a sound in the distance and again, off camera.

The historian guy says, "Maybe it was just a pebble falling".

I couldn't believe I heard it right!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dauntless]

This show has been exposed as fake.

 

[broberfett]

The whole show is them jumping at their own shadow.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I believe they once admitted, then quickly backtracked, that what they do is put them in the house/mansion/castle/whatever, then have someone else going round doing things at random to scare them, so they never actually know when, or what will happen, so their reactions are "as real as possible."

 

[Starkers]

Ah half the fun of the show is seeing Yvette Fielding weting herself on a regular basis- I love the locations too- It isn't as good without Derek Ancorah though, he never fails to make me and my girlfriend laugh with his histrionics!

 

[Lonemagpie]

My wife and I often thought about applying to go on and then wind *them* up by playing it totally straight as Doctor Who and Companion and seeing how long it'd take them to catch on.

But then we figured they no doubt have procedures in place to make sure people like us are kept away and only genuine gullible couch-potatoes get in...

 

[Hermiod]

I believe they once admitted, then quickly backtracked, that what they do is put them in the house/mansion/castle/whatever, then have someone else going round doing things at random to scare them, so they never actually know when, or what will happen, so their reactions are "as real as possible."

OFCOM investigated the programme in 2005. OFCOM agreed that the programme was entertainment and not a factual documentary intended to deceive the public. Thus, if its producers try to claim that the content of their programme is a real investigation in to the paranormal then they and Living will be in serious trouble with OFCOM.

 

[Starbreaker]

Is this the one that using the annoying voice all through the episode?

 

[Pingfah]

This show has been exposed as fake.

You don't need to "expose" ghost shows as being fake, there's no such thing as ghosts so it being fake is a natural assumption

 

[Bob The Skutter]

This show has been exposed as fake.

You don't need to "expose" ghost shows as being fake, there's no such thing as ghosts so it being fake is a natural assumption

Shh, you'll spoil it.

 

[Pingfah]

And there's no santa.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

And there's no santa.

Now you're just being mean...

Personally, I don't understand why anyone watches the show, so fake, and repetitive.

 

[Warp Coil]

A couple of friends and former co-workers worked onto the crew for the Most Haunted Live USA gig from a couple of years ago (I think they were investigating an old prison). They said it was scary as hell, and they had caught some pretty creepy things on camera while testing out the equipment. I never saw the footage, though, so who the hell knows. I don't take any of these sorts of shows seriously.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The ONLY Most Haunted clip you need...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEP0usvErRI

 

[Baldus885]

There's a clip around somewhere where something unexplained actually happens - a rock or something appears out of nowhere and hits someone across the head - and they're saying how they can't broadcast it because no-one will believe them. Now there's irony.

I love the way Fielding is describing herself as the UK's foremost paranormal expert.

 

[Nedersong]

it almost souds as if it's an unintentional parody of Ghost Hunters. Because that's exactly the kind of thing that happens in that show.

 

[Unicron]

It does seem that way sometimes. I've watched it, but only for entertainment purposes. It's obvious that some of their investigative methods are flawed.

 

[broberfett]

The ONLY Most Haunted clip you need...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEP0usvErRI

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