Ghostwatch

The programme

you're about to watch

is a unique live investigation

of the supernatural.

It contains material which

some viewers

may find to be disturbing.

No creaking gates,

no Gothic towers,

no shutter windows,

yet, for the past 10 months,

this house has been the focus

of an astonishing barrage

of supernatural activity.

This footage was shot

by parapsychologists

investigating the case.

Now, you're about to see

one of the incidents

that have earned

this house its reputation.

-Let's see what you think.

-I can't sleep.

Turn the light off.

Mum said if you don't...

All right. All right.

(BANGING)

Mum.

Mum. Mum! Mummy,

it's back! It's back!

-Mum!

-Mum.

Mum. Mum.

-Help me.

-(SCREAMING)

-Help me.

-Don't touch me!

-(HIT ON THE DOOR)

-Don't touch me.

(SCREAMING)

-Don't..

-(BOTH SCREAM)

-Quickly!

-Mum! Mum!

-Mum.

-Mum.

(SCREAMING)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

MICHAEL:
So welcome live

this Halloween night

to the first ever

TV Ghostwatch.

That's the scene in

Foxhill Drive in Northolt.

They are outside

broadcasting this

and there, that's the house

where it might

all happen tonight

or it might not. We shall see.

We're going to investigate

one of the most baffling

and fascinating areas

of human experience,

the supernatural.

Tonight, television is going

ghost-hunting

in an unprecedented

scientific experiment,

where we hope to show you

for the first time

irrefutable proof that

ghosts really do exist.

I'm joined in the studio

by Dr Lin Pascoe

to give her expert

technical advice.

Throughout the programme, I'll

be taking other expert opinion

about the supernatural

from both here and America.

You'll be telling us

your ghost stories.

And as our tale unfolds,

we'll be taking your calls

about just what you're seeing.

Well, let's go to the main

location of our programme,

the house in Foxhill Drive.

Craig Charles,

a well-known ghost hunter,

is our reporter.

Craig, how are you?

Hi, Michael.

Yeah, I'm fine.

I've taken the Valium, man.

Later on,

we're gonna be interviewing

the medium who tried

unsuccessfully

to exorcise

the house behind me.

I wonder if he's heard

from Elvis lately.

All right, there.

With me is Pam Early,

the mum of the house.

-Hello, Pam.

-Hello.

And she's gonna be taking us

through the whole

spine-tingling story.

(HUMMING THE TWILIGHT ZONE

THEME)

And after that, you can share

with us your own

supernatural experience

on our very own Halloween

witch-board.

I mean, switchboard.

-Over to you Smithy.

-MIKE:
Thanks, Craig.

We'll come back to you

later on.

All right,

this part of the studio

is your part of the studio

this evening, because this is

the phone number

we'd like you to call us on.

You can now see

our Ghostwatch team are here

ready to take your calls.

We particularly

want to hear from you

if you've had

any personal experiences

of ghosts or the supernatural.

Call us now.

As a matter of fact,

of course, Mike Smith

has a very particular reason

for keeping a beady eye

on the proceedings tonight.

-Michael.

-Well, so would you,

if your wife had just told you

she was gonna spend

the best part of her night

in the most haunted house

in Britain.

Of course we're taking about

Sarah Greene.

And Sarah is our reporter

who'll be spending the night,

actually,

inside our haunted house.

She was very keen to do it,

I understand, Mike.

Oh, yeah,

jumped at the chance.

Actually, so did I, because

we've both been interested

in ghosts and that weird

sort of stuff.

And to be honest,

I could never have

sat at home tonight on my own

and watched this programme.

I'm safer here.

MICHAEL:
All right, Mike,

thanks a lot.

Now, confrontations, of

course, with the supernatural,

can be devastatingly real.

Let's find out

what effect they've had

on Mrs Early and her family.

So, how destructive has

the haunting actually been?

Mum kept on blaming us

for breaking stuff.

We weren't doing anything.

I've lost track,

really, I have.

Plates, teapots, cups,

a broken tap,

we got this thick smell,

so disgusting, from the tap.

And stains got on clothes from

nowhere, out of thin air.

-And in the central

heating vent.

-The man came, and...

He couldn't understand it,

he said it was impossible.

Everybody said

it was impossible.

I said, "Great. You come

and live with 'impossible'."

So many things

have happened...

You start thinking...

I don't know...

Maybe you've done

something wrong.

It's wrecked my... My house,

my home, my family...

CRAIG:
It's okay.

Over to you, Michael.

Dr Lin Pascoe,

it's a disturbing interview,

that, isn't it?

You investigated

the Northolt poltergeist

for eight months, wasn't it?

What can be done

for people like Mrs Early?

According to

the evidence on that film,

clearly she's shattered.

Well, the first thing

we can all do for a start is

believe them.

Well, it's not always

that easy, is it?

Yes, but you can see,

it's obvious these people

are desperate for help.

Makes me so angry when

you still get people out there

denying that these things

even happen.

All right, Dr Pascoe,

for the moment, thank you

very much indeed.

Lin Pascoe will be giving

her expert commentary

right throughout

the programme.

And by the way, for those

night owls amongst you,

we'll be here with updates

roughly every hour,

right through the night.

Well,

now it's high time we met

our intrepid ghost-watcher,

Sarah Greene.

First hospital watch, Sarah,

now a ghost watch,

big difference.

Well, I suppose the truth is

I love a mystery,

and who knows, we may get to

the bottom of this one.

Actually, my own experience

with things ghostly,

albeit very brief,

was so intriguing,

I thought I might

get the chance to learn

a bit more tonight.

Well, perhaps,

we might get a chance

to hear more of your story

later on.

Yeah, if we get

an opportunity, I'd love to.

Actually, Smithy was there

when I had my encounter

with what I think was a ghost.

-But he wasn't quite as struck

as me, there, were you...

-Well, no. Well, yes.

I mean, I think,

this is the right environment

so study these things.

Yeah, that's why I get

sent out here to the frontline

and you stay all cosy

and safe and sound

in the studio, isn't it?

Well, good luck,

and I'll see you later.

Now, before we go into

the lion's den,

I'd like to introduce you

to Alan Demescu.

He is an electronics engineer,

and a member of the Society

for Psychical Research.

Now, Alan,

we have a whole array

of technology here with us.

What are you hoping

to discover tonight?

Well, the paranormal covers

a wide range of aspects,

but tonight,

we're concentrating on

what we call,

"Spontaneous cases."

What are they exactly?

Well, anything from

inexplicable noises,

footsteps, knocking,

irrefutive voices, presences,

the feeling of being watched,

er, electrical interference,

say, you know, your TV,

lights, telephone...

Right along at the far end

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