Ghostwatch Page #5

(GHOST GRUNTING)

WOMAN:
A grunt

or something like that.

If you can grunt,

can you speak?

GHOST:
Round and round

the garden...

WOMAN:
Oh, dear God, save us.

GHOST:
...goes the teddy bear.

One stone,

two stone, take her...

WOMAN:
Who are you?

What's your name?

-(GHOST TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

-WOMAN:
Jesus Christ!

Are you joking?

GHOST:
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Very funny.

WOMAN:
Are you dead?

Are you in heaven?

GHOST:
All good children

go to bed.

(GHOST CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

Bizarre. And chilling too.

Well, forensic scientists

at Cambridge

examined the voice recording,

and compared it to Suzanne's

normal speech pattern.

And they defined it as the

voices of two separate people.

Two people, yeah.

-And, erm, we asked Suzanne

to see, if she could...

-Oh, my God!

DR PASCOE:
...imitate

the voice recording.

And she was unable to do so

for more than a few seconds.

MICHAEL:
That's her,

trying it there.

DR PASCOE:
Yeah.

-Try it again.

-(IMITATING GHOST)

Round and round the garden

like a teddy... Oh, my God.

-MICHAEL:
She can't do it.

-No. Even under hypnosis,

we tried that.

-Really? And the same result?

-Still the...

What other evidence

do we have, Doctor?

Well, over the months,

Alan Demescu, my partner,

and I heard numerous noises...

Thuds, bangs, scratching on

the walls, knocking.

The sort of normal noises

you associate

with poltergeist activity?

What about this here, though?

Ah, well, this is...

This is my favourite, I think.

This pillow moved

diagonally to within

about a foot of my face.

Now, it's impossible to fake

that. How do you fake that?

MICHAEL:
(CHUCKLING)

I don't know really at all.

Let's have a look at some more

evidence over here.

This is the wreckage evidence,

if you like.

This is an extraordinary

assembly of...

-There is this cup here

for instance.

-Yeah.

Right? Let me show that

in the camera there.

Now, how did

these breakages occur?

-Were they dropped?

-DR PASCOE:
Well, no...

-The army did some analysis

of this for us.

-Yeah.

And they said it'd been caused

by intense temperature change.

Not by impact or shock.

MICHAEL:
Really?

-This temperature...

There you are.

-DR PASCOE:
Yeah.

MICHAEL:
Look,

the headless lady.

And lots more guys here,

and crockery.

-Look at that.

-DR PASCOE:
Yeah.

And clocks or watches

just stop when they're

in the house.

I mean, I just gave up

wearing one. There's no point.

MICHAEL:
And the favourites

in situations like this...

God, the spoons that are bent.

Quite remarkable.

Couple of regular little Uri

Gellers, those sisters.

Yes, they weren't even

in the room sometimes.

You'd just open the drawer

and they are there.

-And you saw all this happen?

-Yeah, many times.

Many, many times.

Extraordinary.

Let's now look at another

piece of evidence, Doctor.

And that's the situation where

Suzanne's face at times is

covered with marks,

with lesions.

Before I talk to you

about that,

I'd like to talk to Suzanne.

And I think that...

Yeah, there they are.

-We're on. Yeah. Here we are.

-We're going live over there.

So I'd like to talk

to Suzanne.

Suzanne, when did you first

get these marks on your face?

When did they first show?

About July, the first one was.

It was horrible.

Well, I'd just wake up

and it would feel like

someone was all over me.

And in fact, we've got there,

Dr Pascoe,

we've got some of the pictures

that were taken there

of the face of that girl

with these extraordinary marks

on them.

DR PASCOE:
Alan and I watched

them appear on her face,

quite literally in front of

our eyes.

MICHAEL:
There's

another shot there. Look.

Remarkable.

Now we've seen, Dr Pascoe...

We've seen the evidence

that you've collected so far.

I'd like your theory.

From what we've seen,

do you think that the

poltergeist activity,

such that it is,

is now centred on Suzanne?

Well, certainly as a female

approaching puberty,

she does conform

to the classic

typical poltergeist focus.

-Yeah.

-Broken family background,

she's introverted.

She tends maybe to direct

her stress and anxiety inwards

until it has nowhere to go,

and then... Bam.

I see.

I think we've still got

Mrs Early there, in our

outside broadcast studio.

If she's... Yes.

There you are.

Mrs Early, I don't know quite

if you heard that,

what Dr Pascoe was saying.

Well, she said that Suzanne

was the classic

typical poltergeist focus.

She was the person that all

this energy was focusing on.

What do you think about that?

Well, there's nothing wrong

with my Suzie. I know that.

If my Suzie's funny,

well, how does that explain

the other things like, erm,

like the glory hole?

It doesn't and it can't.

So you disagree with

Dr Pascoe's theory that

Suzanne's psychological

problems are the cause

of these disturbances.

I think what you're saying

really is, in fact, that you

believe it's a natural ghost.

Don't you, Lin?

Pam, I'm not

disagreeing with you.

Please believe me.

I'm on your side.

I know that

there's something there.

I'm just trying to understand

what it is.

A poltergeist

can be location-based

or person-based.

I mean, who knows?

Maybe this is both.

I mean, of course a lot

of people would have it that

there's nothing there at all.

Yeah, well, a lot of people

would have it at one time that

you couldn't walk on the moon.

All right. Well, in order to

avoid any accusations of bias,

I'd like to bring in

physicist Emilio Sylvestri.

A former member of the

sceptic society, CSICOP,

the Committee for the

Scientific Investigation

for Claims of the Paranormal.

He's in New York.

Good evening, Dr Sylvestri.

Good evening.

Thank you for joining us.

You've looked at the evidence

in this case.

I'd like to hear your

conclusions. What are they?

Well, I think

it's pretty obvious

there's nothing in the tape

that couldn't be faked.

The bedroom footage is

totally inconclusive.

It could all be done

with wires, for all we know.

DR PASCOE:
And the legions

on Suzanne's face?

Scratched by her fingernails.

DR PASCOE:
She's not lying.

Believe her.

I'd love to.

The same as I'd love to

believe I'm going to heaven,

but... Doesn't make it a

scientific fact.

DR PASCOE:
But if people do

believe in something,

surely, we shouldn't

discount it.

I mean, it's all part of

human experience and that's

what we're studying.

Well... Fine, fine.

But is it measurable?

Is it provable? No...

For years, parapsychologists

have been trying to prove

their loony theories

in laboratory conditions,

and they can't.

Yeah, that's right. We can't.

That's where we went wrong.

There are some things you

can't demonstrate in a lab.

Show me falling in love

in a lab.

Show me poetic inspiration

in a lab.

You can't. You've got to

get out of the lab

and into real life,

and that's what we're trying

to do tonight.

These people are not

deceiving us or themselves.

Look at them.

They're in trauma for God's

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