Life gets in the way of your plans, but there is always time for Ghosts!
To bookend October, I started with a fake TV Special on Halloween that was made in 2012. Let's properly end the month with the far-more-infamous one from 1992 that *actually* traumatized people.
In 1992, BBC-1 ran Ghostwatch as a Halloween Special. The Station insisted that it have Opening Credits for a Writer, so nobody would get *too* scared and think this was real. Given the deluge of calls and complaints, it seems that people just missed that- likely by tuning in a few minutes late since they were watching *google search* reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The Special is a 'Documentary' Investigation into a Haunted House. They have everyone on board- a Presenter, an In-The-Field Reporter, a Skeptic, an Expert and...the guy from Red Dwarf. Can they get proof of what is supposedly-happening?
To find out why 1,000,000 called in to to the Studio after this ran its one and only Broadcast, read on...
A lovely little home on Foxhill Drive is experiencing some weird phenomena.Long before your Blair Witches and Paranormal Activity Films, you'd get this harrowing footage of strange banging, objects being knocked around and children scared in their own room.
We are also shown Photos that supposedly prove that weird things were going on.
*Below is the real Enfield Haunting Bedroom that inspired this Special*
Callers talk about seeing a figure in the curtains. The girls call him 'Pipes,' due to the sounds 'he' makes always coming from there.
Things build and build as 'Pipes' seems to get more daring and the effect of the Show seems to be spreading, based on the callers.
A classic bit of sneaky, but fun TV- back when you could do that. Could something like this work in 2022? Would you believe that, for instance, NBC News was doing this? In the Internet Age, this seems impossible, if not very, VERY hard to do. The most we can get now is the occasional surprise Movie Announcement- like Blair Witch or The Cloverfield Paradox.
A Special that lives up to its reputation. It makes for a great Halloween viewing, but is also good any other night of the year.
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