Scully1888
01-04-2006, 05:41 PM
Yay, Scully's back!!! etc.
Now, none of these spamming nonsense. I was just wondering if any other of my fellow Schmoes had ever seen Ghostwatch, a TV special filmed on Halloween 1992 in the UK where a so-called live broadcast was being filmed in the "most haunted house in Britain".
There was a presenter back in the studio (the highly-respected Michael Parkinson, who gave a lot of credibility to it) who would talk to the outside broadcast team who were "expecting" to have a couple of laughs with it and reveal it to be the hoax that it probably was.
Of course it doesn't turn out like that, things go wrong, ghostly images appear in the background and it ends up being genuinely scary.
I remember watching this at the young age of 9 and almost shitting my pants (as was the whole of the UK, it seemed). Although the "live broadcast" bits were pre-recorded, the studio was live and Parkinson would take calls from the public who would phone in and swear they'd seen a little girl standing in the corner, heard noises etc. Some of it was true (they had deliberately put people in the shadows and such) but a lot of it was the viewer's imagination.
The main "ghost" was a poltergeist called Mr Pipes, who possesses the girl living in the house with her family.
The whole thing's extremely realistic, very effective and remains one of the scariest things I ever saw.
I just bought it on DVD so I'm going to watch it and see if it's still as scary as it was 13 years ago, but going by its IMDb rating (http://imdb.com/title/tt0200659) I'd say it is.
EDIT: Just reading up on it, it seems someone commited suicide while watching it (though he already had a mental condition). Also, here's a site showing you all the times when the ghost of "Mr Pipes" appears.
http://www.untamedaggression.iofm.net/dvd-ghostwatch3.html
Now, none of these spamming nonsense. I was just wondering if any other of my fellow Schmoes had ever seen Ghostwatch, a TV special filmed on Halloween 1992 in the UK where a so-called live broadcast was being filmed in the "most haunted house in Britain".
There was a presenter back in the studio (the highly-respected Michael Parkinson, who gave a lot of credibility to it) who would talk to the outside broadcast team who were "expecting" to have a couple of laughs with it and reveal it to be the hoax that it probably was.
Of course it doesn't turn out like that, things go wrong, ghostly images appear in the background and it ends up being genuinely scary.
I remember watching this at the young age of 9 and almost shitting my pants (as was the whole of the UK, it seemed). Although the "live broadcast" bits were pre-recorded, the studio was live and Parkinson would take calls from the public who would phone in and swear they'd seen a little girl standing in the corner, heard noises etc. Some of it was true (they had deliberately put people in the shadows and such) but a lot of it was the viewer's imagination.
The main "ghost" was a poltergeist called Mr Pipes, who possesses the girl living in the house with her family.
The whole thing's extremely realistic, very effective and remains one of the scariest things I ever saw.
I just bought it on DVD so I'm going to watch it and see if it's still as scary as it was 13 years ago, but going by its IMDb rating (http://imdb.com/title/tt0200659) I'd say it is.
EDIT: Just reading up on it, it seems someone commited suicide while watching it (though he already had a mental condition). Also, here's a site showing you all the times when the ghost of "Mr Pipes" appears.
http://www.untamedaggression.iofm.net/dvd-ghostwatch3.html