On Friday nights at 10PM my wife and I have a tradition. We settle in to watch “Most Haunted” on the Travel Channel. We DVR it, let the first 15 minutes pass, and at 10:15 we start the show from the beginning. We do this so we can back up the DVR and watch certain portions over and over to hear and or see whatever it is that happened that particular moment on the tape.
I started watching the Travel Channel’s “Most Haunted” a couple years ago with my youngest daughter. We did it as a Friday night ritual to hang out some and have quality time. I got hooked on the show, and since my daughter bought a house and moved out, my wife has taken up the tradition with me. It’s my favorite time of the whole week. We sit in our bed, turn off the lights and hope we get scared. It’s a lot of fun and a great way for the Mrs. & I to have some fun things in common. It’s good for the marriage and the soul.
“Most Haunted” is a British television show that really took off in popularity a few years ago. The show debuted in May, 2002, and has been growing ever since.
Host Yvette Fielding is also billed as the “presenter” of the program and the show is produced by she and her husband, Karl Beattie. They are the show’s co-creators, as well as both figure prominently on camera. The other on camera crew members are some cameramen, Stuart Torevell especially, as he is Karl’s best friend and investigative cohort; Cat Howe, the show’s hair & makeup person; Brian Shepherd is the show’s official medium; Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe is a licensed parapsychologist, and Leslie Smith who is a renown historian in the UK.
Most of the show’s locations that are investigated are in the UK. What better place than an island that has over 1000 years of documented history? In the UK a 300 year old building is a common thing to see – many still occupied homes have their origins from the Middle Ages, and indeed these locations have a plethora of history to investigate.
I have seen things on Travel Channel’s “Most Haunted” that have indeed made a believer out of me. Why, might one inquire? Because according to Wikipedia, the show has been fully and independently vetted and the things seen or heard on camera are not staged, faked, or involve any level of deception or trickery.
As well, the on-screen reactions of the show’s cast & crew are priceless. Either these persons are world class actors deserving of every Emmy & Oscar ever awarded, or what is happening on screen to the cast and crew are indeed genuine. I have seen and heard the folks scream and run from locations in complete terror. The fear, as I stated, is either real, or these folks are the greatest actors that ever lived. Richard Burton would be envious if this is acting.
I have witnessed cameras “locked down” (a “remote” camera placed on a tripod and observing & filming an unoccupied area being investigated for the entire time the crew is on location) that show things flying through the air, seemingly by themselves. There is no one in the room. I once saw a brick that was on the floor of a place being renovated, and the brick just launched itself into the air and across the room until it hit a wall and fell back to the floor. The brick flight path was an arc, so clearly the brick was not on a string or pole or some other attempt at deception. The locked down camera filmed the area for hours, and no one was in the room when the brick took flight.
I once saw a locked down camera that was focused on a bed in a closed and locked bedroom. At some point during the investigation the weirdest thing, and the thing that most gave me goose bumps was observed.
The bed was completely made, the bedspread was one of the old type thin, white cotton bedspreads that was so popular in the 50’s & 60’s. The camera was focused on the made bed and a chair on the other side of the bed that sat beneath a window. The bedspread was pulled taught and looked as if the bed had just been made.
During the course of the team’s investigating the location the locked down camera captured images that sent chills through me. Sometime during the night the locked down camera captured what looked as if an invisible entity sat on the bed. (I am getting goose bumps just reciting this to you) The bedspread was taught and suddenly in the middle of the twin bed, on the opposite side from the camera, the bedspread depressed and ruffled as it would if someone had sat upon it.
The “depression” and ruffling of the bedspread remained on the bed for 15 or 20 seconds, and then the bedspread lessened it’s ruffling and the depression where the weight of a sitting person would have been, disappeared, although the bedspread was still ruffled and disheveled form having been sat upon.
You know what I’m talking about. You make your bed, all nice and tight and then you sit on the corner of the bed to put on your shoes or something. When you get up the bedspread is ruffled where you sat. Same thing here, except since the entity that “sat” on the bed was invisible, the camera recorded the bed being depressed by the weight of the seated apparition, and then the depression lessened as the entity rose, leaving only a ruffled place on the bed where the entity sat. This took place over a period of 20 or 30 seconds.
If you are at all open-minded as to whether we are “alone” in the known 3 dimensions of physical awareness, you have got to watch this show. It comes on Friday nights at 10PM Eastern, on Travel Channel. DVR the show, then turn off the lights and watch it with a friend. You’ll find yourself with the DVR remote in your hand, backing up the tape and re-watching what you’ve just seen. You won’t believe your eyes.
I highly recommend this show as both great entertainment as well as exceptionally thought provoking. If you have an open mind at all, you will be shocked, and maybe you too will become a believer that there are indeed things out there we do not yet understand.
SOURCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Haunted
