'Most Haunted Live'. Sorry, I just need to rant!!?

[jellybabe]

I do watch these programs, I admit, but surely I can't be the only person to be unconvinced about the so called proof they offer. At the start of the show last night they had the regular nut job saying how she had never missed an episode, had all the DVDs and was a total expert, just before they showed the clip of her being asked questions on a previous show and not knowing the answers. She said, and others have said that the scariest thing they had ever seen on the show was when one of the team was out on their own and a beer barrel rolled past, apparently of its own accord. I can vaguely remember this show, I think it was the one set in Granada studios. That's the place were they use special effects to make you think you are seeing things that aren't real. Did no-one else see this and think, someone off camera just pushed it along? This particular show was co-presented by members of the cast who all looked suitable terrified. Actors, in a tv studio, being scared by things going bump, and shadows, who'd have thought it?

So, last night, there they were in a disused tube station, hearing all sorts. Could all the bangs and scrapes they said they were hearing not have been caused by someone off camera with a selection of pots, pans, plastics cups and tin spoons? Dont forget as well, that the place is obviously crawling with rats. At one point Yvette said she had been looking at stuff on camera and something had fallen down, that she hadn't seen before. Could this not have been a humble spider? My point is, this is a tv production crew, the situations are highly manipulated and some viewers get the idea that something strange is going on, but just because they lead you to think that all that is down to spooks, doesn't mean that it is. Dont forget, Yvette was an actress before all this, although that was a very long time ago, Yvette and her hubby Karl own the production company so it is in their interests to make sure people watch it. They have done well, they recently started the Paranormal Channel with mostly their own money and now you can watch endless repeats of Auther C Clarke, and Strange But True with Micheal Aspel. Whoopee.

When will someone come up with proper proof of either the existance or otherwise of ghosts. Ghosthunters makes a good stab at it. Some of the things they show can make your spine tingle, but again, I'm thinking, 'its all done in post production'. If the truth really is out there, it's not transferring well to telly.

 

[Gail]

I used to be an avid fan of Most Haunted when it first started. But Derek Acorah the more famous he became the more predictable. When he became possessed by a monkey was the final switch off for me.
There have been some incidents that i have found fascinating, and the good thing about this show is that it has been the first to open the doors on tv to other similar shows.
But i do agree a lot of it is far fetched and anyone can hear sounds if they listen hard enough.

 

[mary z]

I do not think anyone will ever prove it..you either believe or you don't.

 

[Avondrow]

Most haunted has been utterly debunked and shown to be fixed. Check this link out for just one expose!

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/mosthaunted.html


The whole format of the show is unsuitable for any serious investigation. There is the circular logic of using a 'psychic' to provide evidence; in other words, using one unproven to justify another. How do we know there are ghosts? Because this psychic can sense them. How do we know he is psychic? Because he can sense ghosts! Etc etc!

 

[jamand]

OK - I was dragged to one of these live shows when my ex partner wanted to go - she believed in all this junk.

It is a farce - a money making scam on the part of Living TV.

The whole show is faked - the audience questions are faked - to get in early and to get better seats the crew approach you and asks if you want to ask a question - you are then given the question by them - you CANNOT ask your own question.

The rooms are full of dust and any lighting picks up this dust and makes it look like orbs.

The whole show was thrown into turmoil by the faking of 'events' by Derek Acorah - he was proved to be a fake in one of the shows.

I used to work for London Transport and the stations all make starnge noises at night as the buildings, trains and rails etc etc all cool down from the days work.

It is a load of bunkum.

I have been down in ALL the stations across London at some point - on my own - including where suicides and crashes have taken place - I have NEVER seen diddly squat that would prove the afterlife. NOTHING.