9 November 2017

REVIEW: Ghost Chasers Episode 2 (Hastings)


Despite me claiming that I wouldn't review any more episodes of Ghost Chasers I am back with my review for episode 2, and the reasons why I am back will become apparent soon enough. So before we get going, I popped to see some of the girls who work in the BadPsychics offices, and waited for them to leave the room, I then riffled through their draws, as I usually do, and I found a suspiciously looking back massager, that had a crude drawing of Kay Nambier on it, no idea what that is all about, and why would a back massager smell all fishy, anyway I delved deeper and found some sticky blurbage, and here it is...

"Supernatural scares with Kay Nambier. The team investigates paranormal activity in Hastings, where they attempt a midnight seance at a large abandoned seafront hotel."

So this cocky no hat Raggy Doll bloke called Paul Hobday reads my review of episode 1 of his show Ghost Chasers, and he has the nerve to tweet about me!


Did I say those words about the show in my episode 1 review? I can neither confirm or deny that, but one thing I will say is that I hate it when people think I am praising them, so I am back to rip this show to shreds, I will leave the lot of them lying in a pool of their own viscera by the time I have finished with them.

And with that the episode has now begun, and we are reminded that "This programme is for entertainment purposes only", I think I will be the judge of that.

Housewife's favourite Kay Nambier starts off with his creepy sounding voice over. 


He is clearly loving the British weather.

Kay goes off to find Ian, Chris and Paul, and we then witness one of the greatest moments in the history of paranormal TV when Paul and Chris do the handshake/hug with Kay. A very American style move, made to look incredibly awkward. Ian however is smart, he has experience, he knows what he is doing, so he goes for a full on man hug thus saving awkwardness.


Truly is a wonderful moment.

Also nice to notice that everyone has kept in character coming from the previous episode, that being 
Chris = Raggy Doll Hat / AKA. Raggy Hat
Paul = Raggy Doll No Hat / AKA. Raggy No Hat
Ian = 1950's Sherlock Holmes Character
Kay = Annoying attractive all round decent bloke. 

It is chucking it down with rain and Paul refuses to break character and put his hood up.

We are told briefly about Aleister Crowley, an English occultist who died in Hastings, so guessing he might make an appearance later on.

Ian Lawman is still trying to claim he has had these magic powers since he was a child. I literally interviewed him about a decade or so ago, and all he claimed then was he was a "sensitive" yet now he is seeing all sorts. Come on Ian, at least keep your story consistent, that is all we ask.


Quick interview with Joel Griggs from The True Crime Museum, Joel comes across quite well which is rare when these types of shows bring on someone to interview.

He "sells" the Museum quite well, which is his job, and if I went to Hastings I would probably quite like to visit this place.

Ian Lawman is claiming to feel all manner of nonsense, which I will ignore.

Chris then has an EMF meter and seems interested that it goes up when he holds it up to some light thingy, erm, that is what is causing it.


And then that stupid skeptic Paul goes and ruins everything by explaining the science behind how high electromagnetic fields can affect people, make them feel paranoid, uncomfortable etc, and says that to Ian to explain why he has been feeling a tad dodgy. Ian then counters by saying that he believes the ghosties use the EMF as a way to communicate and make themselves felt by the living.

Stupid Paul with his no hat on. Skepticism this, skepticism that, blah blah blah, shut ya face. 

I might have to start cheering on Ian at this rate, at least he talks proper bollocks that we can all get behind, and then moan at because he is talking bollocks.

Stupid Raggy Doll Paul just talks sense, and lets be honest, that is ruining it for everyone!

So far there has been a distinct lack of banter from Chris which is incredibly disappointed. I have heard from my Ghost Chasers Mole that Chris has earned some of the following nicknames over the years.
Chris "The Bantster" Howley
The King of Bants
The Bant Snatcher
The Banteater
The Flying Bantelope
The Archbishop of Banterbury

The investigation proper has now started, and still no dodgy green filters or faked night vision, they are just filming with the ambient light present. Such an amazing idea.


Ian Lawman starts talking about a girl called Lucinda who is with him in spirit but was never found.

Ian starts to call out to Lucinda asking her for a sign, a noise, a visualisation, something. They hear some steps. And go to investigate. I happen to know what caused the noise, so just waiting to see what they claim caused it.

And yes they admit that it is one of the displays in the museum. Now they claim that all displays were turned off before they started. Ian asks Lucinda to now turn the display off, and after a few moments it does stop.

So my explanation for this is simple, the display was never turned off, and I assume it is activated either by a movement sensor or a timer. Either would explain why it came on. A spider for example could have crossed the sensor and that would set it off, or the timer simply activated it.

So although this scene is interesting, there is nothing here that would suggest paranormal activity. And to be fair to the Raggy Dolls, only Ian is really claiming any such thing, the others although interested are not claiming this as definitive proof of anything, so well done guys.

Kay is now feeling a bit heavy, but this could all be psychological.


Kay starts talking to the ghosts while Paul films it using his iPad and a thermal imaging attachment. I will admit that while I hate the use of EMF meters, I don't mind the use of the thermo cam attachment. It's simple, it is a good gimmick for the viewer at home to understand and see.


It might just be me, but I swear I can make out a ghost with some kind of mask on holding a woman's leg with a red shoe on stood right in front of Kay and Ian here.

Ian is "seeing" hooded ghosts now, but no one else can see them, and the thermo cam is not seeing anything either. So either Ian is lying, or we just proved that the Thermo cam is useless at detecting ghosts?

Ian is now claiming he can see Aleister Crowley, which we did expect would appear, just not on camera of course.


They leave the area and head back to this skull. Not at all creepy!

Suddenly Chris' phone starts talking, looking for a wifi connection. But surely everyone's phone was turned off, Chris confirms his phone was turned off.

So either he has accidentally pressed the power button on his phone, or the ghost of a rapist and triple murderer who was executed 100 years ago, has developed the ability and knowledge of how to turn an iPhone on. Hmmmm.

Worth noting that I am just 19 minutes in to a 45 minute episode, and a fair bit has happened, the episode has held by concentration and interest, which is incredibly rare for any kind of show in this genre.

The Raggy Dolls have now moved to the Palace Court Hotel, where Aleister Crowley apparently had stayed.

Joel Griggs starts telling us some stories of people who have died in the hotel. Stories which do seem to match what Ian is telling us. That would suggest that Ian has researched this location and already knows some stories. 

In the world of the smartphone, he could just go to the toilet, use google on his phone to find out about the location, and get enough info that he could blag the rest. Unlike the old days of Most Haunted with Derek Acorah, things today are so much easier to research, which makes the input of psychics almost pointless in investigating such places, as there is no realistic way to control things to make cheating or researching impossible. 

Every time I hear the name Crowley in this episode all I can think of is this Ozzy Osbourne song, and now it is stuck in my head, so why should I suffer alone?


They are now in the cellars of the hotel, and Ian is hearing some kind of ritual kind or chant. 


I genuinely thought Chris was holding a banana here for a moment, which to be fair is as much us as an EMF meter in a paranormal investigation.

They find a door that has been nailed shut, from the other side, and it is the other side of that door that Ian is sensing the most activity.


So Chris decides to kick down the door, which is criminal damage surely?


We now get to see "Kung Fu Chris" (Another nickname he has) do his best to kick the doors down. But he cant get it done, so they have a break, and Kay gets to do some more voice overs. It is now the middle of the night, and they are in an abandoned part of the hotel, and because Kay cant stop coughing he gets to put a mask on.


You would think the housewives would be pissed off that he is covering his face, but I hear they thought it was even more kinky.

They head up to Room 308, and Ian is trying to contact the dead, and help a woman cross to the other side. 

The lack of green filters and fake night vision really does make this show stand out, and if anything makes it more creepy to watch.

They hear some noises and go investigate, and they then found a second Room 308! That is spooky.

They decide to split up with two people in each Room 308.

They do quite well here to build up a sense of tension.


Kay claims to have seen something, but it is most likely just a shadow, but when they try to replicate the movements, he doesn't see anything.

Kay does come across as very honest and I have no reason to not believe him, however his experience could definitely be put down to nerves, fear, and so on.

They head down to a small room which has a walk in safe inside. Kay seems genuinely very scared, and I do wonder if the other 3 see him as a soft touch at times, after all he has not to my knowledge done these types of investigations before, he is a singer and a model.

Chris and Kay are gonna be closed inside the safe with Paul and Ian outside.

Chris loads that random word generator Echo Vox thingy on his phone.
Worth noting here it is not really a random word generator, it records what people present say, and then replays that back in a random order. So if you are talking about ghosts, naming people who have died etc, that is all going into the app.


Love or hate this show, the shot above has to be one of the all time great shots in the history of this type of show. That really is a masterful shot, I am sure unintentional due to the space constraints of being in this safe, but damn that is a good shot, even if the app kinda looks a bit like KITT from Knightrider. A quarter of Kay's disembodied head in the top right is a genius shot, so well done guys.

Kay says to the app. "My name is Kay can you please repeat that" then the app does indeed say "Kay". But like I said previously, the way this app works is by recording you and then playing back what you have said in a random manner. So purely by chance if you play with it long enough and ask enough questions that include the answer in the question you are asking, you are going to get some kind of interesting response, this is not the ghosts though, this is just the way the app has been written to work.

Then the inevitable happens, they cant open the safe door to get them out, so we now get a great little scene of panic, people kicking the door and so on. All very funny and I am sure exaggerated for effect. For the record they are not claiming this was paranormal, so I really don't mind things like this, its all good fun and entertaining to watch, but Paul, dude, you cant smirk when doing those things, it gives the game away.

After they have escaped they head off to a room, draw a giant hexagram on the floor, put down candles, tarot cards and basically made it as spooky looking as hell.


Like seriously dudes, this is some great looking spooky shit here!
Where as I could not imagine anything worse than going on an investigation with the Most Haunted Muppets, I think I would actually quite enjoy going on an investigation with the Ghost Chaser Raggy Dolls. Although clearly if I did, I would have to accept my role as Sad Sack.

Ian is now pretending to be annoyed that the guys have made this Hexagram, as it will draw in the most evil of spirits and energy etc. Ian reiterates that this is very serious and dangerous, and that by having a seance to try and bring forth the spirit of Crowley, that it is really risky. Ian even mentions Lucifer.


The three of them are stood in the Hexagram. Ian is spouting his spiritual nonsense. But nothing happens there, so they head off back to the Hotel's cellars and straight to the locked door that Chris couldn't kick open earlier.


Look at this for camera work, come on, this is another great shot.
However this shot does expose one thing, right in front of us is Ian and Kay, and in the far background you can see Chris and Paul, so who the hell is holding the camera! Holy shit is can only be the spirit of Aleister Crowley.

Ian is claiming he can see a mist between them and the others, Ian then claims that when you see mist it is the early stages of spirit manifestation. So next time you are driving along and there is a low laying mist in the air, know that you are really driving through thousands of ghosties!

Kay thinks that something has touched his hand, and with that we close down the episode, Kay goes over the main happenings of the episode and credits then roll.

This was a good episode, really good, at no point did I feel bored.

The gulf between Most Haunted and Ghost Chasers is huge when it comes down to the level of intelligence of those taking part, the camera work, the build of tension and so on.

Kay is great as the figurehead of the show, someone who is inexperienced, so very much is the person that the casual viewer can relate to, especially me, as I also have thick black hair and am incredibly good looking. Watching Kay is like looking in a mirror.

You have Paul who is the annoying skeptic, who is doing his best to ruin me as a skeptical analyst on such programs, and then you have The King of Kung Fu. The Bant, in Bant & Dec. The Archbishop of Banterbury, The Bantersaurus Rex, in Chris Howley, a man who has never been seen in public without his hat on.

And you have Ian. The resident psychic, and as much as I know he is not psychic, he does not talk to the dead, he has no magic powers, despite all of that, he does have a place in a show like this. He helps create the atmosphere when he starts talking about ghosts, and seeing apparitions and so on. And I would much rather have a psychic fannying about in the dark in an old building, than pretending to talk to your dead mother and then asking for money for the pleasure. So yeah even Ian has his place on this show.

So where does that leave me. Another episode gone, nothing that I really needed to expose, other than the Echo Vox nonsense. There was no camera trickery, no dodgy edits, no throwing of stones, hell I don't believe I even had to capitalise the words "OFF CAMERA" once in the whole show. 

The only mystery that remains is, who is the 5th member of the crew?

Paul, Chris and Kay are good people. Ian is an evil grief vulture of a psychic, but well he already knows that, and I am sure away from the nonsense he is a nice bloke too.

Ghost Chasers is such a welcome change in the world of Paranormal TV investigations. And yes they will set up a couple of funny moments, or exaggerate something here and there, but it is never done in a way to con the viewer, only to entertain them, so I don't mind that.

Where as Most Haunted is such a struggle to review, so much of an effort, a show I only watch because I do the review. Ghost Chasers is a show I would watch regardless of doing a review, I would just watch it because it is a damn good show.

So if you have not seen it yet, give it a watch, I will watch it again, and if they try any funny business, I will rip them to shreds, but two episodes in and I am left like a child without his toy. I hate being nice about these things, it is killing my gimmick.

Episode 2 I will give a strong 9/10

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7 November 2017

REVIEW: Most Haunted Series 20 Episode 8 (Keithley Bus Museum)


♪♫♬The time has come♪♫♬
♪♫♬To say fair's fair♪♫♬
♪♫♬To pay the rent♪♫♬
♪♫♬To pay our share♪♫♬

♪♫♬The time has come♪♫♬
♪♫♬A fact's a fact♪♫♬
♪♫♬It belongs to them♪♫♬
♪♫♬Let's give it back♪♫♬

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For series 20 I know there are reviews missing, that is due to UKTV shooting their load during Halloween, and airing 70% of the series in a week. So instead of just reviewing those episodes now, I thought I would carry on with the series till it finishes and go back to those episodes after it has to give me something to do, plus I cant be arsed to review 7 episodes one after the other just to catch up.

So what does the Most Haunted team have in store for us this week, lets look deep into Yvette's lingerie draw, and right at the back there is a single used stocking, it is covered in some kind of mysterious congealed substance akin to ectoplasm, it can only be the blurbage for the episode!

"Spook-searching with Yvette and co! At Keithley Bus Museum, the team notices vehicles moving on their own, strange footsteps and something which seems to take a disliking to them."


For a start, I am gonna guess that the thing that takes a disliking to them is the entire audience watching at home, except for pre-pubescent gullible children who bizarrely like to argue with me on twitter that the whole show is real.

Yvette starts the episode telling us we are in a Bus Depot.


And yes it does seem that we will be getting many of the obvious puns and references.


If only the ghost of Blakey could make an appearance.

Please note that the lights in the depot will be on the whole time, so there is no need for fake night vision filters.

No sign of Watson yet, as Yvette describes how people died in hot furnaces. And how a night watchman committed suicide by throwing himself in a giant vat of molten metal. Well that is one way to go I guess.

I think Glen might be a bit of a bus nerd, as he is clearly getting turned on by these old restored buses, so turned on in fact who goes for a cheeky grab, but just misses as Yvette gets distracted by something shiny.


For a fake skeptic, Glen is doing quite good in pointing out the inconsistencies in the various ghost stories of the place. And I would advise everyone out there to actually listen to Glen here as he makes a lot of sense for once.


Investigation proper has now started, and straight away they are getting taps, which is incredibly predictable and quite boring.

"Is there anybody there? Tap twice for yes, once for no"

Always amuses me.

Amusing point where Karl whistles and asks the ghosts to whistle back, but instead of a ghost, a train in the distance blows its horn! Probably the first legit reaction in the history of the show.

Yvette is claiming that the bus they are on is moving, now instead of checking the hand break straight away, they start getting excited and just assume there are ghosts present.

Karl and Fred are off in a different location and getting things thrown already.

Karl whistles again and a faint whistle is heard back, could be anyone present.

Back to Yvette and she has now proudly declared that she is on a haunted bus. Still not checked the hand break.

Worth noting that Stuart is apparently not present.


I would say that this is the best that Yvette has looked in years, that pink top really does suit her, although I am not sure about Karl's new moustache.

Just kidding of course, that is a scene from On the Buses


Here is Yvette with her new specs on.

Fred has decided to start whistling to the ghosts, and is hearing whistles back and banging.

Fred is getting a whole scene to himself here, I wonder if he paid Antix a bit more money to get more air time.


Karl is on a bus now, and can hear steps above him, instead of investigating, he just films the ceiling for a few minutes and talks about it. He is also claiming the bus is moving, but like Yvette doesn't bother to check if the hand break is on.

If the hand break is not on, then the action of people moving within the bus would cause it to move ever so slightly.


Get used to this shot as you will be seeing it a lot in this episode.
Reminds me of back in the day when I was one of the cool kids who sat at the back of the bus on the way to school. Oh the japes we used to get up to back in the day. Making fun of Wolves fans as they got on, while singing Baggies songs.

27 minutes into the 45 minute episode, and nothing of note has happened.

I am sat here watching grown adults walk about buses talking to made up ghosts.
Who is sadder? Me or them? Answers on a post card to Most Haunted, Media City, Salford.


I genuinely think if you went to Youtube, searched for "On the Buses" and watched an episode of that, you would be far more entertained.

Fred has now decided to call the ghost Jon, he now talks to the camera, to Jon. Hmmmm, almost like he is talking to me here. Very interesting.


We then get the obligatory argument between Yvette and Karl, we get it every episode, almost as if it is scripted because the fans have said they enjoy it when they start arguing.

Glen has re-appeared. God knows what he has been up to.

Karl tries to make a joke about Yvette always going to the back of the bus, but it goes completely over her head, like most things.

The bus that Yvette and Karl is on is moving, and yes they have not checked the hand break.


Karl has snuck a cheeky finger up Yvette's bum. Well that was unexpected.

This really is a terrible episode, plenty of knocks, whistles and so on, but the level of evidence is just non existent in this episode. A few things are thrown but as usual all are OFF CAMERA.

All things considered the Bus Museum is not a great place to investigate, just to wide and open, no real sense of tension.

As the episode is drawing to an end, we are getting a few things thrown OFF CAMERA, a bit of running about and that's it, All filler and no killer.

This is easily the worst episode I have seen in years. Hardly any effort to fake anything. 

I have to give this episode a 0/10

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1 November 2017

REVIEW: Most Haunted Halloween Special 2017 (Liverpool's Croxteth Hall)


It is the time of the year when Most Haunted pulls out all the stops to give us their Halloween Special, in the old days this would be a live show with an audience and Derek Acorah going mental, these days it's a pre-recorded 2 hour special. And I am the lucky person who has to sit through it all to do this review. Red Bull is poured and ready to be drank, anti-depressant tablets have been taken, I've allowed my cousin to repeatedly slap me around the face to give me the passion to write and we are ready, so first things first lets pull down Karl's jeans, and allow that filthy blurbage to dribble onto your page below.

"Spook-searching with Yvette and co! In a non-stop, two-hour heart-pounding investigation at Liverpool's Croxteth Hall, the team is pushed to the limit."

For those of you who like to keep track, this is officially Series 20, Episode 5.

Yvette starts on the steps as says "Welcome to Most Haunted AS LIVE Special"
For those of you who don't know what this means, As Live, means it is NOT live, it is pre-recorded, but presented as if it were live, so the theory is that there is no edits, no cuts, just one taping as if it were live, we will learn by the end of the show that this is a lie, like much of what they say.


Great to see Watson on the show, I suspect he doesn't care.


New cast member, "Producer Lou", she looks utterly thrilled to be there. And we wont see her again I am sure.

Straight away they head to a wine cellar, and before you know it a bottle has been thrown.
Now Yvette quickly says "I saw that come out the wall" The only problem is that Yvette was facing in the opposite direction to where the bottle was thrown, which just happened to be right by Stuart.

Moment before bottle is thrown

After bottle is thrown

So bottle is thrown, Yvette turns towards where it happened, and then claims to have seen it come out of the wall, none of the cameras caught this of course, so we can say it happened OFF CAMERA!

Glen proud states that it is a paranormal event, but then kinda backtracks when it realises what he said.

Less than a minute later they just carry on as if nothing happened, lets just say that what happened was real, don't you think you might be a little more excited? Demand to see replays straight away, check the footage to see if you could see the event from start to end, but nope, just move on.

I believe Stuart had the bottle on him, and when everyone was looking the other way he just dropped it.


Glen has rigged up an old tape recorder alongside the laptop to capture EVPs, complete waste of time as it is all evidentially worthless.

Yvette decides to turn the lights off, and this is the first cut in filming, remember this is supposed to be "as live" yet they have just had their first cut, no real issue with this, maybe someone can go to the toilet, check the script and so on. Just thought I would mention it.


I will never understand why they have to pretend it is dark, or that the lights are off, quite clearly in the shot above, the room is just as lit as previously, and they have just changed the filter on the camera.

As the teams split up, we get the usual taps and bangs etc, usual nonsense.

As Karl and Stuart are walking about, Stuart films a door, and as he does, a knife is thrown OFF CAMERA, and then another crashing sound and a light bulb is on the floor.


Stuart seems convinced that a window has been smashed, but it just the bulb, another smashing sound, and we get some over acting from Karl, Stuart and Darren. Nothing on camera at all as usual.

Back to Yvette and Glen and you can hear a door slam.

Karl tells Yvette over the radio that they are "under attack" which made me giggle.

Stuart then claims it is like a war zone.

All that has happened is that a bulb has hit the floor OFF CAMERA, and knife thrown OFF CAMERA.

Stuart claims they will start being picked off soon. We can only hope.

All of this supposed activity, yet nothing at all is caught on camera, so its the usual routine then.

The group all meet up, and now Yvette is whistling to the ghosties.

Karl chucks another knife behind him, they all go chasing down the corridor and then find the knife on the floor, again all OFF CAMERA.

Now we are getting growls and groans which could be any one of them, so instantly becomes pointless.

As Karl is walking behind the cameraman, suddenly there is an bang and an "ow" and yep, Karl has been hit by a knife OFF CAMERA.


Yvette checks and there is no blood, no mark, nothing, almost as if the knife was just dropped on the floor, and Karl pretended to be hit on the head, all OFF CAMERA of course.

Fred keeps talking about a sweet chocolate smell. And that the ghosties have released it to entice them up there. Because you know, that is what ghosts do. Makes a change from the rancid fart smells they usually get.

Karl then suspiciously turns his back to the camera, makes a jerking movement another knife falls to the floor


Karl claims he has been cut, but there is no blood, he quick squeezes his thumb, and there is a tiny pin prick of blood there, nothing like what a knife would cause if it hit you. He could have at least palmed a small balloon with fake blood it, or something to make it look a tiny bit believable. I have had worse bleeds from biting my finger nails!

And yet again it happened OFF CAMERA.

Fast forward a few minutes, Stuart claims he has been hit by a rock. OFF CAMERA.

But then out of nowhere, as they investigate a room, they capture what I would confidently say is their most convincing evidence of ghostly activity in the history of the show.


I have examined this footage over and over, looked for edits, camera trickery, CGI, anything, and it seems legit to me. Yes folks, they have captured a ghost, and the image above is 100% proof.

Anyway that is quickly forgotten and they move on.


Yvette has written some letters on a piece of paper, and is listening to taps from the ghosts to spell out a word. CUN..... I wonder what the next letter could be. What kind of word could describe a member of the Most Haunted team that starts with the letters CUN. Guess it will forever be a mystery.


Stuart then convinces Yvette to cross out the N and put a T, I don't think you needed to remove the N here.

They eventually spell out "CUT ALL YOU" however, I think "CUNT ALL YOU" is definitely the more likely opinion from the ghost.

They move on after wasting 10 minutes on this, and Stuart has a stone thrown at him, as expected it comes from OFF CAMERA, so possible chucked by Karl or Fred.


A hanging rope is now swinging, and Karl proves how easy it is to reach, and how it was most likely him who simply reached up and pushed it.

Stuart then apparently has a door slam on him, but the scene seems a bit dodgy, you don't actually see the door slam either, so all a bit pointless.


Watson has re-appeared and is with Yvette, he is making dog noises, and in general can't be arsed.
Yvette is desperately trying to give Watson human emotions and describing what he feels and so on.
But he is just standing about, and breathing like most dogs do, no barking, no running around, nothing.


Never has a dog looked more bored and wishing he was at home in a nice bed than Watson, poor creature being used for a prop on a TV show.

Back to Karl and he seems to steady the camera on the bed, clearly he is waiting for something to happen and it does.

Let's take a look at the bed moving.


Now this is my own clip uploaded, in case REALLY decide to delete their clip.

Of course the whole bed is not in frame, and Karl does his best to check under and around the bed after this, and I do not believe anyone was hiding off camera here, I think this was done with a simple bit of fishing line connected to the bed, either pulled by Karl himself (most likely) or by someone else present off camera.


If you watch the video there is the very slightest giveaway that it was a fishing line.
Now it is faint, really faint, and you need to watch it on the highest quality you can. My video above isn't brilliant unfortunately, but we do have the official REALLY Twitter Account that has provided us with a high definition clip, which is where the images above are from. Open it full screen, pause the footage, and drag the footage to the moment before the bed moves and one frame after it moves, and you can see that the line that Karl uses creates a very slight reflection which gives it away.



I know it is not the best proof, I accept that, but that is the most likely explanation here. Definitely wasn't a ghost, especially when you realise what Karl does next.

Next up I will cover again the bed flip, which I already exposed on this site and on Twitter, but for context and archival purposes I will cover it again here.

So after the bed was pulled with fishing wire, Karl leaves the room and walks a bit up the corridor, he hears a noise, and goes back to the room, and finds the bed has been tipped up, this all happens in just 30 seconds.

I have seen all manner of explanations from the ridiculous to the plausible, my favourite being that there was a midget hidden to the side who did it.

Lets watch the clip first. Courtesy of the official REALLY Twitter account or if you prefer you can go to UKTV catch up, and find the scene yourself using the time code of 1 hour, 17 Minutes, 50 Seconds.




Ok it seems pretty impressive, although possible time wise for someone hidden to flip the bed etc, it just would have made more noise, you would have heard footsteps, movement, and to get the bed in the final position, doesn't seem like a quick job, so I watched it a few times and I spotted something strange, there is an edit in the footage, a cut, we are seeing two pieces of footage merged together.

I will admit to the untrained eye who is not primed to look for such things, it is hard to spot, so I have cut the exact moment out and pasted it below.

As Karl is filming away from the bed flipping room, there is a noise, then there is a slight digitally added zoom on the shot, the camera turns and then a slight digital zoom out. The edit is there, the zoom is to fix the fact the shot wasn't lined up correctly. Karl saying "woah what the.." is added in post production too.


By turning the camera quickly and having the edit there, it is in theory much harder to spot due to motion blur, this is often used in music videos to give the illusion of a continuous shot, but is really more than one shot merged together, in films they do something similar when the camera has someone walk towards it and then suddenly the person is walking away almost as if they walked through the camera, also done in films when moving through walls and so on, unfortunately for Karl he never lined up the second part properly so needed to use a digital zoom to match up the two pieces of footage.

Check out this scene from the film Contact, can you see the edit here?


In the past any camera edits have been done after Karl's camera has been placed on a surface, or is on a tripod, this makes the edit much easier as its just a matter of pressing pause on the record, doing your shenanigans, then resuming the recording, well after we exposed Most Haunted of doing this with the Ghost Stuart on the stairs stunt, and then the sideboard door closing stunt whereby Karl forgot there was a clock in the scene which totally gave it away that there was an edit, clearly they thought they needed to be smarter, and do the edit while the camera was moving.

So here is what I would say happened, Karl walks along the corridor, he gets into position, and then stops the filming, puts the camera down, he then goes to the room, flips the bed, moves the chair, makes sure everything is in position, goes back to the camera, picks it up, checks the last shot so he can match it up, then starts recording again. Goes back to the room to film what he had done.

The two pieces of footage are then put on the computer, and the two pieces merged together, use some motion blur, digitally added zoom to perfectly match the two shots and there you have it.

For people not familiar with how this works, it isn't a million miles away from how you take a panoramic photo on your smart phone, take a photo, move, lineup the edges, take another photo. Or even those old Vine magic trick videos, that is probably the closest example of what went on here.

Check out Zach King on Vine for perfect examples of how this type of edit can be used for great magic tricks.

Back to the show, Karl does some more examining.

Yvette is asking if Watson can hear a noise, but he doesn't care.

We are getting lots of shots of Watson's back as he looks at nothing, riveting footage as I am sure you can agree.

Despite Yvette claiming she knows the spirits are there, not a peep from Watson, in fact once again Watson is proof that there are no ghosts there. A dog will bark if someone farts unexpectedly.

And with that we are basically at the end of the episode.

Every Halloween there is a big stunt, but unlike Karl being pulled up the stairs by rope attached to his waste which was obvious to everyone watching, the bed flip stunt was well done, the wire for the bed moving was really hard to spot, and the edit for the bed to be flipped is really good, and you have to be really on the game to spot it.

If I have missed anything please leave a comment below and let me know.

For a Halloween special it wasn't too bad, we got a decent amount of Watson which is always a highlight, a few decent stunts, and something for me to expose.

I will give this Halloween special a 6/10 for effort.

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Most Haunted Halloween EXPOSED - The Bed Flip


Just a quick article, a full review will be up hopefully later today, as I have not watched the show in full yet.

As Most Haunted Halloween started, I thought I would watch the first 10 minutes just to see how they were presenting the episode, whether they would pretend it was live, or have any kind of MHL type format. For the record they are not allowed as they do not own the rights to the original Most Haunted Live format, Sky TV still own those rights.

Anyway the show starts and although very rough, it would be the normal format of the show, but they were trying to present it as if it was live, although they never said that, I believe that it was promoted "as live" in other words it was recorded in one go previously, and aired without edits on the show. But as we will find out that was a lie. A bare faced cheeky bummed lie.

In the first few minutes a bottle was thrown, OFF CAMERA, from Stuart's direction, Glen quickly announced that this was definitely paranormal. Remember he is supposedly the skeptic on the show. At this point I turned the show off, and decided to look for something else to watch on catch up, as I turned that on, I noticed that the Most Haunted Halloween episode was there to watch in full! Before it has even finished airing on REALLY.

So I thought I would have a quick fast forward through the whole thing to see if anything good happened later on. I ended up near the end at the bed flipping stunt.

Here were my comments on Twitter at the time.


Without hardly any analysing, I had spotted an edit which gave away the whole game. And boy did I make sure I told everyone, lots of tweeting people, warning them what to look out for.

Luckily for me, REALLY have uploaded the clip to their twitter account, so first watch it below, or if you prefer you can go to UKTV catch up, and find the scene yourself using the time code of 1 hour, 17 Minutes, 50 Seconds.




Did you spot the edit?
Ok I will admit to the untrained eye who is not primed to look for such things, it is hard to spot, so I have cut the exact moment out and pasted it below.
As Karl is filming away from the bed flipping room, there is a noise, then there is a slight digitally added zoom on the shot, the camera turns and then a slight digital zoom out. The edit is there, the zoom is to fix the fact the shot wasn't lined up correctly. Karl saying "what was that" is added in post production too.


By turning the camera quickly and having the edit there, it is in theory much harder to spot due to motion blur, but unfortunately he never lined up the second part properly so needed to use a digital zoom to match up the two pieces of footage.

In the past any camera edits have been done after Karl's camera has been placed on a surface, or is on a tripod, this makes the edit much easier as its just a matter of pressing pause on the record, doing your shennanigans, then resuming the recording, well after we exposed Most Haunted of doing this with the Ghost Stuart on the stairs stunt, and then the sideboard door closing stunt whereby Karl forgot there was a clock in the scene which totally gave it away that there was an edit, clearly they thought they needed to be smarter, and do the edit while the camera was moving. Well sorry guys, we got you again!

I am sure there is more to expose in the two hour special, and when I get chance I will do the review, but for now, it's good bye from me.

By Jon Donnis