A bit of an odd header, but the reason is this.
Last night, LivingTV ran a live ghost hunt on Sky Satellite TV(and via Cable I suppose). This Ghost hunt was at Dudley Castle in the UK Midlands, and has quite a history of Ghost's , strange events - the "Full Monty" as it were.
Now from the outset I ought to say that ,although I don't out and out believe in Ghosts, a couple of experiences I have had in various places make me a partial believer in some thing that I'm not so sure about.
The other thing, I suppose, that you have to bare in mind is that the program is also a form of entertainment, that's how they make their money after all - but even so!
I have watched most of the "Most Haunted" series, but of course this is a full nights ghost hunting condensed down for a 30 minute program.
Last night , however, for me at least, was something else. The Most Haunted team had set up their stall at Dudley Castle, focusing on seven particular areas, five of which were real ghost spots, the other two being "Red herrings". The other thing they did was to set up web cams in four "secure" areas of the castle - the kitchen, the undercroft, the shop and the museum - so you could actually view the various rooms whilst at the same time watch the program investigate the various sections of the Castle. Some thing else I should point out at this point is that I didn't watch all the program - it ran until 01.00 - 01.30 in the morning, and I must have fallen asleep around 12.20.
The premiss of the program for anyone who hasn't seen it is that the Hunt team is made up of a presenter , Yvette Fielding (from Blue Peter if anyone out there can remember her doing that), a team of "Psychic" Investigators-Scientists with various pieces of detection equipment and the like (The "Proper" Science if you like) and then the team is completed by the actual TV crew (who normally get involved as watchers) and a Spiritual Medium - Derek Acorah.
Now before I saw any of these programs - anyone said anything about Mediums like Derek, I was very much the sceptic, talking to the dead? who they kidding. But I have been very impressed with the information Mr Acorah has come up with ( and a lot of the information has been verified since) - so I'm not quite the sceptic that I once was.
Anyway back to last nights program. What a show - no other way of putting it - as a form of Halloween entertainment - brilliant. But then the basic support of the program - the Ghost Hunt - also brought up a few things that have pushed me even more towards the believer and away from scepticism. Pieces of electronic and electrical equipment failed. There were strange noises, something even scared the wits out of supposed hardened News Paper reporters - but the main "evidence" if you like was the web cam in the Kitchen area.
My eldest was still up - he wanted a look at what was going on too. We had been hopping from one web cam to another without seeing anything other than castle walls and the dark night sky's. Anyway I had just gone to make a drink when Liam shouted me back thorough to the computer - he was watching the web cam of the kitchen. At this point the camera had panned up to a set of windows several tens of feet up (obviously they had been windows looking out on floors that no longer exist) - Liam just said look at that - I looked and saw what is commonly known as an Orb. I discounted that as some thing falling through the air - then Liam said No - can I see the face. And sure enough - there was what looked like a face in one of the upper windows to the left of the picture. At that point the camera then scanned down to the bottom of the kitchen - focusing on one of the entry doors form another part of the castle, to see the shadow of something moving across the doorway. At that point it was fairly obvious? to me that there was actually some light source lighting up that door way - surly it was someone walking past out side.Then the shadow crossed back in the opposite direction, but this time it seemed to cross out of the fall of that particular light source and continue on to disappear at a point that normal experience would tell "It can't happen there".
The camera then scanned to another part of the kitchen and then several moments later,back up to the windows - now no face just an empty window. I looked at Liam and he looked at me - what's going on?
Anyway - 30 minutes later, the presenting team reported that the phones and the like had gone mad with people reporting the very thing we had seem 30 minutes before, with the crew going off to investigate whether anyone had gone into "the no-entry" zone around the Kitchen - they came back with,as far as they could ascertain, there was no one in that area. When the Most Haunted team went into that room , several of them started to feel sick(one of them being Yvette who had already done one of her famous 100 yrd dashes in the Canal Area - mind you you wouldn't find me there on my own , in the dark, on Halloween) and Derek Acorah came up with the goods as such, and detected several "energies", with the information supplied being confirmed by an Expert on the Castles History .Strange or what.
I must add - I was also impress with the Psychologist - he was just the right balance of scepticism against the obvious atmosphere of a lot of people wanting things to happen
But still? Pity I fell alseep - would liked to have seen the end of the program
Does anyone know which of the sites were the false ones? Could you please let me know be leaving an e-mail or by going to the comments page on my home website.(There is a feedback form and/or a forum link
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