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Most Haunted Live: Disembodied 'Wheezy laugh' conclusive proof of ghosts!

i_hate_beckham said:
I gave up on Most Haunted. They seemed to stop the last series halfway through.
me too, I used to love it but I don't like the new guy (David Wells?). I loved Derek Acorah, he was such a ham. Plus with all the stuff about how they make it all up...it just didn't seem as exciting :o
 
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Last night's I watched. They visited sights in Edinburgh I have been to. Very much gave me the impression of a show dead on its feet. Firstly there's no Derek Acorah. Interestingly Yvette Fielding has gone on record (today's Metro) to denounce Derek as a fake. At the time his fakery was exposed (as predicted by Fat Baz) the MHL team vigourously defended him. Yvette also mentions the fact that when Derek was pretending to be possessed he would assault members of the team. She clearly came to seriously dislike Acorah. No surprise to me as it was clear he had a big Yvette related issue. (Indeed Fat Baz said as much in his inimitable way). But Yvette now says that when he was 'possessed' he always took on the same voice..er..she didn't notice that the the time?!:rolleyes:

Trouble is David Wells is shite by comparison but has reached the lofty status as TV star elevated from his previous job as Horoscope writer for the Metro!

The show is seriously floundering. So last night they undertook to make the show a show stopper. The ghost/demon attacked them and cut them making them bleed. Yvette and her hubby had a row. She seemed genuinly upset saying 'it's all gone too far.' I think she was upset with the cutting - real blood etc. Cutting yourself up - even minor wounds that bleed but that don't constitute a serious injury - does seem a bit far to go in search of ratings. Although wrestlers did it all the time. The showmanship provided by Acorah and the studio team has gone. They are left with poor replacement actors and 'experts' and desperation. It is pathetic really. Scary even. :eek:


One of my favourite shows has gone down the toilet.
 
And now it's hit the US the yanks are loving it:

Check out the spoof on last week's Saturday Night Live with Hugh Laurie playing Derek!

 
14 months in the making.

'Errr, I can sense a thread, I think it may have died here under as bus about 2 years ago, says his name is Pamela, Arthur, Gerky or a name beginning with letters.'
 
I intended to watch it but it bores me so easily these days. I only like watching them wondering around in the dark getting freaked out and get bored cause of the build up.
 
The build up this week was shite, the new medium is a big black woman with weird hair from the states called Johnnie. She picked up fuck all and gave no names of people like Derek used to even if he was wrong or lying it still made good TV. She did redeem herself slightly by saying some ghosts had been "professional scallywags" and using the word "skullduggery" a lot.
 
What about Ghost Adventures, anyone watching that? I've been working my way through a few episodes on youtube. These are stateside ghosts, more attitude, and the presenters are perfectly transatlantic too - a steroid-addled Jackass type fronts it and likes to provoke ghosts, and he has a sidekick a big lad with one of those nu-metal manicured little beards. They go mad for 'objective data' so use various instruments to measure spurious variables, and even have a spirit box into which ghosts can speak.

Anyway, top viewing, and whatever happened to i_h_b?
 
2019 update. My other half used to watch this programme many years ago, and I often tagged along for its unintentional comedy value. She eventually went off it, and hadn’t watched any of it for the best part of a decade, but yesterday we decided to check out a couple of eps from the new series.

It’s got even sillier but alas it’s not as funny or entertaining. No psychic in the team anymore getting possessed by the resident ghosts, like good old Derek Acorah regularly was.

The ghosts themselves have become much more compliant and friendly, not to mention rather dull. All they seemed to do in the two episodes I saw was to drop old penny coins on the floor for our intrepid team of investigators to find. In one instance they dropped eight or nine coins in total in one session in the basement, with Yvette Fielding thanking the ghost after every drop and asking if they could drop another coin. If only they had been £2 coins, the team could at least gathered enough for a round at the local pub afterwards...
 
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