I wrote quite some time ago about my liking for watching Most Haunted but that it was tainted with a slight feeling of it being staged or faked.
The new series has just started on UK Living TV and we have already Series Linked it on our generic digital hard disk recording system. Again, some of the situations seem very forced and are not taken with any gravity at all:
“Oh! Did you hear that moan…? Anyway, lets move on into the next room…”
I want to believe in ghosts and spiritual things but have so far seen little that has convinced me that the program is nothing more than pure entertainment and fiction.
This got me thinking more of what proof I would need to believe more strongly and came up with these 2 ideas:
1. The locked off location
The Most Haunted team would choose a location that had a history of “activity” and place “locked off cameras” in multiple locations. They have done this before with no success, but have always done one camera in a room or one looking down a hallway.
What I propose is for them to place lots of cameras in lots of locations at once. All locked so they cannot be moved and all recording continually fo 24 hours. If you have a passageway - have one camera at one end and one at the other facing each other. Each room should have a camera pointed towards the door - on the inside and the outside. The cameras could also be grouped in sets of 3. One normal camera, one infra-red night vision camera and a camera that can sense heat.
Good quality microphones would also be used to capture any odd noises.
The location would then be locked off with no-one allowed in for the duration of the experiment.
This could prove without doubt that something occurred of its own accord as it would be captured on many cameras from different angles and technical perspectives and no-one was present to cause something to fall or a noise to happen accidentally. If ghosts really are real, then they must also be around when other people are not?
2. The blindfolded Psychic
The Most Haunted presenters are usually accompanied by a psychic investigator who helps discern the facts and unfold the story of the locaton from reading energies and communicating with spirits.
Again, some of this seems “too good to be true” and all seems a little false. Mainly because the information they come back with is usually perfect and far too accurate for my liking.
I propose that a psychic be blindfolded, taken by car and driven by a person not connected with the show to a location chosen at random. The place could either be chosen based on random numbers converted to a geographical location or just someone driving as far as they can taking random turns based on the throw of a dice.
Once at the location and while still blindfolded, the psychic would then have to “pick up” the nearest energies he could feel and allow his driver to take him towards that location. He would then be asked to communicate with the spirits/energies to obtain as much information as possible and someone else would be there to record his findings.
Once the findings were recorded, the psychic would be taken away from the location. Local historians could then be contacted to provide any backup evidence that would support the psychics findings.
This would prove that the psychic did have abilities and that they are not false.
Conclusion
These two tests would help me to believe that such things are real. But the likelyhood of them happening is slim. They may have happened already in some other guise! I am not aware that they have though.
There is more in this world than we understand or can comprehend by the means of science. But at the end of the day, the program makes interesting viewing.
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
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I too would like to see some proper scientific experiments performed that could prove conclusively that ghosts, or what we perceive as ghosts, really exist. But as you say, it will most likely prove nothing, which will enable all the charlatans to breath a sigh of relief, and continue to ply their lucrative trade.
Our current understanding of sciences may limit us on what we can investigate, so today may prove that ghosts or the like do not exist. However, we are in the process of making of some huge steps forward in the understanding of the universe around us, as WBB has commented about on his rather excellent blog. Understanding what and where/why dark matter is, may yet unfold to increase our knowledge in rather surprising area’s.
Once a scientist tells me that ghosts do exist, then I will pay attention. Until that day I will continue to ignore past Blue Peter presenters staring into night vision cameras.
WBB does not believe in Ghosts or Aliens either for that matter.
The fact that Aliens are not here (or so he thinks!) I understand is based on our physics and laws. We can’t travel at the speed of light - so therefore they cannot either.
Ghosts probably don’t exist because nothing has been proved.
YET
And if they prove it otherwise, then fine - i’m down with that too!
We need proof either way.
It’s a bit like that story about that Jesus guy…
Derek Acorah is a family friend, he’s admitted he’s got OTT with everything
Really?
Amazing.
I started watching MH when he was in the show and it was he (and Sam) that kind of drew me into it more. I heard he had a “falling out” with the team and decided to leave and start his own show (Ghost Towns).
I would be interested to hear anything else you might want to “share” with me about Derek or the show or your thoughts and beliefs in general.
Tao,
Most haunted is fake, I know the curator at a famous castle they visited. The shows researchers ask for a lot of information before they shoot the show. The curator said that it is all very very much fake. Sorry to be the bringer of bad news tho.
PS I can get you further information if you want it.
I can imagine that the researchers do their job before the show airs - and this will certainly add fuel to the fire that it is faked - but I guess they will have to do their homework anyway.
Any more information that you (or your friend) can supply would be excellent!
As for the “bad news” aspect: I see the show as fake and “want to believe” so it will be no surprise to find they fake it all.
Now that Derek has gone, the show seems a bit more realistic, but they are all a little too comfortable for my liking.
I like it alot more now Derek has gone it does seem alot more watchable.
Karl sometimes annoys me because he “calls out” these spirits and when he is trapped in a tunnel or something he gets scared way to quickly and has to run out and another gripe would be the seances where they move the glass we don’t know when watching this show that one of them is not moving it.
Derek was good at first, but after he said he saw the “alien energy” or “alien ghost” during the Pendle Hill MH Live episode, that made me suspicious of him.
If I was a psychic medium and I saw a spirit of a dead alien I would like “WHOA!! HEY! STOP FILMING! This is BIG!”. He handled it like it was just something normal and that he had seen it before.
I have a friend who went to see him in a theater show and said that he was not very good and pretty much seemed to do “cold reading” of people rather than anything supernatural.
Derek Acorah is no more a psychic medium than I am a millionaire porn star with a big cock.
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