-"In 1964, Anglia TV filmed a documentary at an allegea
haunted 16th Century manor house, Morley Old Hall, in
Norfolk. Anthony Cornell demonstrated how a ghosthunter
worked. After a night's investigation, he was interviewed
in a room where the ghost was said to have appeared. He
concluded that there was little evidence of a haunting.
Five people contacted the TV company to say they had seen
a “hooded monk" between Cornell and the interviewer,
Michael Robson. Although Robson could see nothing when he
re-ran the film, he decided to broadcast it again, asking
viewers to write in if they saw anything strange. Twenty-
seven wrote in, fifteen saying they saw a monk or priest -
one a hooded skull..."
from GHOSTS ed. Peter Brookesmith
"Uri Geller's demonstration of his amazing powers (on the
Dimbleby Talk-In, BBC, Friday 23 Nov 1973) produced other
effects which were even more incredible than he had
achieved himself. For it turned out that in hundreds of
homes throughout Great Britain cutlery had been bent and
timepieces, long defunct, restarted..."
from SUPERMINDS by John TaylorGHOST WATCH
A Thriller TV Series in Five Parts
by
Stephen Volk
TV reporter TILDA CALLIEU has her tongue firmly in her
cheek when she makes a documentary on a so-called haunted
house slap-bang in an inner city estate. She even has a
seedy young ghosthunter, SIMON HAGGERTY, on hand to spice
up the proceedings. Unfortunately, the ghost doesn't make
an appearance. Or so she thinks
Because, when the programme is transmitted, phone calls
begin to come through, chillingly, from viewers who have
seen something in the background to her interview - a
ark, unearthly presence. Though she can see nothing on
the film, the programme is re-broadcast. This time, calls
flood in, and the cynical Tilda is forced to face
something baffling and other-wordly that threatens to turn
her cosy existence frighteningly upside-down
Her obsession with the haunting, fuelled by a string
of increasingly weird events surrounding the location
persuades the Powers That Be to allow her to take it back
before the cameras - this time, in an unparalleled
Pparapsychological experiment, live, on primetime TV,
nationwide.
But on the final, terrifying night of her "Ghost Watch",
she and her 12 million viewers come into direct contact
with the source of astonishing evil, dredging up
frightening entities from the past - including her own..GHOST WATCH is a chilling speculative fiction in which the
communicative powers of television become caught up in the
real world of the paranormal.
GHOST WATCH is an atmosphere story, with the plain
intention to plunge the viewer into a bizarre and scary
world just around the corner from our own.
GHOST WATCH introduces two modern, chalk-anc-cheese
characters, TILDA CALLIEU and SIMON HAGGERTY. Young
psychical investigators from wildly different backgrounds,
but as up-to-date as the latest rock videos.
It sets them a mystery full of shadowy psychological
terror.
It'll hook anyone with a taste for the weird.
+++And scare them to hell.