1976: Is this Building Site HAUNTED? | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@gwheregwhizz]

One of those things that some people claim they have seen but others don't believe exist. Ghosts, UFOs, Loch Ness Monster, NHS dentists.

[@glamdolly30]

LMAO!!!

[@steadyeddie7]

Don't forget your local friendly family doctor or GP as they now prefer to be called.

[@Highland_Moo]

@@steadyeddie7they were phased out along with dentists and district nurse/midwives many years ago in my part of the Highlands. We get locum docs that cost the NHS an arm, leg and bollock.

[@portcullis5622]

I can believe in the first three, along with bigfoot and maybe even unicorns, but that last one? Come on, stop stretching credibility too far.

[@stuartsinclair6269]

But, if you do see and you think of every explanation you have just seen the holy grail of the other side meaning ghosts exist because you’ve seen one. Like I did but I took 7 photos on my old Nokia phone, what I saw, and felt I do believe what I saw for around 10mins in the mid 90s

[@worldVHS]

Just looked on streetview and it's nice to see the shop front is still the same but window frames now painted Grey

[@thephilpott2194]

Where is this place?

[@TimLangland]

Yep, they finished it last week😂😂

[@TimLangland]

@@thephilpott2194Richmond Road, Kingston no.82

[@worldVHS]

@@thephilpott2194 They gave the address in the video

[@BeesWaxMinder]

I lost it when he said "spirit level"! I wonder what's happening at this place today...?

[@bonnetdedouche437]

Google Maps says it's a Framing shop.

[@djidroneadventures4059]

Same here

[@londonmadeeasy]

I live down the road, I might go and investigate 😂

[@CathalCoolkirky]

Please do! Let us know how you get on!

[@BeesWaxMinder]

@@londonmadeeasy I see you left this just before Halloween -I hope you made it back okay!!

[@Barnaby_bo]

Choc ices were a big thing in the 70s.

[@robsawalker]

I've heard some excuses from builders in my time, but...

[@invokalink162]

The weirdest thing about this is the fact the builders were willing to stand there and have nails and planks of wood thrown at them for the sake of the segment. 🤣

[@Mistydazzle]

I also looked at the Google Street View, happy to see the building still exists - but, the glass pane they stupidly threw the brick into, looks different from the rest. They had to use “modern” plate glass to replace it, and it’s not the same as the old ones, which have wavy glass. Stupid gimmick.

[@Xenomurphy]

I really love that the BBC used the soundtrack from 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' for this segment -- a movie about a mental hospital. I wonder if there's a hidden meaning 😅

[@richardenglish2195]

"The workmen came running in here in a state of panic. I asked, 'Can I help?' and they said, 'Yeah; tea, love - two sugars.'"

[@Highland_Moo]

Unforeseen ‘ands! Reminds me of my nanna…she was from the East End of London but moved up to the Highlands when she married my grandad after WW2. She tore the arse out of her accent to annoy the local gossips and I smile when I think of her saying “oh my gawwwwwwd”…..hearing that builder reminds me of her!

[@tonywhite3620]

I rewound unforseen 'ands about 20 times

[@bugandbay]

“Went running in the tobacconists for a choc ice” 🤣

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Im not good in victorian english but was he running to a cigarette shop to buy an ice cream?

[@bugandbay]

@@fidelcatsro6948 Yes he was. A tobacconist back in 1976 would sell cigars,cigarettes,pipe tobacco, smoking related ect, that is unless this tobacconist was doing a side line in smoking choc ices 😂

[@themadplotter]

A choc is universal. Except for lactose intolerants.

[@Plowlady222]

​@@fidelcatsro6948that's how we say it in America, the original is how they say it

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@bugandbay thank you

[@RolandoRatas]

A ghost named Vyvyan wearing a denim studded jacket with spikey red hair was seen throwing a brick through the window. Honest G'ovner !

[@nigelcarren]

"Hands up who likes me?"

[@brizzieleif5258]

It was SPG

[@cunninglinguist-hu1dz]

No he threw the lavatory out of the window.You pay lower rent if you have an outside lav.

[@RolandoRatas]

That ghost Vyvyan taught me a great strategy for dealing with the TV licence inspector.

[@cunninglinguist-hu1dz]

@@RolandoRatas He introduced me to the gastronomic delight that is cornflakes with tomato sauce.

[@jillyb9995]

First thing I always do is look at the original date of the broadcast in case it's April 1st! Interestingly it's not in this case. Don't really know what to make of it but it had all the hallmarks of a joke 🤔😂

[@steveosshenanigans]

That’s what a was thinking…..an April Fool’s joke

[@davidjones6470]

Great upload as always

[@richardsmith4992]

Well I'm convinced. Ironically everybody in that video is now dead and haunts that shop to this day....

[@glamdolly30]

BBC 'Nationwide' presenter Glyn Worsnip, also of 'That's Life!' fame, had a background in acting - which may explain a lot here. He tragically died of a degenerative brain disorder 20 years after this report, in 1996, aged just 57. I'm not convinced this clip represents quote, 'the golden age of TV'!

[@dsdgdsfegfeg]

Agreed, it feels all fake

[@margin606]

Sadly missed

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Sad to hear..Too young to die of some kind of "Alzheimers"

[@johnanthonyp]

He had the dryest style with a hint of incredulity in his delivery. Very funny man. RIP.

[@glamdolly30]

@@johnanthonyp How lovely that you remember his work with affection. I hope his descendants/loved ones read your comment.

[@jonahspiper]

This was originally the “Rentaghost” office. Just a little research and you’ll find it was Timothy Claypole. 👻

[@bradpaul8576]

Thanks for the memory, loved Rentaghost!

[@tonywhite3620]

@@bradpaul8576 "Clodpole!!!!!"

[@Mark-td5ux]

Used to lock up a workplace at night then as I walked away the doors would unlock themselves 🤔🤔

[@WildBikeCamper]

I've not heard these accents for a long time....which is really sad.

[@ih8hertz1]

I know what u mean innit

[@Zeebad_1st]

Just looking at Google street view and the building next door is being worked on now.

[@GoodToGoIndustries]

Troublesome ghosts are the worst. I prefer well-behaved ghosts. They help me fix my car instead of trip me down the stairs.

[@bonnetdedouche437]

1976? I imagine the rent in Richmond skyrocketed so the poltergeist moved to Enfield in 1977... 🫣

[@jacqui9176]

Very interesting!!

[@Stoic-Col]

It was probably Sitting Bull, trying to get the cowboys out the place

[@Theshy23]

Something tells me the decorator should have won an Oscar 😂😂😂😂

[@glyph2011]

The “one flew over the cuckoos nest” theme is a nice touch. 👍

[@aggieburger6681]

Music from One flew over the cuckoo's nest, strange.

[@paulfromdevon4707]

Is this building site Haunted- no

[@followthewhiterabbit1342]

I laughed when I saw those workmen with cigarettes in their mouths as they worked while interviewed. And the guy who had a plank thrown at him didn't put his cigarette down as he made a dash for the ladder. 😂

[@brotherowl]

Renovations often disrupt the order and disturb spirits that may occupy a usually older place. Include them; humbly ask permission of them and share your intentions sincerely first with them before beginning a project. Could not care less who laughs at this.

[@donnasmyth45]

Rebuke them in the name of Jesus Christ.

[@ablong58]

why rebuke..to them it's still a load of chippies destroying their home

[@LeeAirVideos]

Interesting I believe this was the same year that the Omen was released!

[@davidjones6470]

3:18 Choc-ice 😂😂

[@matthewtrow5698]

This footage mostly consists of a Graham Chapman Look-alike wearing a shirt made from a greasy spoon tablecloth. Enter stage left, one Look-alike : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGnLe6mgp9OmY8U He's all over this video, like a cheap suit.

[@borderlands6606]

Sounds like a Pete and Dud sketch.

[@darrenpearce6617]

Sounds like he was dubbed by Eric Idle with Terry Jones playing the lady.

[@mrs.g.9816]

I especially liked the waggish way the presenter ended this film - ". . . Inspector? spectre, spectre, spectre"

[@darrenpearce6617]

Now after fifty years I see it again. I still don't think builders can lie, can they?

[@glamdolly30]

Was this April 1st 1976?

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Broadcast by bbc1 on 25.11.76

[@glamdolly30]

@@fidelcatsro6948 Thank you!

[@garyrigby21]

Oh no not shovels falling downstairs

[@RaveDave871]

Tell ghost to "get a life" and they never bother ya again

[@johnanthonyp]

That's the music from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

[@tonywhite3620]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest ends, don't forget, with an object smashing through a window...

[@nigelcarren]

If I was to be cynical, it sounds to me like the builders were punishing their colleague for buying a choc-ice! "Why you doin' with a choc-ice?" "Errrr (slurrrp)... a Ghost made me buy it!" As an ex-electrician I have worked on building sites. Back in the day, I was similarly punished for 'being a Mary' because I had made the terrible mistake of washing my hands after going to the toilet! Things were different back then! 😂👍👻🇬🇧

[@Thekowaikaiju]

These should be curated into a new show 🎉 This is an Scooby and Shaggy era-appropriate mystery!

[@ih8hertz1]

Being honest i reckon chris was behind it all along

[@tonywhite3620]

They could never have predicted unforseen 'ands...

[@buidseach]

Wasn't there a bypass being built!

[@ingridarcher69]

Brilliant 🤩😂

[@pauljones8135]

Plus nothing caught on video camera

[@MrTony.S]

All seems genuine to me.

[@markfarnworth4211]

Is it me or does Glyn Worsnip look remarkably similar to Bob Odenkirk? At 03:33 it's definitely "Saul Goodman" 😀

[@Klown84]

It’s simply bad workmanship. 82 Richmond road is now a Thai massage parlour called ‘happy endings’ it’s all good 👍

[@BuckRolly1]

Who doesn't enjoy a 'choco-lice'😂😂😂

[@chriswaring5565]

SCARRY

[@drcrusherdata]

alike the movies the Omen and Quatermass and the pit.?

[@andrewkent4913]

The must be aving a girraffe... they were only meant to blow the blooming doors off.

[@mAiSiEbOOOO]

Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis isn't a ghost.

[@ok2760]

My old man was eaten by a ghost

[@fidelcatsro6948]

My cat asked: Is 82 richmond road, kingston premise still around today?

[@lesigh1749]

Apparently it is.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@lesigh1749 i see.. thank you🙀

[@wokenessiscancer2176]

Just when the bbc were at the best at entertaining kids .

[@xyzxyz997]

Today the joiner would have went into the tobacconist and bought a choc iPad 😂

[@awreckingball]

They makes zero sense.

[@davidjones6470]

3:54 😂😂😂

[@phillipecook3227]

Clowns actually put a brick through a window to illustrate a point?? A lot of baloney as the yanks might say. Presenter Glynn Worship would die young from a very unpleasant neurological condition called PSP.

[@cpet396]

😮😮🙄🤔..!!??

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

👻👻👻

[@MrTamiya89]

At 5:26 Bill Reynolds: "I am Reporting This To The Race Relations Board". 🤭.

[@blissy1]

My ex is still alive so can’t be her !!!

[@Ravendarkwytch]

For those of you who are saying that there are no such things as ghosts. There is so much evidence to both prove and disprove the existence of ghosts it’s rather flippant to just rule their existence out completely.

[@Twiglet456]

Exactly. One of my cufflinks disappeared about 17 years ago, never saw it again. Not everything can be explained by science.

[@analogueman123456787]

Ghosts only exist in the minds who believe in them. No different to those who choose to believe in UFOs with little green men in them or that the Earth is flat!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

​@@Twiglet456simple theft😂

[@CricketEngland]

What utter bollocks their is no such things as ghosts

[@Daracdor]

It`s behind you !

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Youre absolutely right amigo! Theyre actually Djinns!

[@swanvictor887]

who said that...?!

[@stevedickson5853]

....Boo 👻

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@stevedickson5853 helo casper wats up?

[@38kob]

too silly

[@beausexon7546]

This is embarrassing on many fronts. Firstly, that the bbc wasted license fee money on this program, that the public would believe it, and that the bbc shows it today.

[@CricketEngland]

It’s 30 years ago kid

[@Ravendarkwytch]

@@CricketEnglandtry 48 years, I was born in 1976…I wish I was 30

[@floaty10]

Bet your fun at a seance. This was when the BBC was good and didn’t take life too seriously. Glyn Worsnip was known for doing light hearted investigative and consumer programs.

[@Kaytee48]

Why did you even bother to click on the story?

[@kmarch6630]

How can it possibly be embarrassing?

[@dogwalker666]

Obviously not, Ghosts don't exist.

[@madsingh]

awww

[@asaucerfullofsecrets6392]

Come on have a bit of whimsy

[@Twiglet456]

Really? How can you see this evidence and then type this?

[@MegaCunnie]

Dildos & Talking Books.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1976: Is this Building Site HAUNTED? | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 1442pm 25.10.24 a head thru the window is the least of your worries if a UFO is chasing you or some police cars ........................suggesting a haunted house cannot exist... doesnt stop people form believing. which is fine by me. a load of old pony makes some dude some money. all these old stately homes should get on you tube and show live steams of these allegedly haunted gaffs.

[@teddybear9029]

Corny!

[@ProfessionalMusicPartners]

Makings of a right good Python sketch! 🥲