1983: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS and a HAUNTED CHEST OF DRAWERS | Nationwide | BBC Archive

[@M_Bamboozled]

Somewhere in the ether an exasperated spirit is trying every drawer, "It's bad enough being dead, now I can't find my socks!"

[@ericablair4425]

😆

[@iangallager4091]

everyone needs a pair of socks in the spirit world

[@mattgrant9479]

David Berglas (the magician) only just passed at the end of last year! He got to 97.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Wow

[@jemsalmonphotography]

International man of history

[@mattgrant9479]

Put Daniels longevity to shame

[@beausexon7546]

I was in the papers in the 1970s in Ireland for some ongoing ghost issues in our farmhouse. We first noticed various banging and rumblings in 1977, culminating in what I can only describe as “communication” with the ghost, who would rap for attention - one rap for yes, 2 raps for no. There was a vast array of different sightings, including one of Oliver Cromwell in my bedroom, witnessed by 3 independent people including a policeman. He muttered “when will they come….when will they come” whilst pointing south east. Another time we saw a phantom headless dog in our garden, and also lit candles appeared in our apple tree. Eventually the farmhouse burned down in the 1980s.

[@hafsahuzoor9065]

That's spooky! Would love to hear more about your experiences

[@beausexon7546]

@@hafsahuzoor9065 a further story I can share is the smell of pipe tobacco that would happen around 7pm each Sunday, none of us smoked pipes. In the cellar we found a skeleton with a pipe in its mouth, and the skeletons watch was stuck at 7pm.

[@hafsahuzoor9065]

@@beausexon7546 Oh God! Dear sir what a terrifying scene that must have been. Thankyou very much for sharing this. You must be a very interesting person

[@chrishill7797]

Wow that’s fascinating. Like most people, I would love to hear more when you have a moment to type them up

[@davidkmatthews]

At 08:25 it seems very appropriate that Tony Cornell's team is using a Sinclair ZX Spectre-um!

[@ThePurpleLlamaGetsIt]

You've waited all your life to say that 😄👍🏼

[@vermilliongecko]

The first computer I ever owned, when I was 10 or 11!

[@chrishill7797]

@@vermilliongeckosame here. I found my Your Sinclair enamel badge the other day from when I had my letter printed in the mag :-)

[@M_Bamboozled]

I get the feeling that the Indian guy (and his twin brother) pulled that trick on several gullible Brits.

[@ahmedahmed9644]

😂

[@sleepyheadsleeps]

@@M_Bamboozled My thought exactly

[@petergedd9330]

That's it then! All wrapped up nicely in a wonderful factual package so we can all go back to our 'Normal' lives, jolly good!! Of course we don't know for sure if he had a twin brother, or how he hid himself (if he did have a twin brother)from view whilst his brother was on the other side.

[@M_Bamboozled]

​@@petergedd9330 we don't know either if he or his, maybe real, maybe not, twin brother had a sense of humour...

[@bombski5657]

Came here to say this 😂

[@76ToneCrome]

You'd think it was Halloween.

[@Greenwillow]

Jeeze between the chair of doom and the haunted chest of drawers. BBC Nationwide really had their work cut out for them. Bring on the next haunted piece of furniture😂

[@mattgrant9479]

Keep your chair on!

[@richardsmith4992]

Tomorrow - The Table Of Terror.

[@stephenspence-d9q]

If the archive features a haunted table next time it will make a three piece suite.

[@ericablair4425]

How the normal can seem spooky ,your generation will never feel that chilling fear 😨 as our generation did at Halloween” Now it’s all special effects ..

[@mrlotusmic]

Probably Timothy Claypole.

[@vermilliongecko]

Gazooks!

[@newtronix]

No he's too busy pestering the Meekers!

[@FrankJCarver]

People looked old for their age back then. Cornell is only 59 here. I'm 60 and I could pass for a man in his 40s.

[@Highland_Moo]

I’m 47 and have the tits of an 80 year old and the pelvic floor of a 90 year old! You men seem to get more handsome as you age yet we females who don’t inject our faces with plastic look like a flaky scone!

[@BSLS123]

I'm 27 and always say stuff like this to my parents! People used to age so badly 😅

[@newtronix]

Lucky you!

[@Al-iv3mb]

No you couldn't! If you were lucky you could get away with 62 or 63

[@markjeffo6098]

My friends grandfather passed away and he moved into the house while he cleaned up the place.The first day,he heard someone walk down the porch(it has a wrap around porch)to the front door and a knock at the door.Every time he answered, no one was there.He told me about it and twice while i was sitting in their kitchen i heard the heavy foot steps up to the door,a loud series of knocks at the door and no one was anywhere even near the house.He said it happened at odd times throughout the day and night.His girlfriend moved in with him and more noises started in the basement.Loud banging and one night he thought someone broke in because it sounded like a hutch with dishes that was in basement had been pushed over.They left the next day.His mother tried going over to get some things from the house but the footsteps on the porch and the door knocking scared her so bad she wont go back.To me it was interesting, not scary.Both times I heard the footsteps and knocking I answered the door and walked around the entire house trying to figure out what it was.Still don't know what it was but it made me think a lot.

[@UlrichMcBeardface]

When the drawers are opening and you definitely didn’t open them do you have poltergeists or dementia?

[@MrDdGANGER]

You would rather want to have a poltergeist than dementia

[@fidelcatsro6948]

The housecat did it

[@bugandbay]

The year prior 1982 the film Poltergeist had been released 😂

[@fidelcatsro6948]

No wonder!

[@davidmoriarty3606]

Good to see Tony Cornell. I've only seen him in two other shows, and they were after this.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Its been 40yrs since keeping us posted, any updates since? Did anyone run to the cigarette shop to get an ice cream this time?

[@invokalink162]

Albert is back!? 😬🤣

[@ih8hertz1]

No but I always keep a choc ice in the fridge to appease the spirits

[@marianne6373]

I feel that my claim that some vintage and antique furniture looks haunted has been validated 😂

[@ih8hertz1]

We stayed in a flat in Paris and got awakened one night to a handle on a chest of drawers rattling back and forward... only one of them was moving but it rattled as if someone was doing it... only happened one night and nothing else happened during our stay.

[@jasonayres]

"International Man of Mystery," David Berglas. 🤔 I suppose you knew when you'd had Berglas in the house, when you discovered your money had gone missing.

[@jontyarnold8522]

The chest of drawers eventually drifted into financial fraud via a benefits scam, last heard of in Benidorm to avoid arrest..

[@MegaCunnie]

3:05 with the car horn 😂

[@Geffo555]

Catalytic exteriorization phenomenon.

[@hafsahuzoor9065]

Carl Jung

[@Geffo555]

@@hafsahuzoor9065 I expect we read the same book.

[@hafsahuzoor9065]

@@Geffo555 indeed sir

[@martinhavelock5106]

What a load of cobblers.

[@GeorgiePotter]

I'd have wanted to see those drawers pulled away from the wall in case anything is rigged up behind them to push them out. Interesting how they caught nothing on film yet claim they keep opening on their own..

[@Buff_Cupcake]

The only haunting that i really get into and the possibilities it suggests is the Enfield haunting from the 80s. Well worth a look!

[@rickykilby4672]

Think it began in August 1977.

[@ablong58]

4:10. I'd love to know what Eric's up to now...anybody know?

[@johnbuggy9121]

Probably broadcast around the same time as the release of the movie Poltergeist.

[@iangallager4091]

they must have thought the poltergeist was permanently sleeping in that chest of drawers but as far as we saw it didn't do it's banging away from the house. I guess it knew were its real home was hence the activity back at the house after the furniture removal

[@jondeegan9410]

Banging in the bedroom oh i say 😮

[@zippy963]

Neighbours "at it" 😂😂

[@sleepyheadsleeps]

no fool like an old fool

[@JJONNYREPP]

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[@RPe-jk6dv]

Gullible people never vanish!

[@richardsmith4992]

Gullible people never varnish!

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

👻👻👻

[@mickmackem1479]

People who believe in spirits have been drinking them more like

[@CricketEngland]

There is NO such thing as a ghost. FACT!

[@CricketEngland]

@@Reece-3601 you wan they don’t exist kid

[@Reece-3601]

@CricketEngland I mean, spirits go over most people's heads, that obviously includes you. your saturnal energy is apparently nonexistent so even if you DID have an encounter you either wouldn't understand it or refuse to believe it entirely; there's more to this world than what you of all people know

[@daddydavey]

I keep expecting the announcer to say "how NOT to be seen". 😁