Bloody Good Horror Episode 370 - Ghostwatch

[@tracymurray585]

I wish someone would just show the full episode of that infamous Halloween Ghostwatch episode, it felt real, very scary with extreme paranormal activity, regardless of it being a mockumentary. I watched it on tv when i was a teen in 1992, i loved it and would love to see it again.

[@bleedingreenbetty9795]

@@CanItAlready Thank you!!!

[@kikidevine694]

I have to be the only Brit of my generation who hasn't seen this

[@mairyhuff7102]

You can get the dvd on amazon I bought it myself about a year back when I'd heard the show had been unbanned

[@davemcgaw1]

Guys this wasn't a movie - it was an actual TV broadcast, around Halloween, and the hosts/presenters are legitimate BBC personalities that we're day-to-day folks we would see on the TV on a daily basis which added a whole lot of legitimacy to the whole thing. And the BBC doesn't broadcast adverts because of the TV licensing system. So this was more like the original "war of the worlds" radio broadcast, not a movie.

[@Jayleenyc]

Dave McGaw yea, it’s a mockumentery. .

[@Jayleenyc]

Dave McGaw I wish they would do something like this it would be awesome

[@arkiswatching699]

@@Jayleenyc sadly they never will again. It caused a massive uproar in the British public over essentially being tricked, as well as one man committing honest to God suicide in fear of mr pipes.

[@andrewlaxton50]

It’s a movie.

[@FLASHAHOLIC_TV]

Shit scary on it's broadcast

[@heroicactofvandalism]

The first time I saw this, not live, there was a mass power cut and the cats outside my ex-council flat were fighting. Then, the heating clicked on. I was 32 years old. I was terrified. Stephen Volkoff is a genuis. PS - 'The British equivalent of Sally Jessie Raphael' That's Esther Ransen 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jimmymcgreason]

I come here once in a while to see the web beaver in all his glory.

[@vader1a]

Is no one going to mention Craig Charles from red dwarf 😀

[@MrAckers75]

Remember watching this live. It was fantastic and probably the best thing the bbc has done

[@karent6376]

Ghost watch did scare the feck out of me as a kid... I remember sleeping on my mums bedroom floor for 2 weeks after because I was so scared to sleep in my own room... worste bit is... Sarah Green the blonde woman was a children's TV presenter... an she promoted the programe on a kids Saturday TV show

[@chris7921]

I remember watching this on Halloween 1992, I was 9 years old and just came back from a friends halloween party, this documentary was billed as a live show presented by well known BBC presenters as the time, two being from kids TV so many children stayed up late to watch this. Being a kid this traumatised me, especially when the phone calls came in describing that people was experiencing paranormal activity at home because of the show, I ran downstairs with my brothers screaming and crying to my parents, thankfully they knew it was all set up and they told me to wait for the end credits to see it was all fake, we all carried on watching it until the end. But this show affected me and other kids. The BBC never did show this again. But the best part was the parts where Pipe’s the ghost would show up and I remember saying to my brothers, did you just see that? But at the time we didn’t record it on VHS. It was very cleverly done, it’s extremely dated now and the acting is cringe but at the time and being a child this was traumatic. It’s a memory I will never forget, and me and all my school friends spoke about this show for a long time, a good nostalgic memory to look back on. Looking back the story to Ghostwatch was quite horrific, the ghost of a baby farmer who murdered babies and children who was tormenting and possessing a peadophile cross-dresser who eventually hanged himself under the stair case cupboard and his rotten corpse was savaged by starving cats, it was very unsettling. A lot of Ghostwatch was obviously sampled heavily from the Enfield Poltergeist case which is well known case in Britain which happened back in the 70’s. I believe the Conjuring 2 was about the Enfield Poltergeist case

[@Did6661]

Low-Panini Dono My experience was very much like yours...what I found hilarious, years later, I read that the writer Stephen Volk originally wanted to end the show with the idea that the ghost of Pipes was able to travel through TV sets so that anyone who had watched the show was now haunted by Pipes- can you imagine the backlash if they’d done that! 😂 It was bad enough as is! Have you seen that ‘Points of View’ style programme called Bite Back? They would’ve been going mental!!!

[@chris7921]

Deirdre O'Connor I have seen it, and I hope the people that was on that show look back in embarrassment of how bad they overacted about being scammed by such a great film. I watch in fits of laughter at some of the men that was complaining on it lol.

[@kellygail3081]

Hello! I remember watching Ghostwatch the night it aired I was ten years old and yes...it did scare me.

[@akiralives9259]

Kelly Gail I too watched it when it aired, I was about 12, and it scared me.

[@jamieabbott1980]

Yes !! I was 12 and absolutely bricking it , my dad told me it was real and it wasnt till a few years ago I told him how much that scared me. 😂😂😂

[@Did6661]

I was 8 when I sneakily watched Ghostwatch Live- without doubt, it was the most scared a TV programme/ film will ever make me...I love it but its also desensitised me against being scared... The thing is, people watching it for the first time now would find it ridiculous but they forget, back then, when it was aired live in 1992, there was no reality TV, there were no ghost hunting programmes, there had never been anything like it. The furore around it was crazy...there were a lot of complaints, but I’m proud to say that, even though it pretty much messed up my sleep routine for a good year, I saw it live!

[@curtinparloe]

It’s Halloween coming up and someone posted about GW, which led me to this. Good job guys. I was at university when this broadcast, and thought it was great - a lot of friends thought it was real. Some additional UK context: -Michael Parkinson was a major chat show host, Sarah Greene and Mike Smith presented children’s tv (and were a real celebrity couple, having been in a spectacular helicopter crash together a couple of years prior), and Craig Charles was a tv comedian and sci-fi comedy actor. -Every BBC show with a phone-in used that same number, including kids tv magazine shows. -BBC has no commercials, but ITV does, so people would have clicked over after the start. Four channels at the time! Ten years later a “legit” ghost hunting show “Most Haunted” started in the UK presented by Yvette Fielding, also a former kids tv presenter. Seems to be a career path...

[@Gambit771]

Michael Parkinson was probably the best talk show host in the world when this came out. Everyone went on his show and he made this believable to anyone that watched it and missed the disclaimer.

[@thepuredrop79]

I was 13 when this aired and didn’t realise it was drama; I didn’t see the disclaimer. I bought into the the live documentary style presentation, and I was scared. It was so well-done. A young man sadly killed himself five days after it aired. Psychiatrists in the UK reported the first cases of post-traumatic stress disorder in children, who watched Ghostwatch. The producers were hauled on tv to apologise to the public.

[@MrJakeolin]

At min 24:00 Michael Parkinson was THE. THE MOST recognisable and respected figure of live talk shows on the BBC for a very very long time. That is what gave the "authenticity" of this credibility. Even to the point, that he did not have a script but was winging it along the general lines of the script.

[@scino55]

The US equivalent would be having the show hosted by one of the presenters from 60 Minutes.

[@MrJakeolin]

@@scino55 exactly

[@michaelwebster6219]

@@scino55 tge usa are just no good at TV and most of there trys at a us version of something allways fails shameless was a mega fail for you guys

[@heroicactofvandalism]

The more you watch this, the better a sense of the atmospheric setting they provided. My favourite moment is checking the mugs hanging in the kitchen, which slowly warp as the evening progresses - and you particularly notice it when Sarah finds the bunny eyes in the sink. Edit: also, watch the BBC classic 'The Stone Tapes'. Nowhere near as atmospheric, but very interesting and gives you a sense of the typical BBC atmosphere that duped the nation.

[@michaelwebster6219]

I was 1 of the many who see this live and oh boy did I have nightmares pipes we had wind outside so made the home creak as it's a old home lol it was brilliant TV for it's time also sane goes for Mr bean lol.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I watched this when it first aired here. I was 13 years old, and had missed the disclaimer. It was really creepy at the time, and had such a cultural impact on people. It’s still talked about a lot by people who watched it originally, especially if they young at the time.

[@stephenkissane4268]

There is a written sequel that was never filmed to this

[@michaelwebster6219]

And the phone calls were the public who were watching live. Every1 was thinking it was real

[@vader1a]

What makes me crazy when I ask people NO ONE remembers it drives me nuts.

[@stephenkissane4268]

Also apparently this was partly a satire about TV of the time

[@MsDawggysLuckyLife]

Is the actual movie available? I’d recommend to show the movie to viewers then discuss it with a live stream viewers can call in or join the feed to discuss it. So many generation X are into paranormal because of the movies we watched growing up and then the reality of life knowing paranormal is a reality. Please advise if there’s any way we can watch the movie, please

[@MrEd8846]

I think they could pull something like this off if it was like... on twitch or something. But the problem is people today suck at making things scary or creepy and making it seem real

[@prawnee9827]

I watched this live when it first aired and rewatched last night. I have a theory as to why Michael Parkinson is so good on this. I think they just had his lines via a teleprompter like he would have normally had when presenting.

[@vader1a]

I was 12 and ithe show scared the crap out of me.

[@lightninseed]

That moment when you think you've found a good movie on youtube only to find out it's a bunch of self-important idiots giving us their "thoughts". #ugh

[@louises2425]

The acting is absolutely atrocious 😂😂😂back as a kid I believed it!!now watching it at 46 you can see straight away it’s fake😂😂😂😂

[@michaelwebster6219]

I tried to call in but had no joys

[@michaelwebster6219]

It was live TV you keep forgetting that oh jeez I dobt thobk can get through the whole thing with this lot

[@denisedavies4602]

This was sooooo scary when first broadcast. American ghost stories are newbies compared to ours... Even though this was fake 🙂

[@lisasimpson4574]

"Nun's on the run". Lol

[@heroicactofvandalism]

Lastly, check out '31/10' by Stephen Volk: www.stephenvolk.net/page7.htm It's the sequel to Ghostwatch.

[@afierylight]

You can see it on Vimeo. Start here: vimeo.com/62986600

[@warrensmith631]

Not the movie. Just a bunch of kids talking. Boring.

[@vickyvictoriawilliams3254]

archive.org/details/Ghostwatch. xxxxx

[@ToddDePompa]

Yes and that's very easy to figure out if you just read the description before you even click play on the video... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@FannyLerouxTime]

Eurgh, make it clear this is a random group video chat and not the TV show... The thumbnail is misleading at best. This video, to me, is also a bunch of opinions that nobody is ever going to pay to listen to, those who do pay have more money to burn than those who care about humanity, given there's starving people in the world, yet content like this online can turn a profit. Makes no sense.

[@markogee40]

SHEEPLE, THIS IS A MOCKUMENTARY , BUT ITS LOST ON YOU YANKS

[@markogee40]

Richard , and agreeing that your derp, what a backwards race 🤪🥊

[@Ghosts-of-York]

Podcast boooo

[@celine73]

What a scam. Wonder how some may still think people can be interested in a bunch of obscure strangers talking of random stuff for so long. Seriously.

[@SmallTownNewYorkCityBoy]

There really aren’t enough unfunny Americans doing commentaries of films / programmes who say “like” in every sentence.

[@33.466-m]

Who listens to this?

[@denisedavies4602]

Have I missed something....where's the video of the programme rather than the various faces discussing the shit?.

[@loge10]

This post demonstrates everything I hate about our current culture. I'm no going to say more, but just ponder what I might mean.

[@JasonCornelius]

Dude.. I took your advice. I've been pondering it for 4 years. Thank you for providing the clarity and time I needed to realise I still care more about what these guys say than what you do.

[@loge10]

@@JasonCornelius Hey, Jason - you did what I asked. What more could I ask for? Seeing my comment now, I must have been in a bad mood. It's a stupid comment.

[@michaelwebster6219]

I was 1 of the many who see this live and oh boy did I have nightmares pipes we had wind outside so made the home creak as it's a old home lol it was brilliant TV for it's time also sane goes for Mr bean lol.