Who do you Personally think Pipes Identify as in live and do you think they could do A sequel to ghost watch showing how pipes has effected modern day and The BBC location???
Saw this live at 13 years old and it scared the crap out of me. One of the best television experiences ever. I love how it starts off a bit naff but gradually tightens the screws and becomes genuinely terrifying.
They knew exactly what they were doing! It totally catches you off guard with that slow start, then the "hoax" is revealed... then all hell breaks loose. Genius.
@graemenicol6377 You did better than me. I got the part where she said Pipes had got into the system and freaked out and turned over. I had to buy the DVD to see how it finished 😂
Steve Volk did write a follow-up short story, "31-10", which detailed some of what happened afterward. To wit: -Michael Parkinson recovered from his apparent possession by Pipes, claimed to have no memory of the events depicted in _Ghostwatch_ , but has refused ever since to watch the special or even discuss it -Sarah Green and Suzanne Early were never seen again. The BBC did hire an impersonator to calm down all the scared children, but nobody was fooled by it. -Pam and Kim moved to the United States to start over. Pam worked tirelessly to help other victims of supernatural horrors until her tragic death in a house fire. Kim now works as a veterinarian somewhere in the Midwest. -Dr. Emilio Sylvestri wrote off the whole night as a case of mass hysteria, until years later he was attacked by Pipes during an interview with Steve Volk. He then witnessed Pipes take possession of Volk entirely, even transforming him into a flesh and blood doppelganger.
I saw this back in the day, I would have been 10 at the time and sat and watched it with my Mum and older brother in our Fife council house on our dodgy second hand TV that was prone to going fuzzy at times. It felt like a proper event and all 3 of us sat riveted as things unfolded. It would have been my Mum's idea and looking back this sort of thing would have been a godsend to her as we were dirt poor and having something that was entertainment for our 3 person family, for free, and kept her 2 young boys quiet for a while must have been awesome. Despite the fact it was genuinely scary to me, I remember it fondly.
As someone who grew up with Lost Episodes and Gaming Creepypastas where the evil can effect those who consume the media they are in, i was pretty surprised when i found out that something like that was done years before. While it sucks that something like Ghostwatch can't happen again, at least it'll be considered a great in all of horror.
I think there's a real connection between things like Ghostwatch, Internet Creepypastas and the more traditional urban legends and campfire stories. These have always reflected the anxieties of their own times, and it's interesting to see how these have been shaped by technology. Ghostwatch is a fascinating example because on one hand it's very much of its time, yet so far ahead of its time as well. The stories it told really felt like urban legends (with Pipes, Mother Seddons and the like), then Ghostwatch itself became its own legend - lots of people had their own stories about watching it, but they never repeated it on TV, so it was kept alive only by word of mouth (then later, through people talking about Ghostwatch on the internet).
I remember my mother talking to me about this as I also missed out on the broadcast. I asked her if she had recorded it and she said she had. I played it back and was in love! My mums also a horror fan so she was more than eager to watch the BBC’s horror show. So glad to see so many others remember it.
6:13 I'm a tad too young to really remember much of 'Going Live', but its successor show 'Live & Kicking' had the same phone-in number (albeit starting with 0181). This number, and the little jingle they'd play when displaying it for phone-in competitions, has indeed lived in my head rent-free for the past 30 fucking years. I don't think it's leaving any time soon either.
Thanks so much! I've seen so many RUclipsrs making videos on the controversy (which is a fascinating subject all of its own), but I thought I'd give some more love to the programme itself, which holds up beautifully in my opinion.
I heard about this last Halloween and studied up on it all the way until Christmas of last year. That show actually lead me on to Inside No.9 with how this and the Live Deadline episode were similar and tricked us into thinking that the BBC had been taken over by ghosts. At the start of this year, I started writing a remake of Ghostwatch for the big screen with it being set like a found footage film from 1992 and a new twist ending after the host would get possessed.
It really does grab hold of you, doesn't it? I feel like I've only scratched the surface of Ghostwatch - this morning, I've discovered a mini-fandom around the Welsh guy who phones in about the cheese and pickle sandwich! I ended up doing the opposite of you, and discovered Ghostwatch through the Dead Line episode of Inside No 9. I'd love to see Ghostwatch remade as a 1992 found footage, there's just so much you could do with that premise! Good luck with the writing.
I think it's actually set up for a sequel series, 30 years after the original events. The UK is being plagued by supernatural events after the events of Ghostwatch and an organisation fighting back called Ghostwatch.
@@midnightmosesuk Nah, I think found footage would be better with fictionalised presenters rather than having to dress up as the ones from the original show. My character would be the main presenter of Ghostwatch. His name would be Brock Stevenson. (Which is my Ring Announcer nickname in Wrestling)
Another superb video Madam! Glad to see you back! Being an old knacker, I saw this on first transmission back in 1992. I'd got the Radio Times, knew of Stephen Volk and being a maahoosive fan of TV Horror ("Hell Comes To Your House") wanted to watch it. It was a Saturday (hence all the kids who watched it) and that was the regular night where 'Ma Bezzie' came round for beers, pizza and VHS tapes. So, he was not impressed when I said, "Hey Rich, there's this thing on tonight on BBC1 and I think we should check it out". Now, he's a lovely bloke but at the time he knew nothing about the show and got visibly grumpy about being forced to watch what he thought was a "Stupid pile of table-tapping paranormal bollocks" (you have to realise we were both hardcore rationalist anarcho-punks and still are). So he moaned so much I had to go channel surfing after ten minutes just to shut him up. Luckily, the other stuff on telly was crap so after five minutes I said, "mind if we go back to BBC1?" "Whatever" (look, I know I'm making him sound like a dick but if it wasn't for Michael Palin, he'd be 'The Nicest Man in The World'). So we watched for another ten minutes until he started getting irritated again. So, we went surfing again. Again, luckily, shite. "Rich, can we please go back to Ghostwatch?" "Oh, for fuck's sake, YES!!" Sullen glugging of lager and slurping pizza noises. And that's when the magic happened. We both got sucked into the drama and both sat perched on the edge of my sofa with big wide eyes all the way to Parky possessed. If memory serves I think we both turned to each other and said "Bloody HELL!!" Then proceeded to drink all the booze in the house. It's a masterpiece. As I said to someone on the MR James Appreciation group on Facebook yesterday who'd said, "Well, it just woudn't work as a repeat these days, people wouldn't get conned" "That's missing the point, it was never meant to be a 'con' or a 'hoax'. It's a perfect three act telefantasy drama. 1) Dull set up 2) It's a Hoax 3) I am PIPES! Hear me ROAR!!!" And yes, 21:25 last night, off I went in the 'National Seance' for Pipes knows how many times... "Round and round t' garden? Like a Teddy Bear?" Heh...
Loved that story, very well told! And you're right - it's not just some cheap "hoax", it was a perfectly executed piece of experimental horror. And if it won over the hardcore rationalist anarcho-punks, then it had to be doing something right!
Agreed indeed! Volk's script is perfection as it's a textbook example of character driven 'slow burn' and Lesley Manning's direction is superb. Show, don't tell, then tell, don't show. Its genius use of television as a,powerful medium should be used as a teaching aid for anyone wanting to get into the profession. Especially the construct of making the audience doubt what it just stared at. And best of all, most importantly for a telly horror drama, it's actually bloody scary. And it still is... Next up, the book 'The Haunted Box' from Headpress. A history of British Television Horror. If people bully me into polishing off the last two chapters on 'In The Flesh' and 'Remember Me' ..
Fantastic video on a genius production. I'd not noticed the phallic drawing before. I can't be the only one that finds that with the bunny's eyes really dark?
So happy that you’ve done a video about ghostwatch! I was born three years after it broadcast but became aware of it from the 100 scariest moments on channel 4 and became obsessed with how this show worked, the story and the aftermath!!!! Another great video WeeLin!!!
Thanks! I can't believe I've only just got around to watching it - I'd heard plenty about the controversy around it, but not so much about the film itself. Glad I've seen it now, and it was even better than I expected!
Personally I think it was the inclusion of Michael Parkinson that got the BBC in trouble. He was such a trusted face on TV, popular with elderly viewers. I think a lot of his regularly viewers would never expect to be pranked by a national broadcast. If they had brought in someone like Terry Christian, I think there would have been a lot less complaints, but perhaps a lot less viewers too.
"Oh hey this is really cool, I wonder what the rest of her content is like" *endless Inside No. 9 videos* Genuinely don't think I could've hit that subscribe button any harder.
I love Ghostwatch. It's so well done. The history of Mr Pipes feels like genuine folklore. It goes too goofy right at the end, but Michael Parkinson being possessed is freaky. I didn't see it as a kid and yeah, good thing. I got freaked out by the Bobby ghost in the fridge in that episode of Home and Away. That could make an interesting subject one day
They did a great job writing Pipes - really does feel like folklore. And yeah, I would probably have twigged when the wind started blowing in the studio, as that did feel slightly goofy, but the Parkinson possession scene and Sarah Greene getting trapped were both very freaky in their own ways, so I think it redeems itself almost immediately. I didn't watch Home and Away, so I've missed this completely - who would have thought they'd do a ghost storyline? I'll need to check that out, thanks!
@@WeeLin Technically it’s a hallucination, but it’s still done like a haunting. Weird the things that stick with you. The uncanny stuff. Much like the lyrics of the Home and Away theme itself 😱
I vaguely remember the home and away ghost plot,I'm sure I remember another one with someone dressing up as a bunyip but it was set up as it it was a real creature,I remember the way some of that was filmed freaked the hell out of me,of course I was really young
I was twelve and watched it with my older sister and her boyfriend. We all crapped our pants, lol. The only thing that caused any doubt for us was the occasional terrible acting of the kids/mother and Sarah Greene. However, even if you suspected or knew it wasn't real/live, it was done so well and was scary enough to pull you in and mess you up anyway! By the end i knew it was fake but still spent all night in bed shivering, afraid to open my eyes in case I saw a figure in my room! I remember we tried the phoneline and it was engaged, making us feel like, indeed, there was some kind of national event happening from the programme. It was GENIUS.
I never saw this as I was too young but I've heard about it. I seem to recall a similar thing happening with a reading of War of The Worlds on radio, years before. From what I gather a great many people actually thought that an alien invasion was taking place for real. Collective panic and all that jazz, I suppose. Excellent video, by the way, well done and thank you for uploading it.
After watching about 5 minutes of this, I paused and went to watch the ghost watch episode special. Exact thing happened too with your psychoville episode (WHAT A SHOW!) You have great taste. I'm not from UK so these recommendations are actually quite great... You guys do horror fantastically over there.
So glad that you've done a full analysis of the story of Ghostwatch. A lot of coverage focuses mostly or entirely on the controversy surrounding it, which I get, but I think that's always done a disservice to the show. Watching it as an adult, fully aware that it's fiction, it's still a masterful piece of horror. My understanding was that the writers weren't certain that they'd be allowed to do it as a mockumentary, so they made sure it would work as fiction - and I think they found a great balance.
Thanks so much! I've seen plenty of videos on RUclips talking about the controversy in detail, so I figured that it had already been done, but not so many talking about the programme itself, which (I thought) deserved its own analysis. Same with Dead Line - I didn't see it on broadcast, so I knew the "faults" had to be scripted, but that didn't mean it wasn't a great piece of horror in its own right. Both programmes used some clever tricks, but they weren't reliant on those to make it work. I think that's amazing, and they got the balance just right.
@@stephenvolk5527 Thanks! It was a brilliant piece of horror and, while it looked really convincing as a live broadcast, I think that calling it a "hoax" does Ghostwatch an extreme disservice, because it made it sound like a cheap trick rather than a bold new approach to the genre. It's so much more interesting than that. After watching loads of RUclips videos, I was left thinking "Yeah, we all know about the guy who shat himself, but what about the film?" Thanks for watching, thanks for your comment, and thanks for Ghostwatch!
I saw this live when it was broadcast with my parents. I loved it! Got it on DVD a few years ago and watch it every Halloween night now. Even at my very young age I cottoned on by the end that it was fake once Parkie was singing ring around the roses. People got so upset afterwards because it highlighted their gullibility and stupidity and people don't tend to like that.
I’ve just discovered your channel, your work is incredible! My family actually had a poltergeist when I was 13-14. It wasn’t terrifying, just unsettling. I’m open to the idea of a young person attracting energy that is looking for something to hook onto, a kind of disembodied consciousness. I’d have believed this broadcast until halfway through. I just don’t think I’d believe something so eventful, so consistently. I have mixed feelings about the show with it’s potential for humiliating people who have had their own experiences. I don’t think that’s fair, there should have been a counterbalance with a broadcast describing real experiences and taken seriously. I can imagine viewers deciding never to reveal these stories of their own and that’s not good, people believing they have to be silent, or be mocked. Fascinating video! Thank you!
I remember watching this live. Can’t recall at what point I realised it was a spoof, but it was brilliantly done. The inclusion of Michael Parkinson certainly convinced viewers had to be genuine
I am American and loved Horror movies since watching Creature Feature with doctor paul bearer every weekend with my grandmother... I downloaded this years ago and saved it until Halloween night. I watched it with my very naive wife and acted like I didnt know much about it except it was banned in the Uk and apparently it caused a lot of mental problems and possibly a death. She fell for it hook line and sinker... It was glorious! She finally googled it the next day and called me mad, but also laughing. I really do love this amazing video and think this needs to be turned into a found footage film. The world deserves more of this!
I think i was 11 when it was on TV and my sis was 15. We were freaking out big time, running out the room then coming back for more. It's without doubt the best thing they've ever put on TV at halloween.
I remember watching this when it aired. I would have been around 11-ish at the time, and it must have stuck with me as even all these years later I can remember the name of Pipes, and the faces vanishing when the camera does a pan back. Good stuff!
I can remember watching this when it aired, I was 9 years old and it absolutely terrified me for weeks. I wouldn't dream of letting my son what this now at the same age I was.
Like so many others this terrified me as a child back in 1992. Still sends chills down my spine if I even just watch a clip. At least as an adult I can now appreciate how well crafted it was
I find that looking at the crafting behind the things that scared me helps me to demystify them and make them less frightening. At least that's the idea - sometimes it just gets me obsessed with them even more!
Im so so glad youre back! Im saving this to watch when I finish work and can really get comfy and indulge. I love all your content and could listen to any commentary you have on TV shows, movies or even just urban legends and folklore. I think I was about 9 when this aired so unlikely a thing my parents would have A-had on or B-Let me even watch.
Thank you! I do love talking about things like this, plus Ghostwatch feels like it has an urban myth or folklore quality of its own. I was about the same age - no idea if my parents watched (they're not big horror fans, but my mum enjoyed Most Haunted when that came out later, and we did enjoy going the ghost walks whenever we went to York), but I doubt they would have let me watch this. If I'd known it was on, I would have probably tried to watch in secret and ended up traumatising myself.
I remember watching this when I was 10. I was terrified to go to bed after. I've been searching for a decent copy. Thanks for your insight and the file location.
My dad had to spend so long explaining to little 5 year old me that the Amstrad monitor I'd sneakily watched it on wasn't making noise because it was haunted. Rather that stuff does that when it cools down, and also Alan Sugar made some awfully cheap shite that was more prone to these things. Excellent video
This video is a really good summary of the film. Found myself agreeing with pretty much everything, and at points articulates what I have said about it before in the past word for word. Ghostwatch could never, ever happen now. The world now is a much more cynical place than 1992 was. Also what's really important is that Ghostwatch was made before the internet/social media age, and before you could pause/rewind TV. One of the reasons Ghostwatch works so well is because it really plays on that "did I just see that?", blink-and-you-miss-it unsettling discomfort. If the show aired today, almost all of it would be instantly debunked, and would be torn apart on social media. Back then, when the show ended, that was it, over, finished - no going online to check if/what was real, no playback (unless you recorded it on VHS), no discussion forums, no social media, nothing. You went to bed with your doubts and uncertainties and asked your colleagues/school friends the next day if they'd seen it. So all of these circumstances are basically why Ghostwatch worked so well and fooled so many people - it would be virtually impossible these days. Also a note on the acting - ironically, the non-actors - Michael Parkinson, Craig Charles and Sarah Greene - do a pretty good, believable job - Parkinson in particular was great, and that was an inspired piece of casting as he was seen as a reliable, trustworthy, respected BBC figure. What lets the show down are actually the real actors, playing the family and the paranormal expert. The actress playing the mother in particular, it has to be said, gives a really terrible, flat performance. The actors are all just so wooden, and, this is vital - they are clearly acting out a script - for the nature of what the film is, they are nowhere near believable, natural or spontaneous enough, and this for me is where the film falls down (excellent though it is).
I was 10 when it was broadcast. As a child who very much didn't believe in ghosts I watched in the hope of it being a laugh and never took the early part seriously. It sort of dawned on me and my sister, who was 13, that it wasn't real as it went on. As a I realised it wasn't real it didn't frighten me. It was a huge discussion at school among the kids whose parents let them watch.
just before you quoted "don't let your imaginations run riot" i got the shit scared out of me by my coat on the ground being moved by a draft, i was sat there calming down for about 30 seconds 😭
I saw it at the time it was broadcast and had seen the pre publicity so was aware it was not 'real' but it was still an effect horror experience I found. I haven't seen it again since as I'm happy to chuckle at the memory of the shivers it produced back then. Thanks for the video and welcome back to Scotland.
Thanks, it's great to be back! And yeah, it's still scary even if you know it's fiction - I mean, you go into about 99% of horror films knowing it's not real, but you let yourself get lost in the story.
I remember seeing this as a teenager and being terrified 🤣but I'd forgotten so many of the details. Great analysis and now I really have to watch it again!
Loved watching this so interesting! I was 10 and along with everyone else shit my pants and my older brother took great joy in this and would bang on the pipes 😢 never been so frightened in my life! Also, I'm so pleased you mentioned the image of the devil right after it finished that will stay with me forever. I cried my eyes out! Lol extremely traumatic and was feeling the same uncomfortable feelings while watching this at 41 but also really cool . I'm totally conflicted lol. Thank you for this nostalgia x
I watched this, it was brilliant. Not surprised it fooled so many ppl , because the general public are generally a bit thick. The way the actors ( family ) spoke made it so obvious that it was a script with their clear , concise speech. I would love t9 see the whole thing again, but I’m sure it would seem very outdated by now. But equally , I think it would still fool several ppl.
You still can find the program on RUclips in its entirety. On another note, I saw a different video review of "Ghostwatch" that stated that Pipes appears a total of 13 times in the show!
Bravo, well done! I'm sitting here doing schoolwork, and listening to this presentation, and thinking to myself, "Oh, wow, this is like the 1939 Halloween radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds where people freaked out because they hadn't heard the opening sequence explaining that it was all a drama." I mean, that level of terror isn't realized except perhaps on election nights. Thanks so much.
I can remember watching this as a university student on the night it aired. We had missed the intro and the whole think started as a joke as we were having a few beers and pizza. As things progressed we were literally silent at the tension started to build and the atmosphere changed. With all the current ghost Hunt type programmes it's a different era .I've often wondered if that specific text this is for entertainment purposes only due to ghost watch?
Thank you for the recommendation! I watched it all the way through, and I found it both genuinely frightening and quaint. It was a slow burn, but I think the ending sort of jumped the shark a bit and turned campy. It’s kind of funny because I thought this review of it was scarier than the film itself - I think because you always have a great atmosphere for your videos. Thanks again for the frights!
Location work for Ghostwatch was done during July 1992. They spent around a month in the location. One week was used to film the studio scenes, which was produced in Studio D at the BBC Elstree Studios.
@@royfontaine5526 Yes, one overnight shoot on the street. I remember the producer saying this was July 1992, and overnight temperatures didn't drop below 15c and so they are all wearing warm coats etc, and were boiling hot. You will notice Craig Charles sweating a lot during some of his scenes. Also if this was really 31st October night, their breath would be seen when they breathed out
@@johnking5174 interesting. Actually I’ve spent many an evening down south in October/November when it has still been like late summer, so I wouldn’t have expected to have seen breath in the air.
@@royfontaine5526 It was based in Northolt, but I remember Craig Charles saying he was very hot in that overcoat he had on, and others wore scarves and gloves, in heat of around 15c at night. The studio scenes were all recorded over one week in late July 1992, with them filming 15 to 20 minutes of studio scenes per day. Gillian Bevan who played Doctor Lin Pascoe said they would rehearse in the morning and during the afternoon film that day's quota.
I enjoyed this. I had just turned 16 when it was on, and while I don't remember finding it particularly scary at the time, mostly because my mum, who was scared kept talking through it, the fact that so much of it has stayed with me suggests I found it more frightening than I believed I did.
My mum is one of those people who is a bit scared by silence anyway and she was trying to re assure herself that everything was ok. We knew it was fiction, but sort of forgot as it went on as it was so well done.
I would have been 16, just about to turn 17, when Ghostwatch aired. I was quite a highly strung teenager, although I was, and remain, hugely sceptical of ghosts. So, I watched it safe in the knowledge that this would clearly debunk such notions. However, I was unaware of the nature of it and, to compound my ignorance, I'd missed the opening 2 or 3 minutes. So, as far as I was concerned, it was genuine live broadcast hosted by the usual suspects. At the end of experience, I was as white as a sheet, and I'd daren't fall asleep. To this day, just thinking about it unnerves me. Bizarrely, I even had to double check things I thought I was seeing out of the corner of my eye as I was watching this. Frankly, it remains a seminal piece of television that deserves a wider audience. Or maybe that's just Pipes telling me to type this in order to fulfil his plan... round and round the garden, like a teddy bear...
I tried to imagine watching this having missed the first few minutes, and there's no way I'd have got to sleep! It still looks convincing today, and they don't drop the guise for a second. It's brilliant, possibly one of the greatest horror moments in television ever, but then that might be Pipes making me type all this... fee fi fo fum!
The producer of the show said that when you see the interiors of the house, you think it was night time. Well it wasn't. The interior scenes were largely shot during the day, with drapes covered up the windows to make it look like night. This caused the house to be roasting hot, as it was filmed in July 1992.
I watched this alone at the age of 18. Unaware of any warnings or information saying it was fictional. I was absolutely terrified as well as elated that proof of ghosts and by extension everything about the 'other side' was unfolding before me. I did not feel cheated when i learnt the truth a few days later in a news paper. I feel privileged to have had the raw experience completely convinced it was real. I did turn the TV over then off when it became obvious the ghost was trying to possess people through the TV. I think it stands alone with war of the worlds as a once in a lifetime experience, while simultaneously being an experiment in the psychology of fear in the masses.
I remember when i used to believe creepy pastas were real lmao. But at least i didn't sue the creators, growing up now in my 20s, I'm glad i thought they were real, because I was scared which was good lmao
Thanks, and everything's okay, cheers for saying that. This year's been a mad one, not all bad by any means, but it hasn't left me much time for making videos. But don't worry - that's about to change!
One part i love that doesnt get talked about is when sarah goes to make a drink and when she runs water you can hear the pipes wich make the banging noise
Such a fantastic analysis!I absolutely remember watching this live,waaay too young!!Ever since,I wouldn't allow curtains in my bedroom!! Loved your video!What brilliant commentary you provide!I would suggest a watch of The Last Broadcast,if you haven't already 👻
Thanks so much! I just looked up The Last Broadcast - how have I never heard of this before? That's one for the watch list, I think! Cheers for the recommendation.
Late on the comments here. But watched this again last night since I had first seen it as a primary school age child back in the day. As a kid this shat me up and next morning everyone at school was talking about it like it was real. I don't think anyone's parents told us "it's a load of bollicks!" and gave us doubt. This is a memory that looking back was a genius bit of 'prank/its real' telly that couldn't really be replicated today
There are so many ways in which Dead Line feels like an homage to Ghostwatch, and I can appreciate that now. It was also really bold of them to try something new with the idea (like posting on Twitter - couldn't do that in 1992!) and managing that even when fewer people are watching live TV.
I discovered it though them too, also Charlie Brooker had a bit on Ghostwatch years ago, which was probably the first I heard of it. You can really see how it's influenced Reece and Steve, especially Dead Line.
An important thing to remember about Ghostwatch is it was part of a "Halloween Night" block of programming, and as per the radio times plus the idents themselves, there was to be updates similar to crimewatch occurring during the following hours, if I remember correctly there was a documentary about modern American horror directly afterwards
I watched this with my mate and his dad when it was shown and for the first 10 mins or so we were unsure if it was a drama or for real , anyway we soon realised it wasnt real and watched till the end and genuinely enjoyed it . I just couldn't believe all the hysteria that followed it was like the video nasty cobblers of the 80s all over again . I have watched it a few times since and still enjoy it .
Happy Día de los Muertos. It’s so great to have you back and to see new content from you! Sadly I never saw the original Ghostwatch, I was at a Hallowe’en party when it originally aired in 1992. But may I ask what happened to the Season 7 IN9 Awards video that you said would be next, towards the end of your review of “Wise Owl”? Did I somehow manage to miss it? Did you change your mind about it? Or did life just get in the way (as it so often does)?
That's a very fair question, and I'm sorry to leave you hanging. Don't worry, you didn't miss the awards video, because I haven't made it yet. Life getting in the way pretty much sums it up - not all bad, just very stressful. We bought our first house this year and moved up to Scotland from London last month, and I've only recently got all the recording equipment back in order. To be honest, I didn't feel quite so motivated to do the IN9 S7 Awards video right away (I still have notes I made aaaaaaages ago!) but I did feel inspired to cover Ghostwatch after watching it, especially as the 30 year anniversary was about to happen. Kinda felt like the perfect timing. Also, I wasn't sure how many people would still be interested in a series 7 wrap up so long after the fact, but I've had a few people mention it now, so I'll dig out the notes and get that put together next. Thanks!
@@WeeLin Thank you so much, I shall look forward to that, and there’s no need to apologise- I understand the issues surrounding a “big” move and I hope you’re settling neatly back into the braw homeland.! 🏴 I’m glad you did digress momentarily to discuss Ghostwatch as it gave me the opportunity to finally watch what I missed 30 years ago- Thanks to the link you provided. Having watched it and listened to your analysis, I too, can see the parallels between this and also recognise the clear inspiration for the IN9 episode “Deadline”. I guess it was a bit of groundbreaking TV which soon gave rise (in it’s hoax element) to other programmes such as “Brasseye” which came a few years later, towards the end of the 90’s. Kudos also, in getting the Ghostwatch writer @StephenVolk to comment. 😊
I saw this as a 10 year old. Watching with my family, I was too scared to give up and go to bed on my own or continue watching without a cushion over my eyes and my hands over my ears. My family were trying to convince me it wasn't real by showing the street name wasn't in the London A-Z. That wasn't the issue- when you're a child your used to things being both real and fictional at the same time, and regardless of how fictional it was, the fear was real. Only in the last few years have I been able to watch the last few minutes of it. The burning questions for me, that kept me awake at night for months afterwards, was what happened to Sarah and Suzanne, locked in that cupboard with Pipes?
I dread to think of what happens next. It's hard to tell if the target was Suzanne, Sarah or both. Pipes/Tunstall has already been possessing Suzanne, so he could have made her attack Sarah if she was the real target. I'm sure that, as a children's entertainer, there would be some animosity towards Sarah from Mother Seddons too. I imagine their fate was to become yet another chapter in the horror of Foxhill Drive, unless they managed to get out. Hopefully they did - I'm sure enough people saw the broadcast to come to their rescue, and they'd leave with a chilling story to tell.
@@WeeLin Pamela's experience in the glory hole of feeling like she was about to die is the closest parallel we have to guessing what might happen to Sarah. Was Pamela really about to die, or was that an exaggeration brought on by understandably fearful situation. We never get any indication of what Pipes might want from his manifestation; just to scare and mildly harm people or to fully possess and/or kill?
@@AD-fu9lx That was some great foreshadowing they did with Pam and the cupboard. But you're right, we don't know what Pipes is trying to do - scare, maim, possess or kill. Or maybe he feeds off people's fear, or drains their life force, which is maybe why Pam thought she was going to die. He may have another goal, which is especially horrible - I remember how chilling it suddenly felt to hear Suzanne screaming "don't touch me" after we know what Raymond Tunstall was convicted of. And then there was Mother Seddons who drowned all those kids (kind of like how Kim leaves her bunny soaking in the water. Then takes its eyes out, just like Pipes. Feels like it's all connected, doesn't it?)
Thanks (and yeah, I couldn't resist going for 9.25pm to make it the EXACT same time Ghostwatch was originally broadcast!). By the way, I tried to get your lovely banner art up recently, but I had trouble with the format, so I'll need to talk to you about that soon - such a shame not to use it!
I was there back in 1992. It really did leave many people on edge. That week's Points of View episode - with Anne Robinson, was taken up with viewer complaints about Ghostwatch and its aftermath. Lots of complaints.
It certainly seemed pretty scary 30 years ago on the night, I didn’t see the continuity announcement, we didn’t get the radio times and I was of an age where I was fascinated by any supposed paranormal happenings and read any books on the subject I could get my hands on. The Italian house where faces were meant to have started appearing through the kitchen floor is one that sticks in my mind, from a big, green hardback compendium on paranormal events from my local library. As you point out, it is much more difficult to stage anything like Ghostwatch in the internet age, I think I remember listening to documentary that puts a BBC radio drama broadcast from the 1920’s as the first to cause the sort of panic that war of the worlds did, so evidently the BBC have previous form in that arena.
That must have been one hell of an experience - I figure a lot of people must have missed the announcement, and then there's no way of telling it's fiction until the end. That story about the faces in the floor sounds creepy too! It's hard to do anything like Ghostwatch now, but not impossible - I remember the first Paranormal Activity getting plenty of buzz, even after I saw a preview and thought that IMDB had already killed found footage, plus the Inside No 9 lads did a great job with Dead Line. Now I'm curious to find out what that 1920s BBC drama was - thanks for mentioning that!
As a youngster the faces in the floor seemed super scary, but looking at photos of them as an adult they seem like paintings a tier or two lower than that lass that tried to fix the fresco and created a monkey-Jesus. As to the radio drama, to the best of my recollection it was 1926 and I think it was about civil unrest.
It sorta reminds me of the number 9 Halloween episode but far more serious. Kinda makes me wonder if they took some inspiration from this when they wrote that episode
You're right - they absolutely did take inspiration from Ghostwatch. Interesting to see how they introduced more modern technology to Dead Line, like sending live tweets during the programme. I made a whole video on Dead Line too, if you're interested!
Saw this show in Canada where it aired that night as well. OMG that show scared me silly! It freaked me out but I still loved it but I hated the ending I always wanted them to have done a sequel. My mother didn't lol! Thank god for my dog! She's the only reason I went to sleep after that.
I was 19 at the time and watched it 'live'. Like pretty much everyone else I missed the intro, so thought it was exactly what it appeared to be: a live broadcast from a so-called haunted house. I believed it at first. The main reason being the likes of Parky and Sarah Green did a fantastic job of playing themselves. Rewatching it a few years ago, the acting from the proper actors is a bit ropy - though I don't remember noticing that at the time. Although I cottoned on at some point that it was scripted, I totally get why it caused a big stink. No question in my mind having witnessed it first hand and in context that the Beeb meant to hoax people. Nice to see someone taking a retrospective look at it and judging it so intelligently.
I feel like the Halloween airdate and the casting of Craig Charles and Sarah Greene was all kinda to make sure that kids would be more likely to be up late and watching. Terrifying small children is what the licence fee is for.
I know I risk being labelled a heretic, but back in the day I never found this convincing. In fact I thought parts of it came across a pretty laughable to me sadly. I thought the Inside number 9 lot's version was more convincing.
Hey, at least you tried to get into it! The people I don't understand are the ones that watch horror to not be scared - feels like watching a comedy to not laugh. But in the end, it's all subjective - shame you couldn't have that experience.
Yes, the Hallowe'en special "Dead Line" was inspired by Ghostwatch. Some parts were filmed live, also there were some interactions happening live on Twitter with the cast while it was showing.
Please review As featured in his collection Dark Corners, screenwriter Stephen Volk wrote a short story entitled 31/10, which is effectively a sequel to Ghostwatch. The piece was later selected for "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection", and nominated for the Horror Writers' Association (HWA) Bram Stoker Award, and British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2006. The story itself centres on Volk taking part in a fictitious, 10th anniversary edition of Ghostwatch in 2002. Venturing into the previously sealed-off BBC studio space where the original show took place, he is accompanied by a small team of individuals whose lives were somehow affected by the broadcast, ten years previously.
That's so weird, as I actually stumbled across this before I answered one of your other comments - the story is available online, and I left a link there. I might review it in the future, thanks!
I saw a clip of this special on the 100 greatest scary moments on channel 4 and I have since become intrigued by it, I think it was the fact that the ghost hunting thee family had a name and quite a disturbing background that made me wanto to see it but I never could because i scared easily when I was a child. Also where were you able to find this special? I looked on BBC iplayer, prime video and Netflix, even RUclips but I ca't seem to track it down great video as always👍
I was gifted a copy on DVD and it's also been available on Shudder - not sure if it's still there. I've put a link in my video description to see the full version online for free. I don't think it's ever been on Netflix and it isn't on iPlayer either, presumably because the BBC have never aired it again after the initial fallout.
@@WeeLin Thank you Weelin. I was just wondering, I just posted my review for inside no 9 episode Diddle Diddle Dumpling and I was wondering what are your thoughts on the ending to that episode?
@@joshuawilliams7734 Great, looking forward to watching it! As for my thoughts on the ending, I loved the reveal that it wasn't really about the shoe and I really loved that there was some ambiguity (which was apparently unintentional) over what David had done and to whom. The fact that he believes that the twins "should be together" and one is already dead... my mind went to some very dark places! I talk about it at length in my "Most Disturbing Episodes" video (Diddle Diddle Dumpling is at the start of part 2), but bear in mind that I wrote it before the script book for series 1-3 were released!
Watched film by chance, it was Tubi's 'up next'.... I immediately became engrossed; it was so clearly the best 'take' of a found-footage film (a genre I really dislike). I'd never seen anything quite like it... (although, didn't AHS totally copy it once? mebe the Roanoke season?)i loved it! Not long after, eithrr t 2:20 he Toronto Star or CBC related the pants-reimbursement story... Now, seeing this vid, I'm even more in love with Ghostwtach.... Thanks;
Ive watched and loved many Ghost Watch reviews but yours is by far the most entertaining and in-depth and longest running. So much so I've watched it more times than I care to remember 😂 and will continue to do so especially on Halloween 😁👻🎃🧛🏻♀️
When I was little, my family used to watch DVD's that came with newspapers and magazines. We used to collect them. So, my cousins gave me a DVD about paranormal. I think it was from discovery or BBC, I can't remember. It was so scary that it made me cry and I had nightmares for days. I told my girl cousin how scared I was and we created a ritual. She got a scissors, and broke the CD in pieces and she threw it in the toilet.
If Wee Lin or anyone else can help identify that movie, I would really appreciate it. I remember a guy giving an interview and then dodging an ash tray at some bar. I also remember an alien?
@@WeeLin He was giving an interview at a bar of some sort, and then I distinctly remember a transparent ash tray falling off a table with force. I think it was also thrown at the interviewee. I also remember a distinct tune at the start of the show. It was a high pitched sound, maybe it was Unsolved Mysteries (1987) ???
Went to check the comments this morning, and my laptop wouldn't turn on. I guess Pipes didn't like my review! 😥👻
Who do you Personally think Pipes Identify as in live and do you think they could do A sequel to ghost watch showing how pipes has effected modern day and The BBC location???
@@filmunion8194 The author actually wrote a sequel in short story form and I *might* be talking about it on the channel soon!
@@WeeLin what's the story called?
@@IfIHadMyTimeAgain It's called 31/10 - and I *might* be reviewing it soon...
@@WeeLin thank you, I'll have to pay attention to my notifications in case
Saw this live at 13 years old and it scared the crap out of me. One of the best television experiences ever. I love how it starts off a bit naff but gradually tightens the screws and becomes genuinely terrifying.
They knew exactly what they were doing! It totally catches you off guard with that slow start, then the "hoax" is revealed... then all hell breaks loose. Genius.
that's so cool .
i just saw it and I love it!
I was 22 when it went out and it scared the crap out of me untill I realized near the end that it was fiction.
@graemenicol6377 You did better than me. I got the part where she said Pipes had got into the system and freaked out and turned over. I had to buy the DVD to see how it finished 😂
You’re so lucky!!!
Steve Volk did write a follow-up short story, "31-10", which detailed some of what happened afterward. To wit:
-Michael Parkinson recovered from his apparent possession by Pipes, claimed to have no memory of the events depicted in _Ghostwatch_ , but has refused ever since to watch the special or even discuss it
-Sarah Green and Suzanne Early were never seen again. The BBC did hire an impersonator to calm down all the scared children, but nobody was fooled by it.
-Pam and Kim moved to the United States to start over. Pam worked tirelessly to help other victims of supernatural horrors until her tragic death in a house fire. Kim now works as a veterinarian somewhere in the Midwest.
-Dr. Emilio Sylvestri wrote off the whole night as a case of mass hysteria, until years later he was attacked by Pipes during an interview with Steve Volk. He then witnessed Pipes take possession of Volk entirely, even transforming him into a flesh and blood doppelganger.
I saw this back in the day, I would have been 10 at the time and sat and watched it with my Mum and older brother in our Fife council house on our dodgy second hand TV that was prone to going fuzzy at times. It felt like a proper event and all 3 of us sat riveted as things unfolded. It would have been my Mum's idea and looking back this sort of thing would have been a godsend to her as we were dirt poor and having something that was entertainment for our 3 person family, for free, and kept her 2 young boys quiet for a while must have been awesome.
Despite the fact it was genuinely scary to me, I remember it fondly.
As someone who grew up with Lost Episodes and Gaming Creepypastas where the evil can effect those who consume the media they are in, i was pretty surprised when i found out that something like that was done years before. While it sucks that something like Ghostwatch can't happen again, at least it'll be considered a great in all of horror.
I think there's a real connection between things like Ghostwatch, Internet Creepypastas and the more traditional urban legends and campfire stories. These have always reflected the anxieties of their own times, and it's interesting to see how these have been shaped by technology. Ghostwatch is a fascinating example because on one hand it's very much of its time, yet so far ahead of its time as well. The stories it told really felt like urban legends (with Pipes, Mother Seddons and the like), then Ghostwatch itself became its own legend - lots of people had their own stories about watching it, but they never repeated it on TV, so it was kept alive only by word of mouth (then later, through people talking about Ghostwatch on the internet).
I remember my mother talking to me about this as I also missed out on the broadcast. I asked her if she had recorded it and she said she had. I played it back and was in love! My mums also a horror fan so she was more than eager to watch the BBC’s horror show. So glad to see so many others remember it.
Lucky she taped it, especially as it was never broadcast again!
6:13 I'm a tad too young to really remember much of 'Going Live', but its successor show 'Live & Kicking' had the same phone-in number (albeit starting with 0181). This number, and the little jingle they'd play when displaying it for phone-in competitions, has indeed lived in my head rent-free for the past 30 fucking years. I don't think it's leaving any time soon either.
The bit that always sticks with me is Mike Smith giving a very decent performance of being upset and angry that Sarah is in danger in the house.
An entire hour of this? HOOK ME UP TO IT NOW
And there was me wondering if I'd made the video too long.
This is the most comprehensive retrospective of ghostwatch in my opinion on RUclips. Amazing work wee lin, please keep up the amazing work.
Thanks so much! I've seen so many RUclipsrs making videos on the controversy (which is a fascinating subject all of its own), but I thought I'd give some more love to the programme itself, which holds up beautifully in my opinion.
This absolutely TERRIFIED me when i first watched it that Saturday night in 1992
Fantastically done😊
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it, if "enjoyed" is the right word here. It would have terrified me back then too!
I watched this just the other day for Hallowe'en. It stills gives me chills.
It's now officially part of my regular Hallowe'en line-up.
I heard about this last Halloween and studied up on it all the way until Christmas of last year.
That show actually lead me on to Inside No.9 with how this and the Live Deadline episode were similar and tricked us into thinking that the BBC had been taken over by ghosts.
At the start of this year, I started writing a remake of Ghostwatch for the big screen with it being set like a found footage film from 1992 and a new twist ending after the host would get possessed.
It really does grab hold of you, doesn't it? I feel like I've only scratched the surface of Ghostwatch - this morning, I've discovered a mini-fandom around the Welsh guy who phones in about the cheese and pickle sandwich! I ended up doing the opposite of you, and discovered Ghostwatch through the Dead Line episode of Inside No 9. I'd love to see Ghostwatch remade as a 1992 found footage, there's just so much you could do with that premise! Good luck with the writing.
I think it's actually set up for a sequel series, 30 years after the original events. The UK is being plagued by supernatural events after the events of Ghostwatch and an organisation fighting back called Ghostwatch.
@@midnightmosesuk Nah, I think found footage would be better with fictionalised presenters rather than having to dress up as the ones from the original show.
My character would be the main presenter of Ghostwatch.
His name would be Brock Stevenson. (Which is my Ring Announcer nickname in Wrestling)
Another superb video Madam! Glad to see you back!
Being an old knacker, I saw this on first transmission back in 1992. I'd got the Radio Times, knew of Stephen Volk and being a maahoosive fan of TV Horror ("Hell Comes To Your House") wanted to watch it.
It was a Saturday (hence all the kids who watched it) and that was the regular night where 'Ma Bezzie' came round for beers, pizza and VHS tapes. So, he was not impressed when I said, "Hey Rich, there's this thing on tonight on BBC1 and I think we should check it out". Now, he's a lovely bloke but at the time he knew nothing about the show and got visibly grumpy about being forced to watch what he thought was a "Stupid pile of table-tapping paranormal bollocks" (you have to realise we were both hardcore rationalist anarcho-punks and still are). So he moaned so much I had to go channel surfing after ten minutes just to shut him up.
Luckily, the other stuff on telly was crap so after five minutes I said, "mind if we go back to BBC1?" "Whatever" (look, I know I'm making him sound like a dick but if it wasn't for Michael Palin, he'd be 'The Nicest Man in The World'). So we watched for another ten minutes until he started getting irritated again.
So, we went surfing again. Again, luckily, shite.
"Rich, can we please go back to Ghostwatch?"
"Oh, for fuck's sake, YES!!"
Sullen glugging of lager and slurping pizza noises.
And that's when the magic happened.
We both got sucked into the drama and both sat perched on the edge of my sofa with big wide eyes all the way to Parky possessed.
If memory serves I think we both turned to each other and said "Bloody HELL!!"
Then proceeded to drink all the booze in the house.
It's a masterpiece.
As I said to someone on the MR James Appreciation group on Facebook yesterday who'd said, "Well, it just woudn't work as a repeat these days, people wouldn't get conned"
"That's missing the point, it was never meant to be a 'con' or a 'hoax'. It's a perfect three act telefantasy drama. 1) Dull set up 2) It's a Hoax 3) I am PIPES! Hear me ROAR!!!"
And yes, 21:25 last night, off I went in the 'National Seance' for Pipes knows how many times...
"Round and round t' garden? Like a Teddy Bear?"
Heh...
Loved that story, very well told! And you're right - it's not just some cheap "hoax", it was a perfectly executed piece of experimental horror. And if it won over the hardcore rationalist anarcho-punks, then it had to be doing something right!
Agreed indeed!
Volk's script is perfection as it's a textbook example of character driven 'slow burn' and Lesley Manning's direction is superb. Show, don't tell, then tell, don't show.
Its genius use of television as a,powerful medium should be used as a teaching aid for anyone wanting to get into the profession. Especially the construct of making the audience doubt what it just stared at.
And best of all, most importantly for a telly horror drama, it's actually bloody scary.
And it still is...
Next up, the book 'The Haunted Box' from Headpress. A history of British Television Horror.
If people bully me into polishing off the last two chapters on 'In The Flesh' and 'Remember Me' ..
What a great upload. You've done justice to this great piece of tv.
Thanks so much!
Fantastic video on a genius production.
I'd not noticed the phallic drawing before.
I can't be the only one that finds that with the bunny's eyes really dark?
So happy that you’ve done a video about ghostwatch! I was born three years after it broadcast but became aware of it from the 100 scariest moments on channel 4 and became obsessed with how this show worked, the story and the aftermath!!!! Another great video WeeLin!!!
Thanks! I can't believe I've only just got around to watching it - I'd heard plenty about the controversy around it, but not so much about the film itself. Glad I've seen it now, and it was even better than I expected!
@@WeeLin No problem! And glad you finally got around to watching it 😊
Personally I think it was the inclusion of Michael Parkinson that got the BBC in trouble. He was such a trusted face on TV, popular with elderly viewers. I think a lot of his regularly viewers would never expect to be pranked by a national broadcast. If they had brought in someone like Terry Christian, I think there would have been a lot less complaints, but perhaps a lot less viewers too.
Michael park in bum
I think Robert Kilroy-Silk would've been a good choice.
"Oh hey this is really cool, I wonder what the rest of her content is like"
*endless Inside No. 9 videos*
Genuinely don't think I could've hit that subscribe button any harder.
Yes, I do have a slight obsession with Inside No 9. Thanks for the sub!
I love Ghostwatch. It's so well done. The history of Mr Pipes feels like genuine folklore. It goes too goofy right at the end, but Michael Parkinson being possessed is freaky.
I didn't see it as a kid and yeah, good thing. I got freaked out by the Bobby ghost in the fridge in that episode of Home and Away. That could make an interesting subject one day
They did a great job writing Pipes - really does feel like folklore. And yeah, I would probably have twigged when the wind started blowing in the studio, as that did feel slightly goofy, but the Parkinson possession scene and Sarah Greene getting trapped were both very freaky in their own ways, so I think it redeems itself almost immediately. I didn't watch Home and Away, so I've missed this completely - who would have thought they'd do a ghost storyline? I'll need to check that out, thanks!
@@WeeLin Technically it’s a hallucination, but it’s still done like a haunting. Weird the things that stick with you. The uncanny stuff. Much like the lyrics of the Home and Away theme itself 😱
Oh my goodness!You totally unlocked a memory for me there!
I vaguely remember the home and away ghost plot,I'm sure I remember another one with someone dressing up as a bunyip but it was set up as it it was a real creature,I remember the way some of that was filmed freaked the hell out of me,of course I was really young
I fell for this at the time. I was living alone in a flat. I was so petrified I ended up driving home to my folks for the night. 😫
I was twelve and watched it with my older sister and her boyfriend. We all crapped our pants, lol. The only thing that caused any doubt for us was the occasional terrible acting of the kids/mother and Sarah Greene. However, even if you suspected or knew it wasn't real/live, it was done so well and was scary enough to pull you in and mess you up anyway! By the end i knew it was fake but still spent all night in bed shivering, afraid to open my eyes in case I saw a figure in my room! I remember we tried the phoneline and it was engaged, making us feel like, indeed, there was some kind of national event happening from the programme.
It was GENIUS.
I never saw this as I was too young but I've heard about it. I seem to recall a similar thing happening with a reading of War of The Worlds on radio, years before. From what I gather a great many people actually thought that an alien invasion was taking place for real. Collective panic and all that jazz, I suppose. Excellent video, by the way, well done and thank you for uploading it.
After watching about 5 minutes of this, I paused and went to watch the ghost watch episode special. Exact thing happened too with your psychoville episode (WHAT A SHOW!) You have great taste. I'm not from UK so these recommendations are actually quite great... You guys do horror fantastically over there.
So glad that you've done a full analysis of the story of Ghostwatch. A lot of coverage focuses mostly or entirely on the controversy surrounding it, which I get, but I think that's always done a disservice to the show. Watching it as an adult, fully aware that it's fiction, it's still a masterful piece of horror. My understanding was that the writers weren't certain that they'd be allowed to do it as a mockumentary, so they made sure it would work as fiction - and I think they found a great balance.
Thanks so much! I've seen plenty of videos on RUclips talking about the controversy in detail, so I figured that it had already been done, but not so many talking about the programme itself, which (I thought) deserved its own analysis. Same with Dead Line - I didn't see it on broadcast, so I knew the "faults" had to be scripted, but that didn't mean it wasn't a great piece of horror in its own right. Both programmes used some clever tricks, but they weren't reliant on those to make it work. I think that's amazing, and they got the balance just right.
@@WeeLin Thank you!
@@stephenvolk5527 You're very welcome ... now, where have I heard that name before?
@@WeeLin Nice to see someone going past the "hoax/spoof" angle.
@@stephenvolk5527 Thanks! It was a brilliant piece of horror and, while it looked really convincing as a live broadcast, I think that calling it a "hoax" does Ghostwatch an extreme disservice, because it made it sound like a cheap trick rather than a bold new approach to the genre. It's so much more interesting than that. After watching loads of RUclips videos, I was left thinking "Yeah, we all know about the guy who shat himself, but what about the film?" Thanks for watching, thanks for your comment, and thanks for Ghostwatch!
I saw this live when it was broadcast with my parents. I loved it! Got it on DVD a few years ago and watch it every Halloween night now. Even at my very young age I cottoned on by the end that it was fake once Parkie was singing ring around the roses. People got so upset afterwards because it highlighted their gullibility and stupidity and people don't tend to like that.
I remember that on the same day Ghostwatch aired, my mum was channel hopping and landed on the fateful broadcast, she was scarred for life.
I'm American and only discovered this gem a couple of years ago. It's now a Halloween tradition. 🎃
I’ve just discovered your channel, your work is incredible! My family actually had a poltergeist when I was 13-14. It wasn’t terrifying, just unsettling. I’m open to the idea of a young person attracting energy that is looking for something to hook onto, a kind of disembodied consciousness. I’d have believed this broadcast until halfway through. I just don’t think I’d believe something so eventful, so consistently. I have mixed feelings about the show with it’s potential for humiliating people who have had their own experiences. I don’t think that’s fair, there should have been a counterbalance with a broadcast describing real experiences and taken seriously. I can imagine viewers deciding never to reveal these stories of their own and that’s not good, people believing they have to be silent, or be mocked. Fascinating video! Thank you!
I knew it was fictional when I watched it on the night but it still scared the poo out of me! Utterly superb!
Yep, still scary whether or not you know it's fiction!
@@WeeLin Absolutely! Twas unique for the time and geniously (is that a word?) put together.
Ingeniously! That's the word!!!
Great video. I recorded this on VHS at the time and watched it the following morning… even in that context it was terrifying!
WeeLin great to see you back again, it's been a while. I remember this programme well, had me in stitches!! 😹
Thanks, and glad to be back! Hope you were in the good kind of stitches, and you didn't have some horrible accident while watching.
Ha ha, the first one!
I remember watching this live. Can’t recall at what point I realised it was a spoof, but it was brilliantly done. The inclusion of Michael Parkinson certainly convinced viewers had to be genuine
I am American and loved Horror movies since watching Creature Feature with doctor paul bearer every weekend with my grandmother...
I downloaded this years ago and saved it until Halloween night. I watched it with my very naive wife and acted like I didnt know much about it except it was banned in the Uk and apparently it caused a lot of mental problems and possibly a death.
She fell for it hook line and sinker... It was glorious! She finally googled it the next day and called me mad, but also laughing. I really do love this amazing video and think this needs to be turned into a found footage film.
The world deserves more of this!
I think i was 11 when it was on TV and my sis was 15. We were freaking out big time, running out the room then coming back for more. It's without doubt the best thing they've ever put on TV at halloween.
I remember watching this when it aired. I would have been around 11-ish at the time, and it must have stuck with me as even all these years later I can remember the name of Pipes, and the faces vanishing when the camera does a pan back. Good stuff!
Awesome review ❤ I watched this back in the day 👻
I can remember watching this when it aired, I was 9 years old and it absolutely terrified me for weeks. I wouldn't dream of letting my son what this now at the same age I was.
Excellent analysis and breakdown, thoroughly enjoyed it!
Like so many others this terrified me as a child back in 1992. Still sends chills down my spine if I even just watch a clip. At least as an adult I can now appreciate how well crafted it was
I find that looking at the crafting behind the things that scared me helps me to demystify them and make them less frightening. At least that's the idea - sometimes it just gets me obsessed with them even more!
@@WeeLin oh yeah I'm obsessed too. Last week I've been watching similar videos to yours (none as in-depth as yours) and the extras on the blu ray
Im so so glad youre back! Im saving this to watch when I finish work and can really get comfy and indulge. I love all your content and could listen to any commentary you have on TV shows, movies or even just urban legends and folklore.
I think I was about 9 when this aired so unlikely a thing my parents would have A-had on or B-Let me even watch.
Thank you! I do love talking about things like this, plus Ghostwatch feels like it has an urban myth or folklore quality of its own. I was about the same age - no idea if my parents watched (they're not big horror fans, but my mum enjoyed Most Haunted when that came out later, and we did enjoy going the ghost walks whenever we went to York), but I doubt they would have let me watch this. If I'd known it was on, I would have probably tried to watch in secret and ended up traumatising myself.
I remember watching this when I was 10. I was terrified to go to bed after. I've been searching for a decent copy. Thanks for your insight and the file location.
My dad had to spend so long explaining to little 5 year old me that the Amstrad monitor I'd sneakily watched it on wasn't making noise because it was haunted. Rather that stuff does that when it cools down, and also Alan Sugar made some awfully cheap shite that was more prone to these things.
Excellent video
Old tech has its very own horrors. I like that Alan Sugar's cheapness accidentally gave you an immersive horror experience!
This video is a really good summary of the film. Found myself agreeing with pretty much everything, and at points articulates what I have said about it before in the past word for word.
Ghostwatch could never, ever happen now. The world now is a much more cynical place than 1992 was. Also what's really important is that Ghostwatch was made before the internet/social media age, and before you could pause/rewind TV. One of the reasons Ghostwatch works so well is because it really plays on that "did I just see that?", blink-and-you-miss-it unsettling discomfort. If the show aired today, almost all of it would be instantly debunked, and would be torn apart on social media. Back then, when the show ended, that was it, over, finished - no going online to check if/what was real, no playback (unless you recorded it on VHS), no discussion forums, no social media, nothing. You went to bed with your doubts and uncertainties and asked your colleagues/school friends the next day if they'd seen it. So all of these circumstances are basically why Ghostwatch worked so well and fooled so many people - it would be virtually impossible these days.
Also a note on the acting - ironically, the non-actors - Michael Parkinson, Craig Charles and Sarah Greene - do a pretty good, believable job - Parkinson in particular was great, and that was an inspired piece of casting as he was seen as a reliable, trustworthy, respected BBC figure. What lets the show down are actually the real actors, playing the family and the paranormal expert. The actress playing the mother in particular, it has to be said, gives a really terrible, flat performance. The actors are all just so wooden, and, this is vital - they are clearly acting out a script - for the nature of what the film is, they are nowhere near believable, natural or spontaneous enough, and this for me is where the film falls down (excellent though it is).
I was 10 when it was broadcast. As a child who very much didn't believe in ghosts I watched in the hope of it being a laugh and never took the early part seriously.
It sort of dawned on me and my sister, who was 13, that it wasn't real as it went on.
As a I realised it wasn't real it didn't frighten me.
It was a huge discussion at school among the kids whose parents let them watch.
just before you quoted "don't let your imaginations run riot" i got the shit scared out of me by my coat on the ground being moved by a draft, i was sat there calming down for about 30 seconds 😭
I saw it at the time it was broadcast and had seen the pre publicity so was aware it was not 'real' but it was still an effect horror experience I found. I haven't seen it again since as I'm happy to chuckle at the memory of the shivers it produced back then. Thanks for the video and welcome back to Scotland.
Thanks, it's great to be back! And yeah, it's still scary even if you know it's fiction - I mean, you go into about 99% of horror films knowing it's not real, but you let yourself get lost in the story.
Saw this when I was 11 years old, and I was alone in my room.
Scared the living shit out of me.
I can imagine! That must have been some Hallowe'en.
I remember seeing this as a teenager and being terrified 🤣but I'd forgotten so many of the details. Great analysis and now I really have to watch it again!
Loved watching this so interesting! I was 10 and along with everyone else shit my pants and my older brother took great joy in this and would bang on the pipes 😢 never been so frightened in my life! Also, I'm so pleased you mentioned the image of the devil right after it finished that will stay with me forever. I cried my eyes out! Lol extremely traumatic and was feeling the same uncomfortable feelings while watching this at 41 but also really cool . I'm totally conflicted lol. Thank you for this nostalgia x
I watched this, it was brilliant. Not surprised it fooled so many ppl , because the general public are generally a bit thick. The way the actors ( family ) spoke made it so obvious that it was a script with their clear , concise speech. I would love t9 see the whole thing again, but I’m sure it would seem very outdated by now. But equally , I think it would still fool several ppl.
You still can find the program on RUclips in its entirety.
On another note, I saw a different video review of "Ghostwatch" that stated that Pipes appears a total of 13 times in the show!
Bravo, well done! I'm sitting here doing schoolwork, and listening to this presentation, and thinking to myself, "Oh, wow, this is like the 1939 Halloween radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds where people freaked out because they hadn't heard the opening sequence explaining that it was all a drama." I mean, that level of terror isn't realized except perhaps on election nights.
Thanks so much.
Election nights are the real horror! Thanks for watching
I can remember watching this as a university student on the night it aired. We had missed the intro and the whole think started as a joke as we were having a few beers and pizza. As things progressed we were literally silent at the tension started to build and the atmosphere changed. With all the current ghost Hunt type programmes it's a different era .I've often wondered if that specific text this is for entertainment purposes only due to ghost watch?
Thank you for the recommendation! I watched it all the way through, and I found it both genuinely frightening and quaint. It was a slow burn, but I think the ending sort of jumped the shark a bit and turned campy. It’s kind of funny because I thought this review of it was scarier than the film itself - I think because you always have a great atmosphere for your videos. Thanks again for the frights!
"WeeLin - scarier than Ghostwatch" should be my new tagline.
Location work for Ghostwatch was done during July 1992. They spent around a month in the location. One week was used to film the studio scenes, which was produced in Studio D at the BBC Elstree Studios.
They must have filmed the outdoor scenes pretty late on then?
@@royfontaine5526 Yes, one overnight shoot on the street. I remember the producer saying this was July 1992, and overnight temperatures didn't drop below 15c and so they are all wearing warm coats etc, and were boiling hot. You will notice Craig Charles sweating a lot during some of his scenes. Also if this was really 31st October night, their breath would be seen when they breathed out
@@johnking5174 interesting. Actually I’ve spent many an evening down south in October/November when it has still been like late summer, so I wouldn’t have expected to have seen breath in the air.
@@royfontaine5526 It was based in Northolt, but I remember Craig Charles saying he was very hot in that overcoat he had on, and others wore scarves and gloves, in heat of around 15c at night. The studio scenes were all recorded over one week in late July 1992, with them filming 15 to 20 minutes of studio scenes per day. Gillian Bevan who played Doctor Lin Pascoe said they would rehearse in the morning and during the afternoon film that day's quota.
I enjoyed this. I had just turned 16 when it was on, and while I don't remember finding it particularly scary at the time, mostly because my mum, who was scared kept talking through it, the fact that so much of it has stayed with me suggests I found it more frightening than I believed I did.
That's an interesting reaction - when I'm scared watching a horror film, I find it nearly impossible to talk at all!
My mum is one of those people who is a bit scared by silence anyway and she was trying to re assure herself that everything was ok. We knew it was fiction, but sort of forgot as it went on as it was so well done.
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And about time too!
Yep! Been a while, but I couldn't resist putting this up on Hallowe'en.
I would have been 16, just about to turn 17, when Ghostwatch aired. I was quite a highly strung teenager, although I was, and remain, hugely sceptical of ghosts. So, I watched it safe in the knowledge that this would clearly debunk such notions.
However, I was unaware of the nature of it and, to compound my ignorance, I'd missed the opening 2 or 3 minutes. So, as far as I was concerned, it was genuine live broadcast hosted by the usual suspects.
At the end of experience, I was as white as a sheet, and I'd daren't fall asleep. To this day, just thinking about it unnerves me. Bizarrely, I even had to double check things I thought I was seeing out of the corner of my eye as I was watching this. Frankly, it remains a seminal piece of television that deserves a wider audience. Or maybe that's just Pipes telling me to type this in order to fulfil his plan... round and round the garden, like a teddy bear...
I tried to imagine watching this having missed the first few minutes, and there's no way I'd have got to sleep! It still looks convincing today, and they don't drop the guise for a second. It's brilliant, possibly one of the greatest horror moments in television ever, but then that might be Pipes making me type all this... fee fi fo fum!
Sarah Greene never gets enough credit for how good her performance is given she's the non actor who has to sell the most terror.
She's acted in a few things, including Doctor Who
She actually was a fully trained actress to start, but got the blue peter gig and became a presenter.
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Ah I didn't know that and that makes a lot more sense.
The producer of the show said that when you see the interiors of the house, you think it was night time. Well it wasn't. The interior scenes were largely shot during the day, with drapes covered up the windows to make it look like night. This caused the house to be roasting hot, as it was filmed in July 1992.
I watched this alone at the age of 18. Unaware of any warnings or information saying it was fictional. I was absolutely terrified as well as elated that proof of ghosts and by extension everything about the 'other side' was unfolding before me. I did not feel cheated when i learnt the truth a few days later in a news paper. I feel privileged to have had the raw experience completely convinced it was real. I did turn the TV over then off when it became obvious the ghost was trying to possess people through the TV. I think it stands alone with war of the worlds as a once in a lifetime experience, while simultaneously being an experiment in the psychology of fear in the masses.
I remember when i used to believe creepy pastas were real lmao. But at least i didn't sue the creators, growing up now in my 20s, I'm glad i thought they were real, because I was scared which was good lmao
Glad you're back! Hope everything is ok
Thanks, and everything's okay, cheers for saying that. This year's been a mad one, not all bad by any means, but it hasn't left me much time for making videos. But don't worry - that's about to change!
One part i love that doesnt get talked about is when sarah goes to make a drink and when she runs water you can hear the pipes wich make the banging noise
I hadn't noticed that - good catch!
Such a fantastic analysis!I absolutely remember watching this live,waaay too young!!Ever since,I wouldn't allow curtains in my bedroom!!
Loved your video!What brilliant commentary you provide!I would suggest a watch of The Last Broadcast,if you haven't already 👻
Thanks so much! I just looked up The Last Broadcast - how have I never heard of this before? That's one for the watch list, I think! Cheers for the recommendation.
No problem!Love to hear your thoughts on it 😄
Just watching this gives me chills! Glad I missed it 😂 I'd still be having nightmares
I wanted to get the Blu-ray today, but it was sold out at my nearest HMV.
A special edition Ghostwatch Blu-Ray... on Hallowe'en - you'd think they would order a few extra copies!
Late on the comments here. But watched this again last night since I had first seen it as a primary school age child back in the day. As a kid this shat me up and next morning everyone at school was talking about it like it was real. I don't think anyone's parents told us "it's a load of bollicks!" and gave us doubt.
This is a memory that looking back was a genius bit of 'prank/its real' telly that couldn't really be replicated today
I was thinking about this when watching dead line last night.
There are so many ways in which Dead Line feels like an homage to Ghostwatch, and I can appreciate that now. It was also really bold of them to try something new with the idea (like posting on Twitter - couldn't do that in 1992!) and managing that even when fewer people are watching live TV.
Thanks to Reece and Steve, I went and watched Ghostwatch about a year ago. It was really cool and understandable that it inspired the boys so much.
I discovered it though them too, also Charlie Brooker had a bit on Ghostwatch years ago, which was probably the first I heard of it. You can really see how it's influenced Reece and Steve, especially Dead Line.
An important thing to remember about Ghostwatch is it was part of a "Halloween Night" block of programming, and as per the radio times plus the idents themselves, there was to be updates similar to crimewatch occurring during the following hours, if I remember correctly there was a documentary about modern American horror directly afterwards
I thought Match of the Day was on afterwards.
I watched this with my mate and his dad when it was shown and for the first 10 mins or so we were unsure if it was a drama or for real , anyway we soon realised it wasnt real and watched till the end and genuinely enjoyed it . I just couldn't believe all the hysteria that followed it was like the video nasty cobblers of the 80s all over again . I have watched it a few times since and still enjoy it .
this video needs more attention omg
Happy Día de los Muertos. It’s so great to have you back and to see new content from you! Sadly I never saw the original Ghostwatch, I was at a Hallowe’en party when it originally aired in 1992.
But may I ask what happened to the Season 7 IN9 Awards video that you said would be next, towards the end of your review of “Wise Owl”? Did I somehow manage to miss it? Did you change your mind about it? Or did life just get in the way (as it so often does)?
That's a very fair question, and I'm sorry to leave you hanging. Don't worry, you didn't miss the awards video, because I haven't made it yet. Life getting in the way pretty much sums it up - not all bad, just very stressful. We bought our first house this year and moved up to Scotland from London last month, and I've only recently got all the recording equipment back in order. To be honest, I didn't feel quite so motivated to do the IN9 S7 Awards video right away (I still have notes I made aaaaaaages ago!) but I did feel inspired to cover Ghostwatch after watching it, especially as the 30 year anniversary was about to happen. Kinda felt like the perfect timing. Also, I wasn't sure how many people would still be interested in a series 7 wrap up so long after the fact, but I've had a few people mention it now, so I'll dig out the notes and get that put together next. Thanks!
@@WeeLin Thank you so much, I shall look forward to that, and there’s no need to apologise- I understand the issues surrounding a “big” move and I hope you’re settling neatly back into the braw homeland.! 🏴
I’m glad you did digress momentarily to discuss Ghostwatch as it gave me the opportunity to finally watch what I missed 30 years ago- Thanks to the link you provided. Having watched it and listened to your analysis, I too, can see the parallels between this and also recognise the clear inspiration for the IN9 episode “Deadline”.
I guess it was a bit of groundbreaking TV which soon gave rise (in it’s hoax element) to other programmes such as “Brasseye” which came a few years later, towards the end of the 90’s.
Kudos also, in getting the Ghostwatch writer @StephenVolk to comment. 😊
I saw this as a 10 year old. Watching with my family, I was too scared to give up and go to bed on my own or continue watching without a cushion over my eyes and my hands over my ears.
My family were trying to convince me it wasn't real by showing the street name wasn't in the London A-Z. That wasn't the issue- when you're a child your used to things being both real and fictional at the same time, and regardless of how fictional it was, the fear was real.
Only in the last few years have I been able to watch the last few minutes of it. The burning questions for me, that kept me awake at night for months afterwards, was what happened to Sarah and Suzanne, locked in that cupboard with Pipes?
I dread to think of what happens next. It's hard to tell if the target was Suzanne, Sarah or both. Pipes/Tunstall has already been possessing Suzanne, so he could have made her attack Sarah if she was the real target. I'm sure that, as a children's entertainer, there would be some animosity towards Sarah from Mother Seddons too. I imagine their fate was to become yet another chapter in the horror of Foxhill Drive, unless they managed to get out. Hopefully they did - I'm sure enough people saw the broadcast to come to their rescue, and they'd leave with a chilling story to tell.
@@WeeLin Pamela's experience in the glory hole of feeling like she was about to die is the closest parallel we have to guessing what might happen to Sarah. Was Pamela really about to die, or was that an exaggeration brought on by understandably fearful situation. We never get any indication of what Pipes might want from his manifestation; just to scare and mildly harm people or to fully possess and/or kill?
@@AD-fu9lx That was some great foreshadowing they did with Pam and the cupboard. But you're right, we don't know what Pipes is trying to do - scare, maim, possess or kill. Or maybe he feeds off people's fear, or drains their life force, which is maybe why Pam thought she was going to die. He may have another goal, which is especially horrible - I remember how chilling it suddenly felt to hear Suzanne screaming "don't touch me" after we know what Raymond Tunstall was convicted of. And then there was Mother Seddons who drowned all those kids (kind of like how Kim leaves her bunny soaking in the water. Then takes its eyes out, just like Pipes. Feels like it's all connected, doesn't it?)
One of my favourite programs
One of mine too now!
at 39:20 i notice a strange blob at the right of the glass in the door. could that be Pipes
Yoooo!!!!! Perfect timing omg
Thanks (and yeah, I couldn't resist going for 9.25pm to make it the EXACT same time Ghostwatch was originally broadcast!). By the way, I tried to get your lovely banner art up recently, but I had trouble with the format, so I'll need to talk to you about that soon - such a shame not to use it!
I was there back in 1992. It really did leave many people on edge. That week's Points of View episode - with Anne Robinson, was taken up with viewer complaints about Ghostwatch and its aftermath. Lots of complaints.
you may be one of the best people ever created thank you!
It certainly seemed pretty scary 30 years ago on the night, I didn’t see the continuity announcement, we didn’t get the radio times and I was of an age where I was fascinated by any supposed paranormal happenings and read any books on the subject I could get my hands on. The Italian house where faces were meant to have started appearing through the kitchen floor is one that sticks in my mind, from a big, green hardback compendium on paranormal events from my local library.
As you point out, it is much more difficult to stage anything like Ghostwatch in the internet age, I think I remember listening to documentary that puts a BBC radio drama broadcast from the 1920’s as the first to cause the sort of panic that war of the worlds did, so evidently the BBC have previous form in that arena.
That must have been one hell of an experience - I figure a lot of people must have missed the announcement, and then there's no way of telling it's fiction until the end. That story about the faces in the floor sounds creepy too! It's hard to do anything like Ghostwatch now, but not impossible - I remember the first Paranormal Activity getting plenty of buzz, even after I saw a preview and thought that IMDB had already killed found footage, plus the Inside No 9 lads did a great job with Dead Line. Now I'm curious to find out what that 1920s BBC drama was - thanks for mentioning that!
As a youngster the faces in the floor seemed super scary, but looking at photos of them as an adult they seem like paintings a tier or two lower than that lass that tried to fix the fresco and created a monkey-Jesus. As to the radio drama, to the best of my recollection it was 1926 and I think it was about civil unrest.
It sorta reminds me of the number 9 Halloween episode but far more serious. Kinda makes me wonder if they took some inspiration from this when they wrote that episode
You're right - they absolutely did take inspiration from Ghostwatch. Interesting to see how they introduced more modern technology to Dead Line, like sending live tweets during the programme. I made a whole video on Dead Line too, if you're interested!
Saw this show in Canada where it aired that night as well. OMG that show scared me silly! It freaked me out but I still loved it but I hated the ending I always wanted them to have done a sequel. My mother didn't lol! Thank god for my dog! She's the only reason I went to sleep after that.
I was 19 at the time and watched it 'live'. Like pretty much everyone else I missed the intro, so thought it was exactly what it appeared to be: a live broadcast from a so-called haunted house. I believed it at first. The main reason being the likes of Parky and Sarah Green did a fantastic job of playing themselves. Rewatching it a few years ago, the acting from the proper actors is a bit ropy - though I don't remember noticing that at the time. Although I cottoned on at some point that it was scripted, I totally get why it caused a big stink. No question in my mind having witnessed it first hand and in context that the Beeb meant to hoax people. Nice to see someone taking a retrospective look at it and judging it so intelligently.
I was 11 when I seen this. Terrifying
I feel like the Halloween airdate and the casting of Craig Charles and Sarah Greene was all kinda to make sure that kids would be more likely to be up late and watching. Terrifying small children is what the licence fee is for.
I would have been 9, and I'm glad I didn't.
I should probably thank my parents for not getting the Radio Times!
Cannot recommend the blu ray enough. The improved audio mix really brings extra terror in the last 15 mins.
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I know I risk being labelled a heretic, but back in the day I never found this convincing. In fact I thought parts of it came across a pretty laughable to me sadly. I thought the Inside number 9 lot's version was more convincing.
Have a cookie.
@@FTZPLTC Nice try sweetie...lol
Hey, at least you tried to get into it! The people I don't understand are the ones that watch horror to not be scared - feels like watching a comedy to not laugh. But in the end, it's all subjective - shame you couldn't have that experience.
I liked how Inside Number 9 tried a similar thing... fairly recently
Yes, the Hallowe'en special "Dead Line" was inspired by Ghostwatch. Some parts were filmed live, also there were some interactions happening live on Twitter with the cast while it was showing.
Awesoooooome!
Thaaaaaanks!
Please review As featured in his collection Dark Corners, screenwriter Stephen Volk wrote a short story entitled 31/10, which is effectively a sequel to Ghostwatch. The piece was later selected for "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection", and nominated for the Horror Writers' Association (HWA) Bram Stoker Award, and British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2006.
The story itself centres on Volk taking part in a fictitious, 10th anniversary edition of Ghostwatch in 2002. Venturing into the previously sealed-off BBC studio space where the original show took place, he is accompanied by a small team of individuals whose lives were somehow affected by the broadcast, ten years previously.
That's so weird, as I actually stumbled across this before I answered one of your other comments - the story is available online, and I left a link there. I might review it in the future, thanks!
@@WeeLin where the link “l??
@@filmunion8194 web.archive.org/web/20101214115633/www.stephenvolk.net/31-10.pdf
@@WeeLin could you please review for your next video?
@@filmunion8194 The next video I'm planning is an Inside No 9 video, but maybe the video after that!
I saw a clip of this special on the 100 greatest scary moments on channel 4 and I have since become intrigued by it, I think it was the fact that the ghost hunting thee family had a name and quite a disturbing background that made me wanto to see it but I never could because i scared easily when I was a child. Also where were you able to find this special? I looked on BBC iplayer, prime video and Netflix, even RUclips but I ca't seem to track it down great video as always👍
I was gifted a copy on DVD and it's also been available on Shudder - not sure if it's still there. I've put a link in my video description to see the full version online for free. I don't think it's ever been on Netflix and it isn't on iPlayer either, presumably because the BBC have never aired it again after the initial fallout.
@@WeeLin Thank you Weelin. I was just wondering, I just posted my review for inside no 9 episode Diddle Diddle Dumpling and I was wondering what are your thoughts on the ending to that episode?
@@joshuawilliams7734 Great, looking forward to watching it! As for my thoughts on the ending, I loved the reveal that it wasn't really about the shoe and I really loved that there was some ambiguity (which was apparently unintentional) over what David had done and to whom. The fact that he believes that the twins "should be together" and one is already dead... my mind went to some very dark places! I talk about it at length in my "Most Disturbing Episodes" video (Diddle Diddle Dumpling is at the start of part 2), but bear in mind that I wrote it before the script book for series 1-3 were released!
I would like to watch it! Where can I find it?
Keep going WeeLin. You are intelligent and your voice is nice too.
Will do, and thanks so much! :)
Watched film by chance, it was Tubi's 'up next'.... I immediately became engrossed; it was so clearly the best 'take' of a found-footage film (a genre I really dislike). I'd never seen anything quite like it... (although, didn't AHS totally copy it once? mebe the Roanoke season?)i loved it! Not long after, eithrr t 2:20 he Toronto Star or CBC related the pants-reimbursement story...
Now, seeing this vid, I'm even more in love with Ghostwtach....
Thanks;
Ive watched and loved many Ghost Watch reviews but yours is by far the most entertaining and in-depth and longest running. So much so I've watched it more times than I care to remember 😂 and will continue to do so especially on Halloween 😁👻🎃🧛🏻♀️
Where can I watch this?? Do you have a link?
The idea of a ghost being called Pipes because ‘it’s just pipes’ is so scary even on its own
When I was little, my family used to watch DVD's that came with newspapers and magazines. We used to collect them. So, my cousins gave me a DVD about paranormal. I think it was from discovery or BBC, I can't remember. It was so scary that it made me cry and I had nightmares for days. I told my girl cousin how scared I was and we created a ritual. She got a scissors, and broke the CD in pieces and she threw it in the toilet.
If Wee Lin or anyone else can help identify that movie, I would really appreciate it. I remember a guy giving an interview and then dodging an ash tray at some bar. I also remember an alien?
I've no idea what that could be, but please let me know if you remember anything else about it. Sounds like a good ritual for exorcising it though!
@@WeeLin He was giving an interview at a bar of some sort, and then I distinctly remember a transparent ash tray falling off a table with force. I think it was also thrown at the interviewee. I also remember a distinct tune at the start of the show. It was a high pitched sound, maybe it was Unsolved Mysteries (1987) ???
1:09:34 Hint to the next video?? (great video btw)
Thanks! Did I make a reference by mistake?