i dont know if it is only on british tv but i came across a program called most haunted. anyone heard of it?
description: middle aged man with stupid hair walking around a haunted house with some z list clebs.

I think most people on here have seen or heard of Most Haunted mate! I think the general conception was that people thought it was put up (staged), and have to agree with them.

Even if it is staged, I like it... They do a good job. There area few shows that are almost convincing but for the most part yeah it does look staged.

Cheers,

Gene

It's been going for about 7 years now, and it's on TV in the UK every single day on cable, several times in fact.

There are two guys in it called Carl and Stewart and they are so setting things up to happen that it's just become farcical, to the point that you know when they go off together (which they always do) one of them is going to start flopping around and collapsing having being "got" by a ghost.

On another site someone posted some footage of Eyvette allegedly cheating too.

It's entertaining to watch and was quite believable in the beginning. Now there's more proof of faking coming out, I don't enjoy it so much.

I went to see Derek Acorah's live stage show a few years ago. I want my money and 2 and a half hours of my life back please!

More info on MH fakeries here...

http://badpsychics.com/thefraudfiles/modul...amp;storynum=30

It's so beyond the moronic as to be funny. I watch it just to get a good chuckle--particularly from Derek (weird hair), who talks to spirits through his "spirits guide", Sam. Um, uh-huh. By the way, MH is doing a live seven hour special this Friday from an old prison here in the US. You can catch it on the Travel Channel at 8 P.M.

http://travel.discovery.com/tv/most-haunte...st-haunted.html

Sean

MH is crap, and I never miss it. Every episode gives me more to laugh about than just about any comedy show. Now and then I find myself hoping that I've just seen something genuine on the show, or that Derek really means well, or that David Wells is as genuine as he seems. But their method and credibility are both so shot to Hell that it's really no use. I just sit back and revel in the absurdity.

Mediocre shows are a dime a dozen. A show this stupendously bad is a national treasure.

I wonder if they do it like Blair Witch. (I can't remember where I heard this ... could be b.s)

Were the Blair Witch cast just put out in the woods and not told when things were going to happen? Was it all at random, to make the scare seem that much more real.?? Makes sense to me if they did. If it was not like that, it's a great idea... what better than being put in a place with so much history and just overall creepiness, so it's expected to be haunted or what have you, and then all these things happeneing when you least expected.

I'd like to believe MH, that's why I watch it... but Stewart and Carl just get completely razzed every show ... and Derek is a let down and rarely says anything productive, I'd rather David Wells, at least he's believable. I'm not tearing the show apart, I'm just saying what I see that makes me less a believer... it's my fav show

But anyways ... do you think that if the show is fake, it could be done like what i mentioned above?

Thanks,
Gene

I've just got one thing to say about Most Haunted, anyone who's familiar with it will know what I'm talking about....

"... Mary loves Dick.... Mary loves Dick...."

Just me again.... has anyone seen this, I warn you it's VERY immature and childish.

http://www.popnoodles.com/mostfarted/

MH is one of my guilty pleasures. Yes, total crap, but I still watch the darn thing. I get a kick out of seeing the old buildings and a butch of nuts scary the be-jeezus out of themselves. Can it get any more campy? I doubt it. Still fun in my book.

Another show that is a hoot is the Deadly Famous show on biography channel (I think). The psychic on that show reminds me of an American Derek (perfect, highlighted hair and plucked eye-brows). The female host is a bit more believable, being a skeptic at heart. The show is crap, too, but still I watch. Oh well.

My feeling exactly, except that I don't feel guilty about it.

Chris Porter, the medium on Dead Famous, always channels different "spirits" in the exact same voice, which I can best describe as that of a monumental dork. It sounds like the sort of voice you'd use to mock somebody and depict them as developmentally challenged. It is hilarious while at the same time making me want to cringe.

They have managed to accidentally catch a few interesting things going on in the periphery of some of their camera shots. Completely unintentional. I suppose if you blunder around haunted locations for long enough, you'll eventually take a picture of something weird.

Is it a rule on these shows that someone's hair has to fall out? Gail on DF and Stuart on MH both got allopecia. Stuart even blamed his on all the frights he's gotten while filming the show. Indeed, he's always falling over and saying it was a ghost beating him up and whatnot. I'm not saying that never happens to anyone, but it seems to happen to Stuart with alarming frequency. In any case, every ghost show needs a token baldy. Even Ghost Hunters has Jason, but his hair is probably shaved instead of falling out from sheer wussiness like Stuart's.

...Yeh i remember that! I nearly chocked on my cup of tea when i heard that.. a true Acorah classic.

For being alleged ghost hunters, they certainly are scared out of thier gourds everytime there is an odd creak of the house settling.

i think it is garbage but it is entertaining.

I didn't know the cause of the hair problem on both shows--I thought Gail had cancer and was undergoing Chemo or something. Glad it wasn't too serious.

I'm glad you know everyone's names! You're absolutely right about Chris--he does channel like a dork. Not quite as monumentally flamboyant as Derek, though--Derek has got it down to an overacting art form.

I still enjoy this stuff. I must get a life.

How about: What is your favorite Most Haunted episode? I guess for the scare factor, the Rams Inn got to me. Overdone, yes, but I still got scared.

What's yours?

My favorite bit was the bed and chair moving in the Station Hotel in Dudley - because no crew member was around to my knowledge and that's the criteria with MH, anything without Jason and Karl I can bear to watch, but those two are just taking having a laugh.

Yeah, I'd thought the same thing. I remember seeing Stuart on MH and he said I've lost my hair because of the stress, I can't do this anymore ..... I did a little dance, not because he'd lost his hair - but we were so close to him leaving.... that was ages ago though, a couple of series I'd say and he's still hanging on. He's Eyvette's cousin isn't he?

By the way, I love Dead Famous.