When I was 8
I watched this, and I - as many people across the country - believed it was real.

Ive since seen videos of it, and it still is very convincing. Imagine Most Haunted, but believable, and eventful.





en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch

Anyone remember it?
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 14:13, 11 replies)

Only
every other poster on this QOTW it seeems.
( Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 14:20, closed)

ahhhh
....right then.

Anyone seen Scream the movie?

:¬/
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 14:21, closed)

There are no ghosts.

(waxdart hello., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 14:49, closed)

There was on my telly
where a crow misaligned the aerial on the roof.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 14:55, closed)

Spooky as fook
I remember watching it as a kid. Didn't they have to stop it half way through to tell everyone it wasn't actually real?
(Unbelievable Gumption Clogging your brain bits with bollocks since 1981., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 15:11, closed)

This proper shit me up.
That is all.
(xaer0mancer, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 18:19, closed)

Seems as though
I am the only person who watched this and saw it for what it was, a hokey pile of shit. If you were under 10 or over 70 and fell for it, fair enough. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselfs.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 19:59, closed)

I wasn't impressed either
but then again I was a real grown-up adult at the time.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:04, closed)

Charlie Brooker was ranting about it a few weeks back
Up until then I'd forgotten about it.

I do remember the fuss: however I'd watched it from the start and it was clearly a drama pretending to be a live show and therefore not a reason to freak out, so I didn't see the need for the hysteria that followed.

Clever idea & well put together as I remember. Mr Brooker took it to bits though.
(minlan no longer barks at bancleys, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 22:36, closed)

Latecomer
I never saw this until a few years ago and thought it had a moderate amount of scariness.
But what WAS scary was a vid on Youtube showing all the sightings of Mr Pipes. I missed a fair few and seeing them 'subliminally' in the programme was pretty unnerving.
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 1:09, closed)

yep, I was 15, and shat my load
watched it with the parents, I think they were following it right up to the end. I remember when it finished we were all 'wtf' for ages.
If it had been done post-bigbrother/other reality show maybe we wouldn't have been sucked in so effectively?
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 3:18, closed)