It's all bullshit, really...
...Most Haunted (a UK reality^{using the term loosely} TV show where they paranormally investigate stuff) being the biggest pile of it I have ever encountered.

For example, one of few times I watched it, the Mystery Machine had arrived at some auld haunted hoose with a respectable forest on the property which, by some accounts, was also haunted. Phantom badgers or somesuch. So, night fell and Derek Whatsit, you know, the camp scouser with the bad highlights, was in the house somewhere doing his 'I hear dead people'/scare the crap out of the Blue Peter presenter-type thing.

Meanwhile, another member of the team (who was afraid of the dark - have you noticed that a lot of them are? Quite handy, that) decided to bugger off into the forest with a camcorder. Naturally he was twitchy as fuck, hearing noises in the undergrowth all around him - 'Whassat? WHASSAT? O gawd, I swear there's something over there' etc.

I wished more than anything at the time that I could have been there, right behind him with a loudhaler so just as he was having one of his 'Whassat?' moments I could have hit the trigger and shouted 'YOU'RE IN A LIVING FOREST AT NIGHT, YOU FUCKING CHIMP!', advising him in more normal tones to get a grip and then once he had acquired said grip to fuck off and get a real job. And all this 'orb' stuff? Buy some better camcorders, guys - that'll clear that up.

One last point - have you also noticed how all of Derek's spooks have a scouse accent to some degree when he comes over all possessed?

Utter bollocks, the lot of it - one of the more minor blights on our collective psyche that we have to thank religion for.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Mon 24 Apr 2006, 9:34, Reply)