Ghost Watch
Does anyone remember this BBC TV show then they aired it?

Scared the crap out of me it did! Lost sleep for a good long time afterwards (glad we didn't get central heating till recently though!)
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 15:54, 11 replies)

oh yes...
i fell for it like a proper charlie, scared me witless.

The BFI released it on DVD a while back, it's still pretty convincing, there's no way they'd get away with it now.

udi.
(Udidin is chuffed to have made the newsletter, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:19, closed)

giveaway
I remember watching it that haloween (wasn't it a one-off?)

I was only a bairn and was (emotionally, not physically) absolutely shitting myself. Then at the end the studio lights dipped and leaves started blowing across the studio set. It was bittersweet to be relieved that it wasn't real and simultaneously disappointed that it was such a shit ending.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:21, closed)

Where it all began...
I lost a full year of sleep to that programme. A FULL YEAR. And I am still in no-uncertain terms shit scared of ghosts.

Which means this QOTW is a joy to read, I can tell thee!

:(
(.click, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:24, closed)

Ooh yes!
Pipes the Ghost, as I recall.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:30, closed)

I saw it
and guessed it was a hoax/drama because the child actors were piss poor. Then "The Fog" was on afterwards which DID scare the crap out of me.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:44, closed)

CD
"The Fog", Christ on a bike, I watched that only a year or 2 ago and my sphincter was still puckering!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:50, closed)

@ Boss K
Yes, Pipes the ghost. Spoke through the little 'un and made her sound like Barry White after an asthma attack... lolz

In fact, don't all these voice projection things sound like they've been on 60 woodbines a day since birth?
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:52, closed)

Oh yes...
Watched this again last Halloween with some friends. It's still pretty freaky.

"We've created a massive seance...!"

Then Parky got possessed.

Brilliant.
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 18:18, closed)

I too watched it a few weeks ago...
im almost thirty and it STILL sends shivers down my spine.

Very very spooky, remember you only see Pipes eight times in the whole thing and never for more than two seconds of camera time.!
(elfinpunk Touching Cloth Since, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 19:30, closed)

I
also bought the DVD, thought I'd scare the crap out of myself again, some good stuff in there about the making of.

Still wouldn't watch it on my own though!

There's a decent entry on wikipedia too!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 9:22, closed)

I seriously hope
you are all kidding, or are about 12! Ghostwatch has to be the lamest pile of crap the BBC have come up with for decades. I remember looking forward to seeing it at the time, the trailers promised something different, something groundbreaking. Within 5 minutes it was plainly obvious it was a hoax, unless you were a kiddy or soft in the head.
I was gutted.

Mind you it did prompt the removal from society of individuals who probably would have been cause for concern to local parents sooner or later.
(Rsoles, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 16:30, closed)