Post by Emma-lou on Oct 19, 2005 20:44:35 GMT
I know you'll all probably be going out to buy it anyway but thought i'd type this up so that you could all have a read until you get to the shops! Theres some fab pictures aswell but i dont know how to post them - sorry! Enjoy!
Yvette Fielding greeted us for our shoot looking happy and relaxed, but that was of course compared to the OK! crew, who were all as white as sheets after clocking the chilling surroundings of Ordsall Hall in Salford. The hall was used as a location for Living TV's hit show Most Haunted, which visits Britain's most ghostly places in search of paranormal activity.
As Halloween approches, the Most Haunted team - presenter Yvette Fielding, her director husband Karl Beattie, the show's newest medium Gordon Smith, medium David Wells and crew member Stuart Torrevell - tell OK! all about their paranormal experiences. Get that cushion ready because this isn't for the faint-hearted.....
[b]Yvette, tell us all about your own haunted house....In our bedroom we've got a four-poster bed and occasionally we hear knocking above it. Then i'll be in the bathroom and the latch will rattle up and down when i'm alone in the house. Karl:I'll be downstairs and i'll hear people walking around in the kitchen and shout: "You alright, sweetheart?" thinking it's Yvette, but there's no one there.
Aren't people too scared to visit?
Yvette: A lot happens in that room because a mummifield cat was put there 500 years ago under the floorboards. We've had friends staying at our house and the bed sheets were pulled off them.
Karl: Another day they went out and came back and the bolts had completely gone. I don't think they'll be staying again!
Gordon, you're the new medium on the show. How is it so far?
I had loads of medium experiences as a child so it's natural to me but i never actually thought i'd be going round haunted houses trying to see past lives!
Do you ever get accused of making things up?
Gordon: No, because we never know anything about the locations until we actually arrive so we can't be accused of getting any background information on the place.
Gordon, wht do you say to sceptics?If something falls off a table that's an act of gravity but if something jumps on the table, you have to conclude that something paranormal is happening.
Have any of you ever contacted the dead?
David: My father passed away 18 months ago but three days after he crossed, he kept tapping me on the head, which is one of the signs he's around. I was adamant that i wouldn't pass a message on to my mother because it's tempting for me to say: "Dad's here and he says he loves you", but i wanted to know for sure that it ws my dad, so i could prove it to my mum. So i asked him for something that i would never know and he told me about a school friend of hers who died in a specific way. As soon as i told my mum this, she knew she could take the message.
Gordon: A women came to me whose son had died but he didn't give me a code word for ages. Then as she was leaving he gave me "clover". It turns out the boy had found a four-leafed clover as a kid and his mother still had it. As soon as i told ehr that, it meant everything to her.
Do you ever predict anything?
David: I had a friend once and saw a child standing beside her and i predicted she was pregnant and she was gobsmacked i knew.
Gordon: The last prediction i had was the Egyption aircrash a few years ago. I saw a vision of an aeroplane with a camel on it going into the sea - that was the day before it happened. Then the day before Diana, Princess of Wales died, I was walking down the street and suddenly fell to my knees. Someone asked me what was wrong and i said: "someone really high profile has just been killed and a car was involved". But i couldn't have done anything.
Do you ever get paranormal experiences when you're off duty?
Gordon: You have to cut off, otherwise you'd be saying hellow to someone's dead mother in the supermarket! But you can't always ignore it. I used to be a hairdresser and was cutting a man's hair and his wife appeared in the mirror. I mentally asked her to give me something so she opened her hand and showed me four lollillpops. I said to this man i was a medium and i'd seem a woman with some lollipops and he dissolved intears. It turns out his son had taken his dead wife some lollipops the day before. That was her way of telling him she got them - it was wonderful.
You've all had more than your fair share of terrifying moments on the show. What's been the scariest so far?
Karl: The most disturing thing ive ever experienced actually happened to our crew member Stuart. It was at the Ram Inn in Gloucestershire. I was in the same room when it happened and he got taken off his feet and physiclaly beaten up - by something. All he could do was scream and we couldn't even stop it. He was covered in bruises and it was so graphic, we weren't even allowed to show it on television. I've known Stuart a long time and he's a tough lad and it'd take a lot to take him down, so seeing him in that petrified state was horrible. All his hair fell out shortly after out of shock.
Yvette: Mine was at the Golden Fleece in York. I was in a pitch-black room with Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills and said: "Give us a sign if you want us to leave". Then suddenly to the right of me, i felt a breath and heard a man laughing. I screamed but thought it was Scott playing a joke - he wasn't. I thought i was going mad but listening back, we all heard it.
David: It was Pendle Hill. I was in a cellar on my own using a mirror to make contact. I made contact with a highwayman but suddenly saw an old women appearing behind him and he screamed: "Witch" and as he shouted i became possesssed and smashed a mirror on a table. I woke up with my face in broken glass. It was the first time i'd so aggressively been taken over. The scariest part was playing it back and having no recollection of it. I still can't watch it to this day. I almost gave it all up after that.
Stuart, tell us about the Ram Inn......That was the scariest moment of my life.. it was an investigation we were doing in an old derelict pub. Before we entered the building the old man who owned the premises said to us: "You can take this how you want but i warn you, before you go in there, you must acknowledge the spirits by saying: "Hello," telling them your name and that you're not here to harm them" Every crew member did that apart from me - I walked in all thingyy and said nothing and thought to myself, if there is something there, bring it on. Anyway, at about 4am, I sensed something wa sin there with us, so i waled over to the other end of the bar and saw a red light moving. I'd been warned that this was an incubus, which is the worst kind of poltergeist activity a human being can come across. Five minutes later, i felt something punch me in the chest and then i was beaten to the ground. I was screaming and crying and being kicked in all directions. No one could do anyting to help me. I curled up in a ball screaming. The medium was ther giving the cross sign but Karl knew he couldn't do anything. I crawled out on my hands and knees and tried to sit up but i couldn't because the pain was so bad.
How badly were you hurt?A few days later all my hair fell out and that's why i look like this. It's the repercussions fo that night.
How else has it changed you?Things happen more to me than any other crew member - i thnk i've got something. Something's changed inside me, i feel so different. I can see things that are gong to happen before they happen. My personality has changed, I'm a lot more nervous and i've got anger inside me that i never had before. Something's going on inside my mind and I don't know what.
Yvette Fielding greeted us for our shoot looking happy and relaxed, but that was of course compared to the OK! crew, who were all as white as sheets after clocking the chilling surroundings of Ordsall Hall in Salford. The hall was used as a location for Living TV's hit show Most Haunted, which visits Britain's most ghostly places in search of paranormal activity.
As Halloween approches, the Most Haunted team - presenter Yvette Fielding, her director husband Karl Beattie, the show's newest medium Gordon Smith, medium David Wells and crew member Stuart Torrevell - tell OK! all about their paranormal experiences. Get that cushion ready because this isn't for the faint-hearted.....
[b]Yvette, tell us all about your own haunted house....In our bedroom we've got a four-poster bed and occasionally we hear knocking above it. Then i'll be in the bathroom and the latch will rattle up and down when i'm alone in the house. Karl:I'll be downstairs and i'll hear people walking around in the kitchen and shout: "You alright, sweetheart?" thinking it's Yvette, but there's no one there.
Aren't people too scared to visit?
Yvette: A lot happens in that room because a mummifield cat was put there 500 years ago under the floorboards. We've had friends staying at our house and the bed sheets were pulled off them.
Karl: Another day they went out and came back and the bolts had completely gone. I don't think they'll be staying again!
Gordon, you're the new medium on the show. How is it so far?
I had loads of medium experiences as a child so it's natural to me but i never actually thought i'd be going round haunted houses trying to see past lives!
Do you ever get accused of making things up?
Gordon: No, because we never know anything about the locations until we actually arrive so we can't be accused of getting any background information on the place.
Gordon, wht do you say to sceptics?If something falls off a table that's an act of gravity but if something jumps on the table, you have to conclude that something paranormal is happening.
Have any of you ever contacted the dead?
David: My father passed away 18 months ago but three days after he crossed, he kept tapping me on the head, which is one of the signs he's around. I was adamant that i wouldn't pass a message on to my mother because it's tempting for me to say: "Dad's here and he says he loves you", but i wanted to know for sure that it ws my dad, so i could prove it to my mum. So i asked him for something that i would never know and he told me about a school friend of hers who died in a specific way. As soon as i told my mum this, she knew she could take the message.
Gordon: A women came to me whose son had died but he didn't give me a code word for ages. Then as she was leaving he gave me "clover". It turns out the boy had found a four-leafed clover as a kid and his mother still had it. As soon as i told ehr that, it meant everything to her.
Do you ever predict anything?
David: I had a friend once and saw a child standing beside her and i predicted she was pregnant and she was gobsmacked i knew.
Gordon: The last prediction i had was the Egyption aircrash a few years ago. I saw a vision of an aeroplane with a camel on it going into the sea - that was the day before it happened. Then the day before Diana, Princess of Wales died, I was walking down the street and suddenly fell to my knees. Someone asked me what was wrong and i said: "someone really high profile has just been killed and a car was involved". But i couldn't have done anything.
Do you ever get paranormal experiences when you're off duty?
Gordon: You have to cut off, otherwise you'd be saying hellow to someone's dead mother in the supermarket! But you can't always ignore it. I used to be a hairdresser and was cutting a man's hair and his wife appeared in the mirror. I mentally asked her to give me something so she opened her hand and showed me four lollillpops. I said to this man i was a medium and i'd seem a woman with some lollipops and he dissolved intears. It turns out his son had taken his dead wife some lollipops the day before. That was her way of telling him she got them - it was wonderful.
You've all had more than your fair share of terrifying moments on the show. What's been the scariest so far?
Karl: The most disturing thing ive ever experienced actually happened to our crew member Stuart. It was at the Ram Inn in Gloucestershire. I was in the same room when it happened and he got taken off his feet and physiclaly beaten up - by something. All he could do was scream and we couldn't even stop it. He was covered in bruises and it was so graphic, we weren't even allowed to show it on television. I've known Stuart a long time and he's a tough lad and it'd take a lot to take him down, so seeing him in that petrified state was horrible. All his hair fell out shortly after out of shock.
Yvette: Mine was at the Golden Fleece in York. I was in a pitch-black room with Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills and said: "Give us a sign if you want us to leave". Then suddenly to the right of me, i felt a breath and heard a man laughing. I screamed but thought it was Scott playing a joke - he wasn't. I thought i was going mad but listening back, we all heard it.
David: It was Pendle Hill. I was in a cellar on my own using a mirror to make contact. I made contact with a highwayman but suddenly saw an old women appearing behind him and he screamed: "Witch" and as he shouted i became possesssed and smashed a mirror on a table. I woke up with my face in broken glass. It was the first time i'd so aggressively been taken over. The scariest part was playing it back and having no recollection of it. I still can't watch it to this day. I almost gave it all up after that.
Stuart, tell us about the Ram Inn......That was the scariest moment of my life.. it was an investigation we were doing in an old derelict pub. Before we entered the building the old man who owned the premises said to us: "You can take this how you want but i warn you, before you go in there, you must acknowledge the spirits by saying: "Hello," telling them your name and that you're not here to harm them" Every crew member did that apart from me - I walked in all thingyy and said nothing and thought to myself, if there is something there, bring it on. Anyway, at about 4am, I sensed something wa sin there with us, so i waled over to the other end of the bar and saw a red light moving. I'd been warned that this was an incubus, which is the worst kind of poltergeist activity a human being can come across. Five minutes later, i felt something punch me in the chest and then i was beaten to the ground. I was screaming and crying and being kicked in all directions. No one could do anyting to help me. I curled up in a ball screaming. The medium was ther giving the cross sign but Karl knew he couldn't do anything. I crawled out on my hands and knees and tried to sit up but i couldn't because the pain was so bad.
How badly were you hurt?A few days later all my hair fell out and that's why i look like this. It's the repercussions fo that night.
How else has it changed you?Things happen more to me than any other crew member - i thnk i've got something. Something's changed inside me, i feel so different. I can see things that are gong to happen before they happen. My personality has changed, I'm a lot more nervous and i've got anger inside me that i never had before. Something's going on inside my mind and I don't know what.