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oh god lord, this news has knocked me for 6 !

28 October 2005
SPOOKY TRUTH
TV'S MOST HAUNTED CON EXPOSED TV medium 'faked' being possessed by dead jailer Producer hit soundman and pretended it was a ghost
By Matt Roper

THE TV show that has spooked millions with its footage of hauntings and poltergeists is today exposed as a fake - by one its own stars.

Resident parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe has sensationally lifted the lid on the ghosthunting series, Most Haunted ... and claims that the public are being deceived by "showmanship and dramatics."

He accuses the show's medium Derek Acorah of hoodwinking viewers by pretending to communicate with spirits and obtaining information about locations prior to filming.

The Mirror has also obtained unedited footage which appears to show presenter Yvette Fielding and her husband faking 'paranormal' occurrences such as ghostly bumps and knocks.

Most Haunted has quickly achieved cult status since it was launched in 2002 and is LivingTV's most successful programme.

Millions of viewers tune in regularly to watch Ex-Blue Peter girl Yvette and her team of ghost hunters spend the night in some of Britain's most haunted locations.


It has made Acorah - who claims to be guided by an Ethiopian spirit guide called Sam - into one of the country's best-known psychics.


Tonight the show will start its biggest ever live vigil, a four-night Halloween special from East London following the murderous trail of Jack the Ripper.


Yvette Fielding has said of the show - which is made by her husband Karl Beattie's production company Antix Productions: "There is no acting in this programme, none whatsoever. Everything you see and you hear is real. It's not made up, it's not acted."


But our investigation reveals how the programme uses careful editing to mislead viewers and, on at least one occasion, has even lied about the location of filming.


Ciaran, a lecturer in the paranormal at Liverpool's Hope University, knows speaking out will probably put an end to his media career... but he believes viewers should know the truth.


He says: "I think it's time to open the dialogue about what I've experienced on Most Haunted. There have been many incidents with the medium that have been brushed under the carpet.


"I was put in the show to give a professional   more...slant to it, to give it an element of credibility, but the sceptical argument is just swept away.


"In my opinion, we're not dealing with genuine mediumship."


He says he isn't the only member of the crew who feels viewers are being cheated.


"Other crew members have been irked by Derek and what's going on, because it turns what should be a serious investigation into a laughing matter."


And our exclusive footage shows other members of the team occasionally forget they are on camera.


One of our clips, later edited out, shows Karl push an unwitting sound man in the dark and pretend it was a poltergeist attack.


In the remaining footage he says (after surreptitiously hitting the soundman): "S**t, did you feel that?"


Yvette: Are you all right? What's happened?


Karl: I felt something touch me on my shoulder.


Soundman: I felt something hit me.


And in another edited clip with medium Ian Lawman, Yvette is seen on camera making a deep sigh. In the scene that eventually went to air, Ian (after Yvette sighs) says: "What's that noise?


Yvette: What noise? Like a moan?


Ian: Breathing or something.


Yvette: I heard like an 'arrggh'.


Ciaran, who joined Most Haunted in April 2004 became suspicious of Acorah's antics on a shoot at Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan in Ireland where a 17th Century four-poster bed has been claimed to levitate.


Ciaran recalls: "As we walked into the bedroom, Derek touched the bed and came out with extremely accurate information.


"He insisted he got all the information just from touching the bed. But it was the wrong bed."


Antix Productions claims the mediums have no idea where they will be filming or know any details about the history of the locations.


But Ciaran says: "Derek must have had prior knowledge of the locations."


He devised a plan to see if Derek was deliberately deceiving the public.


While on a shoot at Bodmin gaol he invented a long-dead South African jailer called Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker.


"I wrote the name down and asked another member of the crew to mention it to Derek before filming.


"I honestly didn't think Derek would take the bait. But during the filming he actually got possessed by my fictional character!"


On the next shoot at Prideaux Place, Cornwall, Ciaran made up another fictional character, highwayman Rik Eedles - an anagram of Derek Lies. Sure enough, Derek made contact with the dead outlaw.


Ciaran says: "In my professional opinion we're not dealing with a genuine medium.


"When Derek is possessed he is doing it consciously - all we are seeing is showmanship and dramatics."


Ciaran went a step further at Craigievar Castle, near Aberdeen.


"I made up stories about Richard the Lionheart, a witch, and Richard's apparition appearing to walk through a wardrobe - the lion, the witch and the wardrobe!" True to form, Derek mentioned all Ciaran's stories - even though Richard I reigned 500 years BEFORE Craigievar Castle was built.


The final straw came last month when Most Haunted presented a three-night special from Manchester.


On the second evening, the show claimed to be broadcasting live from the site of Cheadle's Victorian asylum, a place where - according to presenter David Bull - thousands died in torment. In fact they were in the derelict remains of Barnes Conv  less

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Come on... we all know its faked. You only have to type 'most haunted fakes' in youtube to find those moment when they're caught on camera!

I love watching the live specials to see what Carl and Stu are going to come up with next! The best was when Stu became catatonic while in a cell during the Halloween special this year. They had to bring the 'paramedics' in. But it was all ok, he came round during the advert break!

Take it for what it is... entertainment!
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I think you might enjoy this clip - it's absolutely hilarious!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4uD0dPhr9cQ

Lizbeff x
Posted on 18/11/08 at 10:25 Report Abuse Posts: 725 Registered: 28-07-2008
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Couldn't agree more. Yvette always has a smirk on her face and looks like she's going to burst out laughing. Also why do they do everything in the dark methinks it's so you don't see the crew throwing things/banging on the walls.
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Has anyone notice that nothing ever happens on this show? All you hear every so often is Yvette saying, "Oh, my God, did you hear that?" but you never hear anything and they keep on and on and on saying, "Do something so we know you're there." Still nothing happens! Does anyone else think the whole thing's just a waste of air time?
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jared30 jared30 -> Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 5:29:06 PM)

i wonder if the progam is all fake. I mean the things that go on just doesn't seem right. Yvette must have really good hearing to hear the things she does yet us viewers don't seem to hear anything. Makes me laugh the way she ask's for something to happen and it does. Makes great tv!!






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Welsh_Girl Welsh_Girl -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 6:55:41 PM)

I love Most Haunted! I've read its fake but I dont care. Its great TV!






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vikkii vikkii -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 7:03:45 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Welsh_Girl

I love Most Haunted! I've read its fake but I dont care. Its great TV!


I agree!
I get soo scared watching it especially the live ones did anyone watch 07s halloween one? I was pooing my pants when they said the witch from pendal hill was back!






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ceg1108 ceg1108 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 7:08:14 PM)

It was good when it first started. But its now gone abit over the top.






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jared30 jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:06:10 PM)

Do you believe that anyone actually see's anything on those web cams? I think they make it up just to get their names on tv. I read the ticker that goes across the screen and i think you have to be joking!! Next time it goes live i'm going towatch the web cams to see if I see anything!! Bet i don't... [&o]






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meadsy meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:20:03 PM)

Its all a pile of bollocks






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jared30 jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:27:53 PM)

it is i agree, they can't really see anything on those web cams. they just think if they make it good then it will get on the screen, and yes the viewers do talk bollocks just like the presenters!!! scream yvette, scream!!! [sm=rolleyes.gif]






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  more...ette's the scariest thing on that programme, her mascara job on those night vision cameras is terrifying






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jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:35:01 PM)

yes and the way her big eyes light up on night vision, awful!!






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meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:36:32 PM)

I'm very cynical myself but I'd love to go and stay at a 'haunted' house for a night and scare myself stupid!






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jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:41:36 PM)

i wouldn't mind that as long as screaming yvette didn't show up. do you know of a really scary place that would scare us silly??







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meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:50:39 PM)

John Mckirrick's bedroom?






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jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:52:33 PM)

ha! ha! nice one!! its scary watching him pick his nose and then eat it!!!!!!






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meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:53:52 PM)

Foul foul man[:'(]






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jared30 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:57:19 PM)

did you watch him on celebrity big brother? he made me feel sick. they should stick him on most haunted, maybe he would scare the ghosts away!![:D]






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meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 10:59:37 PM)

Yeh and they did a big close up on him eating his own snot. That Malcolm Mclaren, what a dirty old perv he was[:'(]
This is gonna sound quite an obvious question, but is your name Jared and are you 30?






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razzy91 -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 11:00:33 PM)

I'm fairly cynical about it all but yeah, if I had to do it myself I know I'd be shrieking my pants off all night, but that's just me.






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meadsy -> RE: Most Haunted - fake or real?? (29/1/2008 11:04:09 PM)

If I'm in the house on my own and I go to the toilet I can't flush the chain. I'm scared that the sound of the flush will block out the footsteps of any mass murderers that have entered my house. As soon as my bf gets in I rush to the toilet to get rid of any offending articles lurking in the pan!






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