Most Haunted

[homer]

Some members of my family insist on watching this and unfortunately I can't avoid being drawn in . Seems to me to be a load of old cobblers but what do others here about think ?

 

[Oleron]

Welcome homer, your odyssey starts here, d'oh!

I have to admit to being a fan of the series even though I think the whole thing is, well, cobblers.

Did you see last night's episode? They claimed poltergeist activity in a manorhouse/hotel.
They got quite good footage of 3 investigators in a darkened room when the TV spontaneously burst into life. The TV remote was on top of the set at the time and out of reach of the crew.

I could give several ways in which this event could have been staged but I would have to assume that at least one member of the production team was dishonestly tricking the rest of the team.

I have been trying to come up with some way on which this event could have happened accidentally but so far I can't think how this could have been.
Anybody fancy having a crack at this one?

 

[Peter Jenkins]

I didn't see the episode.
If it was in a hotel, It's possible that all the rooms have the same TV, with the same remote, using the same codes. Is it possible that the TV could have been affected by a reflected remote signal from somewhere else? In many TV sets, any signal from the remote (channel up/down, even volume up/down) will turn it on, if it was in standby mode.
Having seen the show in the past (and having seen some of the obvious tricks that DA pulls) I wouldn't spend too much time or effort, trying to find a natural explanation.
P

 

[Oleron]

Yes I've been thinking along the lines of a stray IR signal. They had a lot of electronic equipment in that room and I'm sure some of it can be controlled remotely.

What is particularly telling is that when the TV switched on, it was displaying white noise. In other words it wasn't tuned to a correct channel just an untuned state. This happens with my TV if I accidentally sit on the remote and hit a button which brings the TV out of standby onto a channel which I haven't set up.

The crew then got up to investigate and hit a button on the remote which changed the channel to a tuned state. Proving the TV wasn't broken.

The truth is it was probably a member of the production team playing silly beggars.

 

[c4ts]

First Lisa Simpson, and now Homer. Makes me want to start a sock puppet account under the name "Bart."

 

[Anon1]

here ya go,

TV was on a timer to come on.

Someone had a cheap remote control watch to turn it on with.

TV was on standby and there was a quick power cut, when power came back on, as tv was already switched on, it would simply come on.

easiest one would be that the tv had a timer on, and someone at teh place was having a laugh

 

[scoman]

What happened to part two of the MH report?

Randi claimed that part two would be in the following weeks commentary - maybe it was as much garbage as the first article!

Wonder if Randi has actually seen Most Haunted?
!

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Oleron said:
Did you see last night's episode? They claimed poltergeist activity in a manorhouse/hotel.
They got quite good footage of 3 investigators in a darkened room when the TV spontaneously burst into life. The TV remote was on top of the set at the time and out of reach of the crew.

It's not the remote on the top of the set, so it must be a poltergeist. Yup, absolutely, no doubt about it, for sure.

~~ Paul

 

[Temp3st]

Re: What happened to part two of the MH report?

Randi claimed that part two would be in the following weeks commentary - maybe it was as much garbage as the first article!

Wonder if Randi has actually seen Most Haunted?
!

Nothing like the garbage you usually post on the Most Haunted forum eh scoman?

I, however, have seen the show and can state it is pure unadulterated garbage

 

[scoman]

Pity you have to resort to personal jibes temp3st in place of debate.
Can't say as your name is familiar, do you use another on MH?

 

[DaChew]

Some members of my family insist on watching this and unfortunately I can't avoid being drawn in . Seems to me to be a load of old cobblers but what do others here about think ?

Have some fun with it. When you're watching with your family, every time one of the "experts" on the show starts babbling just answer them out loud. Like this:

expert: Oh yes, I feel something in this room.

You: No you don't.

expert: This part of the room is definitely colder, there is a change in temperature right over here.

You: No there isn't.

expert: I definitely think there is a presence here.

You: I definitely think you're wrong.

You just keep doing exactly this after every statement or claim of the ghost hunters and you will annoy the heck out of your family. They will eventually tell you to shut up or cut it out. Then you simply ask the question: "Why? I provided exactly the same amount of evidence for my statements that the folks on TV have for theirs and you don't turn them off."

It is great fun because you will be surprised at how often you will be contradicting the statements of those on TV. It can really be challenging at times and some of the "exchanges" will be hilarious. Give it a try. If you have to sit and watch that junk you might as well enjoy yourself.

 

[homer]

Thank you for your useful comments . Actually my family think it's a load of dingos kidneys as well .
How does anybody who is so frightened each time keep coming back for more ? MONEY MONEY MONEY its a rich mans world.........

 

[richardm]

here ya go,

TV was on a timer to come on.

Someone had a cheap remote control watch to turn it on with.

TV was on standby and there was a quick power cut, when power came back on, as tv was already switched on, it would simply come on.

easiest one would be that the tv had a timer on, and someone at teh place was having a laugh

Or the TV was a Nokia Guestlink, which can be operated from reception.

The episode that cracked me up was one where they had staked out a supposedly haunted cafeteria.

One of them went into hysterics because a red light came on on one of the coffee machines And it's not often that I use , but it's deserved in that instance.

I think that was the same episode where a bunch of them were lurking in the toilets beneath a haunted pub. They heard footsteps upstairs - must be a ghost! Did any one of them sneak up and poke a camera round the corner? Nope. Come to that, if the bar upstairs was the haunted bit, why were they skulking in the toilets in the first place? Call themselves investigators....

 

[Temp3st]

....the bar upstairs was the haunted bit,

yeah - they caught loads of 'spirits' on camera that night.

 

[Undodog]

I enjoyed the one where the make-up woman started freaking out and crying (which made the other women in the room freak out too) because she saw a red light near the ceiling.
It was the security motion sensor.

And Investigator Yvette sitting in a room alone. She managed 2 minutes before she started crying and had to come out.

And good old Derek asking, "Where's me legs?"

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Ever play Most Haunted Bingo?
Draw a 5x3 grid and fill each box with words/phrases like 'Orbs', 'Risidual energy' and 'Come forward, Derek'. Cross them off as you watch. It makes the whole thing that little more bearable.

 

[Nihilanth]

Not sure if this got covered...

I just wanted to point something out about the TV. When I was a kid, our TV had this really weird problem. It'd flip on, sometime during the night, on full blast, all by itself. Just FWOOP! Scared the hell out of all of us. Finally, we took it in to a repair shop, and they said something about some part being bad...don't remember what. Christ, sorry this is so vague, but I was, like, ten at the time or something. Anyway, just wanted to point out that sometimes TV's do turn themselves on all by themselves for very mundane reasons that don't require holy water to fix.
By the by, I'm glad I don't live in the UK. This Most Haunted show reminds me of that lame Fear show on MTV a while ago...

 

[homer]

Thanks for the input . I was unable to avoid this 'program' recently and my folks were amazed when your man got the name ' John ' correct . Whoa only one of the most common names about . Actually mine as well and I wasn't within a hundred miles , how queer ! If only it were horses instead of Bulls then it would make your garden grow .