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Post by literarysnob on May 20, 2008 10:59:49 GMT -11
cbc72 you can always edit your own posts anytime you like.
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Post by literarysnob on May 28, 2008 4:22:34 GMT -11
OK, for any of you who may be interested in Most Haunted I have a YouTube account/channel set up that has many of the programs. Feel free to go over and watch a show or two. Check out my Favs or any of the many playlists that I have compiled. www.youtube.com/Literarysnob1
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Post by stick28 on May 28, 2008 4:36:45 GMT -11
Good job Lit. I don't think I've seen Plas Y Ddualit. I'm gonna watch - later...
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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 28, 2008 8:19:22 GMT -11
Thanks for sharing that, that's pretty cool!
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on May 28, 2008 8:57:34 GMT -11
OK, for any of you who may be interested in Most Haunted I have a YouTube account/channel set up that has many of the programs. Feel free to go over and watch a show or two. Check out my Favs or any of the many playlists that I have compiled. www.youtube.com/Literarysnob1 Cool! Thanks for posting it!
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Post by Pinkberry on May 30, 2008 12:48:30 GMT -11
Bleh Most Haunted is so lame..Its so obviously that theyre feeding their "psychics" info beforehand..other than the locations its all entertainment value.
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Post by literarysnob on May 30, 2008 13:41:40 GMT -11
Bleh Most Haunted is so lame..Its so obviously that theyre feeding their "psychics" info beforehand..other than the locations its all entertainment value. You remind me of my friends 3 year old son....He never likes anything and offers his dissenting opinion even when it is not asked for!
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Post by blondeness on May 30, 2008 13:43:53 GMT -11
I agree - I much prefer David Wells. Ditto to that- David has a way about him. And when he doesn't know about something, he's not afraid to admit it. It was obvious Derrick would invent answers right on the spot.
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Post by Pinkberry on May 30, 2008 16:46:31 GMT -11
Bleh Most Haunted is so lame..Its so obviously that theyre feeding their "psychics" info beforehand..other than the locations its all entertainment value. You remind me of my friends 3 year old son....He never likes anything and offers his dissenting opinion even when it is not asked for! OP: What are your views on this show and how do you feel it differs from that of other shows out there? Is there any other show you consider most similiar to this one?
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Post by LCellini on May 31, 2008 4:49:54 GMT -11
i saw most haunted last night!! it was like...darn i cant remember what time, it was either 10:30 or 11 ot 11:30. i missed that show
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on Jun 1, 2008 1:53:34 GMT -11
Loved Acorah's hamming. When he left, the locations weren't enough to hold my interest.
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Post by blondeness on Jun 1, 2008 4:21:01 GMT -11
True to British TV programming- lots of yak yak yak and very little action. They spend the first 20-30 minutes giving history and going from room to room droning on and on. It's on at 11:00 pm now (moved back an hour) and I just can't stay awake listening to dull droning at the hour. By the time they're running around scared, I'm asleep!
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Post by LCellini on Jun 1, 2008 5:17:42 GMT -11
me and my sister made up our own MH conversation, hehehe eehh what's that sam? you say that someone named john...john, what sam? okay john smith. someone named john smith lived here. phil-i looked through all the records and only one john smith lived here and he died of old age and in a hospital. and of course we had horrible british accents
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on Jun 4, 2008 3:10:41 GMT -11
Here is the original article where Ciaran O'Keeffe "Outed" Derek Acorah:
28 October 2005 SPOOKY TRUTH: TV'S MOST HAUNTED CON EXPOSED TV 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.
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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 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 Convalescence Home - where nobody died in torment.
Ciaran remembers: "Derek was communicating with spirits that sounded as if they'd been in an asylum, but it was never an asylum."
Yesterday the Mirror confronted Derek Acorah with Ciaran's allegations. He told us: "I've worked with Ciaran for many shows and he's got every right to say what he says.
"However, it does shock and surprise me. Not only do I believe that I am a genuine medium - I live my work 24 hours a day. If I thought that I wasn't a true medium, I wouldn't work as one."
A spokesman for LivingTV said: "Ciaran O'Keeffe has worked as the programme's official sceptic for 18 months and during this time has not brought any of his concerns to our attention.
"LivingTV has not seen any of your filmed evidence, but will fully investigate your claims."
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Post by sandstone on Jun 4, 2008 4:11:55 GMT -11
Thanks for posting that Karina! I have to admit watching Acora was what made the show so entertaining. I guess that is why they let him do "Derek Acora's Ghost Towns" even after he was outed as a fake. If you got to his Wikipedia page, it makes no mention of the fact he has ever been shown to be a fake. I wonder if he wrote his own page? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah
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