Most Haunted Live Dracula Transylvania 2007

Posted by admin as 2007

Corvin’s Castle, Transylvania

Day One
Transylvanian Room, Desert Tower, The Hanging Gallery, Do not be Afraid Tower.

Day Two
Guards Passage Way, Old Gate Tower, White Tower, Bethlen Wing.

Day Three
Painted Tower, New Gate Tower, Torture Tower, Knights Hall.

First Broadcast : 24th February 2007

Most Haunted Live Halloween 2006 : Edinburgh

Posted by admin as 2006

Night One : Blair Street Vaults

Night Two : Niddry Street Vaults

Night Three : Mary King’s Close
 
First Broadcast : 29th October 2006

Most Haunted Live Summer Solstice 2006 : LLanelli Wales

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Night One : Parc Howard Museum

Night Two : Llanelly House

Night Three : Kidwelly Castle
 
First Broadcast : 24th June 2006

Most Haunted Live May 2006 : Panic In Portsmouth

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“Hello and welcome we are back.”
The opening line to Most Haunted Live May 2006 from Portsmouth. The team, old and new, consists of Medium David Wells, Karl, Yvette , Ciaran O’Keefe, historian Richard Felix, they are joined by Medium Ian Shillito, Paranormal Investigator Steve Parsons and Resident Historian Ms Lesley Smith, finally Mr Paul Ross becomes our studio host.
“The rollercoaster ride is about to begin” says Paul Ross, we the public will see.

Day 1 : WYMERING MANOR

Instantly David feels he is greeted by a spirit on entering the building. The crew voice their opinion of uncertainty. A noise from the floor in the first few moments becomes the highlighted interest. David finds a selected cold spot and all attention is drawn to the tapping noise, a dull thud from between the floor and cellar. David feels the spirit of a dark aggressive male, enough to trigger Yvette ’s fears to escalate, with a flash of light we return to the studio. A fast start to this Most Haunted Live.

We return to a ’struggling’ David Wells who is claims to be joined by the spirit of a naval dressed man and the spirit of a woman. On calling for a spirit called Mary a noise seems to respond to David call for contact. David identifies the spirit to be connected to a family of four including a naval officer. David feels he is being contacted by a shover/pusher who gives him the impression they shouldn’t be doing what they are doing. David senses a geographical change into the shape and size of the rooms. The noises seem to respond to questions asked, is this a more definite paranormal response than past found on a Most Haunted Live ? David identifies the spirit as ‘Francis’. Our studio historian Lesley confirms the existence of a Francis Austin, a naval officer and brother of Jane Austin, who died in 1865. She also confirms the rooms have changed in size and shape when the building became a hostel.

After a break we once more return to the crew who are now in the Music Room, they continue to hear noises they can’t identify. David now connects with two monks, are they throwing pebbles, a now common occurrence on Most Haunted. David voices threats from one of the monks toward Yvette , not to goud him. Yvette suggests a seance as we go to a break.

The calling begins in the seance led by Yvette . David senses shame in the monks for what may have been a ’sexual’ event in the Manor. Was this entrapment to keep their own ‘dirty’ secrets. Does the table move or is it merely the rising tension ?

The team move upstairs, Ian discusses having felt the presence of two children and a religious man in the music room. A number of the team are sure they heard the sound of a baby crying. Were all these sounds from the outside as suggested by studio based Steve Parsons ? David senses the spirit may be judgemental and expresses he is more than happy to get into the debate of religion. Noises follow and seemingly more pebbles are dropping or being thrown. Is this in response to David’s calls for a debate ?

Historian, Lesley Smith feeds back in the 1870’s the building hosted the St Augustin Monks and a vicarage was just beyond the manor. In the loft space Yvette takes Kath with her as she’s tries to taunt spirits into reacting to her. Now David picks up on what he thinks are nuns from around the 1300’s.

In the cellar David senses an astral shifting around, a grubby six year old child who’s bones are nearby in the earth.

An unusual occurrence is when Ciaran breaks down upset with a headache. On his return Ciaran has no explanation for his actions and even when discussing how he felt he once more shows himself as overwhelmed and upset. Karl and Richard spend sometime in a priest hole and return with just the feelings of unease.

Stones appear to continue being thrown, or are they small pieces of stone falling from the roof space above ? At the close of coverage Jon Gilbert feels his legs collapse or he suggests he may have been pushed.

Day 2 : Southsea Castle

Day 3 : Royal Marine Museum

David Wells first thoughts are he senses a military steward, who he feels may have passed over recently coming down the stairs. Then in the first main room David feels further on in the building there will be something not quite right. He also picks up on an old crouched man who he says will be waiting for them later.

In a meeting room David tells us of a woman in white who is not in contact, she merely appears from time to time. Also two or three children about 7 years of age who ’scamper around’, perhaps from times when the building was residential. The next spirit David detects is in full battle dress and ready for a fight, he taunts David knowing he was once in the Royal Navy. We get the name as ‘Billy W’ who was in his mid thirties and died of an accidental death, possibly in the 1950’s. Are tapping noises responses to David’s questions ? If they are the noises tell us there are six spirits in residence and it was one of them who dropped a ten pence coin down the stairs earlier. Also Steve Parsons confirms there are definite temperature changes inline with the tapings.

Moving on into the educational room David picks up a constant negative energy of two or three marines fighting and maybe one of them died from it. On being questioned by Richard Felix David tells us Billy is there because all that remains of his regiment is in the museum. Faint tapings continue inline with Yvette’s questions to Billy.

Technical difficulties continue are these due to paranormal influences.

The crew go down into the cellar in the dark they start to hear faint noises or sighs, David believes the crouched figure who has been waiting for them may have followed them into the cellar. When the coverage returns to the studio one of the sighs is replayed and it is definite, its source is naturally questioned by Ciaran, was this paranormal ?

On returning to the crew a seance is taking place. Karl instantly gets a strong metallic taste in his throat, David picks up the astral spirit of a male who took his own life. David picks up the emotion of love and confirms the crouched figure took his own life by shooting himself in the 1920’s. Is the metallic taste blood or the taste of the barrel of a gun ? Ian questions if it was a gun or razor. Using the Ouija Board Yvette seeks the first name of the figure as the glass starts to move. The faint tapings they heard earlier continue as they receive the letter ‘A’. The responses seem to come more from tapings than from the ouija board.

After yet another break we return to the seance as the glass spells out BRAK, which is confirmed to be a surname, on asking for a first name they get BRAM. On asking for a rank they get the response Goodbye but the spirit responds that he doesn’t want them to leave. David thinks he picks up a link to Somerset. The glass continues to move and gives AW and then abruptly stops. Yvette thinks she picks up laughter but this is not confirmed by any other crew member.

Another break takes us back to the studio Lesley Smith try’s to make some sense of the information from the investigation. She offers BRAK is the Dutch for BREAK. She does confirm the possibility of a suicide in the building, although this is rumored and not documented.

When we return to the crew Karl is acting strangely and aggressively, after facing up to David Wells (Who tells him he doesn’t scare him) and Yvette, he does admit he is feeling aggressive. David is under the impression the spirit may be using Karl as a vehicle and attempts to calm him down. David voices his worries the spirit is using Karl because Karl is letting it do so, at this point Karl lashes out at Stuart eventually he asks to be left alone. Ciaran agrees there is something odd going on but is unsure if its paranormal or not. Karl returns to the crew and says he has no idea what was going on it was almost as if he felt drunk, David is sure when he faced up to Karl he saw someone else in him.

The crew then try to make contact using a Planchet (A pen fixed into a piece of wood that sits on a piece of paper and is led by the fingers of the users.) which did start to move but gave no positive information. The whole crew then join forces in the cellar to do a standing seance. David Wells asks the spirits to ‘gently’ affect one of the team, Yvette feels a numb feeling in her leg which later moves into her side. With the lack of any more response Yvette uses her now infamous live aggressive approach demanding the spirits do something and the response is instantaneous when Jon Gilbert falls to the floor screaming. As the coverage comes to an end Jon returns and admits he cannot confirm his collapse is connected to anything paranormal.
 
First Broadcast : 5th May 2006

Most Haunted Live Christmas 2005 : Mayhem on Merseyside Liverpool

Posted by admin as 2005

 
 
 Night One : Bluecoat Chambers

Night Two : Royal court Theatre

Night Three : Wirral Museum
 
First Broadcast : 9th December 2005

Most Haunted Live Halloween 2005 :: Jack the Ripper : Eerie In London

Posted by admin as 2005

Night One : Tower Bridge

Night Two : Commercial Tavern

Night Three : Clink Prison Museum

Night Four : Blind Beggar Pub

 
First Broadcast : 28th October 2005

Most Haunted Live September 2005 :: The Asylum Manchester

Posted by admin as 2005

Night One : Staircase House

Staircase House  is a cruck timber building and the timbers were dating, using dendrochronology, to 1459-1460.[1] Very little is known of the house’s early history, though it is thought that it was originally the home of the Mayor of Stockport, William Dodge, in 1483.

The first definite residents were the Shallcross family who owned the house from 1605–1730. Part of the landed gentry, it was they who installed the cage newel staircase in 1618, which gives the house its name. The Jacobean staircase is one of only three surviving examples in Britain and has been carefully restored following an almost devastating fire in 1995, the second of two arson attacks on the semi derelict building.

The House was restored after being damaged in the second fire. It was used partly as a warehouse for Gardner’s Green Grocers in the 1990s and as the Staircase Cafe until 1989. It was compulsarily purchased by Stockport Council following a long and gruelling campaign to save it by local conservation group, Stockport Heritage Trust, which began in 1987.

Now open to the public it offers a unique glimpse into the lives of medieval Stockport, the roots of the town, (including what made it a borough) and subsequent stages of development until the 1940s, when it was last used as a residence.

 Night Two : Barnes Convalesent Hospital

Barnes Hospital, also known as Barnes Convalescent Home, in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, is a former hospital.

A donation of £26,000 for the founding of a new convalescent hospital in Cheadle was made in 1869 by Robert Barnes. Construction of the hospital, named the Barnes Convalescent Home, started in 1871 and was completed in 1875.

Broken remains of three stone high crosses were discovered in 1874 during the construction of the hospital. The location of only one of these is known today; this consists of a crosshead of Celtic cross form with a central boss, and dates from the late 10th or 11th century. It is now located in St Mary’s Church, Cheadle. The other two pieces are said to be part of a much older cross, and the upper part of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft.

Night Three : Brannigans Night Club

The Albert Hall (Grade II) was designed in eclectic style with Baroque and Gothic elements for the Wesleyan Mission by W. J. Morley in 1910, and after a long period of inactivity is now being utilised once again as Brannigans Night Club. A meeting hall is located on the first floor, with a horseshoe gallery, sloping floor and coloured glass rooflights. The finely detailed buff terracotta is formed into large traceried windows at gallery level, and the interior has a wealth of detail and floral decoration in plaster work and glazed tiles.

First broadcast : 2nd September 2005

Most Haunted Live Summer Solstice 2005 :: Wakefield

Posted by admin as 2005

Night One : Rutland Mill Complex

The Rutland Mills complex was originally  built in 1875 as a woollen mill.

Night Two : Wakefield Theatre Royal & Opera House

The Theatre Royal is situated in the heart of Wakefield, on the corner of Westgate and Drury Lane. There has been a theatre on the site since 1774, with the current building dating from 1894 and designed by the internationally known British Victorian theatre architect Frank Matcham.

Night Three : Caphouse Colliery

A plan dated 1791 showing workings from 1789 to 1795, includes a shaft on the Caphouse site. It is probably the oldest coal-mine shaft still in everyday use in Britain today.

Before 1827 the colliery was owned by the Milnes family, but then passed into the ownership of the Lister Kaye family, until 1917.

After 1917 the colliery was run by a company, which included the ex-manager Percy Greaves, a colliery owner in his own right. Around 1941 Arthur Sykes of Lockwood and Elliott bought the colliery and remained as owner until Nationalisation in 1947. By 1985 the coal at Caphouse was exhausted and its conversion tothe NATIONAL COALMINE MUSEUM began.
 
 
First Broadcast : 19th June 2005

Most Haunted Live 2005 : Nightmare On Elstree

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Night One : Elstree Film & TV Studios

Elstree Film Studios has a long and colourful history. The present facilities are built on land originally purchased in 1925, to locate a ’silent’ studio constructed one year later. At that time, ALFRED HITCHCOCK was engaged as a staff director and was responsible for a number of films, including the first British talkie, Blackmail.

During the pre-war years, the Studios undertook pioneering work in colour films and produced the first French talkie and the first multi-lingual film. It launched a number of pre-war movie acting careers including those of CHARLES LAUGHTON, RAY MILLAND, STEWART GRANGER, LAURENCE OLIVIER, ROBERT NEWTON, ANNA NEAGLE, VIVIEN LEIGH and MAUREEN O’HARA.

During 1939, the original Studio closed and was commandeered for ‘wartime purposes’. A few years later, Warner Bros. Purchased a 25share in the parent company, ABPC, and the Studio was largely rebuilt before re-opening in 1948. The first major post-war movies were Stage Fright with MARLENE DIETRICH and The Hasty Retreat starring RONALD REAGAN. Post war careers launched at Elstree include RICHARD HARRIS, AUDREY HEPBURN, LAURENCE HARVEY and RICHARD TODD.

The 1950’s and 60’s saw productions such as Moby Dick with GREGORY PECK, Kings Rhapsody with ERROL FLYNN, The Dam Busters, Look Back In Anger and hit TV series such as The Avengers and The Saint. The stars GARY COOPER, JEFF CHANDLER and TALLULAH BANKHEAD were to make their last movies at Elstree.

Between 1959 and 1975 Hammer Films produced 39 films here starring such actresses as STEPHANIE BEACHAM, MARSHA HUNT and KATE O’MARA. Films included the comedies On The Buses and Man About The House, the ambitious The Lost Continent as well as the chiller thrillers for which the company is notorious, such as ‘The Horror of Frankenstein, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb and The Vampire Lovers.

Elstree was busy throughout the 1970’s and 80’s with productions such as Murder On The Orient Express, Never Say Never Again, the Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The post-production facilities were used on a wide range of movies, including Chariots of Fire, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Last Emperor.

During 1986, Cannon purchased the Studios and sold off the film library – before announcing closure plans during 1988. The complex was then purchased by Brent Walker who agreed with the planning authority to retain 15.5 acres as a film studio, in return for permission to sell 12 acres of land to Tesco Superstore for £19 million. The agreement involved rebuilding the facility and its leisure amenities, and maintaining them for 25 years.
The Section 106 planning agreement, signed in 1990, was designed to secure the Studio’s future. However, in 1993, Brent Walker announced it was closing the facility, as it wished to maximise the site’s value. A legal fight ensued that lasted until Brent Walker offered the Studio to Hertsmere Borough Council for £1.9 million in February 1996, in return for dropping all legal actions.
From 1988 onwards, a successful voluntary ‘Save Our Studios’ campaign was mounted, which resulted in world wide media coverage, a 700 strong audience at a public meeting and nearly 30,000 petition signatures. It was successful in enlisting the support of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Lord Attenborough and a host of stars including PETER CUSHING who offered to lie down in front of the bulldozers!

After Hertsmere Borough Council bought the Studio in February 1996, it soon reopened for business with a British Lottery assisted movie Peggy Su starring BURT KWOUK. Next to be produced was the $25 million Warner Bros. movie Watch That Man starring BILL MURRAY and JOANNE WHALLEY. This spoof spy thriller was subsequently re-titled The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Since reopening, Elstree Studios has proved an attractive facility for commercials including those for BT, Cointreau, Pontins, Success, One To One (with IAN WRIGHT), St.Ives Swiss Formula, Bisto (with JULIE WALTERS) and Puma.
Elstree has also attracted numerous television productions such as a 90 minute film of Jane Eyre for LWT, interiors for the long-running Last of The Summer Wine, Wuthering Heights, Big Women, The Fast Show and The Judas Tree ballet for Channel 4. Major television series to use Elstree’s sound stages include Kavanagh QC and Playing The Field and big TV productions include the BBC’s Tom Jones and Coming Home starring JOANNA LUMLEY and veteran actor PETER O’TOOLE.

http://www.elstreefilmtv.com

Night Two : Waggon & Horses, Allum Hall, Hollybush Pub

Night Three : Gate Studios

Investigation Events

The most interesting encounters they experienced, included the spirits of a family located in one of the large empty studios. It is belived this family died during the great plague of the 17th Century, and that the area where the studio now stands they passed away together, trying to escape from the awful disease.

Various paranomal activity occured during the investigation, including the switching off of a televsion set and a candle falling over many times.
 
First Broadcast : 6th May 2005

Most Haunted Live 2005 : Terror At Torbay

Posted by admin as 2005

The Most Haunted Team are spending the Weekend in South Devon at Torbay and Brixham. Famous for its history of smuggling from ships, as well as other dark goings on around the area. What will they find out as they explore the Lupton Hall, a house built in the late 1700’s? What disaster befell the Hall? And who are the spirits which refuse to leave?

Day 1 Lupton House, Brixham

Lupton House, now a school, was a seat of the Bullers for a time, and was rebuilt c. 1770. It has been gutted by fire and reconstructed in recent years

Day 2 The Globe Hotel, Brixham Heritage Museum, Smugglers Haunt

Day 3 Berry Pomeroy Castle

It is said that the ruins of this very old castle are among the most haunted in England…
It was built in the late 15th century by the Pomeroy family who first came to England during the times of the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and settled in Devon. In times of prosperity the Pomeroys were a very influential family with high social status and close friends with Royalty. They were also a family of Knights, Barons and Sheriffs of Devon. In troubled times they also rebelled against Royalty, were in debt for generations and avoided being hanged!
In 1547 the castle and mansion house were bought by the Seymour family who also settled in England after the Norman conquest. They too were a family of great wealth and social standing. Henry VIII, King of England married Jane Seymour. Also the boy Prince Edward VI was guarded by his uncle Edward Seymour until he came of age and inherited the throne.

After taking over the castle the Seymours embarked on a huge building project to transform it into one of the finest mansions in the south west of England. The entire mansion, uncompleted, was abandoned between 1688 and 1701 when the Seymours made their estate in Wiltshire their main home. After this time the castle and fine buildings were used by local folk who reclaimed building materials and by 1800 the entire site became a place where passers-by marvelled at the ruins and folklore stories abounded.

The castle and mansions that were built on the site were places of great activity and the lives of those families who resided there were varied indeed. The castle saw 19 generations of Pomeroys and 6 generations of Seymours… is it any wonder that the colourful lives of those who lived there were imprinted on the castle both physically, in legend and also in the spiritual realm?

First broadcast : 12th March 2005