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Blackleaf

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It's won't be as good as Most Haunted, which has just returned after a three year absence (online at the moment but director and one of the stars, Karl Beattie, is currently scouting haunted locations for a new TV series of the show).
 

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It's won't be as good as Most Haunted, which has just returned after a three year absence (online at the moment but director and one of the stars, Karl Beattie, is currently scouting haunted locations for a new TV series of the show).
there are people from that show that said it was a hoax.
 

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there are people from that show that said it was a hoax.


The ghosts aren't a hoax. Just some of the mediums like Derek Acorah.

In 2005, the Most Haunted team went to do a 24 hour investigation at Bodmin Moor Gaol in Cornwall. The gaol was open from 1779 to 1927 and is now largely creepy ruins.

Acorah, who was the show's first medium since it started in 2002 (and a former footballer who played for Liverpool under legendary manager Bill Shankly), had a history of being supposedly possessed by spirits that he and the Most Haunted team encountered on their many locations.



Whilst filming with the team at Bodmin Moor Gaol he became possesed by the spirit of a long-dead 18th Century South African gaoler named Kreed Kafer and by another spirit Rik Eedles. Acorah put on a good act, putting on the dead men's mannerisms and even doing their accents whilst the team and the film crew looked on.

However, the show's resident parasychologist, Ciaran O'Keeffe, later revealed in the Daily Mirror that Kreed Kafer and Rik Eedles were anagrams of 'Derek Faker' and 'Derek Lies'! Even though O' Keeffe exposed Acorah, the paper also claimed that O'Keeffe had exposed the rest of the Most Haunted team. O'Keeffe later reported that he had been grossly misquoted and misrepresented in the article, and produced a response outlining his version of the show based on his observations and findings, saying he had exposed Derek Acorah and not the entirety of Most Haunted. The show's presenter, Yvette Fielding, said in an interview that she believes it was a fake possession.

Kreed Kafer - YouTube

Further controversy centred on Derek Acorah again in the West Country, this time in Devon. On the first night filming "Terror in Torbay", Acorah mentioned a woman incarcerated by her jealous sister in the cellar of Lupton House, even coming up with the names Margaret and Eleanor. In this case, the facts were right, but the location was wrong. This is the well-known legend of Berry Pomeroy Castle which was to be the last night's location. On the final night, at Berry Pomeroy, Fielding reminded Acorah that he had mentioned the incarcerated sister two nights prior. Acorah glossed over his mistake and changed the subject.

I think eventually Derek was sacked by Fielding (presenter and ghost hunter) and Beattie (Yvette's husband, the director, one of the ghost hunters, and the only living samurai outside Japan), and the mediums they have had since, most notably David Wells, have been genuinely impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfrQv42EqM&feature=player_detailpage
 
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