17 January 2022
‘Ghostwatch’: When the BBC Terrified the Nation with a (Fake) Haunted House Documentary
On Halloween night in 1992, the BBC aired what would become one of the most controversial programmes in the broadcaster’s history. Ghostwatch, presented as a live broadcast, followed the Early family and the horrors they experienced living in what was pitched as one of the most haunted houses in the country. And luckily for the BBC an array of paranormal...