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In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 30, 2026
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Ghostwatch — GhostwatchBtC / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghostwatch — GhostwatchBtC / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

On Halloween night in 1992, BBC1 broadcast what looked like a live investigation of a haunted house in a London suburb, with Michael Parkinson anchoring from the studio and Sarah Greene reporting from the family's living room. Ghostwatch was scripted drama, recorded weeks earlier, but it used…

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