Playing gta and hearing 'gloryhole' in that context was so confusing as it was where the washing machine lived in the my parent's house. many many years later the penny dropped....
@@trinidaitobago2hey rhe teeth part isnt fair, the Tories literally closed most of our dentists over the last decade, including private ones. Our healthcare situation is so bad even American private companies are struggle to expand here (except for ambulances, that IT Crowd joke came true theres at least 1 private ambulance company per county its nuts, and theyre so bad theyve made the news and even our old Conservative government intervened and dismantled one)
@@trinidaitobago2 I agree about the tea. Though I would suggest that artificially bleaching your teach so they are paper white or filing them into stumps and putting veneers on them, Is not actually what healthy teeth look like. Ironically, their teeth are healthier than most, even when though they might not look as visually appealing.
I was 9 when my brothers and I watched it. I couldn't sleep all night because I kept expecting Pipes to appear at the window. I heard that a reason most people thought it was real was because ITV was playing a movie that finished after GhostWatch had started and would have missed the continuity announcer stating it was fiction.
It was a sportsball game that went into overtime. I think one of the teams had a chance to go up a league or something so people were pretty locked in until the end and would have missed the first 5 minutes. I saw ghostwatch "live" and to this day can't remember the announcement being played before it but the copy I have that was taken from a VCR recording definitely has it on there.
It was definitely a film - it finished at 9.30 and Ghostwatch started at 9.25 (whyyyy?) so a lot of people switched over straight afterwards and missed the continuity announcement about it being a drama. I was 13 at the time and should have known better, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise it wasn't real.
So was I. And now, at 41, I wonder: why did my parents let me watch it? I have 10 year olds now and would've changed the channel if I was a parent then 😂 Even though its clearly fake with hindsight
@@louisebeilby9244 firstly why have you put 4 ys in why? Secondly you are wrong. ITV were showing the film Wall Street, which started at 9:05pm. Wall Street finished after Ghostwatch so it can't even be that people turned over after the end of Wall Street and were scared/confused by the end of Ghostwatch.
I was in my early teens at the time, and watching TV at my neighbour's house after trick or treating. They put this on, but we missed the announcement at the beginning that said it was a film. So we watched believing it was real. I remember getting very discomforted, and then we got quite scared when the scratches appeared, and that's when I went home. Those 2 kids were truly talented. So sad that young man took his life
They scheduled it slightly earlier than usual so that most people switched over 5 mins in and missed the warning at the start. The “warning” is fairly ambiguous and many people went in thinking it was real - and not just kids, many adults really believed it too, my mates mum firmly believed it was real all week until she saw Parky back on Tv the following Saturday!!
Remember watching this live as an 11 year old and in 1992 with no internet to desensitise everyone against this kind of thing it was actually quite scary.
Im a Gen Z and as a kid even when knowing a movie is a fictional horror it will still mess me up. Had I been around for Ghost Watch Id have been traumatised for life lol
I knew that the film was fake way before I saw it, but it managed to affect me in a way that no mockumentary has managed to do before just by playing it straight with brilliant framing and heading face first into the realism of the situation (as real as ghost stories can be but whatever)
Same here. I watched it on DVD around a decade or so later (missed it on the actual night). I knew full well it was complete fake but it still managed to scare the heck out of me. It was very well done for the time.
I was 15 when it was aired and it scared the shit out of me. I've refused to watch it again since because I want to retain that legacy in my memory, but maybe I should give it another go now, 32 years later.
I was 10 when I saw this, when it was broadcast. It didn't scare me at all, I found most of it quite funny, but that's probably because I had worked out it wasn't real.
Wait, what is this? 'Inside No.9's Deadline'? Ghostwatch was 100% the first Analogue Horror, how incredibly planned were those glimpses of the presence that don't reappear when replayed after home audiences phone in!
The fact that parents allowed their kids to watch something that was clearly not for kids, and then blamed the BBC, is ridiculous. Parents - do your job and parent your kids.
@@datcheesecakeboi6745yes, I am well aware of that. But people actually did let their kids watch the film and then complained that their kids got scared. It's literally talked about in this video.
I remember my mum being in tears over this calling my aunt just blubbing down the phone. This was ALL over the news the next day, people were literally having heart attacks over it. People need to remember that this was before the internet, there was still a fear of the unknown and people were still deeply spiritual. This was the early 90's version of the Exorcist.
I was 15 when this was broadcast, and the second "Mr Pipe" appearance by the bedroom curtains still remains one of the most genuinely terrifying things I've ever seen on TV!!! It still pops up in my head now! I wasn't aware of someone taking their own life because of it- that is awful...
7 going on 8 years old at the time, just got back from Blackpool pleasure beach with the family, all of us in costumes at my grandparents house, us kids eating our sugar and the adults drinking, my grandad put it this on in the living room, most of us not paying attention to it (he knew full well what it was thanks to the tv guide), halfway through you could of heard a pin drop as most of us were engrossed and believing it to be real, my younger siblings and cousin in tears, me in absolute awe of spirits being real. Hand to god we were all on the literal edges of our seats, then the cheesy ending made us realise what had just happened, the BBC got us, just the once but they got us. You sir just brought back some treasured memories, thank you.
@@SamuelBlack84 remember the days of I Clavdivs, of when the boat comes in, of excellent documentaries, relevant current affairs programmes, history....I could weep
@@TheBuccaneerIsHot really?? never thought of that.. interesting i always thought of him being so shocked he can't even express correctly... as someone casually walking like "im ok" after a bomb really hurted them (?)
Genuinely the best video you've made yet Reuben, incredible stuff. Gripping, entertaining and informative. Not a fan of horror personally but I really REALLY loved this video. The script was perfect and the editing is even better than usual. Feels like a Tom Scott video mixed with storytelling and genuine suspense. Great work mate
I was too young to go to the local rave, so we watched this instead. Were it not for some of the acting, we would've thought it was real. I shat m'sen regardless. Best thing on tele ever.
I've always put off doing a Ghostwatch video as the idea has been done before many times, but this video goes way more in depth and is more interesting and entertaining than every other video on the topic. Well dome Reuben :)
I’ve only ever seen it through clips through videos like this, but whenever someone says something along the lines of ‘it’s just pipes’ I do immediately think back to this
I like how you start by saying "This isn't very scary" and then go on to show through editing why it absolutely terrified people at the time. It's a clever sleight of hand.
Absolutely love when the UA-cam algorithm dishes me up videos like this! Inside No 9 deserves so much more praise, and you nailed how this series affected our country 😂
I was 10 years old when this aired. I was staying at my dads house and we were just watching whatever saturday night TV was. Obviously it was Halloween themed, with a Halloween special of Beadles About. My dad switched over to BBC where this had already started, meaning we missed the "this is all fake" message at the start. Not that it would have mattered to me. It was still scary as shit. It started off pretty tame, but when all the demonic voices and banging started, that's when I really got scared. Even though I was shitting myself and covering my ears to the noises, I refused to just go to bed. Anyway, after this I was too scared to stay at my dads house for at least a year or two. Back in 2010 I managed to get hold of Ghostwatch on DVD. Even though it had been 18 year, watching it again still kind of freaked me out.
When the so called ghost invaded the studio i remember shouting to my dad "turn it off or it will come through our tv" and he looked at me terrified and turned it off haha It scared us both to death....
I watched this live, I was 16, alone in the house as my parents were out. Wasn't sure about it at first, but gradually, because of the girls ropey acting, it started to give it away. It was still quite creepy. I must of missed the beginning annoucement.
So, a kinda funny story! I was born on this very Halloween in 1992, and every single year my Mum reminds me that I was a "selfish idiot" for being born when I was because she'd been anticipating this broadcast for MONTHS, apparently It was heavily advertised and bigged up, and my premature birth (I was supposed to be born on the 5th of December 1992) caused her to miss the show. She''s never gonna let me forget it haha, so I'm, utterly thrilled to see a youtube video about this! I'm gonna send this to Mum! What I didn't know was the aftermath of the poor fellow who took his own life, utterly tragic. A lesson for everyone in intended media comprehension and how we must take everyone into account when we put media out there. Thank you for this video, start to finish, brilliantly produced.
You missed some aspects of this story, Mike Smith was married to Sarah Greene in real life so he went from concern about her safety to out and out panic as the show progressed. Also there was another house on Fox Hill Drive before the modern building had been built. The previous house had belonged to a notorious Victorian baby farmer and murderess Mrs Seddons. She would take in unwanted babies, murder them and continue collecting a fee for their care. She was caught and hanged but continued haunting the site of her home, eventually possessing the wicked Mr Tunstall and driving him to commit further crimes. This is why Tunstall dressed as a Victorian woman. It was deeper lore like this that sucked people in.
All I saw was a shameless pastiche of the Enfield Poltergeist incident from the late 1970s, which in itself was almost certainly fake nonsense and a prank by two disturbed young girls who had been through recent domestic upheaval by their father moving out.
this show absolutely traumatised me. I was exactly the wrong age when this was broadcast and couldn't tell the difference between reality and fiction. I really clearly remember arguing with kids at school who said it was fake and I was sure it was real. One of the kids was pretty clever and said that he had seen at the end credits that it said 'written by' so it had to be fake. But I remember not everyone was convinced by that argument. It seems so mad that there was a generation of children in the UK that saw something like this and never really got any closure that it wasn't real. I still feel a really deep dread looking at the images from it. And sometimes when I'm on my own in my flat and hear a noise if I accidently think that it might be pipes I become really irrationally scared. Very tragic what all happened and I can attest to how unearthly terrifying it was to watch this and think it was real. But also really amazing work by the creators. It really is amazingly crafted and I don't think they can be held accountable at all for the problems it caused. I really think it is a brilliant and terrifying piece of horror.
one thing you missed mentioning is how the BBC thought that if people thought it was real it would cause mass panic, so in every piece of advertisement they made sure to say that it was just a story.
I don't think I saw the original broadcast, I was a bit of a wuss in my early teens, but I did see it quite a few years later and it was genuinely convincing and I can definitely see how it would have worked on the public. Such a shame the BBC don't try edgy stuff like this anymore. Excellent video!
Certain parts of this still gives me goosebumps. I was 19 at the time, living in student digs. We didnt know it was a drama and was frightening, hard to believe now but millions were!
I remember my 10 year old self watching this, and afterwards my mum telling my dad off for letting me watch it when I didn't want to be alone in my bedroom.
I watched this recently, knowing full well what it was and how it ended, and it still had me on edge the whole time. I can’t imagine how scared other people must have been in the 90s without being able to turn to the internet afterwards to discuss it with other people and find out if it was real or fake.
I was 19 when I saw it. Too old to be properly scared, but it was slightly chilling. It was really well done though, and the use of 'false jumps' (Lister in the monkey mask etc) meant that when the denouement came with Sara Greene doing her 'Poltergeist' heroine thing, and Parky being befuddled in the studio, it was pretty effective. It obviously made use of the trust you had in the stalwarts. The BBC did some other things like this - I think there was an 'underground fighting circuit' one, presaging 'Fight Club' by a decade or so. Can't remember what it was called.
I mean the entertainment value of Olympic ceremonies is so low its ocean floor level. The whole thing is a way for politicians to take cuts and get private kickbacks while shifting the cost to taxpayers, most countries hosting it get years of debt out of it even after all the ticket and merch sales
As a 12 year old I thought this was real but as an adult it seems so ridiculous. I’d even previously read ‘This House is Haunted’, the story of the Enfield Poltergeist, a year before but didn’t connect how obviously similar this programme was to that case.
I was only a little kid at the time but even I worked out it wasn't real by the end. That grown adults were stupid enough to fall for it is eye rolling. No wonder they got so upset afterwards that it highlighted their stupidity so much.
Maybe if even a fraction of people were as astute, intelligent and wise as you were even at a very young age, then perhaps the world wouldn't be in such an awful mess as it is now.
@@SamuelBlack84I mean, being in the military doesnt mean you're not afraid of anything, especially not something as subjective and belief-based as ghosts. (If anything, It might make you more afraid of that, PTSD and such).
i love ghostwatch, it was a genius idea then and it's still a genius idea now. let alone the execution. i'd go so far to say that this does an even better job than the blair witch project, just due to the fact that, unlike blair witch, i think it's aged really well. i watched it with my parents when i was about 12 and it terrified me. it's a shame that this kinda thing can't really be done to this effect again. although, come to think, inside no. 9's deadline does a similar thing, and that is also really well executed.
Was a student when I watched it, living in a shared house, nobody noticed the announcement or Screen One logo preceding the broadcast so we were sucked in. Hadn't made plans to do anything after but when it finished I invited myself to a party some of my housemates were going to because it was extremely disturbing.
Hi🙂, Thank you for covering this x I saw this with my father when I was 10/11yo and it Really did frighten me, I would even go as far as saying it traumatized me fr about two years intensively, and even longer, it was a different time, even my father thought it was real, up until the very end (in the studio), it really did have an impact on me❤ x🇬🇧x
I was 7 years old, and it was back when halloween was an actual holiday, an event. everyone around us watched it, everyone only had like 4 channels at the time, so you could walk out to your garden, see a neighbor and say "did you just see that..." and odds were, they were watching it too. But for me, while the hustle and bustle of halloween was going on around us in the street, while my parents were outside in the garden talking to the neighbours, I was watching what I thought was the news, or just Live TV of whatever was happening around us. I was raised on horror, Evil dead was my dads favourite movie, my parents used to tell scary stories by candlelight when we ran out of electric and all had to sleep downstairs, so I knew what horror was, even at 7, i could laugh along at the "swallow your soul" bit in Evil Dead, Poltergeist 2 was my favourite movie back then, but nothing that night was anything like a horror movie, or horror story, as far as I was concerned, this was real. And I don't remember much of the show, just snippets of images and memories of thoughts, but I do remember the absolute panic when I seen the thermal camera and the noise of cats, when it went from an investigation to a real physical threat, they'd opened pandoras box and everyone calling in saying it was happening to them, neighbors out in their gardens talking about it, for a 7 year old, this was the apocalypse, this was the end. At 7 years old, I thought they'd done something absolutely terrible, along the lines of "that's it, they've poked the bear and now all the evil spirits in the world will come out and do what they want" I'd never really been scared of anything up to that point, but it took my dad and mum all night to convince me that it wasn't real, it was just like the movies, it was just done to look like it was real and happening now. I'm convinced now that any kid who was alive and consciously remembers it, remembers it the same way. this was something that had never been done before, something new, and at the time, something terrifying. And even at almost 40 now, I still get shudders up the spine when I hear the cats.
Gawd I remember this airing. I was 6 and for some insane reason (probably exhaustion, my brother had recently been born) I got to watch it and I love it. It kicked off my love of horror tbh
I was 13 when i watched this live and alone in my bedroom. The second time when we caught a glimpse of Mr Pipes in the curtains is still the most effect scare i've ever had.
I did a report on this show a few years back at school and it moved me in a way I didn’t expect. I had many sleepless nights because of the kind of traumatising mockumentary, and because I think I spent way too long working on it. Seeing this brought back so many memories, mainly good ones thankfully!
The director calls this a cautionary tale that you shouldn't trust everything you see on TV. Sure enough, folks call in upset that the program they watched wasn't trustworthy. And media literacy has only nose dived since then.
When I watched this, the battery died on my DVD player just as Sarah got sucked into the cupboard. I thought the black screen was part of the show for a good two minutes. Then I had to scrabble in the dark for the charge cord.
@@kleptrep94 Very debateable but he was certainly very well known for it (and as a poet) in 1992 (as the video even says), so yes, he very much did exist before Robot Wars and Takeshi's Castle.
When this program was on the air, something weird happened which even to this day I've never been able to explain. Me and my parents were watching this program and we had a light on top of the television set. But at the scene where all hell breaks loose (12:23) in the studio, for a split second that light "flickered." Now I noticed it, but I thought "did that light just flicker?" and my dad confirmed it and said "Yes David, that light did flicker." Like I said earlier, to this day. I've never been able to explain how that happened.
Pipes is one creepy dude! When the camera pans round the bedroom and hes in the curtains and the rush back and hes gone...fake or not, thats scary shiz!
I was an irish teen who moved to the UK. I recognised the actress playing the children's mother, Cusack i think was her name. She wasnt at that time known in the UK.
I was 10 when this aired, and was at a Halloween party. We had just watched A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 right before this. I remember it was freaky, but it didn't stop me from sleeping.
It was the cats crying under the stairs that did it for me 😬🐈🐈🐈 A few years before GhostWatch aired, one of our cats had somehow squeezed herself through a small secret hole in the airing cupboard and became trapped in the wall between my bedroom and my parents bedroom. I heard her crying during the night and alerted my parents who located her cries to the wall and managed to coax her out of the hole. It frightened me to hear a cat wailing from inside the wall in the dead of night, I was only eight at the time. Then hearing the cats screech on GhostWatch at the age of eleven was enough to trigger that fright all over again 😬😬😅
I remember seeing this as a kid, and believing it - there was a bit later on in it, after a load of banging and stuff, I think the bit that sucked me in, where the girl say's to the 'camera crew': 'you got what you wanted didn't you...', and she acted it so well. Like she was angry and upset that they were exploited! When you're a kid you don't pick up on the obvious acting parts - but there was a lot of emphasis on the trick of everyone involved being completely genuine. The fact that they used parkinson says it all. He was a trusted face!
As a kid I was petrified on the night this Was broadcasted as I lived in a house that was plagued by poltergeist activity I have never forgot til this day
I remember watching the show with Sarah Green, although I didn't think it was a Saturday program. I confess that I was completely suckered by the whole show. It was fantastic tv but I can't believe I was that naive and gullible.
This was brilliantly executed and yeah, loads of people were pulled into it believing it was an actually investigation. I remember the Paul Daniels Halloween special and I think it was more scary than this one tbh but it might have been because I was younger then?
The best mockumentary ever was "Alternative 3". Supposed to be an elaborate April Fools it was aired on another day in 1977. I was 15, it kind of got me for a while but they cast Shane Rimmer. As a big UFO fan I remember thinking, this is a prank. It was so good though, a real classic. It used to be on YT in entirety. The sound track written by Brian Emo was even released as an album?
I watched it at 12 and even though I knew it was a spoof by the end there was so much fear in me that I lay in bed petrified. It started my philosophical thought as I reasoned that the terror was still residing in me even though I had seen what was behind the curtain.
my mother showed me this when i was 5 (so 2004) and i loved it she told me after that it was all fake and the reactions of people at the time she had recorded it the night it went live. im 25 now and i still watch it every year.
Watched this again recently. Still holds up. Parts of it do feel a bit stagey, and you wonder - in hindsight anyway - how anyone could be fooled by it. But so what? It’s good drama and has a really palpable sense of building dread. Just something fun, and cool.
I'll be eternally grateful that my patents didn't let single-digits-old me watch this at that age! Even though it was in the TV Guide with a 'cast' list, which meant mum and dad clocked on that it was a horror show - mum and dad clocked on that it was a horror, and so I should not be watching it. They kinda dropped the ball on Child's Play though. But anyway, the comment about news on TV being shown at an angle reminded me of my family's brush with the apocalypse - Channel 5 was showing 'Without Warning' one Saturday afternoon, there were no ad breaks with the name of the show (which we couldn't see was a movie at the time as we didn't have that week's TV guide), and we called my aunt as the meteor came closer... confused as to why no other channel was reporting on it... 😅😂 I credit that moment with having tons of love in my heart for relatives far and wide, and even those I live with. Check that out! But anyway, Ghostwatch is 27 years old and a GOAT precursor to Late Night With The Devil. Brilliant!
I still remember watching this as a young kid in 1992 and was so creeped out I struggled to sleep for the night. I do have to hand it to the BBC for at least reminding everyone that it was all fake, compared to a good few shows/content producers that are still pumping out material without disclaimers or editing out the disclaimers for reuploads. Also considering Ghostwatch is from 1992, it was a pretty good cheesy horror movie for its time in my opinion.
Headphones and a dark room recommended.
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I am NOT doing that 😭🙏
That’s how I first listened to Dark Side Of The Moon, Tubular Bells and War Of The Worlds. Dark room and headphones.
I'm so immature... I laughed so hard at her saying "the gloryhole is what we used to call it as a kid."
and Im even MORE immature... I just laughed when I checked back on this comment and it had exactly 69 likes
Playing gta and hearing 'gloryhole' in that context was so confusing as it was where the washing machine lived in the my parent's house. many many years later the penny dropped....
To be honest, it's not that difficult to traumatize someone from the UK. You just need to throw tea into the sea and show how healthy teeth really are
@@trinidaitobago2hey rhe teeth part isnt fair, the Tories literally closed most of our dentists over the last decade, including private ones. Our healthcare situation is so bad even American private companies are struggle to expand here (except for ambulances, that IT Crowd joke came true theres at least 1 private ambulance company per county its nuts, and theyre so bad theyve made the news and even our old Conservative government intervened and dismantled one)
@@trinidaitobago2 I agree about the tea.
Though I would suggest that artificially bleaching your teach so they are paper white or filing them into stumps and putting veneers on them, Is not actually what healthy teeth look like. Ironically, their teeth are healthier than most, even when though they might not look as visually appealing.
"It was shot in summer"
Oh those poor people on the street wearing those heavy jackets
it’s the uk so summer is still cold
its rlly not @@christocrippin
Being English I can’t cope above 20 degrees in the uk so I’d be dying still
Doesn't matter what we wear, we'd still complain about the weather no matter what
@@christocrippindo you live in the most northern part of Scotland then?
It gets pretty warm in the rest of the country.
I was 9 when my brothers and I watched it. I couldn't sleep all night because I kept expecting Pipes to appear at the window.
I heard that a reason most people thought it was real was because ITV was playing a movie that finished after GhostWatch had started and would have missed the continuity announcer stating it was fiction.
It was a sportsball game that went into overtime. I think one of the teams had a chance to go up a league or something so people were pretty locked in until the end and would have missed the first 5 minutes. I saw ghostwatch "live" and to this day can't remember the announcement being played before it but the copy I have that was taken from a VCR recording definitely has it on there.
It was definitely a film - it finished at 9.30 and Ghostwatch started at 9.25 (whyyyy?) so a lot of people switched over straight afterwards and missed the continuity announcement about it being a drama. I was 13 at the time and should have known better, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise it wasn't real.
So was I. And now, at 41, I wonder: why did my parents let me watch it? I have 10 year olds now and would've changed the channel if I was a parent then 😂
Even though its clearly fake with hindsight
@@incredibleflameboy when did you move from America to the UK?
@@louisebeilby9244 firstly why have you put 4 ys in why?
Secondly you are wrong. ITV were showing the film Wall Street, which started at 9:05pm. Wall Street finished after Ghostwatch so it can't even be that people turned over after the end of Wall Street and were scared/confused by the end of Ghostwatch.
I was in my early teens at the time, and watching TV at my neighbour's house after trick or treating. They put this on, but we missed the announcement at the beginning that said it was a film. So we watched believing it was real.
I remember getting very discomforted, and then we got quite scared when the scratches appeared, and that's when I went home. Those 2 kids were truly talented.
So sad that young man took his life
Yeah, I was the same age… the scratches did it for me too.
They scheduled it slightly earlier than usual so that most people switched over 5 mins in and missed the warning at the start. The “warning” is fairly ambiguous and many people went in thinking it was real - and not just kids, many adults really believed it too, my mates mum firmly believed it was real all week until she saw Parky back on Tv the following Saturday!!
He's an idiot for what he did. Period.
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@DorisDay-lw4xs the suicide report is in the video
Remember watching this live as an 11 year old and in 1992 with no internet to desensitise everyone against this kind of thing it was actually quite scary.
Same, I was 12 and watched it at a friend’s house while all our parents were out at the pub. Think my younger brother started crying at one point 😂
Im a Gen Z and as a kid even when knowing a movie is a fictional horror it will still mess me up. Had I been around for Ghost Watch Id have been traumatised for life lol
Youd need to be stupid to believe this,coz its rrrubbish!
I knew that the film was fake way before I saw it, but it managed to affect me in a way that no mockumentary has managed to do before just by playing it straight with brilliant framing and heading face first into the realism of the situation (as real as ghost stories can be but whatever)
Same here. I watched it on DVD around a decade or so later (missed it on the actual night). I knew full well it was complete fake but it still managed to scare the heck out of me. It was very well done for the time.
you should check out Savageland
Same. Jaded American, but danged if it doesn't look fantastic.
How did a youtuber that i regularly comment on end up commenting on a youtuber that i regularly comment on
@@jonny_maxwell Wandering comments y’know. The section works in mysterious ways
I honestly think, had I been anywhere near alive at the time, this would have ruined me if I had seen it.
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The BBC stopped producing interesting programmes after Ghostwatch because they were afraid of scaring people. How depressing.
I was 15 when it was aired and it scared the shit out of me. I've refused to watch it again since because I want to retain that legacy in my memory, but maybe I should give it another go now, 32 years later.
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I was 10 when I saw this, when it was broadcast. It didn't scare me at all, I found most of it quite funny, but that's probably because I had worked out it wasn't real.
easily one of my favourite concepts, i just love ghostwatch and inside no. 9's deadline so much.
I consider them one and the same, amazing event television. The closest we ever got in the US was Alan Resnick’s live show on Adult Swim
Wait, what is this? 'Inside No.9's Deadline'?
Ghostwatch was 100% the first Analogue Horror, how incredibly planned were those glimpses of the presence that don't reappear when replayed after home audiences phone in!
@@BollywoodBonanzaBnumbra nine is so awesome sauceome youve got to watch deadline
The fact that parents allowed their kids to watch something that was clearly not for kids, and then blamed the BBC, is ridiculous. Parents - do your job and parent your kids.
the call ins were all fake you couldnt actually call in
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 People wrote to the BBC and newspapers after the broadcast though.
@@datcheesecakeboi6745yes, I am well aware of that. But people actually did let their kids watch the film and then complained that their kids got scared. It's literally talked about in this video.
"clearly not for kids" .... with childrens presenters.
You're forgetting the BBC was a bastion of trust.
Hallowe’en is basically for children and who would imagine the bbc would go that far.
Watching random ads on tv at night while eating crumpets and hot chocolate because you can't sleep is a british experiance like no other.
I remember my mum being in tears over this calling my aunt just blubbing down the phone. This was ALL over the news the next day, people were literally having heart attacks over it. People need to remember that this was before the internet, there was still a fear of the unknown and people were still deeply spiritual. This was the early 90's version of the Exorcist.
BBC was 30 years ahead of Analog Horror lmao
I was 15 when this was broadcast, and the second "Mr Pipe" appearance by the bedroom curtains still remains one of the most genuinely terrifying things I've ever seen on TV!!! It still pops up in my head now! I wasn't aware of someone taking their own life because of it- that is awful...
What ? Someone killed themselves because of this ' I didn't know that
@@MultiMikey81did you watch the video??
@@dekunt6549 yes I saw it at the end ' I wasn't up to that bit obviously when I commented
7 going on 8 years old at the time, just got back from Blackpool pleasure beach with the family, all of us in costumes at my grandparents house, us kids eating our sugar and the adults drinking, my grandad put it this on in the living room, most of us not paying attention to it (he knew full well what it was thanks to the tv guide), halfway through you could of heard a pin drop as most of us were engrossed and believing it to be real, my younger siblings and cousin in tears, me in absolute awe of spirits being real.
Hand to god we were all on the literal edges of our seats, then the cheesy ending made us realise what had just happened, the BBC got us, just the once but they got us.
You sir just brought back some treasured memories, thank you.
A real shame the BBC doesn't produce good TV like this any longer
All we get now is I'm a celebrity, love island and strictly...
@@SamuelBlack84the bbc only makes one of those shows
@@EXFrost I've yet to find something even vaguely watchable on any channel
@@SamuelBlack84 remember the days of I Clavdivs, of when the boat comes in, of excellent documentaries, relevant current affairs programmes, history....I could weep
Nostalgia hurts
12:40
how calm the host was in that part was the most frightening thing in my opinion lol
or it could just be Michael Parkinson's attempt at acting.
@@zanemurcha9742 whatever it was... it made the final product a better stuff
like non scripted lines or scenes that end up making the film even better
@@GaxMiuBeing the host, I'd assume he knows that it's staged
I think the point is that he was Pipes
@@TheBuccaneerIsHot really?? never thought of that.. interesting
i always thought of him being so shocked he can't even express correctly... as someone casually walking like "im ok" after a bomb really hurted them (?)
Genuinely the best video you've made yet Reuben, incredible stuff. Gripping, entertaining and informative. Not a fan of horror personally but I really REALLY loved this video. The script was perfect and the editing is even better than usual. Feels like a Tom Scott video mixed with storytelling and genuine suspense. Great work mate
Thank you so much man, means alot!!
would’ve given this video a 10/10 but i couldn’t open my bag of almonds so ill give it a 9/10
Yummers.
I was too young to go to the local rave, so we watched this instead. Were it not for some of the acting, we would've thought it was real. I shat m'sen regardless. Best thing on tele ever.
I've always put off doing a Ghostwatch video as the idea has been done before many times, but this video goes way more in depth and is more interesting and entertaining than every other video on the topic. Well dome Reuben :)
I’ve only ever seen it through clips through videos like this, but whenever someone says something along the lines of ‘it’s just pipes’ I do immediately think back to this
I like how you start by saying "This isn't very scary" and then go on to show through editing why it absolutely terrified people at the time. It's a clever sleight of hand.
I remember my brother saying "She's acting!" the minute the daughter opened her mouth.
Still a good concept, tough.
Absolutely love when the UA-cam algorithm dishes me up videos like this! Inside No 9 deserves so much more praise, and you nailed how this series affected our country 😂
I was 10 years old when this aired.
I was staying at my dads house and we were just watching whatever saturday night TV was.
Obviously it was Halloween themed, with a Halloween special of Beadles About.
My dad switched over to BBC where this had already started, meaning we missed the "this is all fake" message at the start. Not that it would have mattered to me. It was still scary as shit.
It started off pretty tame, but when all the demonic voices and banging started, that's when I really got scared.
Even though I was shitting myself and covering my ears to the noises, I refused to just go to bed.
Anyway, after this I was too scared to stay at my dads house for at least a year or two.
Back in 2010 I managed to get hold of Ghostwatch on DVD.
Even though it had been 18 year, watching it again still kind of freaked me out.
More than anything this highlighted how easily people on mass are manipulated into believing things that are not real....
When the so called ghost invaded the studio i remember shouting to my dad "turn it off or it will come through our tv" and he looked at me terrified and turned it off haha
It scared us both to death....
This absolutely terrified me as a kid, I still remember lying in my bed in the dark afterwards listening out for ghosts. brilliant show.
I remember it too. But unfortunately the BBC stopped making interesting programmes after Ghostwatch because of the criticism they got.
The real jumpscare came when Sky Ferreira started playing halfway through
Ikr? I suddenly went, I know you're trying 😂
I watched this live, I was 16, alone in the house as my parents were out. Wasn't sure about it at first, but gradually, because of the girls ropey acting, it started to give it away. It was still quite creepy. I must of missed the beginning annoucement.
So, a kinda funny story! I was born on this very Halloween in 1992, and every single year my Mum reminds me that I was a "selfish idiot" for being born when I was because she'd been anticipating this broadcast for MONTHS, apparently It was heavily advertised and bigged up, and my premature birth (I was supposed to be born on the 5th of December 1992) caused her to miss the show. She''s never gonna let me forget it haha, so I'm, utterly thrilled to see a youtube video about this! I'm gonna send this to Mum!
What I didn't know was the aftermath of the poor fellow who took his own life, utterly tragic. A lesson for everyone in intended media comprehension and how we must take everyone into account when we put media out there. Thank you for this video, start to finish, brilliantly produced.
You surname isn't Pipes is it? 😳
That track you used over the Enfield Poltergeist bit has always creeped me out. Great video!
Ending the video with everything is embarrassing playing and the thumbnail with the word embarrassing in it was a great detail.
You missed some aspects of this story, Mike Smith was married to Sarah Greene in real life so he went from concern about her safety to out and out panic as the show progressed.
Also there was another house on Fox Hill Drive before the modern building had been built. The previous house had belonged to a notorious Victorian baby farmer and murderess Mrs Seddons. She would take in unwanted babies, murder them and continue collecting a fee for their care. She was caught and hanged but continued haunting the site of her home, eventually possessing the wicked Mr Tunstall and driving him to commit further crimes. This is why Tunstall dressed as a Victorian woman.
It was deeper lore like this that sucked people in.
All I saw was a shameless pastiche of the Enfield Poltergeist incident from the late 1970s, which in itself was almost certainly fake nonsense and a prank by two disturbed young girls who had been through recent domestic upheaval by their father moving out.
this show absolutely traumatised me. I was exactly the wrong age when this was broadcast and couldn't tell the difference between reality and fiction. I really clearly remember arguing with kids at school who said it was fake and I was sure it was real. One of the kids was pretty clever and said that he had seen at the end credits that it said 'written by' so it had to be fake. But I remember not everyone was convinced by that argument. It seems so mad that there was a generation of children in the UK that saw something like this and never really got any closure that it wasn't real. I still feel a really deep dread looking at the images from it. And sometimes when I'm on my own in my flat and hear a noise if I accidently think that it might be pipes I become really irrationally scared. Very tragic what all happened and I can attest to how unearthly terrifying it was to watch this and think it was real. But also really amazing work by the creators. It really is amazingly crafted and I don't think they can be held accountable at all for the problems it caused. I really think it is a brilliant and terrifying piece of horror.
one thing you missed mentioning is how the BBC thought that if people thought it was real it would cause mass panic, so in every piece of advertisement they made sure to say that it was just a story.
I don't think I saw the original broadcast, I was a bit of a wuss in my early teens, but I did see it quite a few years later and it was genuinely convincing and I can definitely see how it would have worked on the public. Such a shame the BBC don't try edgy stuff like this anymore. Excellent video!
Fantastic presentation man, I love the subtle distortions and indicators of Pipes sightings. As if it's in the video itself
Certain parts of this still gives me goosebumps. I was 19 at the time, living in student digs. We didnt know it was a drama and was frightening, hard to believe now but millions were!
I remember my 10 year old self watching this, and afterwards my mum telling my dad off for letting me watch it when I didn't want to be alone in my bedroom.
Even as a teenager I found this programme terrifying 😱
I watched this recently, knowing full well what it was and how it ended, and it still had me on edge the whole time. I can’t imagine how scared other people must have been in the 90s without being able to turn to the internet afterwards to discuss it with other people and find out if it was real or fake.
I was 19 when I saw it. Too old to be properly scared, but it was slightly chilling. It was really well done though, and the use of 'false jumps' (Lister in the monkey mask etc) meant that when the denouement came with Sara Greene doing her 'Poltergeist' heroine thing, and Parky being befuddled in the studio, it was pretty effective. It obviously made use of the trust you had in the stalwarts.
The BBC did some other things like this - I think there was an 'underground fighting circuit' one, presaging 'Fight Club' by a decade or so. Can't remember what it was called.
This 16-minute video was much more interesting and entertaining than last night’s 4-hour Olympics ceremony.
not cool for France lmao
I mean the entertainment value of Olympic ceremonies is so low its ocean floor level.
The whole thing is a way for politicians to take cuts and get private kickbacks while shifting the cost to taxpayers, most countries hosting it get years of debt out of it even after all the ticket and merch sales
Both were uncalled for and scary
Anything was.
As a 12 year old I thought this was real but as an adult it seems so ridiculous.
I’d even previously read ‘This House is Haunted’, the story of the Enfield Poltergeist, a year before but didn’t connect how obviously similar this programme was to that case.
it "seems" ridiculous? 🤣🤣
Back then it wasn't ridiculous, nothing like this had ever been seen before.
I was only a little kid at the time but even I worked out it wasn't real by the end. That grown adults were stupid enough to fall for it is eye rolling. No wonder they got so upset afterwards that it highlighted their stupidity so much.
Maybe if even a fraction of people were as astute, intelligent and wise as you were even at a very young age, then perhaps the world wouldn't be in such an awful mess as it is now.
It rather infamously caused an ex-paratrooper to void his bowels
The idea that someone from the military was terrified of the idea of ghosts
@@SamuelBlack84I mean, being in the military doesnt mean you're not afraid of anything, especially not something as subjective and belief-based as ghosts. (If anything, It might make you more afraid of that, PTSD and such).
2:00 NOT REUBEN WITH THE WIFE BEATER 😭😭😭
He was staring into my soul
@o_ToRTuRe_o Touch grass 😊😊😊
@o_ToRTuRe_obro woke up and chose fatherlessness
Look at how you talk... Sort it out.
@@chefduke3719you're this generation's equivalent of people saying "'hey' is for horses" if you weren't aware
i love ghostwatch, it was a genius idea then and it's still a genius idea now. let alone the execution. i'd go so far to say that this does an even better job than the blair witch project, just due to the fact that, unlike blair witch, i think it's aged really well. i watched it with my parents when i was about 12 and it terrified me. it's a shame that this kinda thing can't really be done to this effect again. although, come to think, inside no. 9's deadline does a similar thing, and that is also really well executed.
Was a student when I watched it, living in a shared house, nobody noticed the announcement or Screen One logo preceding the broadcast so we were sucked in. Hadn't made plans to do anything after but when it finished I invited myself to a party some of my housemates were going to because it was extremely disturbing.
Hi🙂, Thank you for covering this x I saw this with my father when I was 10/11yo and it Really did frighten me, I would even go as far as saying it traumatized me fr about two years intensively, and even longer, it was a different time, even my father thought it was real, up until the very end (in the studio), it really did have an impact on me❤ x🇬🇧x
I was 7 years old, and it was back when halloween was an actual holiday, an event.
everyone around us watched it, everyone only had like 4 channels at the time, so you could walk out to your garden, see a neighbor and say "did you just see that..." and odds were, they were watching it too.
But for me, while the hustle and bustle of halloween was going on around us in the street, while my parents were outside in the garden talking to the neighbours, I was watching what I thought was the news, or just Live TV of whatever was happening around us.
I was raised on horror, Evil dead was my dads favourite movie, my parents used to tell scary stories by candlelight when we ran out of electric and all had to sleep downstairs, so I knew what horror was, even at 7, i could laugh along at the "swallow your soul" bit in Evil Dead, Poltergeist 2 was my favourite movie back then, but nothing that night was anything like a horror movie, or horror story, as far as I was concerned, this was real.
And I don't remember much of the show, just snippets of images and memories of thoughts, but I do remember the absolute panic when I seen the thermal camera and the noise of cats, when it went from an investigation to a real physical threat, they'd opened pandoras box and everyone calling in saying it was happening to them, neighbors out in their gardens talking about it, for a 7 year old, this was the apocalypse, this was the end.
At 7 years old, I thought they'd done something absolutely terrible, along the lines of "that's it, they've poked the bear and now all the evil spirits in the world will come out and do what they want"
I'd never really been scared of anything up to that point, but it took my dad and mum all night to convince me that it wasn't real, it was just like the movies, it was just done to look like it was real and happening now.
I'm convinced now that any kid who was alive and consciously remembers it, remembers it the same way.
this was something that had never been done before, something new, and at the time, something terrifying.
And even at almost 40 now, I still get shudders up the spine when I hear the cats.
Gawd I remember this airing. I was 6 and for some insane reason (probably exhaustion, my brother had recently been born) I got to watch it and I love it. It kicked off my love of horror tbh
I was 13 when i watched this live and alone in my bedroom. The second time when we caught a glimpse of Mr Pipes in the curtains is still the most effect scare i've ever had.
I did a report on this show a few years back at school and it moved me in a way I didn’t expect. I had many sleepless nights because of the kind of traumatising mockumentary, and because I think I spent way too long working on it. Seeing this brought back so many memories, mainly good ones thankfully!
Man, so glad I found your channel, love your videos, always so interesting.
RED DWARF MENTIONED 🗣📢‼️
I watched this with my mum , I was 7 and I haven't forgotten about it since.
The director calls this a cautionary tale that you shouldn't trust everything you see on TV. Sure enough, folks call in upset that the program they watched wasn't trustworthy. And media literacy has only nose dived since then.
When I watched this, the battery died on my DVD player just as Sarah got sucked into the cupboard. I thought the black screen was part of the show for a good two minutes. Then I had to scrabble in the dark for the charge cord.
1992 I was 17/18 and pretty amused by this when it aired. Decent horrors scared me to bits but this was just mildly interesting.
This is like insanely scary especially for a tv special like i do not blame people back in the day believing it considering just how well done it is
I swear I remember Inside A Mind covering this story as well but it left me with the desire of wanting to know more
The ‘mother’ of the house is an Irish actress. She’s done various parts here in Northern Ireland.
pipes traumatised me as a kid, i remember when this aired i couldn't get a wink of sleep for weeks
oh yeah Craig Charles did exist before Robot Wars and Takeshi's Castle.
Red Dwarf?
@@gunner678came for this comment and I never even liked red dwarf ya smeg
Yeah, Red Dwarf, only his longest-running and best known role, was at its peak in 1992.
@@djco5782 best known my foot, I know him as Robot Wars and Takeshi's Castle, your ma knows him from Coronation Street and Radio 2.
@@kleptrep94 Very debateable but he was certainly very well known for it (and as a poet) in 1992 (as the video even says), so yes, he very much did exist before Robot Wars and Takeshi's Castle.
When this program was on the air, something weird happened which even to this day I've never been able to explain. Me and my parents were watching this program and we had a light on top of the television set. But at the scene where all hell breaks loose (12:23) in the studio, for a split second that light "flickered." Now I noticed it, but I thought "did that light just flicker?" and my dad confirmed it and said "Yes David, that light did flicker." Like I said earlier, to this day. I've never been able to explain how that happened.
Pipes is one creepy dude! When the camera pans round the bedroom and hes in the curtains and the rush back and hes gone...fake or not, thats scary shiz!
I was an irish teen who moved to the UK. I recognised the actress playing the children's mother, Cusack i think was her name. She wasnt at that time known in the UK.
I was 10 when this aired, and was at a Halloween party.
We had just watched A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 right before this.
I remember it was freaky, but it didn't stop me from sleeping.
Damn right it traumatised me.
The good old days.
It was the cats crying under the stairs that did it for me 😬🐈🐈🐈
A few years before GhostWatch aired, one of our cats had somehow squeezed herself through a small secret hole in the airing cupboard and became trapped in the wall between my bedroom and my parents bedroom. I heard her crying during the night and alerted my parents who located her cries to the wall and managed to coax her out of the hole. It frightened me to hear a cat wailing from inside the wall in the dead of night, I was only eight at the time. Then hearing the cats screech on GhostWatch at the age of eleven was enough to trigger that fright all over again 😬😬😅
Heh I was 12 when this broadcast, it had my mum so wound up she had, I shit you not, the family praying in a circle around the TV
I remember this and can confirm it shit us all up as kids
I still remember that cold eerie night when it was aired...
Absolutely brilliant, gave me nightmares. Remember it to this day.
wasn’t expecting sky Ferreira to be the sound track of a man being eaten by his cats but here we are
I remember seeing this as a kid, and believing it - there was a bit later on in it, after a load of banging and stuff, I think the bit that sucked me in, where the girl say's to the 'camera crew': 'you got what you wanted didn't you...', and she acted it so well. Like she was angry and upset that they were exploited!
When you're a kid you don't pick up on the obvious acting parts - but there was a lot of emphasis on the trick of everyone involved being completely genuine.
The fact that they used parkinson says it all. He was a trusted face!
This actually fucked me up as a kid. Pretty sure just watching this has brought back some repressed trauma 😅
As a kid I was petrified on the night this Was broadcasted as I lived in a house that was plagued by poltergeist activity I have never forgot til this day
I remember watching the show with Sarah Green, although I didn't think it was a Saturday program. I confess that I was completely suckered by the whole show. It was fantastic tv but I can't believe I was that naive and gullible.
Even now, watching the footage from the show. It still makes the hair on my neck stand up. When I first watched it I was 21 and it was terrifying.
This was brilliantly executed and yeah, loads of people were pulled into it believing it was an actually investigation. I remember the Paul Daniels Halloween special and I think it was more scary than this one tbh but it might have been because I was younger then?
Ghostwatch was 1992 and Paul Daniels halloween show was 1987, so definitely younger. Both were scary. I thought Paul Daniels had died live on air.
14:50 lol I love doctor who, pretty sure pigs were experiments in the ufo crash.
The best mockumentary ever was "Alternative 3". Supposed to be an elaborate April Fools it was aired on another day in 1977. I was 15, it kind of got me for a while but they cast Shane Rimmer. As a big UFO fan I remember thinking, this is a prank. It was so good though, a real classic. It used to be on YT in entirety. The sound track written by Brian Emo was even released as an album?
I watched it at 12 and even though I knew it was a spoof by the end there was so much fear in me that I lay in bed petrified. It started my philosophical thought as I reasoned that the terror was still residing in me even though I had seen what was behind the curtain.
my mother showed me this when i was 5 (so 2004) and i loved it she told me after that it was all fake and the reactions of people at the time she had recorded it the night it went live. im 25 now and i still watch it every year.
Watched this again recently. Still holds up. Parts of it do feel a bit stagey, and you wonder - in hindsight anyway - how anyone could be fooled by it. But so what? It’s good drama and has a really palpable sense of building dread. Just something fun, and cool.
I was 10 and still recall the sleepless nights after this. Used to hide under the covers reading the Beano with a torch until I fell asleep
still haunts me all these years later. pipes! I can't unsee it. [Edit: where can I watch it again and scare the bojangles out of old me]
I'll be eternally grateful that my patents didn't let single-digits-old me watch this at that age! Even though it was in the TV Guide with a 'cast' list, which meant mum and dad clocked on that it was a horror show - mum and dad clocked on that it was a horror, and so I should not be watching it. They kinda dropped the ball on Child's Play though. But anyway, the comment about news on TV being shown at an angle reminded me of my family's brush with the apocalypse - Channel 5 was showing 'Without Warning' one Saturday afternoon, there were no ad breaks with the name of the show (which we couldn't see was a movie at the time as we didn't have that week's TV guide), and we called my aunt as the meteor came closer... confused as to why no other channel was reporting on it... 😅😂 I credit that moment with having tons of love in my heart for relatives far and wide, and even those I live with. Check that out! But anyway, Ghostwatch is 27 years old and a GOAT precursor to Late Night With The Devil. Brilliant!
George Memeulous sent me here. This looks super interesting. I might have to watch it for myself. If i can get my hands on it
I watched this live when I was a kid and it terrified me! Had no idea it was fake. I’m convinced this started my love of horror movies.
I watched this, I messed me up for 6 months. I was nine and will never forget the fear.
someone made a video documenting this several years back and I couldn't find it for the life of me, but this video is even better
Probably Inside a Mind, who was a big inspo for this!
here before it properly blows up
2:49 can’t believe Parkinson slummed it with this.
I still remember watching this as a young kid in 1992 and was so creeped out I struggled to sleep for the night. I do have to hand it to the BBC for at least reminding everyone that it was all fake, compared to a good few shows/content producers that are still pumping out material without disclaimers or editing out the disclaimers for reuploads. Also considering Ghostwatch is from 1992, it was a pretty good cheesy horror movie for its time in my opinion.
I was six when I watched this with my mum and can honestly say it was a good watch and remember it well.
I’m not usually scared by many things online but this really gave me goosebumps and my heart dropped