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This clip is from QI Series H, Episode 9, 'House and Home' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Andy Hamilton and Eddie Izzard.
My uncle in America bought a house that appeared in local guide books as one of the "50 most haunted houses in the state", with previous occupants having reported strange smells, and blood seeping up from the floor. He too noticed the smells, so he dug up the basement floor and found hundreds of dead rats: disposed of them all and the ghostly smells went away.
I love that to some people, the decision to move their entire life somewhere else on short notice is the more logical solution to seeing blood seep through floorboards, than just... looking under the floorboards... 😂
@@swine13 have you ever seen any horror movie ever that's how you die first.
So if 'haunted' houses are a third cheaper, essentially the American non-haunted housing market has a 33.3% tax on stupidity. I despair and approve in equal measure!
It could be haunted be the ghosts of a hundred rats 🐀🐀🐀
U. S Grant You are technically correct - the best kind of correct!
Bill Bailey's pipe bit is one of my favorite things in all of QI.
"Rocks that used to live in the old days..." Eddie Izzard always surprises me with his bonkers humour.
It's a legit thing though
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
Well, coal is just a rock that used to live in the old days.
Stromatolites ("living rocks") still exist in a couple of spots around the world, quite a few in Australia.
Fossils.
There still around today! Extraordinary things we owe our very existence to them
In parts of America, you have to disclose hauntings to potential buyers because of the stigma and how it can affect the property. I would love for that to come up in one of those court room shows.
"Your honor, the defendant sold a house with a cracked foundation, leaky pipes, and every Tuesday the walls bleed."
"Hey The foundation was fine when I left."
Apparently you don't even have to disclose whether the house comes with a Watcher or not
@@termeownator ha! I remember that case! All hail the Watcher!
When my best friend moved to town, no one told his family that a woman was murdered in the kitchen. I was the one who told him, this was in 1993, in California so I don't know what the real estate laws were regarding the history of each home. Plus I was 12 then. But his parents are still there
I've been binge watching QI clips here in Chile, and I'm stupid happy of Stephen talking a bit about Chile 💕🇨🇱
Same
Feelings of dread and being watched by something unseen are quite often result from the presence of infrasound. It's basically sound that can't be heard by most humans (>20 Hz.) It can also cause auditory and visual hallucinations.
It was first identified in a science lab where employees working late (when the rest of the building was quiet) repeatedly reported hauntings. A thorough check of the area identified a fan with a bad bearing as the culprit. Fixing the fan fixed the problem.
It still gets me, our hearing range. Imagine how much more annoying the world would be if we could hear a broader auditory range.
>20khz frequencies can't be heard by _any_ humans..
20Hz you’ve got a problem.
Triggered in people with as low as 17 Hz. About 20% of people, though with a modest sample size.
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated He didn't say 20 Hz. He said >20khz, which is also true as far as I know.
I love how much eddie enjoyed bill's ghost party joke
"They're just scaremongering", very good 👍
0:09 All of em saying some variation of “thiiird” caught me off guard and I almost spat out my drink.
That actually sounds brilliant for prospective buyers. Just find all of the places that are perfectly fine but people say are haunted and get it on the cheap!
Not with carbon monoxide.
But it doesn't regain it's value after that, it's still concidered haunted so the property value is lower if you sell it too.
Ahh, but, get your cows to move it, simple.
It's still a house to live in that would have normally been much more expensive. I would assume that if you buy a house you're going to keep it for a while
@@andreashofmann4556 Get an exorcism. Even if you don't believe in them, the act of performing it will ease the neighbors spirits, and end the haunted stigma.
Stephen's pronunciations of other languages are impeccable. I salute you sir.
Bill always cracks me up.
I once went to a "haunted house", you know the one's, these old, actually quite beautifully refurbished, Victorian houses.
All the people were in the dark attic that was huge (I was one of them) and all of them were pointing and screaming "OMG I SAW A GHOST!"
The whole time I didn't see shit, so I asked them why I didn't get harassed by ghosts and one person literally said "Well, ghosts only attack those who believe in them!"
So according to them the greatest defense against ghosts is not believing in them. So if a ghost shows up, just shrug and tell it you don't believe in it. Instant immunity.
It also sounds like an even worse concept for a ghost busters reboot.
You have to be a special kind of nutter to see ghosts!
LOOOOOOL 😂
I do believe in fairies. I do, I do.
Jonas Hamill I don’t believe in faeries, but they’re out there.. ; )
I love the Smell of a Pipe. Reminds me of my Old Grandpa.
It's the sequel to Up. Sideways
I wish there was a sequel to Up. It's the greatest animated feature ever made. It's astonishing it never won the Oscar for best picture. It looks beautiful, the narrative is frighteningly good and the voice acting is pitch perfect.
Kevin Russell nah
how to train your dragon
Statiq I respectfully disagree.
The film about middle aged losers drinking wine that came out five years before Up is the sequel?
That's the first thing I thought.
Andy Hamilton does the best Danny Baker impression I've ever seen :)
Exactly😉
I can't be the only one that noticed Eddie Izzard said "You're a pope smiker?" (3:04)
Jack Naylor I
Jack Naylor put that pipe and you're smokin' it...
You're a pipe smoker?
What the...? I didn't notice that at all!
Bleedin' Pipists.
Bill Bailey, fantastic as always!
As an American, the takeaway for me is that if I ever buy a house (in this economy?!), I should act like I've heard it's haunted to see if they'll knock a third off the asking price.
0:45 I like how Fry pauses here. "Obviously it won't be haunted because..."
"...there's no such thing as ghosts"
Like he knows for sure
@@SparkyStevens1967 Haven't you heard? Stephen Fry knows *almost* everything! ;-)
There's an empty home here in my hometown. Its been considered "haunted" for 50 years... and for a long time, people would avoid even driving past it at night. Beautiful home... abandoned... no one will buy it.
Imagine how different Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be if Aurthur Dent could have done THIS.
+phastinemoon Could have done what?
Just move his house out of the way.
***** Oh right :D
It wouldn't be that different, the Earth would still have been destroyed.
Yeah -- but, then Arthur would not have gone on his journey...
Ghostparty scaremongering, Bill Baley you're a treasure💞🌸😂. So many good jokes in this one. The pipe chat, the cow ghost😂😂😂
Eddie Izzard: "Ghost Cow isn't real. He can't hurt you"
Ghost Cow: *stares*
*chews*
Moo moo homee
The problem with ghost cow, is that she will just help you move house.
I love Stephen’s hair like this. It’s so cute.
Doing something as otherwise stupid as getting a priest to exorcise and bless the house might actually raise the value by quite a bit.
....and fix the boiler.
It would be quite amusing if on an episode of Homes under the Hammer or Property Ladder that the host recommend that the owner set some money aside for an exorcism during a renovation
How far do you have to move a house to get it away from the ghosts?
Is a few yards enough?
Is a mile enough?
Since ghosts supposedly can only move according to where walls and doors used to be, I assume you only need to move it one house-length. (Then you just have a haunted backyard.)
And what if you move the house to where other ghosts are hanging out?
BillyBumpyBear First of all can we talk about your handle? Second, I’m dying 🤣
deekat3279 😂🤣😂👍
THE Gary Cooper? Oh God....THAT was a gorgeous man. 😍
LOL ...Dinosaur ghosts. Brilliant! Sounds like an anime series.
Carbon monoxide, sensitivity to high electro-magnetic fields (such as in houses with bad wiring), or subsonic noise (like in "silent" air conditioning, or tremors too small to be noticed as earthquakes). Those all cause things like feelings of dread or danger, feelings of being watched or of a presence nearby, hallucinations, and health problems.
>sensitivity to high electro-magnetic fields
That's bullshit as well.
It doesn't have a lot to back it up (and in fairness, a house with bad wiring may also have other things wrong like strange chemicals leaking out of somewhere as fumes or into the drinking water that are a more likely culprit for hallucinations), but it's still a fair sight better than "there are ghosts", isn't it?
There's also Trump.
A friend of mine once saw a "will o the wisp" go through his house. Its actually a natural phenomom where lightning creates plasma which just sinks from where its created
Therefore if a house has a reputation for being haunted you should absolutely not want to buy it for asking price as there is possibly some real thing seriously wrong with it.
2:51 "What happened to pipes?" They are used to smoke weed on a huge scale, that's what.
No cow ghosts? One of the most famous ghosts of Iceland was a bull named Glæsir.
That's the lovely beginning of always leaving a pipe in Bill Bailey's desk.
Had a hell of an experience last weekend- witnessed the cold water turn itself on. This was a day after the back door ended up unlocked. Day after the water, the peg on the bifold doors got sheared off. I watched one of our cats scramble out of the kitchen like he was lit on fire, and then heard a loud cat growl in the kitchen, with all 3 in the back bedroom.
Oh yeah.. then the stove threw the main and its breakers.
I used to live in a house where turning off a tap quickly in the barn would cause the kitchen tap to turn on. Eventually the tap jammed on.
Probably water hammer. Its what happens when you quickly turn off a tap.
The best three guests ever.
I LOVE the pipe bit.
Best pipe chat ever
I can’t believe nobody’s tried making a movie about animal ghosts.
The vegetarian message implications alone are staggering.
Pet Sematary is a movie based on a Stephen King novel of the same name.
That's the best I can think of about animal ghosts.
My ghost dog - A bark from beyond... 1997
Dog gone - A detective tail 2003
Ghost cat (Mrs. Ashboro's Cat) 2003
infrasound... any freq below 20hz can cause hallucinations, nausea, anxiety, & general feelings of doom & dread in certain people.
The little house on the -prairie- -road side- -river bank- prairie again.
It's not really rumors that it is haunted that will drop the value of a property. But rather fact that there have been grizzly murders there at the property.
Agreed
Probably less to do with a person willing to pay less for the house, and more to do with people worrying about the resale value. People don't want to pay as much for a house if they believe that someone ELSE won't want to pay as much for it.
There aren't too many grizzly murders in homes here in the US anymore, though. That stuff usually happens out in the country, and even then it's pretty rare.
(I'm just making bad jokes, not trying to mock this guy's mistake)
Grizzly murders? That's unbearable!
See I tried arguing that line, but the estate agent just would not sell me the Tower of London for £300,000
Oh god. Imagine dinosaur ghosts.
nah, all dinosaurs went to heaven coz of the asteroid
Well, imagining is the only thing you CAN do with ghosts.
"Babe come over"
I can't I'm u get house arrest
"My parents aren't home"
5:18
Bill Bailey always has the coolest t-shirts.
Also, to lose all credibility, my family house for generations, 180 years is perceived as haunted. I do agree too. But it’s a positive warm energy and the place I feel safest in the world.
Now, that said, I live in Northern Maine where the men are straight forward, generally sober, hard working and logical. 4 different men over the past 30 years came to do an estimate for work and refused to do it, leaving very good money on the table. The issue was on one side of the formal living room where my Grandaddy held court. Raised by a Victorian Mother, he was somewhat haughty or elitist. None of the men knew each other. I needed the floor refinished, new windows, plaster work and painting done. They said it was cold, eire like someone was just behind them watching them. I can easily imagine Grandaddy looking up from his book, barking out “Who are you? What are you doing here? State your business. Get out”. Lol. I did hire other people, but it was a weird coincidence that so many people bolted away. Nothing ever happened to scare me.
Within my circle I would say some of us think there is something to it NOT in an evil, wooo, screams, scary way. Just that there is so much we do not know yet as humans. Matter lasts forever. Maybe Love is a type of Energy and can touch you even after a loved one’s corpse is long gone? I have many friends who think there is something. We don’t know what. Having no other word for it, if asked we would say we believe possibly in good ghosts.
Andy Hamilton looks so much taller without his beard.
Bill's expressions!
Worked at a 90yo bookstore where those who worked until 10pm claimed to see a ghost. All my coworkers were religious and not the type to believe in superstition (yes, I know, ironic). One of the former employees from the 60s stopped by to see how the store was faring. She told us that was the former manager we saw who used to walk through the store at 10pm and close up and usher any remaining customers out. Never saw anything myself because I had the morning shift in order to pick up newspapers at our door.
Andy Hamilton's Danny Baker cosplay is spot on! 👏
The minga has nothing to do with spirits thou...its just about moving houses to better locations. And the curanto its not a big feast, its a traditional dish of the island. And they mispronounced chiloé :C.
Source: im chilean.
That's good to know👍. QI should get their facts right! p.s Chilean is spelt with a uppercase C
Is that where chillies come from?
Isn't it easier to just kick the minger out?
To be fair, when speaking regularly, he does the pronunciation more accurately.
I think that gig with the house comes from leaving beind the ghost of taxes. You move the house, no mail is delevered until they find you and you have a haunting again.
I live in New Orleans, in parts of the city they advertise some houses as "haunted" on the For Sale sign. It increases their value, especially in the French Quarter.
"Oh bug.. put it back in!"
🤣
I live in chile and I was surprised when I found out about the Chiloean people MOVING houses
Worth noting that while haunting isn't real, that which makes people think a place is haunted might be...
a certain frequency of noise can cause your eye to wobble in a way that makes you think you see something in the corner and... I think the same frequency causes you to feel uneasy.
I think unstable houses also have the same effect. Something to do with when we tended to live in caves.
I always smile when people say they don't believe in ghosts but if asked to stay alone all night in some of the most 'haunted' places say noooooooooo.
Well, yes. That's because we don't want to pay to spend a night in a deliberately cold hotel with a bunch of credulous, cretinous "ghost hunters." 😂
I want to see a movie about ghost dinosaurs, too!
Andy Hamilton doing a remarkable Danny Baker impression here.
Imagine a cow in a white sheet spookily sneaking around a house going "Mooooooooo!" instead of "Boooooooo!" :-)
Hahahahahaha
I'd pay extra for a "haunted" house - but don't tell my real estate agent! LOL
People think my house is haunted but I’ve lived here for 400 years and not seen anything untoward!…
Even harder to sell are houses where someone was just murdered. The Realtor by American Law MUST tell buyers, who, while not necessarily superstitious… are usually put off. Bad energy, bad luck, bad feng shui, whatever. Some murder houses, if infamous, can’t be given away even. In these cases, the house is demolished and either made into a green space or a very different style house erected.
Apparently we associate hauntings with unstable foundations, as a sense of dread was a evolved sense back to when we lived in caves, so if we felt that someplace was haunted, it was most likely unstable and likely to collapse.
Dinosaur ghosts! Gotta write that screenplay!
Just want to say the description of the video is wrong. It's Danny Baker on the panel, not Andy Hamilton.
I found it funny how they were saying how Americans are big on haunting when I have seen tons of videos about haunting in European areas and England.
The magnetism thing is quite common to make people go mental ... Bermuda Triangle , that famous Japanese forest and such
The Chilean house moving Minga of Chiloe, I have seen a house pulled to a body of water and floated across it, pulled by small vessels.
I can't imagine those houses on the island off of chile have particularly firm foundations. If you can drag it along with cattle, then a strong storm would probably move it too.
Storms here are a joke compared to what the US has the real thing that is a threat here is earthquakes but if the house can survive being dragged through that terrain then i guess they should be fine
At 0:46
Is it just me, or does that look like the Haunted Mansion from Disneyland? (or Phantom manor as its known in Paris)
That's the Bates Hotel from "Psycho."
Sounds like a housing investment idea: "The haunted house investment fund."
Since I don’t believe that ghosts exist, I’d buy a ‘haunted house’ with no problem.
Dave Montes There would be a likely problem: poor ventilation.
Ah, these panelists and Fry apparently have not read the story, The Uninvited by Dorothy McCardle--a decidedly British haunting and the house's story/history among the locals.
That is clearly not Andy Hamilton.
It's a good point though. Ghosts usually haunt the place where they died, so cow ghosts would be out in fields. If you hear a human wailing in your house at night, you'd think ghost. But if you hear a distant mooing outside, you'd just think it was a very annoying normal cow.
But most of England will have been used to keep cattle at some point we're such a densely packed island so surely there'd be more sightings of cattle ghosts if they were a thing.
gotta love a good pipe chat
I believe Andy is talking about ball lightning at 1:20
As an American, I am mortified, ashamed, and horrified at many of the things my countrymen believe.
I just love the pipe section of this segment bill and Danny just magic
Why do ghosts have no respect for doors and walls, yet seem perfectly happy with the solidity of floors
How far would you have to move the house to make sure the ghost isn't there anymore?
This reminded me of that forgetful neighbour ghost in A Ghost Story.
Funny how Steven rags on about Americans and their interest in haunted places, when the first book I ever read about haunts was about British houses, manors, and castles. It seems to be a fascination that was brought to America. Look up Charleville Castle in Ireland; Dudley Stewart is a very nice man, and lives in a place that is claimed to be haunted.
Sometimes a reported haunting increase the value of a house
I mean it makes sense to be devalued if it's known as a haunted house. Would you want people coming round to take pictures or film social media videos or worse, like breaking in during the night! to try and capture evidence of super natural activity?
3:34 my response when I'm offered cake
Yes!
Well if the ghost isn't picking the location of haunting based on the house, why draw the line at being it left behind on the piece of land the house used to be on? Wouldn't the Ghost be left behind as the Earth rotates around its axis and revolves around the Sun and as the Sun revolves around the centre of the galaxy and the galaxy... does as galaxies do?
Where did he get that GALLAGA shirt! I want one!!!!
At the same time as it become something tourists went to see,
i will guess that 99% of all houses they move now is for the tourists and not because they think it is haunted. ;)
My guess is that they used to move a house once ever 30 year or so when they did it because it was "haunted",
but now they do it once or twice every year for the tourists.. ;)
You'd think the ghosts would just cling on to the underside of the house during moving like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.
I love how Stephen Fry thinks this is just a US problem, but the percentage of people who say they believe in the paranormal is roughly equal in the UK as it is in the US.
Charleville Castle in Ireland is said by its caretakers to be haunted.
I took as him meaning the one third automatically knocked off the price if it was haunted was the American bit.
My dad smoked a pipe when I was a young boy. That exchange made me smile.........a lot.😊
What's up with the weird graphical errors when faces and hands are moving?
I'd pay money to see something featuring ghost T. Rexes
I saw a house move in Saskatchewan, Canada via semi-truck by distance of 7 miles in 20/25 minutes w. no problems.
I can just see, house races...once a year..up one end until the ghost catches up...then back down the other end..every year change position.
Eddie Izzard has a point, if you just happen to have a pipe laying around your probably at least an occasional pipe smoker (unless it's his partners or whatever)
Plot twist, one of the house moving cows is the haunting ghost
I have bits of cow in my house all the time... steaks in the fridge... many steaks....
First Fry insults Americans about being stupid enough to believe ghosts, THEN his very English guest starts arguing for ghosts. I wonder if he ever saw the irony.
Not much irony to be found when that guest states outright that he's not advocating for the ghost party.
Hint: It's a comedy show.
Bill Bailey with a pipe :'D