The BBC's Most Controversial TV Show - Inside A Mind
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Reality and Fiction have blurred together many times on TV and media. This is one of the very first cases that gained mainstream attention before the BBC made attempts to cover it up.
Ghostwatch was a TV Programme that aired on 31st October 1992, appearing to be a live broadcast going horribly wrong. Gaining 20 - 30,000 phone calls all at once while it was live
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BBC: Has warnings and advertises it as fake, also has credits at the end further making the audience know that it’s fiction.
Parents: MAH HUSBUND SOYLED HIZ PANTS
Not many people that that much attention to credits. Also, by then, it's already too late. The pants are already soiled.
@@OEDODRAGON yeah but advertisement for the show BEFORE the show itself aired said it was fake. How did all of these people miss that?
War of the Worlds was impressive, too.
@@KyrieFortune look up radio history sometime. War of the worlds specifically
@@theacematt2 it's actually a myth that people truly believed the radio reading was a real live of an alien invasion - some of course probably did, but the vast majority knew it was basically an audiobook, and there was no mass panic the day after
Ghostwatch was really, genuinely scary but it was on quite late in the evening which should have been a clue that it wasn't suitable for children.
Welcome to parenting in the modern era, where "parental responsibility" is a buzz-word to score political points to then be ignored when it personally inconveniences you.
The "child" was 19, was he not?
@@paulawolanski3237 yea but he was slow, he had the mental age of 13
@@angelhernandez3077 13 is still kind of pushing it though. Many kids start watching scary movies younger than that. Maybe there was something wrong with him already, like he was depressed perhaps, and the show shouldn't be blamed.
It was broadcast after the watershed (9pm). This was back in the day of 4 TV channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4). There was no 'on demand' and it was well known that ANYTHING broadcast after 9pm could be unsuitable for children. There was also no pausing or rewinding or google to check stuff...if anyone missed the warnings, unless they had a Radio Times handy there was no way to check. I thought (and still think) they did a marvelous job! My mother was freaking out about the devil haha.
As for those 'traumatised' by it - PTSD, and also the young lad who commit suicide etc - these are awful and tragic cases of mental health illness. It was not caused by the programme...just as the suicide/s after Avatar were not caused by Avatar. Apparently the Avatar world was so beautiful and perfect the real world was no longer enough. These are incidents of pre-existing mental health issues.
Moral of the story: Parents need to hold themselves responsible for what their children watch. I mean, really! Your kid got PTSD because YOU let them watch a horror show that stated it wasn't for kids? Sounds to me like you made a bad parenting decision. Lazy parents never seem to stop traumatizing their children by exposing them to adult content.
Includes supervising what they watch on internet!
@@joywebster2678 It is legitimately DISGUSTING that an entire generation of parents plonked their kids in front of an IPad and expected them to watch responsible content. You can see the effects in kids being way over-sexualized for their age. The amount of high-schoolers who reported seriously considering suicide has been raised 25% since 2009.
I don't know if this happens elsewhere, but in my country you'll find find parents who LOVE exposing their kids to these contents. A friend made his three year old watch the "Chucky" movies, the poor girl I could tell was traumatised by that, and kept repeating at every chance she had of talking to me "we watched the bad dolly, but we're not cowards, we know it doesn't exist". There was something her voice that told off she was really scared.
The snowflake society was, unlike the ghosts, alive and well in the 90s 😂
@@joywebster2678 What internet?! It was 1992! Most people started getting PCs roughly around 1999.
Yeah, they existed before that, but not many people had one.
if you, as a parent, thought this show was real and depicting real horrifying events... why would you- let alone let your kid continue watching the show until it gave them PTSD?
if anything, this show provides more insight into how little parents actually care about the environment they place their children in and how large that problem is.
Why would anyone believe it was real at all?
@@SamuelBlack84 Because it was 1992 and there had been nothing like it on TV before and was hosted by trusted TV presenters all in on the hoax/drama (which was all explained in this video)
@@acidmack1041 I never believed it was real if memory serves
"After watching your show my child was too scared to sleep until we removed the replica of a dead body we leave standing over his bed"
This made me laugh!
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😂😂😂😂😂 HAHAHAH 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣
The kid killing himself reminds me of something that happened around the time the game Doki Doki Literature Club came out, where a young man also committed suicide, and mother found the game on his laptop. Despite the fact the kid had been struggling with mental health issues, his mother saw the game's dark content and immediately blamed that, and threatened to sue the developers.
GeorgeOfAKind could you say that when she saw his computer she “Doki Doki Panic”-ed?
@@samsungtelevision695 that joke was awful please delete this cringe
Raggy123 Wow! I didn't know someone could be that dense! What an amazing scientific discovery, a bad joke can create a blackhole in an environment where it's all by itself!
Also reminds me of the girls who stabbed their friend like 30 times as a sacrifice to slenderman
I heard that it wasn't even doki doki that made him do it. I think it was something like mystic messenger or something i don't know i can't remember exactly I may be wrong but yeah.
I like how they literally had a disclaimer that was basically “This show is fiction, and is horror unsuitable for children, do not watch if you are uncomfortable.” and yet people still were offended when it was horror, and thought it was real.
Okay but they said the problem is that a lot of people were tuning in to the television _after_ this warning, and the BBC didn't repeat the warning throughout the broadcast/during breaks. Keep in mind that on-demand tv was just getting into mainstream, most people couldn't rewind or pre-record. Not only that, people used to trust TV like you'd trust your local small-town newspaper, and they ALWAYS had this distinction between fiction and non-fiction that was clear to viewers. Without internet... that was simply the power televised media had over audiences back then. We might think now "well that was f*cking dumb of them" but like... hindsight is 20/20, it was simply a different time. And thinking about the way people responded to COVID in 2020 from the media (buying out toilet paper like gold), people are still dumb as f*ck, just in a different way now.
Ghostwatch was a put on TV and people did not realise it was a tv show. Not many saw the warning
The show discussed suicide, the son was probably going through depression and suicidal thoughts. His parents just accused the TV show because they can’t accept the fact that their son committed suicide because of other problems, that they didn’t care enough ( I’m not saying that all parents who lose their child to suicide are at fault, but if you’re a parent who blames your child’s suicide on a tv show it kinda hints at your incapability of acting out your role as a parental figure ) they should have looked for other clues and reasons such as bullying.
Absolutely. In the media parents seem to do this a lot.
"I’m not saying that all parents who lose their child to suicide are at fault, but if you’re a parent who blames your child’s suicide on a tv show it kinda hints at your incapability of acting out your role as a parental figure"
Truer words have never been spoken my friend.
Well, if you have a kid who has learning difficulties, I can imagine your emotional baseline isn't exactly as close to the happy end of the scale as others'.
@@Hoganply what does the emotional baseline of a parent have to do with blaming a random piece of spooky, silly footage as causative of svicide??
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim i think they meant the emotional baseline of the son
at least i would hope so anyways
This is like buying your young child a game like GTA when you know they are not old enough and being mad at the creators of the game when you see how inappropriate it is for your child.
The funny thing is this actually happened.
Sadly that is what happens.
Truely, there are parents out there that should not be allowed to have children, like those people who bought their kids vapes because it cotten candy flavored.
Toyota Supra 1. That’s not really the point i was making, and 2. They stopped making them on account of the problem i said before.
It’s actually illegal for any store or shop that sells vapes to have them, so you won’t be finding them anywhere, at least not legally.
666 like lol
I remember seeing Ghostwatch when I was 10. I had no idea about all the controversy about it. I was staying at my mum's friends house. My Mum and Dad had gone out for the night. I watched it with my mums friend. She was saying "This can't be real, it's too ridiculous", I believed it was real - Until I saw the credits roll and she said "See I told you it wasn't real, there's a writer, it's all made-up." So I went to bed.
Ima child, and i think this show would be interesting. Its the type of thing im into, though my parents wouldn't allow me to.
When I was thirteen I watched some TV movie of aliens abducting a family, and here I just found it as fake as F though they made it look realistic like one of the family members filming the alien invasion of their home.
"So I went to bed" IDKY it made me laugh
"so I went to bed" cracked me up
@Azzie wtf is ghost face, sounds cool and scary as shit at the same time.
That was so clever. Real time interaction with the audience and having them give input on what they saw from the footage and putting the pieces together. It was a show ahead of its time.
It was clever indeed, but I think you misunderstood the "audience interaction." This whole thing -- including the phone calls -- was filmed ahead of time. People could call the phone number, believing that they might have the chance to speak to the hosts on-air, but in reality there was no possibility of that happening.
@@amityislandchum I think they meant the faking of the audience interaction in a show like this was ahead of its time in making it more convincing
This is art! They were way ahead of their times. It is beautiful.
It was literally announced it was fake. Why did parents have to do that? I love this. I just hope the actors, directors and writers did well after this...
lol, completely forgot Craig Charles was in that!
BBC: This show is scary
Show: *is scary*
Parents: I've been bamboozled
Sketchy Artist 😂
😂😂
lol
Pre-show warnings: we did it boys, inappropriate viewership is no more
Viewers: *tuning in after the warning*
Sketchy Artist you aren’t wrong
“My son was scared”
That’s like complaining about the spicy in a Chili pepper.
xD
@@pierzethevzil DX
Basically
That's actually true
Yup, if I woke up with nightmares at 3am from watching scary things as a very small child, my mom would say: "Clever me, I was the fool that let you watch it!" Because parents always have the power to switch off or switch channels. TV's are not babysitters.
I watched this live. I accidently tuned in after it had started and I attempted to call the number. It really worked to scare a 12 year old me. But even the 12 year old me figured out it was fiction when the credits rolled. This is one of my best memories of watching television.
So a kid basically watches a horror TV show, kills himself, and the parents blame the producers of the show for this? Sounds like a classic tale ot poor parenting and blame-shifting.
People didn't learn from War of yhe World's did they? Dumb people then, dumber now.
BBC: This show is not for children.
Karen: *It’s free real estate.*
HAHAHAHAHAGAHAHA
Well, her kids beat GTA 5. What else was she supposed to show her kids?
@@yardstick1851 Haha this one got me good!
Same thing happened to ddlc 😔😔😔
*copy paste unoriginal jokes, profit*
This has the same energy as parents taking their kids to see Joker or other R rated films and then blaming the employees at the theatre for not warning them about the violence
is that cALIBORN
@@MB-ev9ix I think his name is spelled "Bastard"
In my movietheater you had to be sixteen or older to see Joker, they checked IDs.
@@OwnYourDance I guess that's pretty good? Like obviously people who go to see it have to know what they're in for, so if they go see it and don't like it because of the violent content, that's on them, but at least if you have to show proof of age, the employees don't get shit on
LoVaKo My 13 year old sister literally went without an adult with her other 13 year old friends to see the movie so that’s not exactly true.
Having Michael Parkinson present this was a stroke of pure genius and it's so good they got him on board with it. Hard to think of a TV figure at the time who was considered as trustworthy, wholesome and upstanding.
Did it damage his reputation afterwards?
@galedribble9535 as far as I know, not even a little!
@galedribble9535 no, he still had a prime time tv talk show for years after this 😊
@@galedribble9535 Not even trout-pout Meg Ryan was able to destroy Parky's reputation.
he sounds really dumb now, he didn't back then though, strange how he hasn't aged well,
I remember watching this as an 11 year old boy. I had recorded it, being already a little fascinated by the paranormal. I watched it the next day while alone in my Dad's house while he was at work and by the end of the program I was on the phone to him screaming hysterically because I could hear noises coming from upstairs! I can totally see why some children ended with PTSD, thankfully I didn't. In many ways, this program gave me my strength; I have had a few ghostly experiences in my life and never allowed the fear to take over.
"So the automated message telling people it was fake no longer played"
Oh that's just... delicious.
likira111 delightfully devilish seymor
@@princessjuleit hah! That is relatable
@Daniel Hertzler I was about to type out "deliciously... something" but i couldn't find the right words, i think i got lazy or my ass handed to me in ARK while listening to this.
likira111
Yeah, you could taste the irony, it was so strong.
"Viewer discretion is advised, this may not be suitable for every audience"
Well, gotta let my disparaged son watch this, sure he will take it lightly
Especially because of our pipes! He'll be fine!
Most people don't actually listen to television warnings
@@markuskuhn9006 Then they go on to blame the television when shit like that happens
@@21Cayque124 yrs late but in all fairness the warning was played at the very start of the show and most people tuned in after it started so they never saw the warning. Doesn't help that BBC comes off as a generally factual newschannel that doesn't bother with fiction. So a load of people genuinely thought they witnessed demonic possession. Then again people also believed BBC when they claimed spaghetti trees were a thing so idk what that says about the intelligence of the public.
I remember this airing back in 1992 and everyone even the teachers at school talking about it the next day. Hats off to the BBC for having the balls back then to air this. Things are so sanitised now. This would never happen again. Even though it terrified me at the time, I'm glad I lived at a time when television was this creative and daring.
The people who created this should be proud of themselves. They managed to do what a suspense/horror genre should be doing and that's to scare people.
That teen who killed himself probably didnt do it because of a scary ghost show. He was probably already struggling with stuff and his parents twisted it to shame BBC
its likely the show may have triggered him though. obviously the show didn't give him any illnesses, it's just a tragic case all round.
@@aestheticgarbage6671 oh absolutely! TV shows can lead to symptoms worsening, but equating his entire suicide to a spooky show is insulting
I always feel extra sorry for kids in this situation. Having parents who so utterly misunderstand your problems and drag it all out into the public eye, really just makes everything worse.
Lived in a lot of places in my life, and I swear England in particular has a thing for arrogant yet clueless parenting styles. 'I go to work, so my problems are automatically a billion times worse than yours!', e.t.c. These kinds of people are so utterly dedicated to their own little headcannon that they'll fight tooth and nail to avoid admitting the slightest personal fault.
Shit like that disgust me
@@Ungantor adult problems are worse
“mY sOn WaS sCaReD”
Well maybe the program wasn’t MADE FOR CHILDREN, JANET
Yeah, JANET lil idiot, your
child is not suicidal because of the spoopy show your child is suicidal because you abuse him-
yeah Karen! lol
@@dqpfjggisjgIdksorp hEr NaMe Is JaNeT nAncY!
KAREN
Shirley Jackson
I believe Orson Welles could have told the BBC what could possibly go wrong
Hah!
This sounds like America's War of the Worlds.
Movie: I’m Rated R
Parents: *Lets their kids watch it*
Kids: *Gets PTSD*
Parents: THIS MOVIE IS SCARY IT HORRIFIED MY CHILDREN HOW SHAMEFUL!
Reminds me of when my wife and I went to watch the Deadpool movie. This lady brought something like five kids all south of twelve. As soon as wade started to get lucky she stood up with her kids in tow marched out of the theater.
@blah blah blah you're trick questioning yourself pal
@blah blah blah You know I have heard that that was the case in a lot of places but where i live it might be just more relaxed. I mean South central texas and all
iT nEeD's a bEtTeR rAtInG
I used to work at a local theater when I was a kid. The law at the time was that you had to sit through a movie that was rated R with your children for that exact reason. Not that it stops people, but at least the parent couldn't play absolutely dumb.
I watched ghostwatch as a kid, scared the bejeebuz out of me. My dad just shrugged and said “why did you watch it then?” Hahaha
Your dad such a mood lol
Dads....
Ah yes
D A D S
My sister in my case used to tell me that.
That is insanely like something my father would've said!
I watched this live as a kid and the girl banging on the pipes has stuck with me to this day. I thought they did a terrific job.
I was genuinely scared and genuinely fascinated and, after the finale, a genuine sceptic too.
I watched this LIVE at the time. About 12. Scared the living SHIT out of me. Even after my patents pointed out "written by" in the credits.
I now photograph abandoned buildings and I wouldn't have had the courage without this programme. ❤️✌️❤️
Are you ok? What's wrong?
I love old buildings ❤
That's awesome! Is there anywhere I can see your photos? I love abandoned buildings
“Parents were better in my day”
Parenting in their day:
I literally screamed
Jimmy L The Soccer Mom Syndrome: A tale as old as time.
Lol
@@DAMWOKE shut up Kyle I know what I did
@@jenneacoleman-cubero2365 True as it can be
“My son was so scared he couldn’t sleep!”
D-do these people know how horror films work?
If he couldn't sleep it just means it was a good horror film
@@qaz3057 Exactly! How dumb do you have to be to blame the people warning you the show they made is scary for having a scary show?
Ami Draws 9pm is the UK watershed, the show was broadcast at 9:25. They should have put their kids to bed or had a nice calm game of scrabble. Instead, they let their kids watch a show intended for adults. Clever.
Makes sence
Answer: N O
I asked my Dad about this and he says he does remember watching it live. Though he believes in ghosts he said that he thought it was fake and wasn't scared. However he did say that it was very well made. I myself think the same thing. It's quite like the Blair Witch project in my opinion. I do wish the BBC would either re-run it or put it on DVD.
It is on dvd, it came out 3 or so years ago. I have it
101 Films released a Blu-Ray of it. It is full of extras and the limited edition includes the script and a booklet with essays on it. So good!
"As there were no known examples at the time of what they were trying to do."
1938s War of the Worlds: Am I joke to you?
BBC: This is real and it’s spooky
Parents: Well that warning can’t stop me because I can’t read
Nameless Pharaoh Wasn’t even real though, that’s the funny part. 😂😂😂
i think you meant *isn't
That’s why this video is sponsored by audible
Lol
Hey Yami
EDIT: cringe but idc
the people complaining that a horror special scared their children are the same people who'd bring their kids to see deadpool and get mad at marvel for the inappropriate jokes
Just like those parents who are upset that the joker movie thats rated r isnt family friendly
We tried to warn a family that came in with small kids (ages 7-10) that it was going to be inappropriate. They left about 20 minutes in, probably complaining too! I took my daughters, but my youngest is 13 so...
Exactly
When it first came out, i knew someone who was a few years younger and he was 13/14 and he wasnt allowed to watch it. funny thing is, he would of liked it since he has a dark sense of humour.
Cassandra Darby I mean my 13 year old brother loved the movie so I think that is a decently appropriate age
It was exciting (and scary). I do recall trying to call the number to report a "Pipes" sighting. We were kids and knew no better. "Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear?..."
... What big eyes you have...
... What big ears... You have...
... Fe... Fi... Fo... Fum...
The acting, oh the acting, if it wasn't enough to make you believe it was completely real.
They didn't need a disclaimer about it being fake, the Mother's acting was proof enough.
Daniel Clark-hughes 🤣
I watched it recently and noticed that too...at 8 years old i was too busy crapping my pants to notice that when it aired though 🤣🤣
damnnnnn dude
Right?
What I've noticed from older entertainment is that people acted differently in real life, and that reflected on how they acted in movies and stuff. That's part of the reason why they seem like horrible actors to us
they literally told people it was fake before AND after. like literally what else do they want. movies don’t pause every 15 minutes to tell you it’s all fiction
well, what if someone joined late, and turned it off early?
@@ScrewdriverGaming alright then. I’ll boycott this channel till every 5 seconds it says this is fiction
@@michaelg8841 lol 👌🏾
Same thing that happened during the war of the worlds radio broadcast. They literally said it was fake before it started but people love to panic lmao.
@@ScrewdriverGaming If someone turned it on late then off early, I think it's unlikely that they were particularly gripped by it.
my nat 5 media teacher showed us this and wouldn’t tell us whether it was real. practically all of us thought it was real up until 3/4 of the programme. after that, he explained what it was. absolutely insane regarding the outcome of the situation !
"Do it like episode six" sounds like an excellent catchphrase
It seems like the BBC did a lot of prep work with telling people/the media that “hey there’s this fake scary thing that’s going to happen, it’s a fake movie that looks real. Here’s a magazine article about how it’s fake before it airs, here’s promos saying it’s fake, here’s a disclaimer beforehand saying it’s fake and made to look real, etc. etc. People are mad because a scary movie/experience is scary
Asking compensation because of her husband soiled himself.
B R U H
Certified bruh moment
Lol. That was the one that got me to giggle. Seriously!
I'm hoping that was just a troll..
An Avengers level bruh moment
👁👄👁
This was a fantastic show. I was a teen at the time and in a world with no real internet about for general public use without being prohibitively expensive so the only horror we ever saw was in cheesey movies so this was entirely new and freaked out so many people myself included.
"Can I get a six part series." "Try an hour."
Me initially going into this: omg... a tv show was so horrifying that children were suicidal? Who could have possibly done this?
Me after: so they advertised it as scary and YALL STILL LET YOUR KIDS WA-
"Some viewers may find this disturbing."
Parents: Sounds like the perfect program fer my youngins!
@Snoi Med "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" we did, that's why it's rated R. That's why the ratings tell you what content is unsuitable.
Same crazy parents that complain about rated R games.
@@arianamarie8442 lmao how old are you, 10?
Children are gullible to horror, why do you think "Scary stories to tell in the dark" Was a success? Students increased Stephen King book sales ten fold when IT was released.
"i didn't think it would be _that_ scarring"
Uh you did karen, your intuition was wrong. Dont make things more complicated since your own cantaloupe of a brain might have troubles keeping up
Snoi Med deadpool’s fine for older kids/early teenagers and up, dunno about Joker because I haven’t seen it yet tho
I watched it when it was aired, and I loved the fact that it used proper well-known presenters rather than actors pretending to be presenters. I quickly understood that it was a fictional drama rather than a live documentary due to the acting of the supporting cast: they didn't actually speak like real people would speak - you can always tell, especially in TV commercials!
Kids in the Middle East: Live through multiple wars
Kids in Britain: Get PTSD from a TV show
middle east doesn't have that many countries in war
Kids in middle east get ptsd from parents ideas of discipline and scary stories about jin. I was 9 when I saw this scared me for a long time.
Kids have a hard time distinguishing between real and pretend.
I wish they still did specials like this for Halloween. It’d actually make the holiday interesting and different than the normal things going on. And would be fun for people that don’t want to go out
BBC actually did something similar last year with Number 9 :D A live broadcast that went horribly wrong and got hijacked by a 'real' spirit. It gave me vibes of Ghost Watch. I've never seen Ghost watch fully, just clips but my mum always talks fondly of it.
KangahRoh Creations yeah I remember now. I did see clips of that and I loved it. It was so cool
@@BrennaDraws Inside a mind made a video about that too
Inside Number 9 last year was genius! I even replied to Reece's tweet
JR. Laren don’t make fun of me
The promos before the show: IT'S FAKE. IT'S FAKE. REMEMBER IT'S FAKE!
Parents: how could you not tell us it's fake!? 😭
It’s not every parent. Is a Karen parent
Yup like China virus 🦠
Lol do yall even watch pv and trailers for every movie you're going to watch
Yeah it’s not like some people are not obsessed with movies and look at every preview.
It’s not like some people flip through channels and miss a warning that was only in the beginning
"Craig Charles" should have been the tipoff. He's a pretty popular actor and comedian. I guess people who live under rocks are fairly easy to trick.
I remember the controversy about The Enfield Haunting at the time (I was a child) as the 'case' was in all the papers even before the show was made, the people who were at the centre of it claimed the haunting and poltergeist activity was genuine: but I saw Ghostwatch and honestly don't remember there being that much fuss about it at the time, maybe because I was an adult? There was the usual tabloid newspaper fuss for a few days, but they get their knickers in a twist about the slightest thing. Just a Halloween spoof show which a raft of irresponsible parents (who took no responsibility for what their children watch) rang up and complained about. There was plenty to tell people it was a spoof at the time and the interviews with witnesses were generally poorly acted, not terribly convincing to an adult viewer - and children were not meant to be watching after 9pm, The Watershed as it was called. I honestly think the reaction has been blown out of all proportion in later years, fuelled by people who watched it as children and are now adults sharing how scary it was on the internet. A child's imagination does most of the work and then maybe it becomes remembered as genuinely scary. The fact a BBC show wasn't available for VHS or DVD for years is not that unusual either. I think a lot of the 'outrage' in the papers was blown up because it was the BBC, the tax payer funded station which has a duty to broadcast educational programming, and is frequently at the front of defunding campaigns by the government of the day. If it had been broadcast on ITV or Channel 4, funded by advertising, the newspapers would not have gotten so excited. The spoof show that causes genuine panic was all done before by Orson Wells "War of the Worlds" on the radio back in the late 1930's of course, nothing new under the sun.
"hey this is fake and all but dont show it to your kids its very scary"
parents: yeah but no
“It contains material that some may find disturbing...”
British parent: sUrE LiTtLe jOhNnY yOu CaN wAtCh iT
Yeah, and then they get pissed off when the kid has nightmares or something.
Pretty sure they didn't see that part but little johhny said "I'm not a baby! I can still watch it!" then little johhny soiled himself and got ptsd.
Ikr so dumb its their fault for them letting them watch it
TBF, if you tuned in midway through you wouldn't know. Best thing would be to have a brief message at the end of the broadcast saying it was fictional.
Can I get a dab dab.
show: don't show this to ya kids
parents, while showing it to their kids: bUt tHiNk oF tHe cHiLdReN!!!!
Himalayan Duck
Them: This isn’t real
Parents: BUT THE G H O S TS
What i love about this, is that they said at the beggining that it was a drama, and people had the control to turn it off, yet they continue watching and decided to complain about it.
I came back here to pay my respects after Michael Parkinson died yesterday. Thanks for helping bring one of the best TV horror programs to life.
This is kind of similar to the panic that occurred with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in New York in 1938. Even though the audience was told it was fake, some missed the memo and there was a huge panic.
I was just thinking about that! My grandad told me about it dozens of times. My great gran hid in the larder for days afterward.
0 0 No www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it
Yeah this channel has a video on it
Thought the same thing! When the audience buys it for reality you know you made something truly compelling!
Isn’t it about aliens taking over?
I'm 18 and I'm still hesitant whenever something that "some viewers may find disturbing" is airing and these kids and parents are like "yeah sure no prob"
im 17 and ill still hesitate at watching a 15, age warnings exist for a reason and you cant blame a piece of content for the crime of not being kid-friendly.
@@toothfairy10133 as a fellow 13 year old, people need to toughen up their kids.
Disappointing how this happens.. me and my sister stopped my mom from letting my little brother watch squid game.... She thought it wasnt violent cause it was famous although she knows the plot
18 is still a kid. Im 29 and thought i knew everything at my early days. Hey im still considered young!
When I was 14 The Exorcist was shown on TV for the first time ever and this guy from Channel 4 gave like a solemn introduction talking about how the film was allegedly based on real events and many of the cast members later had horrible accidents and died due to a possible 'curse'. Well I had to sleep with the light on for a good week after that lol. You guys probably think it looks old and dated now but it scared the hell out me thinking that people could really get possessed!
What an amazing piece of work - the power behind a creation like this, the ultimate psychological horror.
We've come a long way in 30 years:
1992: "Ghosts exist"
2021: "The earth is flat"
*bbc:* this show? not for kids. it's fake but scary, literally don't show it to your kids?
*parents:* suddenly i'm jared, 19
and i never fuckin learnt how to read
Hi my name is Jarad I'm 19 and I never learned how to fucking read. *cool guitar music starts playing*
An oldie but a goodie
ive found my people
YOUR GRAMMAR HURTS MY MIND
Oh no, a Halloween horror show advertised and warned as being scary was actually scary! How could the BBC do like this to me!
_shakes head_
“This is scary guys. If you don’t like scary things, don’t watch.”
“Mama ain’t raise no pussy”
*show is actually scary*
[insert surprise Pikachu]
"We were prepared for winter but we didn't expect the snow"
Or just admit that you weren't there to see it.
People were expecting a horror show, they were excellently duped (myself included) into believing it was a live broadcast by the way it was produced, live studio (Mike Smith & Michael Parkinson) with guests and Outside Broadcast segments with Criag Charles, Sarah Greene & a "haunted family"
As productions go, the BBC outdid themselves and by proxy the majority of Hollywood by presenting a "horror production" and still managing to scare the shit out of half the country.
But no, you go on making moronic statements about your absence.
It’s the UK plus Ireland and scotch-land.
Watching Ghostwatch was one of my favourite childhood tv moments. Adored it!!!
That show feels amazing and innovative. It's a pity that it faced such backlash.
Why the heck are your children watching something scary?
This is absolutely genius horror storytelling for the time. Wow.
Sucks someone took their life after it though.
Eh, we don't know that for sure, when people grieve in these sort of situations they'll start to look anywhere for reasons why.
For example, there was a game called "Doki Doki Literature Club" that a parents said caused the death of his son, but when asked to decribe it, nothing of what he said actually appeared with the game. His son just happened to die around the time it was popular. He just wanted a reason to blame for the death of his son.
Twister that is true!
@@twister1154 The game that the kid was actually playing wasnt even doki doki but a mobile app
Often it’s problems that the child experiences from family and environment not the fault of the media like when a child killed him self after seeing the death of his favorite character in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure where it’s often believed his attachment to the character was from his family’s emotional isolation
It does. But keep in mind Ghost Watch was hardly the first to inspire that suppsed reaction. Orson Welles' immortal radio drama, War of the Worlds, sent a lot of people screaming to the psych wards and with attempted--or successful--tries at suicide. One of my great aunts, in fact, slit her wrists listening to the broadcast, and the only suicide note they found was a hasty scribble of "They're here" on the counter.
In short, media has power, but if a person is already troubled, whatever they hear or watch is just the snapping point--the pain was building for years. Lots of people have killed others, or themselves, over Stephen King novels, too--he covers that in a chapter of Danse Macabre.
‘Skull-shaped head’
Ah yes this floor is made out of floor
I'm sure your head is not shaped like a skull.
@@thebelligerentmisnomer2201 bruh
MeeAwsum hurb
would a skull shaped head be a head inside of a skull insted of the skull inside of the head
@@user-cp1ce5mu2v Hes talking about the skin. Imagine your skull, but instead of bone it was flesh
BBC's response should have been:
_Are you not entertained?_
I can't find a source, but I recall seeing a documentary on this very TV show about ten years ago. A producer of Ghostwatch stated that the original ending for this show was to display static to the viewer as if their TV were malfunctioning. Then, the figure of Mr. Pipes would appear and say something like "now I'm with you". Imaging if they'd actually opted to use that ending :D
All this controversy because people were too stupid to consider the fact that it might ACTUALLY be quite scary, some people just don't have the force with them
Mmmmmm Lack the force,they do
Obi Wan Kenobi yoooo
General Kenobi!
Thank You Obi Wan, very cool!
By the way don't trust Anakin, he's a bit of dickhead.
The people who got offended, deliberately watched the show to get scared, and then got mad because they got scared... if y'all don't want your kids getting scared then don't let them watch a scary tv show/movie.
Seriously. Or watch it first, monitor, tell the kids to leave the room, turn the t.v off, it's that simple.
Boomers are just stupid
“my child hasn’t been able to sleep because of that show that wasn’t supposed to be shown to kids anyways, that’s your fault 😤”
It’s out pussified generation .. thanks liberals lol
It aired 9.25pm thats late enough for swearing so kids shouldn’t be watching tv at that time
Messed my sleep up for life, I didn't sleep for weeks without waking up screaming, and I've struggled with my sleep ever since
The father answered the son, "I laughingly told him there must be a ghost in this place because all the biscuits keep disappearing..." I bet that dad regretted saying that. It only solidified what was in his son's mind.
I'm sorry, but this entire special sounds like genius...
I know this was an incredible idea it’s sad that parents let young kids watched it then blamed the show
I was 10 and loved it but couldn’t sleep for days
honestly it was such a bold move. it's incredible
It was amazing! Scary at 12 years old but I loved it xx
People are just pussys now
And this is when parents started to think TVs were killers
(Edited: It was suppost to be a joke but now am getting history class.)
close to the entire plot of Persona 4
In the 50s , the US passed legislation to ban certain comic books because they may “Corrupt the youth”
The “THINK OF THE CHILDREN” mindset has been around a long time
Not just TV either. To bring it back a bit, a little over 50 years prior, a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds led to an even more ridiculous outcome.
In the 80s the UK had the moral panic and the whole video nasties fiasco led by Mary Whitehouse and the Conservative party. It was reminiscent of book burnings.
I know on Twitter, there was a Twitter Moment that was about police officers in Chicago, I believe it was Chicago, on how to identify what was considered satanic.
I remember this being so horrible when I was a kid it was so scary. I couldn't sleep right for ages after.
Nice review and great script. I think a special like this could no longer exist today in the age of social media and viewers understanding mockumentary tropes better. There was a series of failures on behalf of the BBC, one was people missed the intro due to tuning in after an ITV ad break, it also went out on a Saturday so kid's were up later than they would have been during the week.
It's crazy how despite there being literal specific rating systems, parents still find a way to blame their bad parenting on writers.
I can't believe that it happens so much, then the writer's careers are ruined
Interesting pizza shaped icon you have there...
@Tim M Yes!!! Hell yes!!! And when my son is a loser at 40 living in my basement, can't get a job or a gf, i can blame you for doing such a bad job of raising him...
There was a rating system in 1992...in the UK? Did you watch this video? This was aimed at children since the presenters in the show were presenters in real life in kids shows, meant to encourage kids. Mike Smith who was in the show had met with the BBC a week before broadcast and said they should do something to warn people. The BBC said it is listed in Radio Guide as drama that is enough. So just like Orson Welles and the night that terrorised America the British public trusted who trusted the BBC caused chaos and 3 years later was found guilty of doing so.
I’m pretty sure we don’t have ‘TV rating systems’ in the uk, not everywhere is exactly like the US
this is kinda stupid. people need to take better care of their kids. TVs are not babysitters. don’t leave them unattended
Liloh Loves Subtitles ah the German cannibal messed up stuff
For real this would've scared the shit out of me as a kid
Liloh Loves Subtitles it’s actually said that the victim was still alive when he cut him up. You could see his eyes moving. Curious what channel is it?
Liloh Loves Subtitles thanks I heard about on a podcast (mørkeland, it’s danish) it’s two amateur true crime lovers
Liloh Loves Subtitles you don’t enjoy watching someone doing their nails while they talk about getting penises cut off? Huh, guess it’s just me. No, but thanks I will check her out.
this would've been so fun to watch live
Some shows back in the late to early 00s are downright scary...but revisiting them these days I have a good chuckle at how bad some of them are. But I think most of the scares came from being a kid and having the ads manipulate you easily. I remember clearly being so scared of horror shows ads on tv because of the eerie songs and vibe. Couldn't even bring myself to finish a single episode of kingdom hospital
I'll never forget the day after, in school, and the ones that caught "Written By" at the end reassuring those who hadn't.
Jo Martin-Kelly It’s so cool that you lived through that time! I’m a teenager but I just love stories about weird things that happened in the past
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@@declanboll314 ...are you okay?
BBC: Let's pretend Ghost Watch didn't exist.
Internet: Let me introduce myself.
The BBC tried to pretend lots of things didn't exist. That didn't work out well for them.
Also BBC: Inside No.9 Live
And...the ghost of Ghost Watch rises again! Bwaa haaa haaa!
Oooh shut up ya not funny
*Allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man, of wealth and taste-*
Parents. You are responsible for the programmes your children watch.
you should cover 'Without Warning (1994)', a similar approach to Ghostwatch but I feel like its underrated and I haven't seen many people talking about it. For me, that felt a lot scarier than Ghostwatch because of how much more realistic the story is than in Ghodtwatch, presenting it as if it were a real life news show
This was groundbreaking television and should be celebrated. I was 8 when this aired and I wasn't allowed to watch it live, (I've watched it online since), given that it discussed suicide and molestation that was probably a good call by my mom and dad. Responsibility lies solely with the parents, I'm afraid. There's a watershed for a reason.
Your parents are one of the best people to ever exist
Where did you watch it
Do you have a link I'm interested in watching?
@@cresbalundo8845 uhm.i think most parents would react like this guys did lol. I would hope Yours would too?
Here in America, our parents are generally of this type, they just sometimes tend to go overboard like my mom and categorize things like _Saw_ _"The Real World"_ and _Harry Potter_ together.
She basically banned anything that she hadn't watched first herself. And i do the same with mine (I allow Harry Potter tho lol)
@@adriantucker5532 It’s like that now, but as we can see in the video, the way people reacted to things were slightly different in 1992
This show was clearly not meant for children, and it surprises me that so many parents let their young kids watch it.
This platform is clearly not for furries. BEGONE
@@anatunde considering I haven't associated with furries in about a year, I think I'll stay
Ok well let you off then
We watched this at my friend’s halloween party. We must have been about 12. We were all genuinely terrified and thought the evil spirits were coming through the phone lines and TV set. We were so terrified that we all ran out of the house into the street
very reminiscent of the live inside no 9 episodes. both of these videos are great, thanks!
“Some viewers may find disturbing”
Parents: Ah yes, a perfect show to show my children
More like “Ah, a perfect show to let my already mentally unstable children watch.” but yeah.
Ging ging would use probably. If you know what im saying right?😎
How do they know that the show caused those kids PTSD? Better look into those parents.
Right? This seems more like a case of child neglect... Not just a scary movie. LOL
Hell when I was a little kid I saw the movie Alien and my dad told me it was based off true story, I believed him. I'm talking 4 or 5 years old. And I mean that didn't bother me.
Yeah some people are definitely more fragile than others but abuse or bullying seem more likely to be the cause than this show.
this has nothing to do with this video but i like your profile pic lol
Gerald Yap ummmm
You’re an alien, aren’t you?
I just watched this for the first time tonight. Holy crap, it was scary... What a genius work Ghostwatch is. So innovative and creative for its time.
0:22 Ah, Halloween, my favourite month.
"Levitating in the air"
*Shows picture of a kid, clearly jumping*
Sebastian Lundh CLEARLY lmao
Decades ago, Geraldo had some kind of guru on his show. They built it up with promos for quite some time, saying that this guy could levitate. Apparently Geraldo believed it also because he really built up the suspense.
When they guy finally appeared on the show, he sat with his legs crossed underneath him...and then started hopping with his knees. Every time he hopped, he looked at Geraldo and said, "See that? See that?", as if something incredible was happening. (To be clear, he was just hopping in place with his knees.)
The look on Geraldo's face was priceless. I've never been able to find it on youtube. I think it was in the mid or late '80s.
@@greyeyed123 Is this the guy you are talking about? For some reason they pause it just as he "levitates" but it's the only thing I could find that was similiar ua-cam.com/video/R3taAifTxik/v-deo.html
@Mary Garrison That's it. If my memory is correct, he started hopping on his knees, and every time he hopped, he said, "See that? See that?" There was nothing to see. (Thanks for the link. For years I considered that maybe it was so long ago that I misremembered.)
and they made a fucking movie about it that was box office success, Conjuring 2
If your kid was getting scared why would you let them sit through the entire movie
Because of common sense, witch they clearly didnt have
MrSk1llz 🧙🏻♀️witch
People have always had the urge to complain and put blame on anything else but themselves. They are weak minded.
because when you start something terrifying, it sometimes feels scarier to not finish it than stay there with the scary tale
@@brunobucciarati4652 Wow, I was innocently reading your comment and you sneaked a WITCH into it! I'm so scared I probably have PTSD now 😁😉😊
Wait... wait... stahp! Hold! The only question I have is this:
Homeboy just said he was listening to Stephen King's new book while script-writing.
I must understand this superpower of yours.
How do you write words while listening to other words?
Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that….
I sometimes get ideas in the middle of reading or watching shows, I usually pause it, write it down and then continue. Maybe that's what he meant.
It's been 30 years now. Happy anniversary GhostWatch!