I Hate "Most Haunted"

I enjoy many a show on the Travel Channel. They include shows about exciting destinations, great places to eat, and which hotels to stay at. However, there is one show that doesn't deserve to even be put on the airwaves, let alone those used by the Travel Channel. I am talking of the hit British series "Most Haunted", which unfortunately has made it's way over here.





What makes this show truly shitty is the fact that it tries to pass itself off as a serious program, but it is anything but. Let's start with the "psychic" medium, Derek Acorah.













Derek claims that a ghost by the name of Sam gives him a link to the spirit world, and enables him to know things about places he's never visited, find out what the spirits are saying, and feign being possessed. I guess "Sam" is slang for Wikipedia, for in a visit to the London Dungeon, Derek claimed that Sam told him the history of the place, including the great fire of 1666. Viewers were amazed that Derek, never having visited, knew this!! Well, he may have never been to the physical location, but he certainly referenced a Wikipedia article regarding it...almost word for word. I guess links to the spirit world spend a lot of time web surfing these days.

Another aspect of Derek is his ability to feign being possessed. On several occasions he's been known to cross his eyes, change his voice (poorly) and pretend to be possessed by various spirits. If you watch video of this, it's more a lame attempt to cop a feel on his co-hose, Yvette Fielding. His so called possession came to light in a 2005 interview with the London paper "The Mirror" where Dr. Cieran O Keefe came out and said 90% of what Derek does is for ratings. Yet the show still remains on. Let's move on, shall we?

Yvette Fielding...a shrill, whiny British woman who spends the entire show screaming, and pretending that a particl of dust floating around is a real live ghost! If it's not a speck of dust, the slightest sound from the boom mike operator MUST be a demon. My guess is this woman goes home to her 40 cats, and the second she hears one of them scratching in the litter box, she assumes it's a ghost and calls an exorcist.

This show is boring and shitty, not to mention it's been debunked several times, and the producers have even come out saying most of it is staged and strictly for ratings. Yet, it remains on the air.

Now, if you want to see a GOOD show about people chasing ghosts check out Ghost Hunters ont he Sci-Fi Channel. They actually use something called "science" and "techonolgy" to back up their ghostly claims.