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Yvette Fielding greeted us for our shoot looking happy and
relaxed, but that was of course compared to the OK! crew,
who were all as white as sheets after clocking the chilling
surroundings of Ordsall Hall in Salford. The hall was used
as a location for Living TV's hit show Most Haunted, which
visits Britain's most ghostly places in search of paranormal
activity.
As Halloween approaches, the Most Haunted team –
presenter Yvette Fielding, her director husband Karl Beattie,
the show's newest medium Gordon Smith, medium David Wells
and crew member Stuart Torevell – tell OK! all about
their paranormal experiences. Get that cushion ready, because
this isn't for the faint-hearted...
In our bedroom we've got a four-poster bed and occasionally
we hear knocking above it. Then I'll be up in the bathroom
and the latch will rattle up and down when I'm alone in
the house.
Karl: I'll be downstairs and I'll hear
people walking around in the kitchen and shout: "You
alright, sweetheart?" thinking it's Yvette, but there's
no one there.
Yvette: A lot happens in that room because
a mummified cat was put there 500 years ago under the floorboards.
We've had friends staying at our house and the bed sheets
were pulled off them.
Karl: Another day they went out and came
back and the bolts had completely gone. I don't think they'll
be staying again!
I had loads of medium experiences as a child so it's natural
to me, but I never actually thought I'd be going round haunted
houses trying to see past lives!
Gordon: No, because we never know anything
about the locations until we actually arrive so we can't
be accused of getting any background information on the
place.
If something falls off a table that's an act of gravity
but if something jumps on the table, you have to conclude
that something paranormal is happening.
David: My father passed away 18 months
ago but three days after he crossed, he kept tapping me
on the head, which is one of the signs he is around. I was
adamant that I wouldn't pass a message on to my mother because
it's tempting for me to say: "Dad's here and he says
he loves you," but I wanted to know for sure that it
was my dad, so I could prove it to my mum. So I asked him
for something that I would never know and he told me about
a school friend of hers who died in a specific way. As soon
as I told my mum this, she knew she could take the message.
Gordon: A woman came to me whose son had
died but he didn't give me a code word for ages. Then as
she was leaving he gave me "clover". It turns
out the boy had found a four-leafed clover as a kid and
his mother still had it. A soon as I told her that, it meant
everything to her.
David: I had a friend once and saw a child
standing beside her and I predicted she was pregnant and
she was gobsmacked I knew.
Gordon: The last prediction I had was the
Egyptian aircrash a few years ago. I saw a vision of an
aeroplane with a camel on it going into the sea –
that was the day before it happened. Then the day before
Diana, Princess of Wales died, I was walking down the street
and suddenly fell to my knees. Someone asked me what was
wrong and I said: "Someone really high profile has
just been killed and a car was involved." But I couldn't
have done anything.
Gordon: You have to cut off, otherwise
you'd be saying hello to someone's dead mother in the supermarket!
But you can't always ignore it. I used to be a hairdresser
and was cutting a man's hair and his wife appeared in the
mirror. I mentally asked her to give me something so she
opened her hand and showed me four lollipops. I said to
this man I was a medium and I'd seen a woman with some lollipops
and he dissolved in tears. It turns out his son had taken
his dead wife some lollipops the day before. That was her
way of telling him she got them – it was wonderful.
Karl: The most disturbing thing I've ever
experienced actually happened to our crew member Stuart.
It was at the Ram Inn in Gloucestershire. I was in the same
room when it happened and he got taken off his feet and
physically beaten up – by something. All he could
do was scream and we couldn't even stop it. He was covered
in bruises and it was so graphic, we weren't even allowed
to show it on television. I've known Stuart a long time
and he's a tough lad and it's take a lot to take him down,
so seeing him in that petrified state was horrible. All
his hair fell out shortly after out of shock.
Yvette: Mine was at the Golden Fleece in
York. I was in a pitch-black room with Radio 1 DJ Scott
Mills and said: "Give us a sign if you want us to leave."
Then suddenly to the right of me, I felt a breath and heard
a man laughing. I screamed but thought it was Scott playing
a joke – he wasn't. I thought I was going mad but
listening back, we all heard it.
David: It was Pendle Hill. I was in a cellar
on my own using a mirror to make contact. I made contact
with a highwayman but I suddenly saw an old woman appear
behind him and he screamed: "Witch," and as he
shouted I became possessed and smashed a mirror on a table.
I woke up with my face in broken glass. It was the first
time I'd so aggressively been taken over. The scariest part
was playing it back and having no recollection of it. I
still can't watch it to this day. I almost gave it all up
after that.
That was the scariest moment of my life. It was an investigation
we were doing in an old derelict pub. Before we entered
the building the old man who owned the premises said to
us: "You can take this how you want but I warn you,
before you go in there, you must acknowledge the spirits
by saying: "Hello," telling them your name and
that you're not there to harm them.' Every crew member did
that apart from me – I walked in all cocky and said
nothing and thought to myself, if there is something there,
bring it on. Anyway, at about 4am, I sensed something was
in there with us, so I walked over to the other end of the
bar and saw a red light moving. I'd been warned that this
was an incubus, which is the worst kind of poltergeist activity
a human being can come across. Five minutes later, I felt
something punch me in the chest and then I was beaten to
the ground. I was screaming and crying and being kicked
in all directions. No one could do anything to help me.
I curled up in a ball screaming. The medium was there giving
the cross sign but Karl knew he couldn't do anything. I
crawled out on my hand and knees and tried to sit up but
I couldn't because the pain was so bad.
A few days later all my hair fell out and that's why I look
like this. It's the repercussions of that night.
Things happen more to me than any other crew member –
I think I've got something. Something's changed inside me,
I feel so different. I can see things that are going to
happen before they happen. My personality has changed, I'm
a lot more nervous and I've got anger inside me that I never
had before. Something's going on in my mind and I don't
know what.
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