Sarah Greene and Craig Charles report from a reputedly haunted London home for the outside broadcast, while the late, legendary broadcaster Michael Parkinson and Mike Smith stay in the warmth and “safety” of a BBC studio. The Early family are allegedly being harassed by the ghost ‘Pipes’, so named as his banging and crashing were initially attributed to bad plumbing. After a deliberately slow start the tension gradually builds, culminating in a terrifying crescendo…
Just as Orson Welles’ chilling radio broadcast of War of the Worlds caused mass panic that the aliens had indeed landed in 1938, this trailblazing genre experiment in television duped swathes of unsuspecting viewers that they were bearing witness to a genuine haunting live on-air. Experience the shared hysteria for yourself, as we tune in for a rare repeat of an infamous transmission of terror.