Most Haunted: The official behind-the-scenes guide

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Presented by Yvette Fielding, the programme investigates purported paranormal activity in a range of locations, mainly within the United Kingdom. Two of the final three episodes (at Bamburgh Castle and Chambercombe Manor) were broadcast at the end of Series 8 and the last, at Spitbank Fort, was broadcast as special on Boxing Day 2006. This section outlines changes across the 23 series of Most Haunted, with detailed look at major changes through the programme's original run (series 1-14), broadcast on Living and a brief series overviews and filming location lists if the revival series (15-23), broadcast on Really. Originally O'Keeffe viewed the footage recorded during the investigations and analysed it, putting forward his own views and opinions, which usually included suggestions as to other possible causes for the phenomena encountered. deciding to concentrate on importing American paranormal programming rather than the British-based Most Haunted.

Four episodes into the series, new episodes became known as New Most Haunted in television listings and on-screen. At the end of Series 5, Antix Productions began editing the series in-house at their own production offices. However, until this channel is found, all new material from Most Haunted will now be available on its YouTube channel. The team visit Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, which is known as Britain's most haunted castle.Series 15 started on 12 May 2010, with an investigation into Berkeley Castle and continue to show every Wednesday on Living at 22:00 BST. The beginning of series 16 was shown online before other episodes for the series were broadcast on television. Presented by Yvette Fielding, the first lady of the paranormal, together with Karl Beattie and the Most Haunted team, you will be taken on the darkest, most terrifying journey of your life.

However, reruns of these episodes have been re-edited to the full hour and titled Most Haunted Unseen. Following complaints, the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, ruled that it was an entertainment show, not a legitimate investigation into the paranormal, and "should not be taken seriously". Any information provided by the medium from claimed interactions with spirits is then analyzed by the historian to see if it can be verified. Before the filming, Acorah had been fed misinformation twice about the non-existent ghosts of Kreed Kafer and Rik Eedles by the show parapsychologist Ciarán O'Keeffe.Later, three episodes from The Royal Court Theatre, Bacup, England produced and aired initially online then sold to Really TV as a single episode. The series was broadcast every Saturday night and ran for 8 weeks, with each episode lasting two hours. Featuring a celebrity guest team of Scott Mills, Mark Chapman, Laura Sayers and Neil Sloan from BBC Radio 1's afternoon show. Really ended its partnership with Most Haunted in the summer of 2019, with the new owners of Really, Discovery, Inc. On several occasions the former spiritualist medium Derek Acorah was supposedly possessed by an entity, sometimes evil or sometimes "lost and confused".

So far, these have been Ian Lawman, Ian Shillito, Israeli-born Uri Geller, Rochford's clairvoyant Kevin Wade, American-born Johnnie Fiori, Barrie John, Liverpool native Billy Roberts, and American-born Patrick Mathews.

Theatre audiences will be shaking in their seats as Yvette and the team present MOST HAUNTED’S ALL-TIME TOP 10 SCARES complete with unseen video footage from Haunted Castles, Manor Houses, Hospitals and Prisons. Included in the online series was 10-minute discussion featuring Yvette and Glen Hunt, the resident sceptic, on " the elephant in the room" after the investigation at the Wentworth Woodhouse Stable Block as to whether the footage of the 'Wentworth Ghost' was faked. Most Haunted is the original and most successful worldwide Paranormal investigation series ever made and premiers it’s spine-chilling theatre show in 2023/24.