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Well done BBC scared me rigid as a kid

posted 20 years ago by wandering-mind
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all i remmember about this is watching it over my mates and being petrified along with my mate and his sister (wasnt even a teenager at the time), then my mother rung the house and actually said that its definitely a sham as she had seen the actress playing the mother on a BBC drama the week previous, it would be interesting to see if i watched it today if would still scare me, i remmember that sleepless night very well and it had a bad effect on a lot of kids my age at the time, i even remmember a story where a guy had killed himself as he really believed that the programme was real but that was in a tabloid newspaper so it could be garbage. If you see this it might be worth a look

[–] richielaceyone 20 years ago

i saw it the night it aired too, when i was 8 years old. me and my mum sat up and watched it and the fact that my mum also thought it was real didnt help the situation at all! the only thing that ruined it was the credits at the end which totally gave it away and killed the moment, i remember still not being able to sleep that night though!

[–] hedgehogdog 20 years ago

On the suicide, www.ghostwatch.info says:
"Ghostwatch was linked with one case, but it had been established that the tragic person had suffered for years from mental illnesses. This was the likely cause to his suicide, although it has been said that the effect Ghostwatch had on him may have been a trigger to him committing the act."

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[–] TheStalkerFang 20 years ago

yeah i didnt watch this when i was little, but i saw it last year and it scared the bejesus outta me! i had to watch like 7 comedies afterwards

[–] dizzybint78 19 years ago

I was 14 when this came out and i hid behind the sofa!!!!

I watche it last night for the first time since and I was cacking myself!!

[–] neilb7897 19 years ago

I was 6 when I watched it. Both me and my mum thought it was real, we don't read TV guides too much... :P
Anyway, we were both terrified by it. I saw a clip on 'Richand and Judy' when they were discussing TV hoaxes the other night, it was the first time I'd seen anything of Ghostwatch since it aired in 1992. I was watching it with my housemate and I was quite disturbed by the clip, but he said it all looked really cheesy. He'd never seen the real thing back in the day, but I was more scared by it than him.

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