Ghostwatch The Night that Terrified Britain.

[JenniferBooth]

A documentary on Channel 5 about Ghostwatch a Screen One presentation from Halloween 1992 Back then DH and i had been living together for three months I was 19 when this aired Did anyone else watch it? Is anyone else watching this documentary Im on Channel 5+1

Yes I remember being terrified by it!! I was only about 12.

Some ghost called pipes? It was like an early Blair Witch project. Didn’t realise there was a documentary I will watch it!

I remember being scared by this, I watched it as a child. My dad saw the credits and reassured me though as it said it was a drama on it (or something like that). I loved it though and do sometimes wish we could go back to simpler times; before Google and ai etc

Yes! It was really creepy and they did it totally straight, like a real documentary.

I was 12, I remember it being absolutely horrible - I was terrified!

An example of the BBC being really quite brilliant, and it resulting in loads of complaints and them getting an absolute hammering in the press.

This traumatised me for life! 😬

Ghosts don't exist. People are so gullible.

Watching the documentary now. Was 13 and at a Halloween sleepover in a spooooky old house. Honestly not embarrassed to admit we were all shrieking and totally fooled.

Until the end when the hosts mum (probably sick of the screaming) told us there had been a cast list of actors at the end. We were all very relieved! But still a bit convinced we were about to get pulled into the nearest cupboard by Pipes for the rest of the night…

Been explaining it to DD who is 18 and like Craig Charles said there were only about 4 channels (unless you could afford Sky) and who wouldn’t trust Sarah Greene and Parky? 😄

I was 19 and it terrified me

I’m watching the documentary now, I can’t believe that young children were allowed to watch it? It didn’t start until after 9pm fgs!

I was 21 when I watched it and it was like nothing I’d ever seen before, it was so well done and realistic.

I have just noticed this whilst scrolling through the TV channels/programmes. So I set it to record on Ch5 +1, and will watch it tomorrow now, as I'm so tired after a very busy Halloween afternoon and evening.

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I remember this, after about 20 minutes the penny dropped that it was all bullshit 😆

Thanks am watching the documentary now.

I remember watching but I was in my early 20s.

I can imagine dcs being freaked out though.

I dont think it would work as well now in the social media age

I was 13 and I knew it wasn't real, found it really phoney. Laughable too. I'm not sure why, when so many people at the time were convinced it was real.

Would be great if we saw the actors playing the kids in it being interviewed on this.

No with AI no one would believe it.

I have heard so much about this over the years, but I never watched it so I have no idea what people are talking about

I might watch this documentary. Many people have said to me that if you didn’t see it at the time you can’t really imagine how scary it was. I really hate all the shaky footage style stuff so I probably wouldn’t want to watch it anyway. But will the documentary make sense to me?

I watched the first few minutes, thought it was a load of tosh and switched over to watch something else. Couldn't believe the hoo-ha it caused and that so many people fell for it.

I used to like Sarah Greene and Mike Smith. So sad what happened to them. She's had it tough. Glad she's found happiness

I was 11 when this was on and because I knew Sarah Green from Going Live I totally believed it. As I was young I had to go to bed before the really scary bits. My parents didn't realise it was a drama but they informed me in the morning when they read about it in the paper. It was the talk of the school yard, I remember that! Some of my school pals were allowed to stay up much later and made it sound very scary!

Yep, me too.

I'm not sure of the details, but I knew it wasn't real because I read in a Sunday newspaper that it was a pretend documentary on the weekend before broadcast. I recall making a phone call about something or other to a friend while it was on (I didn't bother watching it), and he and his family were absolutely shitting themselves. I had to tell them it was a drama not a documentary and they could stop worrying.

I watched the original one and realised it was a drama because the actress that had been in casualty that night immediately before the programme, was one of the family, so I realised they were actors, for that reason it wasnt scary to me, however I thought it was one of the best things the BBC have ever done and predictably they went and apologised for scaring people. Idiots.

I was 19 and also terrified !