Highly Strange

Episode 58: Ghostwatch - The Show That Traumatised A Nation

May 16, 2023 Lewis Beech & Sarah Griffiths Episode 60
Highly Strange
Episode 58: Ghostwatch - The Show That Traumatised A Nation
Show Notes

To celebrate Halloween 1992, the BBC aired a documentary that on immediate viewing seemed real.

 An average British family was being haunted by a violent spirit named Pipes. The BBC wanted to investigate, sending in a crack team of children's television presenters.

What would follow the airing of BBC's Ghostwatch would end in women going into labour,  several children with PTSD and a man with soiled trousers.  It would also end with one man taking his own life.

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Music by Liam Lynott and Lewis Beech
Artwork by Holly Osborn, find her work at @hbosborn.art on Instagram!