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Most Haunted Theatres
- GenresNonfictionGhosts
192 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2024
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Yvette Fielding
19 books60 followersYvette Fielding is an English broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live!, and Ghosthunting With...
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March 28, 2024
Yvette Fielding, once of Blue Peter, made a bit of a surprise turn when she started presenting ghost-hunting documentaries for TV channels with hardly any audience back in the day. Still, it was a second career, and her writing output has shown that influence, with her recent junior horrors. This is a potential entrant to a greater series, if care about being repetitive is taken, as she surveys the famous theatres she hunted in. We start with the most haunted of them all, allegedly, London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, seeing the history of the place briefly, the ghosts that are supposed to be there – and what she went through on the overnight vigil for her Season One.
And that is where this is a success – books like this don't often have the first person narrative, and certainly not the conviction, of these pages. It's alright saying 'this room has smelled of lavender, noises off have been heard here and this bit gets cold' – here she had breathy chills directed at her from empty seats, a previously unknown ghost-type character walked past the room they were set up in, and, however likely it might be, she really does seem to have seen half a ghost – the bottom half.
Death threats and the haunted gents' in a venue in Wales is next, and the mood is the same – this can really creep at the susceptible reader, even as much as they logically scorn the Ouija board experience, and point out that for all the threat and all the thrown glasses in the bar and the light bulbs popping, they just do that – threat – and never get as far as impacting on and hurting anyone.
That can't be said of all other chapters, however – several are the workers on the show that got hit by a coin or a flung stone (not something you'd get in every corner of a decent theatre, it goes without saying). So much is thrown, dropped close to or allegedly aimed at the people involved with these hunts you wonder how the universally welcoming theatre people have turned out so dodgy. Do you suddenly switch from delighting in company and customer service to being a bastich just because you die and become a ghost?
I can discuss a lot of this – how much the 'guest psychic' knew before turning up, how much expectation was met for the sake of cheap TV, how easy it is or not to turn white noise into a voice. The fact remains this is a book guiding us to a few places that are certainly on the lists of spookified venues, and the fact remains that for this target audience this is a nigh-on superlative book of its kind, based to some strong extent on reality, if not wholly. I mean, if it puts one person off going to a show I'll not thank it at all, but for putting the willies up the intelligent young sceptic this has to be thought of as a success.
And that is where this is a success – books like this don't often have the first person narrative, and certainly not the conviction, of these pages. It's alright saying 'this room has smelled of lavender, noises off have been heard here and this bit gets cold' – here she had breathy chills directed at her from empty seats, a previously unknown ghost-type character walked past the room they were set up in, and, however likely it might be, she really does seem to have seen half a ghost – the bottom half.
Death threats and the haunted gents' in a venue in Wales is next, and the mood is the same – this can really creep at the susceptible reader, even as much as they logically scorn the Ouija board experience, and point out that for all the threat and all the thrown glasses in the bar and the light bulbs popping, they just do that – threat – and never get as far as impacting on and hurting anyone.
That can't be said of all other chapters, however – several are the workers on the show that got hit by a coin or a flung stone (not something you'd get in every corner of a decent theatre, it goes without saying). So much is thrown, dropped close to or allegedly aimed at the people involved with these hunts you wonder how the universally welcoming theatre people have turned out so dodgy. Do you suddenly switch from delighting in company and customer service to being a bastich just because you die and become a ghost?
I can discuss a lot of this – how much the 'guest psychic' knew before turning up, how much expectation was met for the sake of cheap TV, how easy it is or not to turn white noise into a voice. The fact remains this is a book guiding us to a few places that are certainly on the lists of spookified venues, and the fact remains that for this target audience this is a nigh-on superlative book of its kind, based to some strong extent on reality, if not wholly. I mean, if it puts one person off going to a show I'll not thank it at all, but for putting the willies up the intelligent young sceptic this has to be thought of as a success.
November 3, 2024
Fielding Slips #1
Most Haunted #1
Well I was expecting a story and well I got this, a load of old codswallop.
The suppositions and the leaps of logic defy belief.
This is one of the worst books I have had the misfortune of clapping my peepers on.
Save yourself the trouble and do something more worthwhile like I don't know clip your toe nails.
Most Haunted #1
Well I was expecting a story and well I got this, a load of old codswallop.
The suppositions and the leaps of logic defy belief.
This is one of the worst books I have had the misfortune of clapping my peepers on.
Save yourself the trouble and do something more worthwhile like I don't know clip your toe nails.
May 27, 2024
A fun, easy & quick read about The Most Haunted experiences in theaters that Yvette Fielding & her team experienced during the show.
Fun tidbits of info included with each venue with some historical info thrown in too.
Fun tidbits of info included with each venue with some historical info thrown in too.
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