It's Halloween night and a nation is about to be traumatised by one of the scariest shows ever broadcast on British TV. At 9.25pm on Saturday, October 31, 1992, Ghostwatch, a mockumentary investigating reports of a poltergeist in 'the most haunted house in Britain', was shown for the first time on the BBC.
It was billed as a drama but cleverly put together like it was a live broadcast BBC documentary. And what added to the apparent authenticity of the one-off show was that its four presenters - Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, her husband Mike Smith and Craig Charles - were all household-names playing themselves.
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