Alison and her husband Mike inherit the run-down Button House and its resident group of eccentric ghosts from various periods of history. After a head injury, Alison finds she can suddenly see and communicate with the ghosts. And so begins a bizarre house share that is as surprisingly heartwarming as it is hilarious. This is the premise of the paranormal BBC comedy, Ghosts, which is now entering its fifth and final season.
The mix of humour and poignancy in Ghosts echoes real attempts to communicate with spirits, especially in the late 19th century.
A prime example is an 1892 report on a haunted house written for the Society for Psychical Research. The group was founded in 1882 to try to bring scientific rigour to the search for ghosts and other phenomena, and they still exist today. Miss R. C. Morton’s report, titled Record of a Haunted House, details her extensive experiments that aimed to prove that ghosts wandered her family home.
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