Ah! It’s pointless-TV-rehashes-of-supposed-supernatural-phenomena season. Every year I long to skip from September to November and avoid all this, but I have yet to find a way of doing so. Maybe there is a time spell I can cast, or a charm I can wear that will stop Halloween rage consuming me.
Maybe not. Anyway, the stupid, infuriating season gets under way on the small screen with our publicly funded broadcaster pushing out four meaningless lengths of programming that have not a spark of creativity or wit to recommend them. The first hour-long episode of Hauntings is about the Enfield poltergeist (others look at a house in Rhode Island whose owners came to believe it was a portal to extraterrestrial activity, the disturbance of the 17th-century tomb of “Bluidy Mackenzie”, an executioner in Edinburgh, which led to blackouts and paranormal attacks, and the mysterious drownings and ghostly figures associated with Lake Lanier in the US state of Georgia since the 1950s.)
