"Derek, you don't know where it is ..."

The final night of the Brixham Most Haunted Live commenced with what may be described by some as a lie, but let's be generous and assume that Julian Clegg's script had not been amended, and he genuinely did not know that Acorah had been told the night's location eight hours earlier by Dr David Bull...

The scene was set outside the castle when Yvette described how Karl and Stu had just chased a woman only for her to disappear into thin air.  Of course she wasn't caught on camera ....

Once inside the ruins, Yvette's breathing became heavy and noisy, and she said she felt unwell.  As if on cue, the team members in turn reported feeling dizzy, sick, and general unease. 

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Acorah sensed the presence of a man spirit, named Ralph.  Like most of the man spirits encountered this weekend, this one was angry, and didn't want the team there.  Acorah then warned the team,

"If you get a brush past yourself or anything, I feel it's because of the energies of this man."

Precisely eighteen seconds later, Yvette felt something touch her leg.  Despite Ciaran saying he thought it was his coat, her breathing became noisier and heavier, forcing her to sit down at the conveniently-placed Ouija board, when she reported feeling a little better..

Once the glass was moving, Yvette managed to gasp some questions:

"Do I look like somebody you used to know?" - 'Yes' says the glass

"Someone you once loved?"  - 'Goodbye'  erm... 'Yes' says the glass, as it nudged slightly to one side.

Her next question was interrupted by Acorah becoming 'possessed' by 'Thomas', who had 'come home'.  He claimed his lover had been slaughtered by 'Henry', and he wanted to kill Henry.

Acorah eventually succumbed and had to be carried out by Andy ... once again ... where he quickly recovered.

GATEHOUSE

Taking their Ouija board with them, the team moved to the gatehouse, and re-established contact with 'Thomas', who indicated that there was a lady with him, whose name began with 'W', and it was she who was making Yvette feel ill.

Later, Acorah explained that Thomas and his lover had both been murdered by Henry and A.N.Other, because one of them was from a lower class.

Andy was having a busy night, because now it was Yvette's turn to collapse and be removed from the table.   Cut to adverts.

Eventually it was announced that Yvette had recovered from what she described as a faint.  Naturally, the incident brought on a text-in viewers' vote to decide whether it was paranormal or not (50p + normal charges).  Cut to adverts.

The team had moved to a dungeon, where Acorah sensed a female spirit who was upset, at which point it was John's turn to be removed from the room by Andy, and yet another cut to adverts.

Once back with the crew we are told that they are in Dungeon one, and they could hear distant bells, which weren't heard outside.

 Returning to his theme, Acorah gets a lonely young woman who's miserable and angry at being incarcerated there, and she's revengeful.  She's looking for a person who hurt her deeply. 

"It's another female!.  The other woman was responsible for getting her out the way, getting her down here, out of sight.

 

"Margaret is the one who comes here, and she's got hatred still in her heart for her sister.

 

"She was starved.  She was put here because her sister took her love, took her man, and she knows that her sister is evil."

According to Sam, Margaret died in 1564 (give or take a couple of years).

Ciaran then interrupted, saying he found the information fascinating, as Acorah had come up with a similar lady starving in Lupton House.  Could he provide surnames for these ladies ??

Acorah asked Sam if he could help, but sadly Sam only had as much information as Acorah, but it was repeated nevertheless, just to make sure he had the right Margaret .... 

DUNGEON 2

In the next dungeon the whole crew was feeling ill, especially Stuart who was complaining of a headache.

A new experiment with white noise on a television was introduced. The object was to ask a spirit to turn it off.   Yvette repeated asked for any spirit present to turn off the bright, white light, and a spirit appeared to oblige by turning the screen off, but not the sound, to the amazement of all.

Acorah then sensed that a man had entered, who said that Ralph was there, and Ralph was annoyed at the team being there.

Yvette renewed her repeated calls for Margaret or Ralph to turn the bright, white light on again, to no avail.  But the situation was saved by Stuart's attack on Karl, Derek and Andy when they tried to help him.  The transmission was cut.

After the adverts Stu said he was dazed and confused and didn't remember anything about it, and Ciaran thought it sounded like an alleged possession....  Derek knew that Ralph was going to attack someone, because he was angry and manevolent (sic.) but not who.  Confused?  You will be ...

In yet another séance Yvette, followed by the other team members, called on the spirits to blow the candle out, but they weren't playing. Acorah felt they were joined by the spirit of Charles Seymour - a benevolent spirit, for once.  Their lack of success prompted them to move to the final location of the night, which was also the first.

Once outside, Acorah felt a young woman following them - a Mistress Seymour; a good soul - and when asked for a date, Sam gives 1592.  With a note of incredulity in his voice Acorah adds that spirits may be seen there in daylight - yet another well-documented fact.
 

THE EAST WING

Time for the grand finale, the piece de resistance - an experiment in physical mediumship.
 

With Acorah's arms and legs strapped securely to an upright chair, Ciaran explained that the experiment was intended to produce materialisation, ectoplasm, levitation or any other physical  manifestation.  He also explained that he didn't really expect anything to happen.  He was right.

There was no materialisation, no ectoplasm, no levitation, and no other physical manifestation, just another of Acorah's 'possessions', this time of a tear-free, weeping woman who allegedly strangled her baby on the orders of her father, 'the baron', who was also the baby's father.

"My father has made me do this.
He's made me kill my baby." 

Not surprisingly, no name for the woman or her father was forthcoming from either Acorah or the Ouija board to identify this woman or her father.  The experiment was obviously intended to be the big climax to the three nights, but personally I found it an embarrassment.

And so we said farewell to Brixham, and what was probably the most financially-successful Most Haunted Live that Living have broadcast, so who cares if the ghosts had wandered into the wrong building, or even the wrong century?   Funnily enough, I, and thousands of others do..

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