Most Haunted.

Returning to my place of residence of an evening, I often find Mr Frost watching 'Most Haunted' on Living TV, in which a group of intrepid volunteers spend a night in darkness in some allegedly haunted location hoping to encounter some ghostly manifestation. Usually they set out to provoke the spirits by bringing in Mediums and oeija boards and running around shouting 'is anyone there !' and similar things. They some times hear noises, see shapes and have lumps of coal thrown at them.

When they visited Fort Delaware in the United States which weas a former prison at the time of the civil war and did their investigation, a disembodied voice shouted 'get out' which frightened them no end.

Personally I am with the ghosts, there you are, hanging around for a few hundred years with nothing else to do but play a few hands of spirit poker with your mates sand do a bit of odd chain rattling and moaning to keep your hand in and along come a bunch of noisy people from the other world with tape recorders and infrared cameras, shouting and bawling and disturbing the peace by demanding to talk to some spirit who ran off with some woman from another astral plane years ago. Were I a ghost I would be throwing more then lumps of coal at them I can tell you.

Perhaps we could set up our own Most Haunted team to investigate the local pubs, two of which are reputedly haunted. I think that in a night in each we could reliably be expected to contact the spirits.

Whether the landlords would be too pleased by that sort of contact might be another matter.