Fitz
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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It was called Hauntings and it was on BBC Two, so we'll have to catch up on iPlayer. So was that just about the Enfield? I believe it's a series and it covers different things each episode. The reviewer did have a bit of a grumble about some of the other things featured, but the initial hatred was purely for the first episode. Right, okay. Yeah, we'll have to give it a watch. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, keep tuned, listeners, because we will give it a watch and we'll let you know what we think and whether it was in fact a waste of time. How many stars or goblins we gave it.
yes so following that reviewer's footsteps though perhaps not so stridently i found a couple of other stories around people being a bit miffed or unfazed at spooky season starting with an article from wales online called i hate halloween but this cardiff pop-up shop has changed everything
Which sounds like the author has a similar distaste for all things spooky as the Guardian's TV and film reviewer, but fortunately we find out immediately in the first paragraph that the hate she holds for Halloween is simply a general lack of interest and she doesn't really have any problems with anyone who does enjoy it. Bit of an overblown headline then. Quite.
Not that I'm not glad about there being less hate in the world but it does seem a bit silly to sensationalise even a tiny little story like this. In short, there's a little pop-up shop in St David's shopping centre in Cardiff called Halloweenland and the reporter had fun playing spooky dress-up and now they want to go to a Halloween party.
I guess a story called, I'm not really bothered about Halloween, but after I found a cool costume, I kind of want to wear it at a party, just wasn't going to bring in the readers.
Quite. They get a little bit less aggressive as we go, though. In fact, balancing the scales, Wales Online even did another story to share that Halloween is now one in four Brits' favourite holiday.
This comes from research done by the Disney Store, which surveyed 2000 adults in the UK and found that they're prepared to spend £100 on Halloween this year compared to only around £20 on previous years. Though being super cynical, I wonder if that says more about how crazily expensive everything has gotten recently rather than what people would be happy to spend. But I digress.
Halloween has been somewhat of a low-key affair in the UK in my lifetime, and we do now appear to be taking more inspiration from our friends across the pond and making it a bit more of an event, which as someone with a bit of a soft spot for all things spooky, I find quite lovely.
i wouldn't hazard to even mention it and following on from whales online we head over to the lad bible where we've dropped from hating on halloween to our old favorite i don't believe in all that rubbish but the author of this piece starts off with a version of our traditional favorite line before adding let's be honest we've all had that feeling that we're being watched or that we're not really alone too true lad bible too true
Moving on in the article though, we quickly find that it's a thinly veiled advertisement for the TV series Help My House Is Haunted, which would have qualified for cashing in on Halloween, except for the fact that it's a spooky show, and therefore is a pretty legitimate thing to be talking about in spooky season.
Hosts of the show, Barry Guy and Jane Harris, give Ladbible some helpful hints on working out if your house is haunted, which include the unexplained. Really helpful, guys. Thanks. But also the old favourites like temperature changes, strange noises and feeling like you're being watched.
helpfully they do also remember to remind people that it's not always a ghost and that they should also check for more mundane explanations for anything they experience as well good advice
It seems Ladbible aren't the only ones producing articles about how to tell if your house is haunted, as I also found one much more in line with our cashing in on spooky season theme, and this one comes from the Guild of Property Professionals, and is titled How Do I Know If My House Is Haunted?
There is no named author for this one, so we don't know which of the trained and trustworthy independent estate agents came up with this article. But as we'll see in a moment, whoever published the article to their website, I don't think they did it alone. Anyway, the article begins, Halloween is known for its eerie tales, creepy ghouls and mysterious occurrences. Good start, good start.
And it goes on to cover strange noises and temperature changes, as well as reminding you that not everything is paranormal like the Ladbible one. But it also adds flickering lights, seeing if your animals behave strangely, and checking out the history of your house. Is a random estate agent blog actually giving better advice than the paranormal professionals?
They also suggest getting a medium in, having your own paranormal investigation, and of course, checking with your estate agent. Who are you going to call? Estate agents. I'm not sure that's got the same ring to it, does it? I don't know. I quite like it.
Anyway, I continued on my search and found another estate agent blog, which had also published an article on how to tell if your house was haunted. This time from Hamilton Stiller. They have an office in Park Lane. Very posh. And they too have decided to take advantage of Halloween to advertise their business. Their article begins, Hang on a second. I've heard that somewhere before.
Not only is it a similar article, it is the same article. They've even used the same stock pictures. Something tells me that both of these places might possibly hire someone else to write their blogs for them. None of these stories so far really piqued my interest, though. They were the side salad. OK, I guess, but not the reason anyone goes out to a restaurant.
I needed my main course, so I kept looking. There was one that nearly made it, and that comes from the Manchester Evening News. This story was itself reporting on a Halloween tie-in from an unoccupied housing insurance company, the Alan Boswell Group, who carried out research to find out Britain's most haunted city. And what criteria did they use, you might ask?
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