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 supernatural
Supernatural
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 documentary television series produced by ITV Granada, consisting of four one-hour episodes.

Origin

In 2005, ITV Granada appealed for those whose lives had been affected by ghostly experiences to contact the station regarding production of a paranormal series. The series was broadcast by ITV
ITV
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 (ITV1
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/STV/UTV
UTV
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in 2006, and was later shown on American cable channel WE tv
WE TV
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 in September 2007. The series featured drama reconstructions of ghostly encounters of some well-known haunted locations as well as individual cases not known to paranormal enthusiasts. Featured in episode three were interviews with resident Most Haunted Live!
Most Haunted Live!
Most Haunted Live was a spin-off of the paranormal reality television series Most Haunted and was also produced by Antix Productions. The show consists of paranormal investigations broadcast live over a period of one or more nights, usually with interactive sections that involve the...

historian and Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders is a spin-off series of the paranormal television series, Most Haunted. It ran on LivingTV between 19 June 2007 and 7 August 2007.- Idea :...

presenter Lesley Smith
Lesley Smith
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. The series was narrated by Rob Brown.

Episodes

Episode Cases Air Date
1 The Skirrid Mountain Inn
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
The Skirrid Mountain Inn is a public house in the small village of Llanfihangel Crucorney, just a few miles north of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Perhaps the oldest pub in Wales, listed in chronicles from 1100...


Enfield Poltergeist
Enfield Poltergeist
The Enfield Poltergeist was a period of apparent poltergeist activity in London, England between August 1977 and September 1978, with an added outburst in August 1980.-Activity :...


Maes Artro heritage museum, Snowdonia
Snowdonia
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Haunted nursery
Haunted house, Kirklands Crescent, Kilsyth
Kilsyth
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2006 (ITV); 8 Sept 2007 (WE tv)
2 Michelham Priory
Michelham Priory
Michelham Priory is the site of a former Augustine Priory near Upper Dicker, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom. It is owned and administered by the Sussex Archaeological Society.-History:...


Haunted Victorian mansion, Ryde
Ryde
Ryde is a British seaside town, civil parish and the most populous town and urban area on the Isle of Wight, with a population of approximately 30,000. It is situated on the north-east coast. The town grew in size as a seaside resort following the joining of the villages of Upper Ryde and Lower...

, Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
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Naworth level crossing
Plas Teg
Plas Teg
Plas Teg is a Jacobean house in Wales. Located near the village of Pontblyddyn between Wrexham and Mold, it was built by Sir John Trevor I in about 1610. At the time of construction it was the most advanced house in Wales and few others of this date can truly be compared to its uniqueness...


Swindon railway works
2006 (ITV); 15 Sept 2007 (WE tv)
3 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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The Mackenzie Poltergeist
George Mackenzie (lawyer)
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Fishing trawler
Tutbury Castle
Tutbury Castle
Tutbury Castle is a largely ruinous medieval castle at Tutbury, Staffordshire, England, in the ownership of the Duchy of Lancaster. It is a Grade I listed building...


Victoria Avenue, Hastings
Hastings
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2006 (ITV); 22 Sept 2007 (WE tv)
4 Haunted mansion, Penwith
Penwith
Penwith was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance. The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the...


Fobbing
Fobbing
Fobbing is a small village in Thurrock, Essex, England and one of Thurrock's traditional parishes. It is located between Basildon and Corringham, and is also close to Stanford-le-Hope....

 poltergeist
The First and Last Inn, Land's End
Land's End
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Freemans
Freemans
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 catalogue HQ, South London
Bodilly Manor, Wendron
Wendron
Wendron is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles north of Helston.The Revd G. H. Doble served for almost twenty years as the Vicar of Wendron . Langdon recorded the existence of eight stone crosses in the parish, including two at Merther Uny...

, Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

2006 (ITV); 29 Sept 2007 (WE tv)

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