Brought forward in time, digitised for widescreen, this ghostly double feature provides a pleasing couple of hours of historical rather than hysterical ghost investigations.
Presented by BBC/SKY/DISCOVERY host Liam Dale. "I'm often asked how my interest in making Ghost programmes was formed. As the son of an Irish Catholic mother and Scottish Protestant father, born in Cornwall, it's fair to say that Celtic blood runs thickly in my veins.
As well as a childhood growing up in spooky old houses. But probably the greatest influence comes from discovering that I had become a recorded, written about ghost in my own right and lifetime. For the full tale watch this program. It’s a classic example of "Never let the truth get in the way of a good ghost story".. As a punishment as a 7-year-old child I was banished from my bedroom and made to sleep on the turret floor (really) featured here in the opening story."
From there we move on to Chawton House, home of Jane Austen, reputed to still walk the creaking floors, down into the mines known as Clearwell Caves in The Royal Forest of Dean for knocking dead iron ore diggers, Chavenage House with the tales of the dastardly Oliver Cromwell and on to Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, the site of the tragic murder of Edward II, unjustly imprisoned and so badly mutilated when killed that his remains couldn't even get taken back to London and he was buried at Gloucester Cathedral.
ONWARDS to part 2 - In THIS program, we begin in Bronte Country and the ghostly influences of Haworth and the Yorkshire Moors. From there to the foot of the British Isles - Cornwall. King Doniert, The Knockers at the tin mines, Edgehill - Battleground of the English civil War.
Then to my local castle - St. Briavels in the Royal Forest of Dean. When my sons were young, I rented the castle for a birthday night, and we all "slept" in the ancient prison cell. Lastly, across the River Severn to Berkeley, and the home and site of sights of Dr Edward Jenner in and around his house, grounds and local village.
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