My uncle in America bought a house that appeared in local guide books as one of the "50 most haunted houses in the state", with previous occupants having reported strange smells, and blood seeping up from the floor. He too noticed the smells, so he dug up the basement floor and found hundreds of dead rats: disposed of them all and the ghostly smells went away.

"Rocks that used to live in the old days..." Eddie Izzard always surprises me with his bonkers humour.

Bill Bailey's pipe bit is one of my favorite things in all of QI.

In parts of America, you have to disclose hauntings to potential buyers because of the stigma and how it can affect the property. I would love for that to come up in one of those court room shows. "Your honor, the defendant sold a house with a cracked foundation, leaky pipes, and every Tuesday the walls bleed." "Hey The foundation was fine when I left."

I've been binge watching QI clips here in Chile, and I'm stupid happy of Stephen talking a bit about Chile 💕🇨🇱

"They're just scaremongering", very good 👍

I once went to a "haunted house", you know the one's, these old, actually quite beautifully refurbished, Victorian houses. All the people were in the dark attic that was huge (I was one of them) and all of them were pointing and screaming "OMG I SAW A GHOST!" The whole time I didn't see shit, so I asked them why I didn't get harassed by ghosts and one person literally said "Well, ghosts only attack those who believe in them!"

Feelings of dread and being watched by something unseen are quite often result from the presence of infrasound. It's basically sound that can't be heard by most humans (>20 Hz.) It can also cause auditory and visual hallucinations. It was first identified in a science lab where employees working late (when the rest of the building was quiet) repeatedly reported hauntings. A thorough check of the area identified a fan with a bad bearing as the culprit. Fixing the fan fixed the problem.

It's the sequel to Up. Sideways

0:09 All of em saying some variation of “thiiird” caught me off guard and I almost spat out my drink.

That actually sounds brilliant for prospective buyers. Just find all of the places that are perfectly fine but people say are haunted and get it on the cheap!

I love the Smell of a Pipe. Reminds me of my Old Grandpa.

I love how much eddie enjoyed bill's ghost party joke

Bill always cracks me up.

I can't be the only one that noticed Eddie Izzard said "You're a pope smiker?" (3:04)

Andy Hamilton does the best Danny Baker impression I've ever seen :)

Imagine how different Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be if Aurthur Dent could have done THIS.

As an American, the takeaway for me is that if I ever buy a house (in this economy?!), I should act like I've heard it's haunted to see if they'll knock a third off the asking price.

Carbon monoxide, sensitivity to high electro-magnetic fields (such as in houses with bad wiring), or subsonic noise (like in "silent" air conditioning, or tremors too small to be noticed as earthquakes). Those all cause things like feelings of dread or danger, feelings of being watched or of a presence nearby, hallucinations, and health problems.

Doing something as otherwise stupid as getting a priest to exorcise and bless the house might actually raise the value by quite a bit. ....and fix the boiler.

Eddie Izzard: "Ghost Cow isn't real. He can't hurt you" Ghost Cow: *stares*

No cow ghosts? One of the most famous ghosts of Iceland was a bull named Glæsir.

Bill Bailey, fantastic as always!

Best pipe chat ever

There's an empty home here in my hometown. Its been considered "haunted" for 50 years... and for a long time, people would avoid even driving past it at night. Beautiful home... abandoned... no one will buy it.

LOL ...Dinosaur ghosts. Brilliant! Sounds like an anime series.

2:51 "What happened to pipes?" They are used to smoke weed on a huge scale, that's what.

Oh god. Imagine dinosaur ghosts.

The little house on the -prairie- -road side- -river bank- prairie again.

0:45 I like how Fry pauses here. "Obviously it won't be haunted because..." "...there's no such thing as ghosts"

Stephen's pronunciations of other languages are impeccable. I salute you sir.

I can’t believe nobody’s tried making a movie about animal ghosts. The vegetarian message implications alone are staggering.

Had a hell of an experience last weekend- witnessed the cold water turn itself on. This was a day after the back door ended up unlocked. Day after the water, the peg on the bifold doors got sheared off. I watched one of our cats scramble out of the kitchen like he was lit on fire, and then heard a loud cat growl in the kitchen, with all 3 in the back bedroom. Oh yeah.. then the stove threw the main and its breakers.

Andy Hamilton looks so much taller without his beard.

Ghostparty scaremongering, Bill Baley you're a treasure💞🌸😂. So many good jokes in this one. The pipe chat, the cow ghost😂😂😂

Also, to lose all credibility, my family house for generations, 180 years is perceived as haunted. I do agree too. But it’s a positive warm energy and the place I feel safest in the world. Now, that said, I live in Northern Maine where the men are straight forward, generally sober, hard working and logical. 4 different men over the past 30 years came to do an estimate for work and refused to do it, leaving very good money on the table. The issue was on one side of the formal living room where my Grandaddy held court. Raised by a Victorian Mother, he was somewhat haughty or elitist. None of the men knew each other. I needed the floor refinished, new windows, plaster work and painting done. They said it was cold, eire like someone was just behind them watching them. I can easily imagine Grandaddy looking up from his book, barking out “Who are you? What are you doing here? State your business. Get out”. Lol. I did hire other people, but it was a weird coincidence that so many people bolted away. Nothing ever happened to scare me. Within my circle I would say some of us think there is something to it NOT in an evil, wooo, screams, scary way. Just that there is so much we do not know yet as humans. Matter lasts forever. Maybe Love is a type of Energy and can touch you even after a loved one’s corpse is long gone? I have many friends who think there is something. We don’t know what. Having no other word for it, if asked we would say we believe possibly in good ghosts.

That's the lovely beginning of always leaving a pipe in Bill Bailey's desk.

Bill's expressions!

It's not really rumors that it is haunted that will drop the value of a property. But rather fact that there have been grizzly murders there at the property.

I love Stephen’s hair like this. It’s so cute.

The best three guests ever.

I LOVE the pipe bit.

People think my house is haunted but I’ve lived here for 400 years and not seen anything untoward!…

How far do you have to move a house to get it away from the ghosts? Is a few yards enough? Is a mile enough?

Worked at a 90yo bookstore where those who worked until 10pm claimed to see a ghost. All my coworkers were religious and not the type to believe in superstition (yes, I know, ironic). One of the former employees from the 60s stopped by to see how the store was faring. She told us that was the former manager we saw who used to walk through the store at 10pm and close up and usher any remaining customers out. Never saw anything myself because I had the morning shift in order to pick up newspapers at our door.

Imagine a cow in a white sheet spookily sneaking around a house going "Mooooooooo!" instead of "Boooooooo!" :-)

Apparently we associate hauntings with unstable foundations, as a sense of dread was a evolved sense back to when we lived in caves, so if we felt that someplace was haunted, it was most likely unstable and likely to collapse.

I found it funny how they were saying how Americans are big on haunting when I have seen tons of videos about haunting in European areas and England.

infrasound... any freq below 20hz can cause hallucinations, nausea, anxiety, & general feelings of doom & dread in certain people.

Bill Bailey always has the coolest t-shirts.

"Oh bug.. put it back in!" 🤣

I live in chile and I was surprised when I found out about the Chiloean people MOVING houses

I'd pay extra for a "haunted" house - but don't tell my real estate agent! LOL

I always smile when people say they don't believe in ghosts but if asked to stay alone all night in some of the most 'haunted' places say noooooooooo.

I think that gig with the house comes from leaving beind the ghost of taxes. You move the house, no mail is delevered until they find you and you have a haunting again.

Andy Hamilton's Danny Baker cosplay is spot on! 👏

I want to see a movie about ghost dinosaurs, too!

"Babe come over" I can't I'm u get house arrest "My parents aren't home" 5:18

Worth noting that while haunting isn't real, that which makes people think a place is haunted might be... a certain frequency of noise can cause your eye to wobble in a way that makes you think you see something in the corner and... I think the same frequency causes you to feel uneasy.

The minga has nothing to do with spirits thou...its just about moving houses to better locations. And the curanto its not a big feast, its a traditional dish of the island. And they mispronounced chiloé :C. Source: im chilean.

I live in New Orleans, in parts of the city they advertise some houses as "haunted" on the For Sale sign. It increases their value, especially in the French Quarter.

3:34 my response when I'm offered cake

Dinosaur ghosts! Gotta write that screenplay!

Andy Hamilton doing a remarkable Danny Baker impression here.

This reminded me of that forgetful neighbour ghost in A Ghost Story.

gotta love a good pipe chat

Since I don’t believe that ghosts exist, I’d buy a ‘haunted house’ with no problem.

Even harder to sell are houses where someone was just murdered. The Realtor by American Law MUST tell buyers, who, while not necessarily superstitious… are usually put off. Bad energy, bad luck, bad feng shui, whatever. Some murder houses, if infamous, can’t be given away even. In these cases, the house is demolished and either made into a green space or a very different style house erected.

Sounds like a housing investment idea: "The haunted house investment fund."

I love how Stephen Fry thinks this is just a US problem, but the percentage of people who say they believe in the paranormal is roughly equal in the UK as it is in the US.

Why do ghosts have no respect for doors and walls, yet seem perfectly happy with the solidity of floors

The magnetism thing is quite common to make people go mental ... Bermuda Triangle , that famous Japanese forest and such

As an American, I am mortified, ashamed, and horrified at many of the things my countrymen believe.

Just want to say the description of the video is wrong. It's Danny Baker on the panel, not Andy Hamilton.

I just love the pipe section of this segment bill and Danny just magic

I have bits of cow in my house all the time... steaks in the fridge... many steaks....

The Chilean house moving Minga of Chiloe, I have seen a house pulled to a body of water and floated across it, pulled by small vessels.

You'd think the ghosts would just cling on to the underside of the house during moving like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.

I saw a house move in Saskatchewan, Canada via semi-truck by distance of 7 miles in 20/25 minutes w. no problems.

I can't imagine those houses on the island off of chile have particularly firm foundations. If you can drag it along with cattle, then a strong storm would probably move it too.

3:04 "pope smiker" :D

Ah, these panelists and Fry apparently have not read the story, The Uninvited by Dorothy McCardle--a decidedly British haunting and the house's story/history among the locals.

I believe Andy is talking about ball lightning at 1:20

Sometimes a reported haunting increase the value of a house

Why are ghosts always from the Victorian era?

How far would you have to move the house to make sure the ghost isn't there anymore?

I can just see, house races...once a year..up one end until the ghost catches up...then back down the other end..every year change position.

Bill Bailey with a pipe :'D

Harold Wilson, won pipe smoker of the year in 1975

Eddie Izzard has a point, if you just happen to have a pipe laying around your probably at least an occasional pipe smoker (unless it's his partners or whatever)

Funny how Steven rags on about Americans and their interest in haunted places, when the first book I ever read about haunts was about British houses, manors, and castles. It seems to be a fascination that was brought to America. Look up Charleville Castle in Ireland; Dudley Stewart is a very nice man, and lives in a place that is claimed to be haunted.

That is clearly not Andy Hamilton.

I'd pay money to see something featuring ghost T. Rexes

At the same time as it become something tourists went to see, i will guess that 99% of all houses they move now is for the tourists and not because they think it is haunted. ;) My guess is that they used to move a house once ever 30 year or so when they did it because it was "haunted", but now they do it once or twice every year for the tourists.. ;)

Supposedly only people have souls so since that is what remains there can not be animal ghosts...although in some of my favourite paranormal fiction there are ghost dogs and ghost horses.

It's like a really slow version or mortal engines

Like... I wouldn't want to live in a "haunted" house. Mostly because I don't want to deal with a whole bunch of neighbors banging on about it.

My dad smoked a pipe when I was a young boy. That exchange made me smile.........a lot.😊

Plot twist, one of the house moving cows is the haunting ghost

I mean it makes sense to be devalued if it's known as a haunted house. Would you want people coming round to take pictures or film social media videos or worse, like breaking in during the night! to try and capture evidence of super natural activity?