ricmonkey
Well-known member
Driven by news reports that parts of the site are to be demolished and others burnt to the ground in the course of a television exorcism, Kirkbride and I set off on a suicide mission to photograph the place while it's still standing.
We had expected to be stopped at the gate and turned away. In fact, despite Most Haunted bods being all over the place, we were there for five hours before being ghostbusted. We would have been there longer, but we were being rather bold and walked straight into the main hall where the audience seating was being erected. A very nice man then escorted us to the gate.
The main hall will be the main broadcast location. Gaffer tape crosses with marker pen instructions show that the morgue will be used on nights four and seven, and the chapel on the night seven finale. We overheard the production crew discussing the conditions of being allowed to use the site and how this limited what they would be able to do. The chapel and hall must not be damaged, but will be secured on leaving the site. They also discussed the use of straightjackets and other treatments and their years of use, to make sure their mediums don't channel some spirit recollections that couldn't possibly have happened.
Unrelated to the filming, the demolition of the newer blocks has already begun. The kitchen/canteen has DEMO sprayed on the side, and the nurses' residence was being torn down today while we were on site.
Disappointingly, there were no orbs on any of my photos:
A lovely day for ghost hunting
More cars than ever before
CTV Outside Broadcast
The chapel, MDF safety flooring currently being painted black
Morgue (or "Morg" according to MH's gaffer tape labels)
Ghostly poisons
No expense has been spared in providing a comfortable and relaxing location for the show's stars between takes
Poltergeists
One of MH's "range of paranormal equipment"?
Main corridor
Boiler house
One of the crew entering stage right
Cables aplenty
There was an entire corridor of these
Spooky disappearing floors
We had expected to be stopped at the gate and turned away. In fact, despite Most Haunted bods being all over the place, we were there for five hours before being ghostbusted. We would have been there longer, but we were being rather bold and walked straight into the main hall where the audience seating was being erected. A very nice man then escorted us to the gate.
The main hall will be the main broadcast location. Gaffer tape crosses with marker pen instructions show that the morgue will be used on nights four and seven, and the chapel on the night seven finale. We overheard the production crew discussing the conditions of being allowed to use the site and how this limited what they would be able to do. The chapel and hall must not be damaged, but will be secured on leaving the site. They also discussed the use of straightjackets and other treatments and their years of use, to make sure their mediums don't channel some spirit recollections that couldn't possibly have happened.
Unrelated to the filming, the demolition of the newer blocks has already begun. The kitchen/canteen has DEMO sprayed on the side, and the nurses' residence was being torn down today while we were on site.
Disappointingly, there were no orbs on any of my photos:
A lovely day for ghost hunting
More cars than ever before
CTV Outside Broadcast
The chapel, MDF safety flooring currently being painted black
Morgue (or "Morg" according to MH's gaffer tape labels)
Ghostly poisons
No expense has been spared in providing a comfortable and relaxing location for the show's stars between takes
Poltergeists
One of MH's "range of paranormal equipment"?
Main corridor
Boiler house
One of the crew entering stage right
Cables aplenty
There was an entire corridor of these
Spooky disappearing floors