Yvette Fielding claims ghosts will go to terrifying lengths to get noticed – from throwing CROWBARS to texting relatives from beyond the grave
The Most Haunted star shared some of her scariest experiences - and a few others that are sure to make your blood run cold
MOST Haunted star Yvette Fielding is too afraid to turn on her late father's phone... in case it rings.
The 49-year-old TV presenter has experienced plenty of ghostly goings-on due to her personal interest in the afterlife and her work on the iconic spook-tracking show.
But while she has plenty of her own terrifying tales to tell, it's what she's heard from other people that has really set her on edge.
Speaking to The Sun Online, she said: "There's quite a few famous stories online about texts and strange numbers coming up while people are in haunted places.
"I've heard of scary stories where texts will come up, things like 'I'm watching you', and it's not a stalker.
"People claim that they've had texts and phonecalls from their dads... but their dad has been dead for five years.
"I'm not sure if anyone has ever answered the phone when that has happened, but I know people who have said that it happened to them.
"I would be terrified if that ever happened to me.
"I've got my dad's mobile phone and when I first got it I thought 'I'm turning that off' - as if it rings in the night I would absolutely freak!"
Yvette and husband Karl Beattie created Most Haunted in 2002, and have travelled the UK spending their nights shut away in a variety of haunted houses, cursed hotels and spooky inns.
But while she admits that she has already experienced her biggest fear of being "locked in somewhere" during their nighttime excursions, she claims that the worst thing that can happen is being physically harmed.
Yvette said: "Watching your best friends and people who you love getting physically harmed is the worst thing that has ever happened to me on a ghost hunt.
"I've seen people bleeding from mystery scratches, unexplained burns on people's skin, the most awful frightening things.
"People have collapsed in front of me, there have been things thrown.
"Knives, scissors, a crowbar narrowly missing your head... it's terrifying.
"Imagine smashed glass flying and hitting you and landing in your hair. That's horrible and it's really scary and you come away shaking.
"When people say ghosts can't harm you... yeah, they can."
However, Yvette doesn't believe that the ghosts' supposed motives are necessarily sinister.
She said: "I think they just want you out of their space.
"I think any place that has had thousands of people coming in and out of it, there's a lot of energy there.
"Particularity when it comes to places like prisons that had a lot of nasty people in, they are always full of poltergeist activity.
"They're just noisy spirits, they want you out, they don't want you there asking them to show themselves.
"They throw things to try and make you leave, to scare you.
"I don't think it's anything to do with possession or anything like that."
However, despite 15 years as the UK's paranormal princess, she insisted: "I'm not an expert. The only experts are dead people.
"They are the only people that know what happens.
"I just go in there and record my adventures, it doesn't make me an expert.
"I think there are a lot of people who go around with all this high-tech stuff. How do we even know what a ghost is made of when we've never captured one? How are we meant to know what equipment works?
"Personally I think the best equipment that we can use are our eyes, our ears and our senses."
This Halloween, Most Haunted returns for a special episode screened on Really - and it sounds terrifying.
The gang head to Croxteth Hall in Liverpool, which Yvette describes as having a "Downton Abbey feel about it, with servants quarters still with original metal bedframes, and a huge kitchen in the basement".
And it seems like the ye olde Beryl Patmore is lurking in the shadows of the sprawling country estate, which was built in 1575 for the Earls of Sefton.
She said: "We've managed to capture a noise of scissors right up close to the computer that records noises and voices.
"You can see no one is there as we have a camera.
"But ten minutes later some scissors are thrown in the room, narrowly missing somebody. That freaked us all out."
With so much death, drama and danger at every turn, it's no surprise that Yvette needs to calm things down a peg or two before she can sleep.
She said that it's all thanks to a spot of Disney that she can eventually nod off.
Yvette explained: "Once you come out that - a cellar in a horrible place where people have been murdered - you've had things thrown at you, and picked up horrible voices saying they're going to kill you, you just think 'I want to go home to bed!'
"On the way home I will put the Mary Poppins soundtrack on and as I listen to it, it changes my whole atmosphere, it lightens the mood.
"When we get home, the whole house needs to have all the lights on.
"I don't go to bed without Karl, and we have to talk about everything that happened the whole night or I would go absolutely mental."
She added that the couple have a four poster bed with angels carved in to the frame, which she thinks gives them another layer of protection against any bad energy that they might have picked up while filming.
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