The BEST episodes of Most Haunted season 8
Every episode of Most Haunted season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Most Haunted season 8!
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#1 - Margam Castle
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/18/2006
Most Haunted investigate Margam Castle located in Port Talbot Wales. Margam Castle was only built less than 2 centuries ago, between 1840 to 1850. The Castle was actually built on an area that has bronze age settlers. The park area has a religious overtone too, there is an actual ruin of an abbey that is still there today. In 1898 Robert Scott a trusted gamekeeper was murdered outside by a poacher, ever since then his ghost has wandered the gothic staircase and the Castle itself. Noises, shadows, and footsteps are heard regulary in the Castle. A dark male figure, children singing, and a blacksmith has been seen, the blacksmith has been seen standing under a beam which was the only one to survive the fire in 1977. Steve Parsons returns, and Kevin Wade is the guest Psychic Medium.
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#2 - Gladstone Pottery Museum
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2006
The Most Haunted Team visit Gladstone Pottery museum in Stoke On Trent. Way back in the 1770's this area boasted one of the area's most productive sites. Considerable growth was then tempered by a clean air act then forced the coal fuel ovens to burn one last time in 1960. Furniture moving, footsteps, and cold spots are regulary experienced in the Museum. A poltergeists, black phantoms, and the yard sees ghostly workers in victorian clothes still doing the work in death as they did in life. Nameless men and women still wander in the dead of night. Ian Lawman is the guest Psychic Medium. Steve Parsons is the Paranormal Investigator.
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#3 - RRS Discovery & HMS Unicorn
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/12/2006
The Most Haunted Team investigate two ships located in Dundee Scotland. RSS Discovery and HMS Unicorn, both are based within a mile of each other. RSS Discovery built between 1900 and 1901 lived up to its name by carrying Captain Scott to the West Indies and New Zealand towards his historic expedition to Antartica. In Februrary 1904 two years on the RSS Discovery returned home to a hero's welcome. Ghostly footsteps are heard throughout the ship, people believe it could be a crew member that followed Captain Scott to the Antartic, others believe it could be from a young man who fell to his death from the crows nest. A figure has been seen in one of the cabins, a ghostly boy has been seen running around the Ship and ghostly shadows have been seen, a ghost of a young sailor is seen so vividly that visitors stop and talk to him. HMS Unicorn will be the main focus for the crew on this episode. HMS Unicorn is the oldest British Ship still afloat. The Ship fully launched in 1824, but the Ship never did get to see active battle due to due to onset of steam powered sailing, but the Ship did contribute to other things but it just remained in its location in Dundee. People feel uncomfortable on the decks as if someone is watching them, but the heavy booted footsteps and dark figures that scare people the most. There is only one known death located in this ship as well, one of the shipkeepers fell down the stairs near the boiler room and died and was found the next morning. Poltergeist activity is known to happen in one part of the ship and heavy objects and display cases are thrown on the floor when no-one is around. Some staff members refuse to enter the ship alone. Steve Parsons is the Paranormal Investigator, and Guest Psychic Ian Shillito returns.
#4 - Bamburgh Castle
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/19/2006
Most Haunted visit the impressive Bamburgh Castle located in Northumberland. With the backdrop of the North Seas Bamburgh Castle is a wonderful site to see. The nine acre site once formed a smaller timber construction, the Norman Keep dates back as far back as 1120, so many wars has been seen from this Castle, numerous people are associated with this Castle. Early in the 19th century a charitable trust went about to bring Bamburgh Castle back to its former glory. As a result the castle has since been a school, a World War Two HQ, and a hospital. The ghost of John Sharp who renevated the Castle has been seen walking in the gallery area, the ghost of a women has been seen in a particular room and the camera's fail on a regular basis in the room. A soldier has been seen, and a baby heard crying, there is also a piano playing ghost. Visitors have felt terrified near the library room, they have also felt sick, dark shadows have also been seen around there, and people complain about being touched by unseen hands while looking at the pictures. During World war Two when the Castle was used as a hospital a young male patient shot and tragically killed himself, his figure has been seen at the bottom of the stairs, and cold spots have been felt, a cold hand has been felt by visitors trying to hold their hand, this all happens in the Tapestry Passage. Matthew Smith returns as the Parapsychologist. Gordon Smith is the Guest Psychic Medium.
#5 - Royal Exchange Theatre
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2006
The Most Haunted Team visit the Royal Exchange Theatre in the city centre of Manchester. The original construction was of Victorian age which was reconstructed to the current version in 1874, for the next 94 years the only trading there was of cotton merchants. In 1940 a world war 2 bomb destroyed half of the building 3 days before christmas. Trading ceased by the end of the 60's and a Theatre company took it over around 1976. In the 1996 the shows did stop at 11-15am on Saturday 15th June, a three thousand three hundred pound bomb ripped the heart out of these evacuated city streets, it was two and a half years untill the Theatre opened the doors to the public again. There is paranormal activity galore in the Theatre, ghostly footsteps, feeling like people are being followed etc. 2 suicides have happened in the Theatre, one a man, and another a girl, both have been seen in the Theatre. An old lady and women in Victorian clothes has been seen in the makeup room, there is also a poltergeist there, and a figure is known to follow people home, there is ghosts and activity galore. One of the ghosts picked up to haunt the Theatre is a man called James Maxwell who worked in the Theatre and died about 10 years ago. Ian Shillito is the guest Psychic. Steve Parsons in the Paranormal Investigator.
#6 - Michelham Priory
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/27/2006
Most Haunted for their 100th episode return to familiar territory. Originally their first ever investigation back in the summer of 2001 Michelham Priory held many scary memories. Could Michelham Priory exceed everyones expectations once again. Ian Shillito is the guest Psychic.
#7 - East Riddlesden Hall
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/22/2006
The Most Haunted Team investigate East Riddlesden Hall located in West Yorkshire. The Hall has been standing since the 1640's. A small part of the main house was declared unsafe and it was demolished about a century ago before the rest of the building ended up in Natural Trust's hands in 1934. The big lake outside has seen three drownings, one of a Victorian boy who's ghost has been seen looking sorrowful in the hall. During the 14th century the master returned to the house unexpectantly to find his wife in bed with another man; the master was so enraged that he locked his wife in her bedroom untill she starved to death. Nor the man she was with escape, he was bricked up behind a wall. Her ghost has been seen, and her groans and footsteps have also been heard. Other ghostly footsteps are heard, bed covers are mussed, and a cradle is rocked by unseen hands in the chamber, as well as furniture being moved. Children are heard and seen playing in the barn, and a dark figure like shadow is known to grab people there. The gray lady is seen outside, where she tragically lost her life in a horse riding accident, a coachman has also been seen outside and soldiers, the little boy named Edward Johnson Horner has been seen near the lake playing who tragically drowned there in 1880, he was only 5. Ian Shillito is the Guest Psychic.
#8 - Preston Manor
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/1/2006
The Most Haunted Team investigate Preston Manor located in Brighton. First mentioned in the doomsday book of 1086 it has since gone through many rebuilds but it still retains one fact that a ghost has been seen here for over 500 years. The nun was brutally murdered and her remains was not found until 400 years later , Agnes does not just haunt the manor she also haunts the graveyard nearby looking for a proper burial. The Stamford family who's generation have lived in the Manor for 138 years have seen Agnes. There was many families that lived here before it was open to the viewing public in 1933. Many people are convinced that a nun called sister Agnes resides here. Bells jingle even when one of them is not connected, a women in gray has also been seen. From smells, to noises, to apparitions, this place was well worth an investigation. Parapsychologist Ciaran O'Keefe returns. Ian Shillito is the guest Psychic.
#9 - Ancient High House
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/29/2006
The Most Haunted Team visit the Ancient High House located in Stafford. The building has been around for about 1595, there was several shops and a girls school that once occupied the building. A little girl has been seen in the victorian room but when she is approached she just disappears, a little old lady is also seen in the room rocking on the rocking chair. A figure of a man has been seen walking the stairs on a regulary basis, the man is someone who worked here but died years earlier. A group of American tourists was shown around the derelict house in the 1960's with a friendly man who was standing outside at the time they saw him, the man had a bowler hat on and an apron, when they went back the next day to take pictures the building was locked up and derelict, to their shock somebody showed them a picture of the man called William Marson who was born there in 1840 and died there. Also people feel touched and pushed in the corridor that used to lead to the Swan hotel, the ghost of a lady has been seen floating above the floor and disappear through the wall that terrifies onlookers. A writing desk locks and unlocks itself on its own as well. Ian Shillito is the Guest Psychic.
#10 - Plas Mawr
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/8/2006
The Most Haunted team visit Plas Mawr located in Conwy, North Wales. The building has been standing for over 400 years, one of Britains best surviving Elizabethan town houses. It was built around 1585 for its original owner Robert Wynn. Both Robert's two marriages both called Dorothy both had premature deaths. Illness killed the first, but a tragic fall killed the second who was pregnant. Dorthy slipped by accident down the stairs with her child while she was pregnant with another, the doctor came and said she would die, when Robert returned home he found his wife and child both dead in the bed and the doctor had dissapeared never to be seen again. The doctor is rumoured to have suffocated in the chimney whilst trying to escape from her husband because he could not save Dorothy. Are Robert Wynn's second wife and the doctor who tried but failed to save her still trapped in the bedroom? In the bedroom a ghostly face is seen in the doorway, also the master of the house is said to walk here, he greets people with a ghostly 'hello'. Also two lady's have been seen on the second floor, one of them distressed, could this be both the wife's of Robert who had premature deaths? Alot of poltergeist activity is seen in Plas Mawr, also footsteps are heard and smells of tobacco is smelt by visitors. Touchings by unseen hands are felt, security doors swing open and a ghostly black cat has been seen running across the floor. Parapsychologist Ciaran O'Keefe returns, and Ian Lawman is the guest Psychic.
#11 - Chambercombe Manor
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/26/2006
Most Haunted visit Chambercombe Manor located in Devon. The earliest records show a Lord of the manor as early as 1162, and as well as its priest holes a chapel was added in 1439. Then in the 1650's the Oatway familys short but significant stay began, a succession of familys was lucky enough to call this their home. Recently its role change to a working farm, in 1979 the Chambercombe Manor trust took ownership allowing visitors to visit this site from then onwards in the summer months. The spirit of a women called Elizabeth has been seen walking on the 400 hundred year old floor, the spirit of a man has also been felt near the fireplace, also an old women dressed in black has been seen sitting on the windowsill. Legend has it that William Oatway was running out of money, his daughter had left and married an irish sea captain, they had not seen her for years and they wrecked a shipwreck which had alot of dead bodies, they saw a women lieing on the sand, she had been bashed against the rocks, her face was badly disfigured, William robbed her then brought her back to the house when he realised that she was still alive unconscious, he lied her in the bed and she died 5 days later, William wondered how he could dispose of the body and he went to the pub and was talking to some people who had a list of all the people that had died from the shipwreck, there was only one women on the entire list and they gave him the name and it was his daughter Kate Oatway, they did not know what to do with the body so the bricked up the room with the body still in the bed, in the 1880's a farmer broke through a spare windowsill wall to discover the body of Kates skeleton in the four postered bed. In the four postered bedroom a child has been seen inside the cot as it swings from side to side, and a ghost of a women in grey has been seen standing over the cot. In another room a 6 year old girl who died has been seen playing with a friend, and two male figures have been seen in the same roo
#12 - Warwick Castle
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2006
The Most Haunted Team visit the beautiful Warwick Castle situated in Warwickshire. Warwick Castle first fort was built in AD 914 which was a wooden construction but it was made into stone in 1260, with halls and towers added during the tudor, and victorian eras etc has made this Castle what it is today, a beautiful structure. Dark shadows, and Ghostly footsteps are heard throughout the Castle. A ghost womens screams and a babys cries have been heard in the chamber. There is plenty of ghostly activity, but the Most Well known Ghost to haunt the Castle is Sir Fulke Greville who was brutally stabbed to death by his servant on September 30th 1628, but he only died through the infected wounds 27 days later. The servant who killed him took his own life due to guilt, Sir Fulke Greville has been seen regulary by his own portrait in the Castle. Guest Psychic Ian Lawman returns to the show.
#13 - Taunton Castle
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/15/2006
The Most Haunted Team visit Taunton Castle in Somerset. The Castle is around 800 years old, a museum opened here in 1778, the victorians also used the site as a private school and public baths. A monestry was held there seven centuries earlier. Bloody executions of over one hundred local men was held at the Castle, their crimes was siding against King James the second, which raged into battles around Taunton in the 17th century, step in the hanging judge George Jeffries a cold and calculated killer who may haunt the Castle, his ghost has been seen walking the empty corridors of the Castle along with the grey lady, marching footseps are also heard. Also a poltergeist is in the Castle, huge temperature changes, and feelings of being watched, objects also dissapear and reappear. a cavalier and young women is also seen. Guest Psychic Ian Shillito returns to the show.
#14 - North East Aircraft Museum
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/5/2006
Most Haunted visit the North East Aircraft Museum located in Sunderland. Once Sunderland Airport that all fell wayside in 1984 as developers soon swalloped up the neighbouring land. This place actually goes back to 1917 the first World War, and it's biggest claim to fame was on August 15th 1940 the battle of Britain was raging and every plane from this airfield was in the sky and they shot down alot of rival planes from the coast. Sargent Edward Grenville Shaw crashed not far from here, he was training and they was flying near each other and one of them made a mistake and both wings clipped each other and he crashed to the ground. Stones are thrown by unseen phantoms in hanger one, a German spy who stole an airplane from the same site is said to still roam this area along with the ghost of an alsatian dog. As well as being seen the ghost of an air sea rescue helicopter Pilot does not like visitors anywhere near his aircraft and has been know to push visitors out of the way. War time chatter and music is believed to have been heard in an area that was once known as the Pilot's rest area, poltergeist activity and dark shadows are said to plague every hanger in this fascinating site. The figure of a man has been seen standing at the top of the stairs at the display hall, it could be the ghost of a sargent who has been seen frantically searching for his wreckage, he has been also known to ask for his boots which was left in the ground after his body was found. Paranormal Investigator steve Parsons returns, and Ian Shillito is the Guest Psychic.
#15 - Spitbank Fort
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/2006
Rising out of the Solent, one mile off shore, like a silent sentinel, Spitbank Fort was constructed between 1861 and 1878 as one of Palmerston's Follies, a series of land and sea-based forts designed to repel French invaders during the Napoleonic Wars. Spitbank Fort was the last of four, fully armoured forts to be constructed to defend the Solent yet, ironically, by the time they were completed, the risk of invasion had passed. The forts were made ready for possible action during the first and second world wars, although they were never actually needed. Gradually, they fell into disrepair. Horse Sand Fort, was retained by the MOD but the remaining three - including Spitbank - were sold as private enterprises. The 19th century Spitbank Fort has just one recorded death, but this lonesome spirit is violent and unpredictable. Yvette Fielding and the team investigate ghostly phenomena in the Solent's chilly waters.