Take a good look at the top left corner of the screen.
"O.K. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Ghostwatch totally fooled me and scared me half to death."
— Points of View correspondent, 1992
- In the cosily formal style of a live documentary, the Michael Parkinson introduces a house on quiet Foxhill Drive - site of a traumatising haunting.Parkinson: No creaking gates, no Gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet, the past ten months, this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
- There follows footage, from Susie and Kim's bedroom, of unaccountably thrown objects.
- A viewer phones in to report having noticed, by the bedroom curtains, a faded, transparent figure. Pipes, in fact, keeps popping up throughout the film. A standout moment is when Craig Charles is about to interview the exorcist who tried to bless the house, and Pipes can be seen standing amid the crowd of onlookers.
- Pam Early’s recount of unaccountable pounding from the walls; a mysterious rotten cabbage stench, and obscene graffiti in Susie’s exercise book.
- With the studio lights dimmed, Dr Pascoe plays the recording of Susie's speech in a garbled, supernaturally deep voice. Throughout, the darkened background frames an unknown silhouette.
- To Sarah Greene, Kim shows the boarded up door beneath the stairs, where, she says, lives Pipes.Sarah: Kim, how do you know he lives down there?Kim: 'Cause I saw him through the crack. He was there. He was staring at me... I drew a picture.
- We then see Kim's picture of an adult figure with a graphically empty eye socket.
- Pam reveals why she had the cupboard boarded up - searching inside, she found the door mysteriously forced shut, with Susie and Kim unable to hear her.
- Dr Pascoe's photograph of the scars which briefly raked Susie's face.
- An anonymous caller reports her glass coffee table, in response to a light touch from her husband, to have exploded, hospitalising him and splashing the wall with blood.
- Sarah Greene suddenly reports, from the house’s walls, the sound of numerous cats - whose discordant wailing we also soon hear.
- At Susie's bedside. Pam pulls back the quilt - revealing an entranced Susie, once more covered in scratches.
- A caller reports of Foxhill's habitation by mass-murdering baby farmer Mother Seddons.
- Amidst microphone disturbance and a frenzy of poltergeist banging, a framed picture flies off the wall. Meanwhile, a wide-eyed Susie, huddled behind an armchair, speaks in a blood-chillingly deep voice.Susie: What big eyes you have... what big haaaaands you haaaaaaave...
- At another chorus of feline yowls, Mike opens the glory hole - in which we briefly see an unknown bald man - and is thrown to the floor, the side of his head viciously cut.
- An anonymous caller reveals the corpse of previous Foxhill Drive resident Raymond Tunstall to have had its face eaten by his trapped cats.
- Dr Pascoe realises the studio's current footage of the house not to be live - something has compelled the screen to show footage from earlier.
- With a cacophony of unearthly screeching and groaning, live transmission resumes, revealing the house to have been plunged into total darkness. With Mike taken to hospital, only Sarah and Susie are still in the house. Inside, by torchlight, Chris and Sarah follow, to the glory hole, Susie's calls for help. From the inside blasts an unearthly wind. Sarah steps in - and the door slams shut.
- Throughout the wind-blasted studio, light bulbs explode, and the crew flee. In the near-total darkness, Parkinson finds a working camera.Parkinson: ...'Round and round the garden… like a teddy bear?' Didn’t believe those stories about Mother Seddons... Did you?
