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It’s a cross between the exorcist and a clown routine. This is turned almost comical by the fact that as the priest shouts out lines from the bible, the water starts to be directed only at him. In the crescendo to the story (which always neatly happens after the last ad break) we have the classic scene of the priest coming in to perform an exorcism on the poor possessed guy. There’s a nice supernatural twist when the ‘water’ starts to ‘fall’ upwards from the floor and then even move sideways. That’s right, it is raining indoors! (The house has no running water on that side of the house and it's not raining outside so obvious explanations are soon dismissed). Sound familiar? Next, in a twist from the ‘blood oozing from the walls’ scenario, we hear that water, (or a water-like sticky substance) starts to fall from the ceiling. Picture the scene - a room goes cold, a young boy feels an ‘evil presence’, he ends up with deep bloody scratch marks on his arm. Last night’s story had elements of ‘The Green Mile’ as well as classic scenes from ‘The Exorcist’.

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Point a camera at them and small events will grow in their imagination until they have a full blown horror story which fits the common language of such narratives. You may think (and in fact you should think) ‘So what?’ It’s true that people will say anything to get on the telly. What gives the programme its edge I suppose is the fact that these are actual accounts from real witnesses. These reconstructions use all the tricks learnt from modern day horror films: jump cuts, sudden discordant noises, disorientating angles, camera shakes as well as special effects. This is a strange programme which uses first hand accounts of paranormal activity intercut with dramatisations.

I've been enjoying a bit of trash TV called Paranormal Witness recently.

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