CuriousIdent
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Back in the days shortly before I was a student (1997/98) I watched a shit load of daytime TV.
This in itself is not interesting.
However, I seem to remember at some point while watching the general garage of late 90s daytime TV there was a broadcast of ITV’s This Morning one day where they ran some kind of Supernatural Phone-in. I think that the Rev Lionel Fanthorpe may have been involved. It was the late 90s, Fortean TV was still on the air. It was likely.
Now, during the course of this phone in, amongst the usual mentals you'd expect from a live TV phone-in, they received a call from this guy who sounded pretty damned shook up relaying his experience. If I recall rightly he'd been driving late at night on a road (near either Nottingham or Lincoln I think..?) and all of a sudden hit a figure in the road who clung to his windscreen for a while before being brushed off and disappearing. There wasn't anybody actually there, though. This definitely appeared to be a ghost.
He claimed not to be they type of guy to believe in such things, but this shook him up so badly. The guy had been terrified by the experience.
Nothing much more was thought of this, other callers were put on, the segment ended. Job done. Only at the end of the show they said that since that guy had phoned in they'd received several other calls, all relaying the same story on the same patch of road.
Now this was at the point where This Morning was still fronted by Richard Madely and Judy Finnegan. But Judy was... absent through ill-health, I believe. So there was a rotation of guest presenters alongside Richard.
And by all accounts during that period Richard was prone to going a bit... mental. (I seem to remember one week he tried to start up an impromptu 'This Morning Band' which he would sing with at the end of the week) He was clearly doing anything which he felt that he wanted to, very much on a whim. And so naturally he insisted that they looked into this further! He pulled up a map with the spot on the road circled upon it (in an At o Z) and off they went.
I remember seeing the first follow up section they did of this, which included some more of the many accounts the show had received from people since going off air that day. All on this same stretch of road.
The follow up was pretty disappointing from what I recall. A rushed attempt to drive down the stretch of road in the daylight, which yielded nothing. They'd also discovered that the road was supposed to be some kind of 'witches hollow' at some point (with no real evidence to support that), and that there might have been a connection to a local RAF base or something? I don't remember. But they did say that they were intending to do another more detailed follow up piece.
I never saw that.
Does anybody remember this broadcast? Or more specifically a) which stretch of road it was supposed to be and b) a slightly better researched explanation of it.
Like I say it was somewhere in the Nottinghamshire or Lincolnshire area. But other than that it was over 10 years ago, and I'm buggered if I can remember which, now.
It sounded, from that piece on the show at least, like this might have been something worth reviewing and researching. With enough people having reported similar things voluntarily.
Edit: Correcting typos from 8 years ago, which have basically been annoying me all that time.
This in itself is not interesting.
However, I seem to remember at some point while watching the general garage of late 90s daytime TV there was a broadcast of ITV’s This Morning one day where they ran some kind of Supernatural Phone-in. I think that the Rev Lionel Fanthorpe may have been involved. It was the late 90s, Fortean TV was still on the air. It was likely.
Now, during the course of this phone in, amongst the usual mentals you'd expect from a live TV phone-in, they received a call from this guy who sounded pretty damned shook up relaying his experience. If I recall rightly he'd been driving late at night on a road (near either Nottingham or Lincoln I think..?) and all of a sudden hit a figure in the road who clung to his windscreen for a while before being brushed off and disappearing. There wasn't anybody actually there, though. This definitely appeared to be a ghost.
He claimed not to be they type of guy to believe in such things, but this shook him up so badly. The guy had been terrified by the experience.
Nothing much more was thought of this, other callers were put on, the segment ended. Job done. Only at the end of the show they said that since that guy had phoned in they'd received several other calls, all relaying the same story on the same patch of road.
Now this was at the point where This Morning was still fronted by Richard Madely and Judy Finnegan. But Judy was... absent through ill-health, I believe. So there was a rotation of guest presenters alongside Richard.
And by all accounts during that period Richard was prone to going a bit... mental. (I seem to remember one week he tried to start up an impromptu 'This Morning Band' which he would sing with at the end of the week) He was clearly doing anything which he felt that he wanted to, very much on a whim. And so naturally he insisted that they looked into this further! He pulled up a map with the spot on the road circled upon it (in an At o Z) and off they went.
I remember seeing the first follow up section they did of this, which included some more of the many accounts the show had received from people since going off air that day. All on this same stretch of road.
The follow up was pretty disappointing from what I recall. A rushed attempt to drive down the stretch of road in the daylight, which yielded nothing. They'd also discovered that the road was supposed to be some kind of 'witches hollow' at some point (with no real evidence to support that), and that there might have been a connection to a local RAF base or something? I don't remember. But they did say that they were intending to do another more detailed follow up piece.
I never saw that.
Does anybody remember this broadcast? Or more specifically a) which stretch of road it was supposed to be and b) a slightly better researched explanation of it.
Like I say it was somewhere in the Nottinghamshire or Lincolnshire area. But other than that it was over 10 years ago, and I'm buggered if I can remember which, now.
It sounded, from that piece on the show at least, like this might have been something worth reviewing and researching. With enough people having reported similar things voluntarily.
Edit: Correcting typos from 8 years ago, which have basically been annoying me all that time.
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