‘I often have to sleep with the lights on!’
Ghostbuster Yvette Fielding, 48, is back with another spook-tastic series of Most Haunted on Really…
Most Haunted is back! And you kick off the new series in the spooky Abbey House Museum, in leeds. How do you choose these places? It’s a feeling you get – I go into them and I know it’s going to be a scary one. It’s like you’re not on your own; something is following you and makes you feel on edge…
You have a new member of the Most Haunted team; Watson the dog...
We live on a 20-acre farm [in Cheshire] and we’ve got four dogs. Our family is very patriotic and I’m a massive fan of Winston Churchill. I thought, we haven’t got a British bulldog – so Christmas 2015 we got him as a puppy and fell in love with him.
How does he feel about the ghosts?
He’s so relaxed that he’ll go into these supposedly haunted locations, have a sniff, plonk himself down and start snoring. When something does happen, he stands stock still, his hackles go up and he’ll stare for ages at a spot where nothing is. Then he’ll do a tiny little growl – and that’s when I know there’s something with us.
Gulp! Does he make you feel a bit braver when tackling the spooks?
I’ve started going off into rooms on my own. I’ve not done that before, but when I’ve got my little mate with me I feel all right. We can’t take him to all the locations, however, because he’s like my baby and I won’t take him anywhere in the car that’s over a two-hour journey. He was offered a chance to go on This Morning but I refused as it’s too far for him!
karl (Yvette’s husband and co-spook botherer karl Beattie) is great as he gets so scared; are there any incidents this time?
It’s a fantastic series as always but wait until you see episode two – it is a defining moment in the history of all Most Haunted. I can’t say more than that but it’s the best thing ever. Karl caught it [on camera], and it’s fabulous…
Anything else you can tell us about the new series?
Something happens that results in me getting really angry with Karl. We were in a particularly spooky location and he was shouting into the dark: “Yeah, come on – throw knives at me!” Then a huge great big carving knife comes flying through the air and hits him on the head. If it hadn’t been handle first, it would have killed him. When people say: “You fake it,” I say: “Why would we throw knives around in the dark?” We had a big barney at home after that!
Do you ban ghost chat at home?
We can’t help it. But when I watch Netflix it can’t be anything scary. I couldn’t watch Most Haunted on my own in the house – I’d have a terrible night’s sleep. And if I’ve come back from a particularly spooky location, I have to sleep with the lights on. My mother won’t even come to the house! My daughter on the other hand [Yvette is mum to Mary, 17, and William, 23] wants to take over from me and keeps saying: “When are you going to give it up?” My son is scared to death of it! l Most Haunted Returns, Fri 14 Apr, 10pm, Really