Yvette Fielding has hit back at a ‘rude’ celebrity who called her ghost hunting ‘really stupid’ (Picture: UKTV/REALLY/Tony Ward)
Most Haunted star Yvette Fielding has hit back at a celebrity who branded her ghost hunting activities ‘really stupid’.
The TV presenter, 55, has been leading the paranormal reality series since it first aired in 2002, and has gone on to publish several books following her spooky experiences.
But despite the terrifying encounters that others have witnessed alongside Yvette, with many documented on camera, several people are still sceptical about her ghost hunting abilities, including one celebrity who was rude to her face.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk ahead of the release of her new book, Most Haunted Castles, Yvette recalled the conversation, saying that nowadays, she’s less phased by such comments.
‘It doesn’t upset me anymore because I know the truth and I know that after 10 years of doing the Most Haunted Experience and working with like-minded people, fans and members of the public that come along and come away from a night saying, “It completely changed my whole thought process on it,” or a new camera crew that come onboard and they’re sceptical but by the end of it they’re like, oh my god, that to me is fantastic, because it used to get to me, it used to really upset me, but it really does not bother me at all anymore.’
‘I don’t like it when people are rude,’ she went on. ‘I had one celebrity say to me, “I think what you do is really stupid.”
‘He said it in front of loads of people, and I felt the ground open up beneath me. And I just thought, why have you said that?
‘I wanted to say to him, “Well, hang on a minute. That’s my religion. I’m a spiritualist, if you were Jewish, Muslim, Catholic whatever, I’m not going to ridicule your faith, why on earth are you ridiculing mine?”‘
The Most Haunted star has revealed some terrifying experiences she’s witnessed (Picture: Mike Lawn/Shutterstock)
Over the years, Yvette has shared some of the experiences she’s had including when she was almost killed by a horse after using a Ouija board, having members of her crew attacked by ghosts, and when she was once chased by a ‘pair of legs’ in a haunted theatre.
But the chilling ghostly experiences she witnessed in preparation for her latest book may be the worst yet.
During a visit to Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, Yvette and the film crew visited a Bones Room, full of human remains that have been excavated from the landmark’s grounds after numerous historical battles.
‘We were there, the film crew and myself, and all of a sudden we heard something hit the floor and put a torch on and we found a bone,’ she recalled.
‘We were like, oh my god, and it happened again and again. And then the worst bit was when the historian felt something land in his hair, and we looked and it was a human tooth… we all gave it legs and ran.’
Yvette detailed the ghostly encounters in preparation for her new book (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Elsewhere during research for her latest venture, she was left locked in a turret at the top of Oxford Castle when the ‘door slammed’ – and the situation still remains shrouded in mystery.
She explained: ‘We were all inside this particular room at the top of the turret, and to lock the door from the outside was a huge metal bolt that you had to slide across.
‘We would have heard it slide, but the door slammed, made us all jump, and then we didn’t hear anything. When we tried to get out, we couldn’t get out, so we had to use our phones to get somebody to come and help us… There was nobody humanly possible that could have done it.’
Those eerie moments never made Yvette want to stop her research though, as her love of castles kept her going.
‘Yes, there’s frightening moments and moments where you actually run or leave a location,’ she said.
During the team’s visit to Pengersick Castle in Cornwall, two of her crew were so frightened that they sprinted to the car and locked themselves in, Yvette told us.
But the horror didn’t stop there. She said: ‘They could hear footsteps on the ground path leading towards the car and something walking around the car. That was frightening.’
‘But no, it’s like a roller coaster ride,’ Yvette added, insisting that the next day she’s ready to go back and do it all over again.
And she hasn’t just been haunted by paranormal forces while filming.
In fact, strange occurrences happened in her own home when she first moved in, despite asking the previous owners if the house was haunted, ‘because it looked like it should be’.
Yvette witnessed paranormal experiences in her own home (Picture: Paul Cooper/Shutterstock)
‘Within the first few weeks of us moving in, all sorts of weird stuff was happening,’ she told us.
Yvette continued: ‘My children would be at school and I would hear in the house “Mummy”, somebody would be knocking on the door, [and I’d go to the door], this would happen about five times in a day, and there’s nobody there.’
She also revealed that kitchen chairs would ‘move on their own and be placed in a pyramid shape, balanced on top of each other on the kitchen table’.
As if that wasn’t enough to make anyone want to move house, Yvette also said her husband Karl saw a ghost dressed like a Cavalier outside their house, only for them to later discover that soldiers had been murdered near their home during the Civil War.
She went on: ‘After a while we got used to it, and the weird thing is now that both my children are all grown up and living their own lives, got their own homes and everything, there’s nothing, there’s no activity.
‘I’m a firm believer that energy, and especially young energy, can actually exacerbate or really meddle with the atmosphere and the vibrations within a house.’
Yvette’s new book, Most Haunted Castles, is available to buy from September 19
Despite how terrifying those encounters have been, Yvette added that she would never wish she was ‘oblivious’ to the experiences.
‘God no, it’s changed my whole life,’ she said. ‘Before I did Most Haunted I’d had a couple of experiences and I started to become interested… but before that I actually thought there was nothing when we died, I didn’t believe in anything. I didn’t believe in god, didn’t have a faith, nothing.
‘And it actually affected me, made me a bit down, because I just thought, oh my god, what are we here for? What’s this about? Which we’ve all asked, especially when you’re younger, you’re questioning everything.
‘So then of course, we made Most Haunted… and after all the things that I’ve seen, I’ve heard, that we do go on and we see our loved ones again, and we go to another place, that for me has completely changed my whole outlook on life and I feel I’m a happier person for it.
‘For me, that’s my faith and I’m so very pleased and proud that me and my husband found it.’
Most Haunted Castles written by Yvette Fielding, illustrated by Hannah Shaw, will be released on September 19 and available in all good bookshops.
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