What's the scariest thing in the world?
Is it Zhenzi, or Chu Renmei?
No, the real scariest thing is live streaming!
Today's theme is Ghost Watch, a show that has been banned for 10 years.
In October 1992, the British BBC television suddenly released the news that a special program would be broadcast on the eve of Halloween, and at the beginning of the program, the famous host Michael Parkinson and the paranormal expert Lin Paske connected the haunted house, followed by a turn of the screen, broadcasting a video tape from several months ago.
Pam, a single mother, told the host bitterly that since she and her eldest daughter, Susannah, and younger daughter Kim moved into a house on the outskirts of London, the family had been plagued by supernatural events.
For example, objects often fly for no reason, there is always an inexplicable noise in the room, whenever this time, her daughters will always scream in fright, when the daughter asks her what it is, she can't even explain, she has to say that it is the sound of the central heating pipe.
So this invisible and untouchable ghost had a name called "Pipes".
Then Pam took out his daughters' notebooks, which were full of graffiti of unknown meaning, but they were not written by Suzanne and Kim, and since they were not drawn by their daughters, were they pranks by others, or were supernatural forces involved.
Just when everyone was confused, a sudden incoming hotline brought the first wave of terror, and some viewers found a black shadow appearing by the window in the video tape just played, but when the host played back the video, the black shadow disappeared again.
Seeing this, I believe that everyone has been a little hairy, but the host does not realize that the danger is gradually approaching.
The host circled the place where the black shadow appeared with a lighting pen, forcibly interpreting it as the shadow of a dress, and then a conversation with the evil spirit was released, at the same time, a blurred figure appeared behind Lin, and in the field interview with Pam's neighbor, the blurred shadow also appeared.
However, at this time, things suddenly changed, and there was a ping-pong ping-pong sound in Pam's house again, but as the picture moved, everyone suddenly found that all this was Pam's eldest daughter, Suzanne's ghost, and when she saw the picture displayed by the camera, two opinions suddenly appeared in the studio.
Host Michael believes that this is the whole truth, the reason why Pam's family is haunted, all because the eldest daughter Suzanne is playing a prank, but the supernatural experts invited by the program team disagree, insisting that things are not so simple, and the two have a quarrel over it.
Just as the host and the pundit were arguing over who was right and who was wrong, the studio phone rang again and again, and the audience scrambled to call to remind the shadow of that horror to reappear, and this time it became clearer.
After receiving a reminder from the audience, although still noisy, the host played back the surveillance video in response to public opinion, and an old man with one eye missing from his face and a black robe appeared, and with its appearance, there was a heart-rending cat bark and scratching the wall in the room.
Everyone rushed into the room with a scream, but saw the eldest daughter Suzanne inside, with a towel on her head, and after unwinding the towel, the host was shocked to find that Suzanne was full of scratches scratched by cats, and her eyes were straight, and her voice changed dramatically, as if she was possessed by something.
The development of the event to this point, can no longer be explained by pranks, even if the supernatural power is beyond the limits of human imagination, people have to believe that there are really ghosts in this world, and a call from a nearby social worker reveals the ins and outs of the whole event.
There was once a man named Tenstor who had 12 cats and was possessed by the evil spirit of a female killer.
Mentally troubled, Tenstol eventually chose to commit suicide. When people opened the door after 12 days, they saw only scratches on the corpses, not a single eye gone, and the cats starved without food.
After this, the atmosphere of horror reaches its peak, the monitors in the room appear abnormal, the evil spirit drags the host Sarah Green into the warehouse, the studio lights suddenly burst, and chaos and darkness dominate everything.
Although the whole live broadcast did not have too deliberate horror elements, but the ratings of the night was still detonated, just in the more than an hour of the program broadcast, there were more than 30,000 phone calls, countless people could only turn on the lights that night to sleep, and even some people were scared to pull their pants, but this very successful special program, in the end, ended in a huge tragedy.
5 days after the show aired, 18-year-old Martin, after watching the show, thought that there was really a ghost in the world, and did not hesitate to commit suicide. He was a young man with a slight intellectual disability, his mind was only 13 years old at the time, and in the note he left at the end, Martin wrote: "If there really is a ghost in the world, I am willing to be a ghost to accompany you forever"!
Martin's parents angrily accused the BBC of killing their son on the show.
Then, in November 1993, two doctors published an article in the British Medical Journal saying that the show triggered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children, and a year later, the BBC banned it, and this one was 10 years.
For this result, the producers of "Ghost Watch" are very aggrieved, because it is not really live, but a movie with live broadcast as a gimmick, the publicity model is no different from ordinary movies, in order to prevent the audience from really making a call, the production team also deliberately set up a recording, telling them when the audience dialed the phone that all this was fictional.
Who knew that this movie accidentally detonated the ratings, the overzealous audience directly exploded the telephone transfer station, and the originally set recording could not be released at all, which eventually led to the tragedy.
The tragedy of "Ghost Watch" can be said to be a coincidence, after all, no one would have thought that there happened to be a mentally handicapped Martin in the audience, and Martin just believed it and chose the path of suicide.
We can't blame anyone for this, but the occurrence of this kind of thing also exposes a problem in society, that is, we don't protect our children enough.
For example, Martin in this tragedy, whose psychological age is stuck at 13 years old, can be counted as an "older child", and mentally unsound minors, without parental supervision and correct guidance, do anything strange, even if it is watching children's animations that we think are safe, may also cause serious injuries due to imitation.
On April 6, 2013, three children in Jiangsu Province imitated the game of "bundling roast sheep" in the woods after watching "Happy Sheep and Gray Wolf", and as a result, they accidentally ignited fallen leaves on the ground, and two children tied to trees were seriously burned.
On March 20, 2014, a young boy imitated bald-headed qiang and slashed two of his fingers with an axe.
In 2016, a 10-year-old girl also sawed off her sister's face with a chainsaw for imitating bald head strength.
As a special "elderly child", Martin should not have been exposed to such negative things that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, which will lead to adverse consequences, but because of the negligence of his family, he saw suicide, which is obviously a lack of guardianship.
Nowadays, society is changing with each passing day, all kinds of novelties emerge in an endless stream, there are not a few things that will have a negative impact on children, minors have a weak ability to distinguish between good and evil, and when they come into contact with them, they are likely to cause tragedies, at this time, as the elderly, we must be vigilant and guide correctly, so as to avoid the occurrence of tragedies!