Most Haunted team member admits a lot of the show ‘wasn’t real’, except this one haunting

Most Haunted is a TV show that used to scare me when I saw it in the TV guide magazines, until you grow up and realise that Derek Acorah is comedy gold and Yvette Fielding is a TV presenter who was good at scaring Girls Aloud around Welsh castles than she was at doing anything actually paranormal. It’s pretty widely accepted by anyone with a crumb of common sense that the show exaggerated a lot of its supposed paranormal phenomena, but now in a new interview the show’s resident historian confessed that Most Haunted was fake a lot of the time. But Most Haunted historian Richard Felix, who worked on the show for its first six seasons, confessed that one occurrence in particular was not faked and it still haunts him to this day.

‘A voice that twice goes ‘mummy”

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Richard Felix was interviewed in a TikTok recently in Derby jail – and was asked about his scariest experience on Most Haunted. Felix said “It’s got to be cabin 340.” This is referring to cabin B340 on the Queen Mary ship – which now lies as a hotel and museum in Los Angeles permanently docked. It’s frequently spoken about by believers as one of the most haunted ships in the world.

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Felix continues “We’re on Queen Mary for three weeks, and there’s a very haunted cabin. Both David Wells and Derek [Acorah] came up with the same account that some child was smashed against the wall by the father and murdered in cabin 340. It’s so haunted that they’ve stopped using it as a room, it’s a hotel. They’re losing money by not having people stay in 340.

“We’ve been on there for over two weeks, and I’m thinking ‘come on guys, you’re supposed to know this ghost business, surely someone should be staying the night in cabin 340′”. Richard Felix then explains how it was he himself who was the one to stay in the room.

“They sorted it out, they got a rickety old bed made up. No carpet. Rickety old table. Toilet and bathroom didn’t work. It took me til about half one before the security guy come and let me in, and by that time I’d had considerable numbers of quite large glasses of whiskey.

“About half past four in the morning there’s this crescendo of noise in the cabin. It was metallic, it was as if someone had got a huge bundle of metal coat hangers and bounced them from wall to wall. The noise… bloody hell. It was in the cabin. It woke me up. I should have got up and gone back to my own cabin where my wife was, but I didn’t.

“Ciaran O’Keeffe got his laptop filming me in bed, so I stayed there and went back to sleep. Everyone was told about it, because we’ve got it on film. We get back to England and we’re watching footage in the edit room and we get all this footage of the noise – great stuff. But then, we hear footsteps going around my bed. And a voice that twice goes ‘mummy’. You ought to have heard Yvette scream.”

The lore of the Queen Mary has long rumoured various happenings in cabin B340 – but none have been substantiated and the records maintain that no murder occurred in there. Including another urban legend of a man who murdered two women in the cabin, and when police entered the room they found his violently dismembered body.

‘Most Haunted wasn’t real’

Felix then admits “I know that everything that happened on Most Haunted wasn’t real. It was an entertainment programme. When the show started it was terrible impressive, but I know full well they needed to keep the public entertained. They believed you needed a ghost every five minutes. For me, there was not enough investigation into what was happening. The crew apart from Derek and Ciaran none of the crew knew anything about ghosts.

“Every time they screamed, fell over, felt sick or got a headache… Have you ever heard anyone screaming before you faint? Well, if you didn’t scream before you fainted the camera wouldn’t get to you in time.”

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