Most Haunted

Smash hit extravaganza Most Haunted Live returns this week for the most amazing supernatural spookfest so far. The intrepid team - presenters Yvette Fielding, Karl Beattie and Paul Ross, parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe, and mediums Brian Shepherd and Billy Roberts - will conduct an unprecedented seven-night trawl through a remote Welsh village, investigating the sinister spirits and terrifying tales of the area in Most Haunted Live: Village of the Damned.

The village is home to a range of ancient buildings and edifices, including a former asylum, each with its own dark past. It stands on ground said to be cursed by three witches who were tried and executed there and, throughout the week, the team will leave no stone unturned in their quest to unearth the truth about this ghost-riddled region of North Wales.

The gripping first night's action sees the team undertake an elaborate 'time slip' experiment in the former asylum, which was built in the 19th century and ran for almost 200 years, before closing in 1995. In that time, patients reported seeing, hearing and feeling the spirits of the witches. Dr O'Keeffe hopes that the team's daring experiment, in which two members are strapped into straitjackets in separate padded cells while Yvette holds a seance, will entice the spirits of these patients to reveal exactly what they experienced. Over the remaining nights, the team will hunt the witches in the hospital wards, attics and cellars. Finally, they will go to the deconsecrated church where it is thought the witches were tried and, in a dramatic exorcism, burn it to the ground to rid the area of spirits and prepare it for habitation.