Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders
Encyclopedia
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders is a spin-off series of the paranormal
television series, Most Haunted
. It ran on LivingTV
between 19 June 2007 and 7 August 2007.
but it was broadcast as a stand-alone series of the show. It saw the Most Haunted team of Yvette Fielding
, David Wells
and Dr Ciarán O'Keeffe
being led by historian Lesley Smith
to rural English and Welsh
villages to attempt to solve murder mysteries. Participating in vigils were Most Haunted team members Karl Beattie
, Stuart Torevell
, Catherine (Cath) Howe and Iain Cash.
village when the team investigated a victim of Jack The Ripper
.
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
television series, Most Haunted
Most Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal documentary reality television series. The series was first shown on 25 May 2002 and ended on 21 July 2010. It was broadcast on Living and presented by Yvette Fielding. The programme was based on investigating purported paranormal activity...
. It ran on LivingTV
LIVINGtv
Sky Living is a UK television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting, who purchased the Living TV Group group in 2010. Originally launched as UK Living in 1993, the channel changed its name to Living TV in 1997 and then to Living in 2007. On 1 February 2011 Living changed its name to Sky Living...
between 19 June 2007 and 7 August 2007.
Idea
Midsummer Murders was intended to be the 10th series of Most HauntedMost Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal documentary reality television series. The series was first shown on 25 May 2002 and ended on 21 July 2010. It was broadcast on Living and presented by Yvette Fielding. The programme was based on investigating purported paranormal activity...
but it was broadcast as a stand-alone series of the show. It saw the Most Haunted team of Yvette Fielding
Yvette Fielding
Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...
, David Wells
David Wells
David Lee Wells , nicknamed "Boomer", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Wells was considered to be one of the game's better left-handed pitchers, especially during his years with the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays. He pitched the fifteenth perfect game in baseball history...
and Dr Ciarán O'Keeffe
Ciarán O'Keeffe
Dr. Ciarán O'Keeffe is a British parapsychologist. He has held a Research associate position at Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail and also an online tutor position at Derby University. Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in Psychology with a parapsychology component, Dr...
being led by historian Lesley Smith
Lesley Smith
Lesley Smith is a scholar, historian, heritage publicist and actress. She was resident historian on the television show Most Haunted Live! and presenter of Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders...
to rural English and Welsh
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
villages to attempt to solve murder mysteries. Participating in vigils were Most Haunted team members Karl Beattie
Karl Beattie
Karl Beattie is an outspoken broadcaster, pundit and the husband of Yvette Fielding, main presenter Living TV's now defunct Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live, programmes which investigated psychic and paranormal phenomena...
, Stuart Torevell
Stuart Torevell
Stuart Torevell is a camera operator and rigger working for television production company Antix Productions on shows such as Most Haunted. He is a cousin of Yvette Fielding...
, Catherine (Cath) Howe and Iain Cash.
Episodes
- Stoney Middleton (19 June 2007)
- Nantwich (26 June 2007)
- Castleton, Derbyshire (3 July 2007)
- Pluckley (10 July 2007)
- Ruthin (17 July 2007)
- Tutbury (24 July 2007)
- Tarvin (31 July 2007)
- Bakewell (7 August 2007)
Series 2
Ciaran O' Keeffe recently revealed via a web blog that the team will be filming a new series of Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders in May/June 2010. Locations will include Wrenbury Village and Lavenham.Lost episodes and DVD
A ninth episode was filmed from LymmLymm
Lymm is a large village and civil parish within the Warrington borough of Cheshire, in North West England. Lymm was an urban district of Cheshire from 1894 to 1974. The civil parish of Lymm incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little...
village when the team investigated a victim of Jack The Ripper
Jack the Ripper
"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...
.
Episode synopsis
- Stoney MiddletonStoney MiddletonStoney Middleton is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. It lies in the White Peak area of the Peak District southeast of Eyam and northwest of Calver, on the A623 road at the foot of the limestone valley of Middleton Dale....
(19 June 2007): in the premiere episode the team investigates two deaths that of an un-named Scottish pedlarPedlarPedlar may refer to:* The British English form and original spelling of peddler-Places:* Pedlar Island, Ontario, Canada* Pedlar River, Virginia, USA* Pedlar Wildlife Management Area in Monongalia County, West Virginia-Given names and nicknames:...
and of Hannah Baddeley. - NantwichNantwichNantwich is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The town gives its name to the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich...
(26 June 2007): the team visits local sites Hack Green Secret Nuclear BunkerHack Green Secret Nuclear BunkerThe Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker located at Hack Green, Cheshire, England.- History :The first military use of the area was in World War II, when a Starfish site was established at Hack Green...
and Churche's MansionChurche's MansionChurche's Mansion is a timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house at the eastern end of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England...
in attempts to solve two separate murders that occurred in the town. - Castleton, Derbyshire (3 July 2007): rumours from the 18th century of miners who were haunted by and later confess to the murder of an engaged couple bring the team to this picturesque town.
- PluckleyPluckleyPluckley is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, United Kingdom. It is located close to the North Downs, and is approximately 5 miles west of Ashford...
(10 July 2007): in the "most haunted village" in England, the team goes to the Screaming Woods to investigate a man's death. - RuthinRuthinRuthin is a community and the county town of Denbighshire in north Wales. Located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd - the older part of the town, the castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of...
(17 July 2007): it's the late Victorian eraVictorian eraThe Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
and a man has murdered his wife. Or has he? The team attempts to solve the crime. - TutburyTutburyTutbury is a large village and civil parish of about 3,000 residents in the English county of Staffordshire.It is surrounded by the agricultural countryside of both Staffordshire and Derbyshire. The site has been inhabited for over 3000 years, with Iron Age defensive ditches encircling the main...
(24 July 2007): the team investigates a murder over hidden treasure. - TarvinTarvinTarvin is a village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It had a population of 2,693 people at the 2001 UK census, and the ward covers about .-Location:...
(31 July 2007): the team attempts to solve the murder mystery of the beheaded women Grace Trig. - BakewellBakewellBakewell is a small market town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, deriving its name from 'Beadeca's Well'. It is the only town included in the Peak District National Park, and is well known for the local confection Bakewell Pudding...
(7 August 2007): a Christmas holiday ends in tragedy for a local man known for his aggressiveness in the 19th century.