Most Haunted’s Yvette Fielding reveals the moment crew were ‘cut to the bone’ by spirit that made her QUIT ghost hunts

FOR 22 years Yvette Fielding has braved the astir haunted sites successful the UK - sending chills down the spines of viewers.

But 1 harrowing acquisition stands supra the remainder and was truthful terrifying that the paranormal seasoned vowed to springiness up the shade and halt hunting spirits entirely.

While that determination was short-lived, the representation of what she and her squad experienced successful Edinburgh Vaults is etched successful her mind.

It was a infinitesimal that went beyond eerie noises and unsettling sensations to an enactment of brutal unit that near the hunters - including Yvette's hubby Karl - physically scarred.

In an exclusive interrogation with The Sun connected behalf of Ring, Yvette, 56, said: "It was perfectly terrifying to really ticker members of your squad getting hurt.

"If you speech to anybody that's been to Edinburgh Vaults, there's a country wherever there's a chromatic ellipse and members of the nationalist volition spell connected a circuit down there, and they'll travel retired and person scratches connected their look oregon bruises oregon small burns connected them.

"And that's wherefore we went to analyse Edinburgh Vaults, due to the fact that we thought, well, what's going connected here? And definite enough, 3 members of the squad got scratched, but 1 of them truthful badly, down his leg, the chopped was truthful heavy you could spot the bone.

"He had to beryllium rushed disconnected to Accident and Emergency to get it stitched up. And that's wherever I really resigned unrecorded connected air.

"I went into shock. I was truthful frightened. But we were broadcasting crossed America connected the Discovery Channel and crossed the UK astatine the aforesaid time, and I'm trying to support it together.

"I conscionable support bursting into tears, and I really said unrecorded connected air, that's it, I resign. I'm not dealing with immoderate of this, due to the fact that it's excessively frightening."

The Vaults day backmost to 1785 and began arsenic a gambling and boozing den of sorts underneath the city.

Rumours person circulated implicit the years that serial slayer William Burke and William Hare stashed bodies there, though this hasn't been proved.

Yvette and her colleagues person had their just stock of sceptics implicit the years.

They don't shy distant from acknowledging determination are plentifulness of hoaxes retired there, but emotion thing much than inviting non-believers onto hunts truthful they tin acquisition it for themselves.

"I emotion watching people, watching the cogs crook successful people's heads and they're trying to enactment retired however thing has moved connected its own," said Yvette.

"They're determination trying to find the wires oregon they think, oh, they perchance faked it.

"And past erstwhile they realise, no, actually, we haven't and it's each real, past they absolutely, yeah, a spot of brownish trouser infinitesimal goes connected there, which is rather good."

A batch of naysayers mention the galore Hollywood movies and their cliché tropes arsenic different crushed hunts are phony.

But these large fund scaries often usage a real life lawsuit arsenic inspiration, which prompts Yvette to steer wide of watching them.

"There are a batch of things, particularly present with tech, things tin precise easy beryllium faked connected camera, truthful overmuch stuff," said Yvette.

"But due to the fact that it's truthful good, radical go, well, it indispensable beryllium faked. And it's like, 'no, it's bloody good not'.

"A batch of the horror movies that we spot present are based connected existent cases and that's what's frightening. Obviously, Hollywood exaggerates and, you know, they've got women crawling crossed the level successful a achromatic nightie, that benignant of thing.

"But, you know, you look astatine The Exorcist, that was a existent case. It was a small lad alternatively than a small girl. The Exorcism of Emily Rose is based connected a young pistillate who really died due to the fact that allegedly she was possessed.

"And the religion and her parents were taken to court for abuse. Anneliese Michel. My God, what a harrowing communicative that is.

"So Hollywood instrumentality these archetypal cases and past marque them into these large Hollywood fearfulness movies that I person ne'er watched. I can't, due to the fact that past if I'm doing a Ouija committee successful an attic wherever someone's been murdered, I volition ideate that pistillate successful a achromatic nightie crawling crossed the ceiling, you know."

HUNTING WITH O'GRADY

One idiosyncratic who surely was a large believer is Yvette's precocious adjacent person Paul O'Grady, who died successful 2023 aged 67.

The TV favourite loved teaming up with Yvette for spooky adventures and determination utilized to beryllium plentifulness of laughter too, to easiness the tension.

On 1 juncture the duo were summoning spirits with a Ouija committee successful Venice erstwhile they were interrupted by cops.

They were sailing adjacent to the land of Poveglia wherever plague victims were erstwhile unceremoniously disposed of successful the water.

Yvette said: "Well, didn't we some consciousness a spot embarrassed sitting determination with a Ouija committee table? And past we conscionable explained that we're doing a amusement astir ghosts. And they benignant of similar rolled their eyes and laughed and past turned astir and disconnected they went.

"But yeah, myself and Paul had the astir unthinkable experiences together. You know, we did it. We've done it all, Ouija boards, array tipping, seances, investigating together, holding onto each different for beloved life, you know.

"It was large due to the fact that each Halloween he'd ringing maine oregon he'd substance me, 'what are you doing? Where are you going? I privation to travel with', yeah. You know, helium was truly into it."

SPOOKY SENSATIONS

Yvette is present utilizing her expertise to assistance homeowners found whether oregon not they're experiencing supernatural goings connected aft a raft of Ring doorbell owners spotted spooky happenings connected their devices.

While immoderate are what you'd expect from a cheeky apparition, others are a spot much sinister and extreme.

She said: "Oh blimey, there's truthful many. Hearing your doorbell ringing oregon idiosyncratic knocking astatine the doorway and you spell to unfastened it and there's cipher there. This mightiness hap 3 times successful the time and you're like, what's going on?

"The next happening volition beryllium objects volition conscionable vanish similar your keys oregon you'll beryllium determination getting acceptable successful your bath and you'll beryllium needing a hairbrush oregon immoderate you think, wherever the hell's that gone? And past they'll crook up successful the astir ridiculous place, similar your hairbrush mightiness crook up successful the cutlery drawer downstairs successful the kitchen.

"Then it's noises, truthful you mightiness abruptly commencement proceeding footsteps connected your staircase oregon voices, whispering, talking.

"And past the adjacent happening is, volition beryllium objects moving, but dense objects, truthful similar chairs volition abruptly look successful antithetic rooms wherever they're not expected to beryllium oregon you'll perceive furnishings being dragged astir and you'll think, ohio my god, what's going on? And you'll spell into that peculiar country wherever you've heard the sound from and nothing's retired of place.

"Or successful immoderate truly horrible cases, the furnishings volition beryllium piled up, usually astatine 1 extremity of the country oregon successful a pyramid, which is truly bizarre. What other happens? All sorts of unusual things. You'll consciousness similar you're being watched successful your ain home.

"Doors volition slam, that benignant of thing. So it's truly rather scary. When you are successful that concern and you spot this believing and you think, this is not my imagination, I cognize these things are moving connected their own.

"I cognize I'm proceeding a small girl's voice. I cognize I tin perceive footsteps moving up and down the stairs and objects are being moved successful my house. Then you cognize that you've got idiosyncratic other with you."

Regardless of the panic she's experienced, Yvette has vowed to hunt connected and adjacent joked that she'll instrumentality to her ain amusement arsenic a shade erstwhile she yet pops her clogs.