Two comedy stars had a seriously spooky experience when they stayed in York.
As YorkMix revealed last month, brother and sister Charlie and Daisy May Cooper have filmed an episode of their new ghostbusting show in the city.
Now you can watch their York escapades – which include a strange encounter.
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch sees the intrepid duo, beloved for their performance in hilarious mock documentary This Country, visit York episode four.
The series has just launched on BBC Two, and you can watch the whole lot on iPlayer.
Charlie outside the Everyman in York. Photograph: BBC /Screengrab
When they arrive, they feel sure they will see a ghost in the city. “This will shock you. York is not only the most haunted place in the UK – it could possibly be the most haunted place in Europe,” Daisy May tells Charlie in the Everyman Cinema.
Built as the Odeon in 1937, many people have had paranormal experiences in the building.
One member of staff tells of hearing running upstairs in the empty cinema at night. And several people have seen the ghost of a man wearing a bowler hat and sitting in Screen One.
Staff at the Everyman share their stories.
And they’ve all had a bad feeling about the old spiral staircase in one corner of the Everyman.
After sitting in King’s Square to enjoy chips and a pickled egg from Drake’s Fish and Chips on Low Petergate, Daisy May and Charlie explore Shambles, including looking at the spectres in the window of the York Ghost Merchants.
Then it’s off to stay the night at the Golden Fleece on Pavement, which claims to be the most haunted pub in York.
Here they are told of people staying in the Lady Peckitt Room who’ve had their legs grabbed in the night.
There’s also the legend of the Canadian airman who fell out of the window and died and who is now said to haunt the Minster Suite.
In King’s Square and Shambles
During the night, the siblings are in the Minster Suite when Charlie’s touch-activated “ghost balls” go off, leading to Daisy May screaming.
Then Charlie goes to sleep in the Lady Peckitt Room. When he returns to his sister in the Minster Suite the following morning, she asks him if he came up the stairs in the middle of the night.
Charlie says no.
Daisy May says: “After 12, I heard somebody walk up the stairs and then stop outside the door, and then there was no footsteps walking back down.
In the Golden Fleece and at Dick Turpin’s grave
“I was so frightened. That’s the first time I’ve been really, really, really scared in it in a long time.”
The pair then visit the grave of Dick Turpin in St George’s churchyard, who they think is a distant relative of theirs, before leaving York for their next ghostly adventure.
