0:00:02 > 0:00:05Coming up, all our 12 Again celebs get spooky.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06It scared the life out of me.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09You'd never see me run so fast, from the living room to my bedroom.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13I didn't sleep for a week, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Ohhh! Just... Ohhh!
0:00:15 > 0:00:17That's supposed to be terrifying?
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Even I'm not scared of that.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22We're going to find out about the most terrifying night of year
0:00:22 > 0:00:25and exactly what scares our celebs' socks off.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29It's time to get spooky.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Have you ever wondered what Halloween was like
0:00:33 > 0:00:36for your favourite celebs when they were your age?
0:00:36 > 0:00:38What did they get dressed up as?
0:00:38 > 0:00:40What used to scare the pants off them on TV?
0:00:40 > 0:00:43And what scary songs did they love?
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Because, despite the glamorous lifestyles they now lead,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50once they were a kid hiding under their duvet, just like you.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53This show revisits the past Halloweens of your favourite celebs
0:00:53 > 0:00:57and asks them to become 12 Again.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04They're some of the biggest celebs out there in showbiz land today.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Thank you, fans.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Your instant download for the week ahead.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11From pop stars to actors and well-loved presenters...
0:01:11 > 0:01:13- We won't go there. - He was pretty awesome.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15..all are hugely successful.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17But back when they were kids,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21they had the same fears of things that go bump in the night as you do.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23We're back from the dead!
0:01:23 > 0:01:26So let's go back and find out how our favourite celebs
0:01:26 > 0:01:28used to celebrate the spookiest day of the year.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Halloween was the time when I really went wild.
0:01:35 > 0:01:36Nyargh, nyargh, nyragh!
0:01:36 > 0:01:37It was terrifying.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Ohhh! Just... Ohhh!
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Trick or treat, smell my feet.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Bleurgh!
0:01:43 > 0:01:45I used to like scary things.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47I remember lying in bed and you look at the curtains,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49and you can kind of see faces in them.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52We were a bunch of scaredy cats.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I used to feel sick. I got really scared about things like that.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I'm northern and well 'ard, so I'm not really scared of much.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I was scared about pretty much anything that could be scary.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Things I was most scared of was the ghosts.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I believe I've got ghosts in my room.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07I'm still scared of ghosts.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09I'm fine. I'm fine.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I'm fine. I'm fine.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15If you love to be scared,
0:02:15 > 0:02:19then Halloween on October 31st is a time to relish,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23especially as it gives super-cool celebs the perfect excuse
0:02:23 > 0:02:25to dress up as proper 'nanas.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I remember one year I wore, probably when I was 12, actually...
0:02:28 > 0:02:29I was a clown.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Half of me was an alive clown, half of me was a dead clown.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Yes, this is what I came up with.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I was the Terminator, yeah,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41and I had half like normal face, and then half like the robot face.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45I always went as the Devil for some reason.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I had big flashing horns and a red face,
0:02:48 > 0:02:51with a goatee and a moustache, which I've kept.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I do remember going to a fancy dress party as a mummy
0:02:54 > 0:02:56and I just got loads and loads of toilet roll,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58just wrapped it round my arms and legs,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00and it lasted for about 20 minutes.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05At least I had something to wipe my bum on.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07The outfits when I was a kid for Halloween were pretty basic.
0:03:07 > 0:03:13You might be getting a black bin bag, with arm holes and head hole.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18My mum made me a spider costume.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21She got loads of pairs of her tights, black ones,
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and she got bunches of newspaper,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26rolled them up into balls and stuffed these tights with them,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29and my mum stuck these eight spider legs to me.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32So I went to the party as the spider,
0:03:32 > 0:03:33and the kids are mean.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Children are mean. They're all mean.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37They pulled my legs off.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It was Louise Charlton who started it.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42If you're watching, it still upsets me, that.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46So, once they were all dressed up in their ghoulish garb,
0:03:46 > 0:03:50was Halloween a bit of a trick or 100% treat?
0:03:50 > 0:03:54Trick or treating with my brother, we had these little pumpkin baskets
0:03:54 > 0:03:56and we just used to fill them with sweets.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I worked out where the best places to go were.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04I'd walk to Maida Vale where all the big houses were because I thought,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"They've probably got more money, they'll have better sweets."
0:04:07 > 0:04:10It was really bad, actually,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13because if if they said, "Trick," or if they were like, "Go away!"
0:04:13 > 0:04:18we'd squeeze tomato ketchup on their door or through their letterbox.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21And obviously I would never do that now,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23and I'm ashamed of myself.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Trick or treat is amazing,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29and a few friends - I didn't know they didn't like dogs -
0:04:29 > 0:04:32knocked on this person's house and we were like, "Trick or treat?"
0:04:32 > 0:04:35The dogs ran out and about five of my friends ran straight back
0:04:35 > 0:04:36down the road to my house,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39cos they were petrified of dogs and it was absolutely funny.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43We do this thing in Scotland called guising.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45# Halloween's coming
0:04:45 > 0:04:47# Halloween's coming... #
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Apparently, Halloween's coming.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51# A skeleton's coming after you. #
0:04:51 > 0:04:54It's like a monetary version of trick or treat,
0:04:54 > 0:04:57so instead of getting sweets, you get money.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59And wear a bed sheet, apparently.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02You know, you went out en masse and did it,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04but you'd go into people's houses
0:05:04 > 0:05:08and then you'd sing or do a little dance, or tell jokes.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10What kind of cat is green and looks like a worm?
0:05:10 > 0:05:13- I don't know.- A caterpillar. - Brilliant.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16We made a fortune. It was ridiculous!
0:05:16 > 0:05:21Some people think that celebrating Halloween is a modern concept,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25but kids have been guising in Scotland for over a century.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It gets its name from wearing the dis-GUISE.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Yeah, pretty obvious, if you think about it.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Trick or treat?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Oh, my goodness!
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Not only that, the history of Halloween goes way back,
0:05:36 > 0:05:382,000 years, in fact, to Celtic times,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41when they used to celebrate the new year on the 1st of November.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44It was believed that on the last day of the year,
0:05:44 > 0:05:45what we now know as Halloween,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47all the people who died in that year
0:05:47 > 0:05:50would come back and possess a body of the living.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Obviously, if you were one of the living,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55you wouldn't be best pleased with that idea,
0:05:55 > 0:05:57so people used to dress up in scary costumes
0:05:57 > 0:05:59to frighten away the spirits.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Personally, I would prefer sweets.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03So, apart from trick or treating, or guising,
0:06:03 > 0:06:07what else did our celebs get up to on Halloween?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09The best thing about Halloween for me when I was a kid
0:06:09 > 0:06:11was being able to put your pumpkin out.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15The carving of the pumpkin, for me, was an official event.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18I had the knife, which was a big breadknife,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21because they're not too sharp, you can use them if you're a kid,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25but they go right through the pumpkin and they're dead easy to carve.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27You know the little scary teeth face bit?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30I did that bit cos it was the bit that took detail.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33My brother scooped the stuff from the inside
0:06:33 > 0:06:35cos he was a messy pup and he liked the idea of just getting
0:06:35 > 0:06:38his hands dirty and whacking the innards into my sister's trousers.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41He used put things down the back of her pants a lot.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43It was funny. Halloween brought so many funny times,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46mainly cos my sister walked round with a bottom full of pumpkin meat.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48While most of our celebs
0:06:48 > 0:06:50basked in the joy of making scary pumpkin faces,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52for Ed Petrie, it wasn't so easy.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55My mum would never let us have a pumpkin.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57I've still got my mum's words ringing in my ear.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00They were too expensive, so she used to get me a swede instead.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05You'd cut a rubbish little face in it and I had this swede lantern.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08It was a rubbish thing. You'd put a bit of string through it like that.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13I was never allowed a pumpkin and it still rankles to this day, actually.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Don't worry, Ed, traditionally in Britain,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18people used to make Halloween lanterns out of turnips.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20You were keeping it real, brother!
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Not really.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25So that's what our celebrities were getting up to on Halloween.
0:07:25 > 0:07:30But what was their favourite spooky songs?
0:07:30 > 0:07:34One of my favourite Halloween songs was the Monster Mash.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36# I was working in the lab late one night
0:07:36 > 0:07:41# When my eyes beheld a monstrous sight... #
0:07:41 > 0:07:43It was a fun song, and on Top Of The Pops,
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Pan's People danced to it as well.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48# You do the mash
0:07:48 > 0:07:50# You do the monster mash
0:07:50 > 0:07:52# You do the mash
0:07:52 > 0:07:54# It was a graveyard smash
0:07:54 > 0:07:56# It was the mash It was the monster mash... #
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Yeah, crazy song!
0:08:01 > 0:08:04# To the master bedroom where the vampires feast... #
0:08:04 > 0:08:07The song tells the story of a mad scientist
0:08:07 > 0:08:11who creates a monster that performs a new dance.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14The dance then becomes the hit of the land
0:08:14 > 0:08:18when the scientist throws a party for other monsters.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20When it was first released in 1962,
0:08:20 > 0:08:24it was in banned by the good old BBC for being too morbid and scary!
0:08:24 > 0:08:28That was supposed to be scary when it came out,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30but it's more like a party song.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34That wasn't scary at all, even though the word monster is in the title.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Let's fast-forward to 1984, where one spooky film
0:08:38 > 0:08:40had a very catchy song as its theme tune.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42The film, of course, is...
0:08:42 > 0:08:43Ghostbusters.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44I loved Ghostbusters.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47That whole kind of ghostly sound.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49"Woooo!" it starts.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51GHOSTBUSTERS THEME PLAYS
0:08:53 > 0:08:58Best theme tune to the best supernatural-based movie ever.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59It's such a funny film.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02# Ghostbusters!
0:09:02 > 0:09:06# If there's something strange in your neighbourhood
0:09:06 > 0:09:08# Who you gonna call?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09# Ghostbusters! #
0:09:09 > 0:09:14I could probably recite the entire lyrics to Ghostbusters but I won't.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16But, yeah, that's another classic sort of thing.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Right, let's go to the late '90s now
0:09:21 > 0:09:23where the Backstreet Boys were back,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26with another one of our celebs' favourite ghoulish hits.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29The super-catchy song not only had our celebs dancing
0:09:29 > 0:09:32but also shaking in their boots.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35In the video they all go into this haunted house
0:09:35 > 0:09:36and become different monsters,
0:09:36 > 0:09:41but then they do their dance routine as well, so they're cool monsters.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44# Backstreet's back, all right! #
0:09:44 > 0:09:48The video for Everybody was pretty Halloween-y.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Brian was a werewolf, Howie was Dracula, Nick a mummy,
0:09:52 > 0:09:53AJ the Phantom of the Opera,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57and Kevin was both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Spooky stuff.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03I remember wanting to be in the Backstreet Boys.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06I used to try and do the dance routine. I'd be like this,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08opening my school shirt, thinking I was Nick Carter.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13# Rock your body right
0:10:13 > 0:10:14# Backstreet's back... #
0:10:14 > 0:10:16It absolutely petrified me.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19I know the whole song, but I could never look at the video.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21It's just so scary.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Backstreet may have been back,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28but they were nowhere near as scary as the next song
0:10:28 > 0:10:31which truly terrified our celebs when they were kids.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35# Backstreet's back, all right! #
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- Thriller.- Thriller.- Thriller.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- Thriller.- Thriller.- Thriller.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Dum-dum dum, dum-dum dum.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49The Thriller video was the thing that was talked about.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51# It's close to midnight
0:10:51 > 0:10:55# Something evil's lurking in the dark... #
0:10:55 > 0:10:58It was coming for weeks and weeks and weeks.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01They weren't screening it till midnight because it was so scary,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04and everyone was waiting for this masterpiece.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09# You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it... #
0:11:09 > 0:11:13I was always scared of Michael Jackson when he did Thriller,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16because he turns into a zombie halfway through.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19# You're paralysed... #
0:11:19 > 0:11:23It used to give me nightmares. I used to be really scared of it.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27Michael Jackson's Thriller took music videos to a whole new level.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30The full version is a 14-minute mini-movie that, at the time,
0:11:30 > 0:11:33was the most expensive video ever made,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36and features one of the most iconic dance moves ever.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46It's such a famous move.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Doo-doo doo, doo-doo, doo.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51# Cos this is thriller... #
0:11:51 > 0:11:52# Thriller night! #
0:11:52 > 0:11:57The video is so famous, it's been spoofed many times,
0:11:57 > 0:12:01even by our very own Sam and Mark.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Very zombified dance move, that.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- If I was a zombie, that's how I'd dance.- Yeah.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Hey, if you're not scared yet, wait till you see what's still to come...
0:12:14 > 0:12:20Our celebs reveal what television terrified them when they were 12.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24One show that did terrify me was Most Haunted.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26I had a real Daleks phobia.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Ghostwatch was really weird.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31It's the scariest thing in the world.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34But first, what sort of scary news stories do our celebrities
0:12:34 > 0:12:36remember from when they were kids?
0:12:37 > 0:12:41One thing that happens in Britain that gets to me and creeps me out,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44but also intrigues me at the same time, is probably crop circles.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Scores of them mysteriously appear
0:12:46 > 0:12:49all over this area at this time of year
0:12:49 > 0:12:53and nobody really knows how or why.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Crop circles!
0:12:58 > 0:13:00It's hard to believe that
0:13:00 > 0:13:02we're all scared and fascinated and freaked out
0:13:02 > 0:13:04by, literally, just a dent in a field.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Well, for many people, the scary thing about crop circles
0:13:08 > 0:13:12is that they seem to appear by magic in the middle of the night.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Many people believe they're created by visiting aliens or UFOs.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18There have been some pretty wild claims about these things.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22For instance, recently one UFO-watcher accused the Government
0:13:22 > 0:13:25of deliberately suppressing evidence of visits by aliens.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Is it a spaceship landing? Probably.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Probably not, Chris, because in 1991,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33the theory that crop circles were created by aliens and UFOs
0:13:33 > 0:13:37was put to the test when two men,
0:13:37 > 0:13:39who probably should've known better,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42owned up to making circles and even showed how they did it.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44One evening, we saw a cornfield and I said,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48"Why don't we put a circular depression in this cornfield?"
0:13:48 > 0:13:52I said, "They will probably think that it is a UFO that had landed."
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Basically, all you do is stand in the middle of a field,
0:13:55 > 0:13:56with some rope and a plank,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59and you just flatten all the corn, and then you walk off.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03It's so obvious! How did we ever fall for it?!
0:14:03 > 0:14:05It's the most rubbish mystery ever!
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Um, but they fooled me.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12Wherever and however crop circles appear, one thing's for sure -
0:14:12 > 0:14:15it's the farmers with ruined crops who are left to count the cost.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18All right, how much does it cost you?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21This circle, we've lost £300.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26For many, the jury on crop circles is still out,
0:14:26 > 0:14:28but whether aliens are behind them or not,
0:14:28 > 0:14:31there are still plenty of our celebs who believe in
0:14:31 > 0:14:33those little green men from outer space.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35No, I've seen a few UFOs, though. I have.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37I believe in them.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Yes, I believe in UFOs.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42I'm sure I saw something up there.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44I'm convinced I did.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48We were in Cyprus, I was about 12 or 13 years old,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51and we were sitting outside my grandmother's house.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55It's night-time, she lives in the mountains quite high up.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57They're called the Troodos mountains.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00It was quite cold evening, even though it was summer,
0:15:00 > 0:15:05and all of a sudden, the sky went green, like a flash of green.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08And we were all looking up, thinking, "What is this?"
0:15:08 > 0:15:11And I remember being really scared. I was like,
0:15:11 > 0:15:13"Oh, I want to get out of this situation!"
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I went to the toilet, came back, and none of us really talked about it
0:15:16 > 0:15:18cos we were just so like, "What was that?"
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Ricky, no-one's going to talk about your visit to the loo, mate.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Now, stories about spotting UFOs are one thing,
0:15:27 > 0:15:32but there's one monster that is classic British legend.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Obviously, growing up in Britain, the Loch Ness monster was massive.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38That never really scared me, it just kind of intrigued me.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41I wanted to be the first person ever to see the Loch Ness monster
0:15:41 > 0:15:43and be like, "See, I knew it existed!"
0:15:43 > 0:15:47It was really a monster of some sort.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50It put me in mind of, you know,
0:15:50 > 0:15:54when I see the photos of dinosaurs and that.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56I really think it would be of that family.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Over the years, there have been plenty of photographs
0:16:00 > 0:16:05offered as evidence of a real dinosaur-style monster in the loch.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09The most famous photo was taken by Dr Wilson in 1934,
0:16:09 > 0:16:11but was later revealed to be a hoax.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Another in the '70s, taken by Dr Robert Rines,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17seemed to show a flipper or a fin of the monster.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Loads of people have tried to find Nessie.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27One of the most expensive searches took place in the late 1980s.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Hello again.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33The biggest hunt so far to find the Loch Ness monster starts next month.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Plans were announced today for Operation Deep Scan.
0:16:36 > 0:16:41Nessie hunters searched the water for signs of the monster
0:16:41 > 0:16:44using £1 million worth of hi-tech equipment.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48They scanned all 20 miles of the loch's murky depths,
0:16:48 > 0:16:50but to no avail.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Nessie failed to put in an appearance
0:16:52 > 0:16:55and, to this day, remains a little on the shy side.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56It could be believable.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58I think it is.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59- It's not.- Why?
0:16:59 > 0:17:03- A dinosaur underwater?- Yeah. - Waiting for you to go in your boat?
0:17:03 > 0:17:07- It could happen.- No, there's no way. - It might be there waiting.- No.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Why not?- There's no way in the world that this is true.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Well, just wait till you're in Loch Ness.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You'll be saying that the Yeti's real next.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17He is.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20OK, Sam.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Erm, another monstrous British mystery
0:17:23 > 0:17:27that has kept locals on edge for years is the Beast of Bodmin Moor.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32As a young reporter, I've several times done
0:17:32 > 0:17:34a story on the Beast of Bodmin Moor,
0:17:34 > 0:17:38interviewed farmers who've seen the paw marks in the ground,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40the big ones, the photographs,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42people who believe they're out there,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45people who still do believe that they're there.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Since the 1980s, there have been around 60 sightings
0:17:50 > 0:17:53of a large panther-like cat on the prowl,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56killing animals on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00I've seen 'em. There's the black leopard and there's the puma.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04A friend who's got horses has seen a lynx.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08We saw a large black cat
0:18:08 > 0:18:11walking along the top of this hedge bank here.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14The Beast of Bodmin Moor was quite a big story.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18It was about what could be sightings of quite a big cat,
0:18:18 > 0:18:19down in Cornwall.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22It was all over the news. Everyone was talking about it.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25New amateur video footage has been released of what's claimed to be
0:18:25 > 0:18:28a puma-like creature in the South West of England.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31An expert from London Zoo has said the way the animal moves,
0:18:31 > 0:18:34and its long tail, suggests it's a big cat.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37That got me quite nervous and worried,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40thinking that this big cat could be on the loose.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Ricky wasn't the only one who was a little bit frightened.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Eventually, in 1995, the Government gave in to public pressure
0:18:51 > 0:18:53and began a serious investigation
0:18:53 > 0:18:56into whether or not the beast existed.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58After an £8,000 investigation by experts,
0:18:58 > 0:19:02the Ministry of Agriculture could hardly be more categorical.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04There is no evidence of a big cat, a Beast of Bodmin,
0:19:04 > 0:19:07stalking and killing the livestock of the moor.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10We would have been just as excited as anybody else,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12had we found something positive.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13- But you didn't.- But we didn't.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15After a thorough search,
0:19:15 > 0:19:19the government report was unable to prove the existence of the beast,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21but sightings have continued to hit the headlines.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24One of the most famous was in 1998.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26New video footage of what is claimed to be
0:19:26 > 0:19:30the so-called Beast of Bodmin has been released this morning.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Is it just me or does that look like a cat?
0:19:33 > 0:19:35I mean, that is def... That's a cat!
0:19:35 > 0:19:36That's definitely a cat.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Really? That's supposed to be terrifying?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Even I'm not scared of that!
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Because it's a cat!
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Right, still to come, our celebs look back at
0:19:46 > 0:19:49the best things about getting a bit of a fright.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51I used to get a kick out of the adrenaline,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54like, because I wouldn't know my heart pound.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57So there's that element to it of "Don't do it!" I'm going to do it!
0:19:57 > 0:20:00There is literally nothing like being scared.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02It's the most fun you can have.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05But first, let's find out what on TV scared our celebs
0:20:05 > 0:20:06when they were kids.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10When I was 12, there was this programme called The X-Files,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12and that used to be really scary.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15One programme that really sort of weirded me out,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18and I can't, to this day, think about why,
0:20:18 > 0:20:19was Fingermouse.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Strange But True.- Goosebumps.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24A bit of Who's Afraid Of The Dark?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Yes! That used to scare...me.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31A programme that scared me as a kid was Maid Marian And Her Merry Men.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34HE GROWLS
0:20:34 > 0:20:35MEN GROAN
0:20:35 > 0:20:39It was something about medieval times, and putting people in stock,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I just found really scary.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44The one thing on TV that absolutely petrified me,
0:20:44 > 0:20:45the first time I watched it,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48was this character called Worzel Gummidge,
0:20:48 > 0:20:53who was basically a human scarecrow.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58He basically was this really grotty, straw-filled old man
0:20:58 > 0:21:00with warts on his face,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02and it would really, really sort of freak me out.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05So, one of the shows that used to get me really scared,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07the programme was called 999.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It was this scary theme tune.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10999 THEME TUNE PLAYS
0:21:12 > 0:21:15The theme tune used to go... # 9-9-9... #
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Which was really scary.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Was it, Ricky? Can you do it again for our fright-o-meter?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21# 9-9-9. #
0:21:21 > 0:21:23That is truly terrifying.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28But, if you want really scary TV, then take a peek,
0:21:28 > 0:21:31if you dare, at these spine chillers.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33SHE SCREAMS
0:21:33 > 0:21:35One show that used to terrify me was
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Most Haunted, with Yvette Fielding.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43Hello, and welcome to Most Haunted, as we return to Woodchester Mansion.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46They used to put it all in night vision, which didn't help.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49'We synchronise our cameras and split into three separate groups,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51'in readiness for the night vigils.'
0:21:51 > 0:21:53She sends you in these dungeons.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55It's like, "Are you mad? Get out!"
0:21:55 > 0:21:57And then all these things start happening.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- BLEEP!- Hellfire!
0:21:59 > 0:22:01After I'd watched that,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04you'd never see me run so fast from that living room to my bedroom.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Hello?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Is there anybody here with me?
0:22:09 > 0:22:10No.
0:22:10 > 0:22:15However, haunted houses never fail to send a shiver down our spines.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19But one show in particular gave the entire nation the heebie-jeebies.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24The programme you're about to watch
0:22:24 > 0:22:27is a unique live investigation of the supernatural.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Ghostwatch was really weird, cos it was going to be this programme
0:22:33 > 0:22:37where they were going to stake out a house with cameras and things,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39and do this sort of ghost hunt live.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42No creaking gates, no Gothic towers, no shuttered windows,
0:22:42 > 0:22:45yet, for the past ten months, this house has been
0:22:45 > 0:22:50the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Nothing like that had ever been on TV before,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54so I was really looking forward to it,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58and really weird things just started happening in the house.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02I really felt like I was watching a really amazing, important event.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08Ghostwatch was broadcast on Halloween in 1992.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- I noticed that my watch has stopped. - Really?
0:23:11 > 0:23:15- Yeah.- What time, when? - Just before we went on air.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Although an entirely fictional programme,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19it was presented as a real live ghost hunt
0:23:19 > 0:23:24from a house where paranormal activity was supposedly reported,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26and it scared everyone's pants off.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29What sort of a noise was it?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31SHE STAMPS HER FEET
0:23:31 > 0:23:35During the show, ghostly activity appears to take place...
0:23:35 > 0:23:36It's down here.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40..things appear to move with no explanation,
0:23:40 > 0:23:44and, before you know it, there's full-on mayhem happening.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Lights are blowing all over the place.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Millions of the viewers were thoroughly freaked out
0:23:49 > 0:23:52by what they thought was a real event.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55I didn't sleep for a week, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58They're losing power.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02I knew it was fake, I knew what it was, watched it,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04and I was still spooked afterwards.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09This is the scene in this totally deserted studio.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Michael Parkinson turned into a zombie!
0:24:11 > 0:24:13It's the scariest thing in the world!
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Round and round the garden like a teddy bear.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I had nightmares for days afterwards.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22- Michael Parkinson turned into a zombie?- Yeah.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- I've gotta watch that. - Thought you knew him.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Oh, yes?
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Whilst some shows like Ghostwatch come and go,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34others stay around for a reassuringly long time.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37And since its first appearance on our screens back in 1963,
0:24:37 > 0:24:41generations of kids have been terrified by the arch-enemies
0:24:41 > 0:24:44of the world's most famous time lord.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Doctor Who scared me.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49It was the whole kind of hiding behind the couch thing
0:24:49 > 0:24:52when the Daleks came on, it was just the Daleks.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53I had a real Daleks phobia.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56WOMAN SCREAMS
0:24:56 > 0:24:58This is the Supreme Dalek!
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Who do you obey?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03WE OBEY DAVROS!
0:25:03 > 0:25:07You are our prisoner. You will not resist.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Exterminate! Exterminate!
0:25:11 > 0:25:13- Let me out!- Exterminate!
0:25:14 > 0:25:17'I used to be so scared of Doctor Who.'
0:25:17 > 0:25:19My favourite Doctor Who episode was with
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24They broke into the Houses of Parliament.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Hi, you want aliens? You've got 'em. They're inside Downing Street.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31And I think it was the Prime Minister had turned into, like,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33a kind of creature.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Actually, all die-hard Doctor Who fans know
0:25:36 > 0:25:39that those bad boys are called the Slitheen. I thank you.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42And I saw that and I literally... It scared the life out of me.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45EVIL LAUGHTER
0:25:47 > 0:25:51So, we've discovered the things that used to scare our celebrities
0:25:51 > 0:25:52when they were kids.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56But what do they remember most about Halloween at 12?
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Being young at Halloween is the best time to be scared.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02It's just brilliant because anything could come out and get you.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Anything could eat you, grab you, take you away,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07anything could come down from the stars and abduct you,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09and take you to another planet.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12I remember always being scared of what was under the bed.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15You used to like being scared when you were a child.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17It was exciting to be scared.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21I quite liked listening to scary stories when I was younger.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23I used to get a kick out of the adrenaline,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26like, because I wouldn't know my heart would pound.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28So I used to quite enjoy them.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32There was that fear of the unknown.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34It's important to not be scared of things,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37because if you are, then you're not going to try stuff,
0:26:37 > 0:26:41and you're not going to grow as a person and grow up, ultimately.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43So, yeah, I think I learnt that quite quickly.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46I remember I enjoyed scaring my brother,
0:26:46 > 0:26:47and my friends. That was really good fun.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51But being scared, I didn't like at all. It wasn't fun.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54So I tried to not be scared as much as possible.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Similar to the magic of Christmas, it's something that is
0:26:57 > 0:27:00so special when you're young, and so much fun.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Even though it's really scary, you know it's more exciting than scary.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10I think being that age, and that want to scare yourself,
0:27:10 > 0:27:12I think it's that want to find boundaries.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14It's fun as well.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17It's fun, it's stupid, it's bad.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Also, there's that element to it of "You shouldn't be doing it!"
0:27:19 > 0:27:22"I'm going to do it!" It's that element of rebelling.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26Even though I was so terrified of so many things as a small person,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28maybe I'm not so much now.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30It's more funny now, but I was scared.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33I laugh at myself, but there are some things that stick with you.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I mean, the vampires and the... Ah, yeah, don't like it.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Even now I'm all grown up and everything,
0:27:39 > 0:27:42I still get frightened round Halloween.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44I let myself get lost in it and enjoy the time.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47There is literally nothing like being scared.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48It's the most fun you can have.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53What have we learnt, then?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56If you ever peel a banana and it's green, don't eat it!
0:27:58 > 0:28:01If you're in the pitch dark, don't be throwing rocks!
0:28:03 > 0:28:04- BLEEP!- Hellfire!
0:28:04 > 0:28:07And don't let your cat loose on Bodmin Moor.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08It freaks out the locals.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- That's so obviously a cat! - Meow!