Spooky Special 12 Again

Coming up, all our 12 Again celebs get spooky.

It scared the life out of me.

You'd never see me run so fast, from the living room to my bedroom.

I didn't sleep for a week, and I'm not ashamed to say that.

Ohhh! Just... Ohhh!

That's supposed to be terrifying?

Even I'm not scared of that.

We're going to find out about the most terrifying night of year

and exactly what scares our celebs' socks off.

It's time to get spooky.

Have you ever wondered what Halloween was like

for your favourite celebs when they were your age?

What did they get dressed up as?

What used to scare the pants off them on TV?

And what scary songs did they love?

Because, despite the glamorous lifestyles they now lead,

once they were a kid hiding under their duvet, just like you.

This show revisits the past Halloweens of your favourite celebs

and asks them to become 12 Again.

They're some of the biggest celebs out there in showbiz land today.

Thank you, fans.

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From pop stars to actors and well-loved presenters...

-We won't go there.

-He was pretty awesome.

..all are hugely successful.

But back when they were kids,

they had the same fears of things that go bump in the night as you do.

We're back from the dead!

So let's go back and find out how our favourite celebs

used to celebrate the spookiest day of the year.

Halloween was the time when I really went wild.

Nyargh, nyargh, nyragh!

It was terrifying.

Ohhh! Just... Ohhh!

Trick or treat, smell my feet.

Bleurgh!

I used to like scary things.

I remember lying in bed and you look at the curtains,

and you can kind of see faces in them.

We were a bunch of scaredy cats.

I used to feel sick. I got really scared about things like that.

I'm northern and well 'ard, so I'm not really scared of much.

I was scared about pretty much anything that could be scary.

Things I was most scared of was the ghosts.

I believe I've got ghosts in my room.

I'm still scared of ghosts.

I'm fine. I'm fine.

I'm fine. I'm fine.

If you love to be scared,

then Halloween on October 31st is a time to relish,

especially as it gives super-cool celebs the perfect excuse

to dress up as proper 'nanas.

I remember one year I wore, probably when I was 12, actually...

I was a clown.

Half of me was an alive clown, half of me was a dead clown.

Yes, this is what I came up with.

I was the Terminator, yeah,

and I had half like normal face, and then half like the robot face.

I always went as the Devil for some reason.

I had big flashing horns and a red face,

with a goatee and a moustache, which I've kept.

I do remember going to a fancy dress party as a mummy

and I just got loads and loads of toilet roll,

just wrapped it round my arms and legs,

and it lasted for about 20 minutes.

At least I had something to wipe my bum on.

The outfits when I was a kid for Halloween were pretty basic.

You might be getting a black bin bag, with arm holes and head hole.

My mum made me a spider costume.

She got loads of pairs of her tights, black ones,

and she got bunches of newspaper,

rolled them up into balls and stuffed these tights with them,

and my mum stuck these eight spider legs to me.

So I went to the party as the spider,

and the kids are mean.

Children are mean. They're all mean.

They pulled my legs off.

It was Louise Charlton who started it.

If you're watching, it still upsets me, that.

So, once they were all dressed up in their ghoulish garb,

was Halloween a bit of a trick or 100% treat?

Trick or treating with my brother, we had these little pumpkin baskets

and we just used to fill them with sweets.

I worked out where the best places to go were.

I'd walk to Maida Vale where all the big houses were because I thought,

"They've probably got more money, they'll have better sweets."

It was really bad, actually,

because if if they said, "Trick," or if they were like, "Go away!"

we'd squeeze tomato ketchup on their door or through their letterbox.

And obviously I would never do that now,

and I'm ashamed of myself.

Trick or treat is amazing,

and a few friends - I didn't know they didn't like dogs -

knocked on this person's house and we were like, "Trick or treat?"

The dogs ran out and about five of my friends ran straight back

down the road to my house,

cos they were petrified of dogs and it was absolutely funny.

We do this thing in Scotland called guising.

# Halloween's coming

# Halloween's coming... #

Apparently, Halloween's coming.

# A skeleton's coming after you. #

It's like a monetary version of trick or treat,

so instead of getting sweets, you get money.

And wear a bed sheet, apparently.

You know, you went out en masse and did it,

but you'd go into people's houses

and then you'd sing or do a little dance, or tell jokes.

What kind of cat is green and looks like a worm?

-I don't know.

-A caterpillar.

-Brilliant.

We made a fortune. It was ridiculous!

Some people think that celebrating Halloween is a modern concept,

but kids have been guising in Scotland for over a century.

It gets its name from wearing the dis-GUISE.

Yeah, pretty obvious, if you think about it.

Trick or treat?

Oh, my goodness!

Not only that, the history of Halloween goes way back,

2,000 years, in fact, to Celtic times,

when they used to celebrate the new year on the 1st of November.

It was believed that on the last day of the year,

what we now know as Halloween,

all the people who died in that year

would come back and possess a body of the living.

Obviously, if you were one of the living,

you wouldn't be best pleased with that idea,

so people used to dress up in scary costumes

to frighten away the spirits.

Personally, I would prefer sweets.

So, apart from trick or treating, or guising,

what else did our celebs get up to on Halloween?

The best thing about Halloween for me when I was a kid

was being able to put your pumpkin out.

The carving of the pumpkin, for me, was an official event.

I had the knife, which was a big breadknife,

because they're not too sharp, you can use them if you're a kid,

but they go right through the pumpkin and they're dead easy to carve.

You know the little scary teeth face bit?

I did that bit cos it was the bit that took detail.

My brother scooped the stuff from the inside

cos he was a messy pup and he liked the idea of just getting

his hands dirty and whacking the innards into my sister's trousers.

He used put things down the back of her pants a lot.

It was funny. Halloween brought so many funny times,

mainly cos my sister walked round with a bottom full of pumpkin meat.

While most of our celebs

basked in the joy of making scary pumpkin faces,

for Ed Petrie, it wasn't so easy.

My mum would never let us have a pumpkin.

I've still got my mum's words ringing in my ear.

They were too expensive, so she used to get me a swede instead.

You'd cut a rubbish little face in it and I had this swede lantern.

It was a rubbish thing. You'd put a bit of string through it like that.

I was never allowed a pumpkin and it still rankles to this day, actually.

Don't worry, Ed, traditionally in Britain,

people used to make Halloween lanterns out of turnips.

You were keeping it real, brother!

Not really.

So that's what our celebrities were getting up to on Halloween.

But what was their favourite spooky songs?

One of my favourite Halloween songs was the Monster Mash.

# I was working in the lab late one night

# When my eyes beheld a monstrous sight... #

It was a fun song, and on Top Of The Pops,

Pan's People danced to it as well.

# You do the mash

# You do the monster mash

# You do the mash

# It was a graveyard smash

# It was the mash It was the monster mash... #

Yeah, crazy song!

# To the master bedroom where the vampires feast... #

The song tells the story of a mad scientist

who creates a monster that performs a new dance.

The dance then becomes the hit of the land

when the scientist throws a party for other monsters.

When it was first released in 1962,

it was in banned by the good old BBC for being too morbid and scary!

That was supposed to be scary when it came out,

but it's more like a party song.

That wasn't scary at all, even though the word monster is in the title.

Let's fast-forward to 1984, where one spooky film

had a very catchy song as its theme tune.

The film, of course, is...

Ghostbusters.

I loved Ghostbusters.

That whole kind of ghostly sound.

"Woooo!" it starts.

GHOSTBUSTERS THEME PLAYS

Best theme tune to the best supernatural-based movie ever.

It's such a funny film.

# Ghostbusters!

# If there's something strange in your neighbourhood

# Who you gonna call?

# Ghostbusters! #

I could probably recite the entire lyrics to Ghostbusters but I won't.

But, yeah, that's another classic sort of thing.

Right, let's go to the late '90s now

where the Backstreet Boys were back,

with another one of our celebs' favourite ghoulish hits.

The super-catchy song not only had our celebs dancing

but also shaking in their boots.

In the video they all go into this haunted house

and become different monsters,

but then they do their dance routine as well, so they're cool monsters.

# Backstreet's back, all right! #

The video for Everybody was pretty Halloween-y.

Brian was a werewolf, Howie was Dracula, Nick a mummy,

AJ the Phantom of the Opera,

and Kevin was both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Spooky stuff.

I remember wanting to be in the Backstreet Boys.

I used to try and do the dance routine. I'd be like this,

opening my school shirt, thinking I was Nick Carter.

# Rock your body right

# Backstreet's back... #

It absolutely petrified me.

I know the whole song, but I could never look at the video.

It's just so scary.

Backstreet may have been back,

but they were nowhere near as scary as the next song

which truly terrified our celebs when they were kids.

# Backstreet's back, all right! #

-Thriller.

-Thriller.

-Thriller.

-Thriller.

-Thriller.

-Thriller.

Dum-dum dum, dum-dum dum.

The Thriller video was the thing that was talked about.

# It's close to midnight

# Something evil's lurking in the dark... #

It was coming for weeks and weeks and weeks.

They weren't screening it till midnight because it was so scary,

and everyone was waiting for this masterpiece.

# You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it... #

I was always scared of Michael Jackson when he did Thriller,

because he turns into a zombie halfway through.

# You're paralysed... #

It used to give me nightmares. I used to be really scared of it.

Michael Jackson's Thriller took music videos to a whole new level.

The full version is a 14-minute mini-movie that, at the time,

was the most expensive video ever made,

and features one of the most iconic dance moves ever.

It's such a famous move.

Doo-doo doo, doo-doo, doo.

# Cos this is thriller... #

# Thriller night! #

The video is so famous, it's been spoofed many times,

even by our very own Sam and Mark.

Very zombified dance move, that.

-If I was a zombie, that's how I'd dance.

-Yeah.

Hey, if you're not scared yet, wait till you see what's still to come...

Our celebs reveal what television terrified them when they were 12.

One show that did terrify me was Most Haunted.

I had a real Daleks phobia.

Ghostwatch was really weird.

It's the scariest thing in the world.

But first, what sort of scary news stories do our celebrities

remember from when they were kids?

One thing that happens in Britain that gets to me and creeps me out,

but also intrigues me at the same time, is probably crop circles.

Scores of them mysteriously appear

all over this area at this time of year

and nobody really knows how or why.

Crop circles!

It's hard to believe that

we're all scared and fascinated and freaked out

by, literally, just a dent in a field.

Well, for many people, the scary thing about crop circles

is that they seem to appear by magic in the middle of the night.

Many people believe they're created by visiting aliens or UFOs.

There have been some pretty wild claims about these things.

For instance, recently one UFO-watcher accused the Government

of deliberately suppressing evidence of visits by aliens.

Is it a spaceship landing? Probably.

Probably not, Chris, because in 1991,

the theory that crop circles were created by aliens and UFOs

was put to the test when two men,

who probably should've known better,

owned up to making circles and even showed how they did it.

One evening, we saw a cornfield and I said,

"Why don't we put a circular depression in this cornfield?"

I said, "They will probably think that it is a UFO that had landed."

Basically, all you do is stand in the middle of a field,

with some rope and a plank,

and you just flatten all the corn, and then you walk off.

It's so obvious! How did we ever fall for it?!

It's the most rubbish mystery ever!

Um, but they fooled me.

Wherever and however crop circles appear, one thing's for sure -

it's the farmers with ruined crops who are left to count the cost.

All right, how much does it cost you?

This circle, we've lost £300.

For many, the jury on crop circles is still out,

but whether aliens are behind them or not,

there are still plenty of our celebs who believe in

those little green men from outer space.

No, I've seen a few UFOs, though. I have.

I believe in them.

Yes, I believe in UFOs.

I'm sure I saw something up there.

I'm convinced I did.

We were in Cyprus, I was about 12 or 13 years old,

and we were sitting outside my grandmother's house.

It's night-time, she lives in the mountains quite high up.

They're called the Troodos mountains.

It was quite cold evening, even though it was summer,

and all of a sudden, the sky went green, like a flash of green.

And we were all looking up, thinking, "What is this?"

And I remember being really scared. I was like,

"Oh, I want to get out of this situation!"

I went to the toilet, came back, and none of us really talked about it

cos we were just so like, "What was that?"

Ricky, no-one's going to talk about your visit to the loo, mate.

Now, stories about spotting UFOs are one thing,

but there's one monster that is classic British legend.

Obviously, growing up in Britain, the Loch Ness monster was massive.

That never really scared me, it just kind of intrigued me.

I wanted to be the first person ever to see the Loch Ness monster

and be like, "See, I knew it existed!"

It was really a monster of some sort.

It put me in mind of, you know,

when I see the photos of dinosaurs and that.

I really think it would be of that family.

Over the years, there have been plenty of photographs

offered as evidence of a real dinosaur-style monster in the loch.

The most famous photo was taken by Dr Wilson in 1934,

but was later revealed to be a hoax.

Another in the '70s, taken by Dr Robert Rines,

seemed to show a flipper or a fin of the monster.

Loads of people have tried to find Nessie.

One of the most expensive searches took place in the late 1980s.

Hello again.

The biggest hunt so far to find the Loch Ness monster starts next month.

Plans were announced today for Operation Deep Scan.

Nessie hunters searched the water for signs of the monster

using £1 million worth of hi-tech equipment.

They scanned all 20 miles of the loch's murky depths,

but to no avail.

Nessie failed to put in an appearance

and, to this day, remains a little on the shy side.

It could be believable.

I think it is.

-It's not.

-Why?

-A dinosaur underwater?

-Yeah.

-Waiting for you to go in your boat?

-It could happen.

-No, there's no way.

-It might be there waiting.

-No.

-Why not?

-There's no way in the world that this is true.

Well, just wait till you're in Loch Ness.

You'll be saying that the Yeti's real next.

He is.

OK, Sam.

Erm, another monstrous British mystery

that has kept locals on edge for years is the Beast of Bodmin Moor.

As a young reporter, I've several times done

a story on the Beast of Bodmin Moor,

interviewed farmers who've seen the paw marks in the ground,

the big ones, the photographs,

people who believe they're out there,

people who still do believe that they're there.

Since the 1980s, there have been around 60 sightings

of a large panther-like cat on the prowl,

killing animals on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

I've seen 'em. There's the black leopard and there's the puma.

A friend who's got horses has seen a lynx.

We saw a large black cat

walking along the top of this hedge bank here.

The Beast of Bodmin Moor was quite a big story.

It was about what could be sightings of quite a big cat,

down in Cornwall.

It was all over the news. Everyone was talking about it.

New amateur video footage has been released of what's claimed to be

a puma-like creature in the South West of England.

An expert from London Zoo has said the way the animal moves,

and its long tail, suggests it's a big cat.

That got me quite nervous and worried,

thinking that this big cat could be on the loose.

Ricky wasn't the only one who was a little bit frightened.

Eventually, in 1995, the Government gave in to public pressure

and began a serious investigation

into whether or not the beast existed.

After an £8,000 investigation by experts,

the Ministry of Agriculture could hardly be more categorical.

There is no evidence of a big cat, a Beast of Bodmin,

stalking and killing the livestock of the moor.

We would have been just as excited as anybody else,

had we found something positive.

-But you didn't.

-But we didn't.

After a thorough search,

the government report was unable to prove the existence of the beast,

but sightings have continued to hit the headlines.

One of the most famous was in 1998.

New video footage of what is claimed to be

the so-called Beast of Bodmin has been released this morning.

Is it just me or does that look like a cat?

I mean, that is def... That's a cat!

That's definitely a cat.

Really? That's supposed to be terrifying?

Even I'm not scared of that!

Because it's a cat!

Right, still to come, our celebs look back at

the best things about getting a bit of a fright.

I used to get a kick out of the adrenaline,

like, because I wouldn't know my heart pound.

So there's that element to it of "Don't do it!" I'm going to do it!

There is literally nothing like being scared.

It's the most fun you can have.

But first, let's find out what on TV scared our celebs

when they were kids.

When I was 12, there was this programme called The X-Files,

and that used to be really scary.

One programme that really sort of weirded me out,

and I can't, to this day, think about why,

was Fingermouse.

-Strange But True.

-Goosebumps.

A bit of Who's Afraid Of The Dark?

Yes! That used to scare...me.

A programme that scared me as a kid was Maid Marian And Her Merry Men.

HE GROWLS

MEN GROAN

It was something about medieval times, and putting people in stock,

I just found really scary.

The one thing on TV that absolutely petrified me,

the first time I watched it,

was this character called Worzel Gummidge,

who was basically a human scarecrow.

He basically was this really grotty, straw-filled old man

with warts on his face,

and it would really, really sort of freak me out.

So, one of the shows that used to get me really scared,

the programme was called 999.

It was this scary theme tune.

999 THEME TUNE PLAYS

The theme tune used to go... # 9-9-9... #

Which was really scary.

Was it, Ricky? Can you do it again for our fright-o-meter?

# 9-9-9. #

That is truly terrifying.

But, if you want really scary TV, then take a peek,

if you dare, at these spine chillers.

SHE SCREAMS

One show that used to terrify me was

Most Haunted, with Yvette Fielding.

Hello, and welcome to Most Haunted, as we return to Woodchester Mansion.

They used to put it all in night vision, which didn't help.

'We synchronise our cameras and split into three separate groups,

'in readiness for the night vigils.'

She sends you in these dungeons.

It's like, "Are you mad? Get out!"

And then all these things start happening.

-BLEEP!

-Hellfire!

After I'd watched that,

you'd never see me run so fast from that living room to my bedroom.

Hello?

Is there anybody here with me?

No.

However, haunted houses never fail to send a shiver down our spines.

But one show in particular gave the entire nation the heebie-jeebies.

The programme you're about to watch

is a unique live investigation of the supernatural.

Ghostwatch was really weird, cos it was going to be this programme

where they were going to stake out a house with cameras and things,

and do this sort of ghost hunt live.

No creaking gates, no Gothic towers, no shuttered windows,

yet, for the past ten months, this house has been

the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

Nothing like that had ever been on TV before,

so I was really looking forward to it,

and really weird things just started happening in the house.

I really felt like I was watching a really amazing, important event.

Ghostwatch was broadcast on Halloween in 1992.

-I noticed that my watch has stopped.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-What time, when?

-Just before we went on air.

Although an entirely fictional programme,

it was presented as a real live ghost hunt

from a house where paranormal activity was supposedly reported,

and it scared everyone's pants off.

What sort of a noise was it?

SHE STAMPS HER FEET

During the show, ghostly activity appears to take place...

It's down here.

..things appear to move with no explanation,

and, before you know it, there's full-on mayhem happening.

Lights are blowing all over the place.

Millions of the viewers were thoroughly freaked out

by what they thought was a real event.

I didn't sleep for a week, and I'm not ashamed to say that.

They're losing power.

I knew it was fake, I knew what it was, watched it,

and I was still spooked afterwards.

This is the scene in this totally deserted studio.

Michael Parkinson turned into a zombie!

It's the scariest thing in the world!

Round and round the garden like a teddy bear.

I had nightmares for days afterwards.

-Michael Parkinson turned into a zombie?

-Yeah.

-I've gotta watch that.

-Thought you knew him.

Oh, yes?

Whilst some shows like Ghostwatch come and go,

others stay around for a reassuringly long time.

And since its first appearance on our screens back in 1963,

generations of kids have been terrified by the arch-enemies

of the world's most famous time lord.

Doctor Who scared me.

It was the whole kind of hiding behind the couch thing

when the Daleks came on, it was just the Daleks.

I had a real Daleks phobia.

WOMAN SCREAMS

This is the Supreme Dalek!

Who do you obey?

WE OBEY DAVROS!

You are our prisoner. You will not resist.

Exterminate! Exterminate!

-Let me out!

-Exterminate!

'I used to be so scared of Doctor Who.'

My favourite Doctor Who episode was with

Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston.

They broke into the Houses of Parliament.

Hi, you want aliens? You've got 'em. They're inside Downing Street.

And I think it was the Prime Minister had turned into, like,

a kind of creature.

Actually, all die-hard Doctor Who fans know

that those bad boys are called the Slitheen. I thank you.

And I saw that and I literally... It scared the life out of me.

EVIL LAUGHTER

So, we've discovered the things that used to scare our celebrities

when they were kids.

But what do they remember most about Halloween at 12?

Being young at Halloween is the best time to be scared.

It's just brilliant because anything could come out and get you.

Anything could eat you, grab you, take you away,

anything could come down from the stars and abduct you,

and take you to another planet.

I remember always being scared of what was under the bed.

You used to like being scared when you were a child.

It was exciting to be scared.

I quite liked listening to scary stories when I was younger.

I used to get a kick out of the adrenaline,

like, because I wouldn't know my heart would pound.

So I used to quite enjoy them.

There was that fear of the unknown.

It's important to not be scared of things,

because if you are, then you're not going to try stuff,

and you're not going to grow as a person and grow up, ultimately.

So, yeah, I think I learnt that quite quickly.

I remember I enjoyed scaring my brother,

and my friends. That was really good fun.

But being scared, I didn't like at all. It wasn't fun.

So I tried to not be scared as much as possible.

Similar to the magic of Christmas, it's something that is

so special when you're young, and so much fun.

Even though it's really scary, you know it's more exciting than scary.

I think being that age, and that want to scare yourself,

I think it's that want to find boundaries.

It's fun as well.

It's fun, it's stupid, it's bad.

Also, there's that element to it of "You shouldn't be doing it!"

"I'm going to do it!" It's that element of rebelling.

Even though I was so terrified of so many things as a small person,

maybe I'm not so much now.

It's more funny now, but I was scared.

I laugh at myself, but there are some things that stick with you.

I mean, the vampires and the... Ah, yeah, don't like it.

Even now I'm all grown up and everything,

I still get frightened round Halloween.

I let myself get lost in it and enjoy the time.

There is literally nothing like being scared.

It's the most fun you can have.

What have we learnt, then?

If you ever peel a banana and it's green, don't eat it!

If you're in the pitch dark, don't be throwing rocks!

-BLEEP!

-Hellfire!

And don't let your cat loose on Bodmin Moor.

It freaks out the locals.

-That's so obviously a cat!

-Meow!