Yvette Fielding has encountered more ghosts than most of us have had hot dinners, so it's no surprise she already has plans for her afterlife. “I’m going to come back as a ghost and haunt the life out of whoever’s in 10 Downing Street,” laughs the Most Haunted presenter, famed for her spine-chilling screams. “I’ll write ‘Get out!’ on the mirrors and scare the crap out of them.
” The presenter, 56, has been the go-to ghost-hunting guru ever since her show Most Haunted aired in 2002 - but her first encounter with the paranormal actually happened far before the cameras started rolling. At 26, she woke one night at her mother’s house to find herself staring at the ghost of a World War II soldier. “He was at the foot of the bed, but only from the waist up, just staring at me,” recalls Yvette, who is speaking to the Mirror on call from her haunted Cheshire mansion.
“I screamed and ran straight into bed with my mum, hiding under the duvet. I later spoke to the neighbours and they had seen him too.” That experience ignited a fascination with the unexplained, and seven years later, Yvette and her husband Karl Beattie transformed it into the phenomenon that became Most Haunted, which ran until 2019.
Armed often with just a flashlight, she became known for her high-pitched shrieks as cupboard doors slammed shut and objects flew across rooms in some of the country’s most haunted sites. Over the years viewers have been transfixed as they watched her be locked .
