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Anglo-Saxon Ghost Hunt

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The setup

A night-vision ghost-hunting show visits a haunted Saxon hut, where the presenter's sure-fire Anglo-Saxon remedies only make things spookier.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Shot in grainy night-vision like a paranormal reality programme, a curly-haired ghost hunter leads Ethelberga of Norwich around her pitch-dark hut to track down the spirit that has been troubling her. The noises lead to a jar holding the ashes of her husband, killed by Vikings, and the presenter explains that, as Saxons believed, a spirit sealed up in a jar turns angry unless the pot has a small hole in its side. When a second jar turns out to hold an uncle also slain by Vikings, he mixes the ashes together so the spirits have company, and declares the haunting cured. His closing tip, that beheading the dead stops them returning, is interrupted by a real Viking raider bursting into the hut.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

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Highly quotable.

Now, as every Anglo-Saxon knows, what you should have done is put a little hole in the side of the jar

Problem is solved! The haunting has stopped!

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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