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Suddenly, a section of the audience gasps as something falls from the wall inside the crumbling and dilapidated Morecambe Winter Gardens. The rest of the crowd whispers and shuffles nervously, as Yvette Fielding looks up slowly from the seance she is conducting at the front of the theatre and asks: "Who threw that? Answer me, give us a message..."
Silence. Expectancy. I struggle to keep a straight face. So does my fiancee Liz. The seance continues...
Rewind three long hours to 6.15pm on Monday night and we've joined a hefty queue along Central Promenade clutching our priority tickets for Most Haunted Live's Eight Faces of Evil, being broadcast from inside the former theatre.
Eventually, after being sent to the front, then the back, then the front again, we're herded through and given our wristbands, then frisked for knives and bottles of pop before being allowed in. Everything inside is lit up in all the right places, smoke machines and orange glows and the Most Haunted Live! logo hovers on a big screen at the front. Spooky.
We take our seats, at the back, and there's a clamour for autographs from a man who's kneeling down behind us.
I find out later it's Karl Beattie, the show's creator and Fielding's husband, as we endure his "warm-up" on the stage. Then Paul Ross turns up. He's not much better, but the time passes until Yvette whisks in, fluffing her lines three times (so much for Most Haunted "Live") and the show starts proper.
The "Live" takes place at the Alhambra building and Carleton nightclub, just down the road, where the crew have set up webcams to capture the events unfolding.
There's rumours of a suicide, someone called Ellen or Emily, a murderer, and an "underlying evil at the site".
But after five interviews with mediums, six competition announcements, Blair Witch-style close-ups, reports of "cold spots" inside the freezing building, and no sign of the murderer, we slip out during the 11th commercial break.
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