Can A Light-Up Paranormal "Tripwire" Provide Answers For The 'Help! My House Is Haunted' Team?

The sixth series of 'Help! My House Is Haunted' continues as Ian Lawman, Jayne Harris, and Barri Ghai are called to the aid of Danielle, a mother who decided to move her young family back into the childhood home she grew up in. In order to validate the haunting, the television ghost-hunting team try some unique methods of spirit communication, including the use of a spook-detecting rope light. The eighth episode airs tonight on Really and is also available to stream on discovery+.

The 1920s timber cottage in Chaldon, Surrey, has significant sentimental value for Danielle and her mother, Elaine, having been in the family for over 35 years. However, moving in has reminded Danielle of the eery paranormal activity she remembers from growing up, and an increasingly worried Danielle is determined to protect her young family.

"I want to enjoy living here, but I just feel I can't because of the activity in the house. When I lived here as a child, I did feel like I was always being watched. My sister had seen a spirit in what was her bedroom, she thought that the lady was a nurse. She said she looked at her, and then she disappeared. I never actually experienced seeing a ghost until I moved back recently," Danielle recounts, before explaining that her "petrified" young son has already come across a spirit within the house.

"I know my son has seen her, as he described her to me. He said he'd seen a lady in the toy room. I said to him, 'Is she a happy ghost?' He said, 'Oh no, mummy, she's angry.' This morning, my four-year-old ran frantically down the hall to my bedroom. He was hysterical, and he said to me that there was a voice in his ear that had taken a deep 'gasp'. My children are petrified. As a mother, I just want to protect my children. I try to brush it off and say to him, 'It's your imagination', 'it's a dream', but I know that that's not the truth. I grew up in this house, I got married in the garden, I had my third child here. This house is my absolute life, but if it did get even worse or carry on, then we would have to consider moving."

In a desperate effort to protect her family and remain living in the house she loves, Danielle turns to the show's team of paranormal investigators. Together, Ian, Jayne, and Barri capture footage on infrared cameras that they believe shows spirits communicating by flashing light on a specialised rope light with built in atmospheric sensors, known as a "tripwire."

Can the team use this device, which is sensitive to electromagnetic anomalies in the environment, to work out why the spirits have long been attached to this house? Are they linked to the history of the town? Can Danielle continue to raise her young family in the cottage?