Does Yvette Fielding Believe In Ghosts?

Most Haunted returns for a new series this year and over its twenty-year run the team have literally visited some of the country's most haunted location, so, surely they've seen it all.

Despite having visited 200 different locations, they've never managed to capture a ghost on camera and only have a few instances of truly unexplained occurrences on camera but is Yvette herself convinced after taking part in 217 episodes of the show?

Well, it seems Yvette might not be quite the believer you'd expect her to be. Clearly from the amount of on-screen screaming, she does get caught up in the excitement of a ghost hunt.

Yvette, who produces Most Haunted along with her husband, Karl Beattie said in an interview, "I think that many sightings are real, but I'm sure some can be forced if a person is so desperate to see something they want to, but there are so many other explanations as to what they have seen."

In an 2005 radio interview with Chris Moyles, Yvette defended the show saying "what we're doing is a genuine investigation, and I know you think it's a load of old rubbish but it isn't, we give the viewers the chance to say 'we believe in it' or 'we don't believe in it.'"

Moyles then asked her, "and do you believe in it?" After a brief pause Yvette replied by saying "ummmmm... I sit on the fence."

But Yvette doesn't need to believe in ghosts herself to conduct an unbiased investigation into the paranormal, she says "in our investigations we want to find out what people have apparently been witnessing and why."

In fact, Yvette proved that she takes the show seriously when she branded the show's former resident psychic, Derek Acorah, a "fake."

She said that her fellow team member and skeptic, Ciaran O’Keefe "left a piece of paper around with the name 'Kreed Kafer' on it and said, within earshot of Derek, that he was a nasty South African jailor." Yvette continued, "when we started filming, Derek decided to get possessed by this fake person. The name is actually an anagram of Derek Faker."

Yvette said, "we tell people everything is real, then it turns out he was a fake, so he had to go." Ciaran defended his outing of Derek, "I only devised this plan to see if Derek was deliberately hoodwinking the public."