For those that may not be aware Most Haunted is a British tv series that showcases reportedly haunted locations around the U.K.

I personally have a strong interest in the paranormal, and ghosts, and the credibility of what is being put forth on this show as far as the main subject matter is already quite debatable. This alone could make a person such as myself cringe.

What makes the show absolutely deplorable in my opinion is how it presents an often skewed, and completely false history. Here is an example from an episode entitled Most Haunted London - Total Darkness that was written up on a Facebook group that I recently joined as an evaluation of Lesley Smith's work on the show:

Night one, she was referred to very little during the whole weekend, on night one she talked very little about the place where the team were, the plague victims buried in that location have been verified as to belonging to the 1665 Influenza Plague, yet Lesley did not say that, even when Paul Ross said (twice) that the bodies were from the Black Death, which was a bubonic contagion Plague in the 1330's, again not even close at 300 years out.

Her best gaff on night one was naming the four humors as "Hot, Wet, Dry and Cold", again she got it completely wrong, the four humors were Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Phlegm and Blood, they have been for about 3000 years!

Night Two, again she spent very little time on camera (in that outfit I’m not surprised, proof that she is turning the show into a circus as she looked like a clown!). Brian Shepherd came up with a name during a vigil, roughly he came out with "Charles, the architect of all of this". I do not even think Lesley bothered looking his name up, far too busy talking about the Theatre above Aldwych Tube Station which she did every time she came on camera. So who is Charles, the Architect of all of this?

Charles Pearson was a visionary of his time, he was a solicitor who worked for the London Corporation and it was he who managed to persuade Parliament to cough up enough money to pay for The London Underground, he died before it was ever finished, but many see him as "the true architect of the London Underground". Did Lesley even bother finding that out???

Night Three. Worst night for Lesley, possibly in her life (apart from when she nearly killed Tony Robinson on her five minute stint on History's Worst Jobs). It is all to do with the full names of people being read out on air and the sensitivities of the families of those brave men and women being kept intact, fair enough in the vigil the crew were part of they will not really have known that or might have forgotten as they were very busy at the time. Lesley on the other hand should have known not to do that, not only that but Brian Shepherd came out with a nickname of someone and then Lesley told the world who she thought it would be, I would be devastated to think that my grandparents still haunt somewhere and are not at rest in heaven, and to have Lesley Smith be the one to blurt it out on telly is absolutely atrocious.

At the end of the evening she was talking about Charles I execution, her own words were "one bitterly cold November morning"

November???

Charles I was executed in January 1646. I repeat... JANUARY.

I hope the author does not mind my reproducing it here, but I feel this evaluation is must reading for anyone who takes this show with anything more than a grain of salt. Would it be that hard for someone on the show to actually open a history book! Yeeesh!

"Last year an investigation was ordered by the Television Regulator in the UK, Ofcom, in which Most Haunted was cleared of any deception of its viewers, in which it stated that "Most Haunted is an entertainment show, not a legitimate investigation into the paranormal, and should not be taken seriously."

I guess that should hold true of the history aspect of this tv show as well.